Lazy Mutha-F*&%ers
Ok. So, here's my story...
Just as a general poll, how many of your actually work when at work?
Pondering? Though I know the majority of you do (you're all quite responsible in my estimations), here's a hypothetical situation for you:
PROBLEM: You, and about 17 of your co-workers, as the result of a company merger, have nearly 300 stock traders' equipment, personal effects, and network-based data to move, in the course of a weekend. Keep in mind, that the nature of these personal effects usually include 7-8 monitors (for monitoring stock markets), several workstations, and a hell of a lot of networking to run. How do you go about this in the course of 3 days?
SOLUTION: You do work.
The problem with this idea? The simple fact that some people believe that they are better entitled to standing around or leaving early before the job is done, to go drinking, as opposed to actually doing what they're paid for. I have no gripe against a beer or three at the end of a day's work. But, if you leave 6 people to handle a job meant for at least 20, then, I'm sorry...but you are a LAZY MUTHA-F*&%ER.
We all get lazy sometimes. But, in an occassion like this, where the work that you are supposed to complete will affect other people's livelihoods, you probably should finish the job.
Such is the life of this intern last weekend. Being of a collegiate-poorly stature, the prospect of extra opportunities to flex my skill to earn an extra paycheck (especially with travel around the corner), is a welcome one. My boos back in Chicago asked me to come back for a weekend to help with this tech move. 300 traders in 3 days. After trouncing back to Chicago, I spent the next 3 days beneath desks, literally wearing the skin off my forefinger and thumb, hacking due to all the dust, crawling through vents running CAT-5 (which is strange, considering I was the biggest guy there), and carrying network cages down flights of stairs. The rest of my team, having been doing much the same for the latter half of the week, were still putting their backs into getting things done.
The network team was supposed to be doing much the same, to get everything online by Saturday night.
Didn't happen. Why? Because of LAZY MUTHA-F*&%ERS. The quintessential LAZY MUTHA-F*&%ERS not only didn't help with the move, but shirked at the idea of actually doing their jobs, leaving at 5 PM, when the rest of us camped out until 1 or 2 AM, only to start up again at 8 AM the next morning.
If you're getting paid like these network techs are, chances are you should be at least trying to do your job. Not chatting up your extra-marital affairs. Not bitching about the dust in the room. Not making sporadic appearances. DOING YOUR JOB.
A simple concept, non? Strangely enough, this concept of work ethic isn't a common one, though. Try as hard-working people might, we cannot motivate other to do their job, even if they are being paid handsomely for it.
In other words, for those out there looking for the moral of the story, do all you can to avoid the title of LAZY MUTHA-F*&%ER. It will follow you in references for the rest of your career.
No more thick paychecks if you don't actually work. Hell, if you want the chance to stand around, make your next paycheck out to me. You'll have my thanks (if any consolation), and your returned free time.
Sincerely yours, the intern under the desk until 3 AM.
Peace.
Just as a general poll, how many of your actually work when at work?
Pondering? Though I know the majority of you do (you're all quite responsible in my estimations), here's a hypothetical situation for you:
PROBLEM: You, and about 17 of your co-workers, as the result of a company merger, have nearly 300 stock traders' equipment, personal effects, and network-based data to move, in the course of a weekend. Keep in mind, that the nature of these personal effects usually include 7-8 monitors (for monitoring stock markets), several workstations, and a hell of a lot of networking to run. How do you go about this in the course of 3 days?
SOLUTION: You do work.
The problem with this idea? The simple fact that some people believe that they are better entitled to standing around or leaving early before the job is done, to go drinking, as opposed to actually doing what they're paid for. I have no gripe against a beer or three at the end of a day's work. But, if you leave 6 people to handle a job meant for at least 20, then, I'm sorry...but you are a LAZY MUTHA-F*&%ER.
We all get lazy sometimes. But, in an occassion like this, where the work that you are supposed to complete will affect other people's livelihoods, you probably should finish the job.
Such is the life of this intern last weekend. Being of a collegiate-poorly stature, the prospect of extra opportunities to flex my skill to earn an extra paycheck (especially with travel around the corner), is a welcome one. My boos back in Chicago asked me to come back for a weekend to help with this tech move. 300 traders in 3 days. After trouncing back to Chicago, I spent the next 3 days beneath desks, literally wearing the skin off my forefinger and thumb, hacking due to all the dust, crawling through vents running CAT-5 (which is strange, considering I was the biggest guy there), and carrying network cages down flights of stairs. The rest of my team, having been doing much the same for the latter half of the week, were still putting their backs into getting things done.
The network team was supposed to be doing much the same, to get everything online by Saturday night.
Didn't happen. Why? Because of LAZY MUTHA-F*&%ERS. The quintessential LAZY MUTHA-F*&%ERS not only didn't help with the move, but shirked at the idea of actually doing their jobs, leaving at 5 PM, when the rest of us camped out until 1 or 2 AM, only to start up again at 8 AM the next morning.
If you're getting paid like these network techs are, chances are you should be at least trying to do your job. Not chatting up your extra-marital affairs. Not bitching about the dust in the room. Not making sporadic appearances. DOING YOUR JOB.
A simple concept, non? Strangely enough, this concept of work ethic isn't a common one, though. Try as hard-working people might, we cannot motivate other to do their job, even if they are being paid handsomely for it.
In other words, for those out there looking for the moral of the story, do all you can to avoid the title of LAZY MUTHA-F*&%ER. It will follow you in references for the rest of your career.
No more thick paychecks if you don't actually work. Hell, if you want the chance to stand around, make your next paycheck out to me. You'll have my thanks (if any consolation), and your returned free time.
Sincerely yours, the intern under the desk until 3 AM.
Peace.