What is it about the holiday season that makes people lose their minds?
The holidays are upon us, whippee doo. The time for good cheer, gift buying and family moments that you'll treasure. Lovely isn't it? Alas, some of us are not as lucky as those of you partaking in all this wonderfulness. Why are some of us not as lucky? One word, work.
Work, that four letter word. Simple word, yet one that has negative connotations. Don’t deny it, I’ve read your journals this past year. Work can be stressful, it can drive you batty and worse, it can lead you to question, why is it common for logical people to serve positions as lowly peons while irrational people are part of the administration triumvirate? Makes you wonder or at least it made me wonder.
Anyway, in the spirit of the holiday season I wrote the following list as a way of reminding others that we are all in the same boat, so you might as well put on the lifejacket and commiserate in the dingy.
Top 10 signs that irrationality and illogical thinking are rampant at the top levels of your company.
10. Your supervisor informs you during a fit of anger (after spending three hours with management) that she is stepping down from her position and recommending you to head the department, a department you've worked in for only nine months.
9. A project was due two weeks ago but the person in charge didn't do his piece, therefore he changed the due date and now the project is due Christmas week, a week you must complete another time consuming project.
8. Mandatory meetings not only occur after work hours, but the memo informing you of these meetings are sent the day before said meeting.
7. You avoid the company Christmas party because you are afraid of what you might say given that you have access to free booze.
6. You are required to attend staff meetings that only serve the purpose of massaging the Big Kahuna's ego.
5. One of your co-workers insists that she can't do certain tasks because the work doesn’t relate to her "field".
4. You've earned a reputation as meticulous. Instead of praise your supervisor has you recheck and redo the work of those in your department whom she murmurs are "careless but what can you do."
3. The vice-president of the company is being sued for sexual harassment. When the story broke he went around informing everyone as to his innocence. Funny that he told everyone except you. Maybe he figures that you’d remind him about the time he waxed poetic about your "tennis player’s body".
2. Your coworkers are constantly referring to the company as a "family". Tom Cruise-like laughter erupts from "the family" when you joke that you feel like you are all part of a cult. Strangely this laughter scares you more than being sent to the messiah’s office.
1. You wonder about your own rationality when you realize that you are being prepped for an administrative position.
Oh shoot, the ten minutes of personal time I have per day are now over. See you in the grindstone.
Work, that four letter word. Simple word, yet one that has negative connotations. Don’t deny it, I’ve read your journals this past year. Work can be stressful, it can drive you batty and worse, it can lead you to question, why is it common for logical people to serve positions as lowly peons while irrational people are part of the administration triumvirate? Makes you wonder or at least it made me wonder.
Anyway, in the spirit of the holiday season I wrote the following list as a way of reminding others that we are all in the same boat, so you might as well put on the lifejacket and commiserate in the dingy.
Top 10 signs that irrationality and illogical thinking are rampant at the top levels of your company.
10. Your supervisor informs you during a fit of anger (after spending three hours with management) that she is stepping down from her position and recommending you to head the department, a department you've worked in for only nine months.
9. A project was due two weeks ago but the person in charge didn't do his piece, therefore he changed the due date and now the project is due Christmas week, a week you must complete another time consuming project.
8. Mandatory meetings not only occur after work hours, but the memo informing you of these meetings are sent the day before said meeting.
7. You avoid the company Christmas party because you are afraid of what you might say given that you have access to free booze.
6. You are required to attend staff meetings that only serve the purpose of massaging the Big Kahuna's ego.
5. One of your co-workers insists that she can't do certain tasks because the work doesn’t relate to her "field".
4. You've earned a reputation as meticulous. Instead of praise your supervisor has you recheck and redo the work of those in your department whom she murmurs are "careless but what can you do."
3. The vice-president of the company is being sued for sexual harassment. When the story broke he went around informing everyone as to his innocence. Funny that he told everyone except you. Maybe he figures that you’d remind him about the time he waxed poetic about your "tennis player’s body".
2. Your coworkers are constantly referring to the company as a "family". Tom Cruise-like laughter erupts from "the family" when you joke that you feel like you are all part of a cult. Strangely this laughter scares you more than being sent to the messiah’s office.
1. You wonder about your own rationality when you realize that you are being prepped for an administrative position.
Oh shoot, the ten minutes of personal time I have per day are now over. See you in the grindstone.