We now pause for a tiny little work rant

[brickhousewench]

”When those in authority, teachers, for example, forced children to do things that made no sense to them, problems with authority arose.”

“Having to complete work that is boring can be like torture to these [gifted] kids…”

So just to tie some of the previous post into my daily life. I’ve been working on edits to the Emergency Action Plan we’re

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[guy_todd]

Come across an associate or tenant that appears to be dead

All I can think of is this:

Man to 911 operator: "Operator! I think my friend is dead!"
Op: "Go make certain he is in fact dead".
¡BANG!
Man: "OK, now what?"

[kass_rants]

LOL!

[brickhousewench]

Remind me not to faint in your presence!

[kass_rants]

Following your posts about this, I find myself getting really frustrated and remembering why I left the corporate world. The "work" they had me doing most of the time wasn't necessary. It was just busy work. And even that didn't take eight hours a day. I distinctly remember Bob counseling me: "You gotta learn to stretch it out." But that's not my way. Is there work? I'll do it. Is there no more? Then you don't really need me. And I'd lose my job. I thought in all those years someone would reward me for doing as much work as three other employees, but apparently not.

Corporate America is horrifically wasteful. We wonder why whole departments are getting eliminated these days. It's because they were never needed in the first place. I cannot tell you (although I'm sure I have) how I long... absolutely ache to be able to run a business where things are done efficiently and there's no crap.

All this is to say that I hear you. Boy, do I hear you!

[ravena_kade]

I so hear you on this.

[brickhousewench]

I thought in all those years someone would reward me for doing as much work as three other employees, but apparently not.

You clearly weren't working in a Competency culture. *eyeroll*

The past couple of posts have been me circling around back to writing about corporate culture. Laying the groundwork for a couple of long posts about that speaker last week. There will be more when I get back home from work tonight...

[kass_rants]

I await it with anticipation.

Clearly not Competency. Probably not much of anything really. There are so many places I worked that didn't need a whole department to do the things I and my coworkers did. They needed to shop it out to an agency. Paying people to sit around and do nothing could not have been saving them money!

[ravena_kade]

My company had emergency action plans installed after 9/11. Frankly the step for anything that involved the physical heath(or death of any person on the property) was to call 911 immediately ... basically so the company could not be sued.

[brickhousewench]

You're probably right, but it just looked wrong to me. Maybe it's all my years of First Aid training from back when I was a lifeguard, where they train you to take care of the victim and yell for someone else to call 911....

[ravena_kade]

oh, we could do first aid, but that was on us as an individual... the company needed to say the 911 stuff to satisfy the lawyers, then I could be sued as an individual. Metlife was all about money...not actually caring for people

[temperlj]

I had a mantra that kept me from going insane at Company That No Longer Exists
"I will prove the world is (not) flat as many times as needed to keep getting a paycheck"

[brickhousewench]

I wish I could do that. But incompetence in the workplace leads to *eyeroll* and *headdesk* and eventually I get such a headache that I can't work. =(

[nibuca]

Please oh please oh please say that you get the opportunity to add an "in case of zombie apocalypse" section. Last year's Estrella War site book had an "in case of zombie apocalypse" section... if you actually read the site book it was a HUGE hoot.

...
Zombie Attack
In case of an apocolyptic Zombie Attack all bets are off. On your way out of site to run for your life, please check the flag pole flying over Aten Royal. If a yellow flag is flying, it means the zombies are old school and can probably be outrun. If a reg flag is flying, it means they are too fast and you should run over as many as you can with your car. And remember, they may have been your best friend before, but once they want to eat your brains, they are not really your friend anymore.

Old school zombies, hee!

[brickhousewench]

Oh man, if I thought anyone there had any sense of humor and I could get away with it, I would totally do that!

Unofortunately, we're talking corporate America here. =(