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So, it seems at work that I'm getting more and more responsibilities which is both a good thing and a not-so-truely-bad thing. When the director's secretary was out on medical leave, then I was given most of her duties. Part of those were HR stuffs, so now I'm part of HR machinations. I'm also supposed to be getting some position where I am her backup to help her catch up on I-really-don't-know-what.
Today, however, work was tiring. The day draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagged on forever. There was a meeting held for all of us in the office with the Senior Management Team (the Division Directors and the head honcho Director) that was in response to a report done about the morale in our office and solutions for the din of negativity which seems to ultimately surround the management. In the report, it was found that basically the problems with morale started not with the work itself but with management -- not a surprise at all. I didn't go to the meeting -- where one was to be allowed to say their grievances and have them addressed --because I thought it'd be a waste of time and the location kept getting changed around.
Seems I was right. From all whom I asked, it was a waste of time. To quote my coworker He-Who-Shall-Remain-Nameless (who has been with the EPA since it was formed 40-years-ago), "It was a piece of shit. A piece of shit."
My coworker She-Who-Won't-Be-Titled said, "What a boring fucking meeting. Nothing was done. Nothing resolved. People were walking out the whole time."
Another coworker She-Who-Is-Well-Mad said, "I wasn't expecting much, and I got exactly that. I left after the first 15 minutes. [Our boss] isn't going to do shit."
The way my position works, I'll have it until I graduate. As long as I'm in school, I have a job; so I'll be here for some time to come and I wonder if a year from now, will our same Director be there. He may but attitudes in his regard are not going to change unless he does a complete 180. I don't see it coming, and I think that's really sad.
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Today, however, work was tiring. The day draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagged on forever. There was a meeting held for all of us in the office with the Senior Management Team (the Division Directors and the head honcho Director) that was in response to a report done about the morale in our office and solutions for the din of negativity which seems to ultimately surround the management. In the report, it was found that basically the problems with morale started not with the work itself but with management -- not a surprise at all. I didn't go to the meeting -- where one was to be allowed to say their grievances and have them addressed --because I thought it'd be a waste of time and the location kept getting changed around.
Seems I was right. From all whom I asked, it was a waste of time. To quote my coworker He-Who-Shall-Remain-Nameless (who has been with the EPA since it was formed 40-years-ago), "It was a piece of shit. A piece of shit."
My coworker She-Who-Won't-Be-Titled said, "What a boring fucking meeting. Nothing was done. Nothing resolved. People were walking out the whole time."
Another coworker She-Who-Is-Well-Mad said, "I wasn't expecting much, and I got exactly that. I left after the first 15 minutes. [Our boss] isn't going to do shit."
The way my position works, I'll have it until I graduate. As long as I'm in school, I have a job; so I'll be here for some time to come and I wonder if a year from now, will our same Director be there. He may but attitudes in his regard are not going to change unless he does a complete 180. I don't see it coming, and I think that's really sad.
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