Rant
I keep starting posts and then not finishing them. I really have to work on being less distractable.
Just had an interesting incident here. There is a bid opening in the office that I am temping in, and no bids could be accepted past 2:00pm according to the clock on the phones, because they are set automatically. So everyone was in, the bids were in, it was announced that bidding was closed and the door was shut, and then like 30 seconds later this guy comes in and says he has a bid. I told him that bidding had closed, and he got all pissed off and banged on the door of the conference room. Anyway, they ended up letting him in, and he was the low bidder, so he got it. The woman who I've been most in contact with here was running the bid opening and she is so mad that he got it. We're kind of hoping the second lowest bidder complains that it was accepted after bidding was closed, even if it was only 30 seconds after. They said if someone does, they will probably end up throwing the low bid out. I hope that does happen - I think people who use being loud and unpleasant and threatening as their was of getting the rules bent for them need to NOT get their way. This happened a lot where I used to work - people would call up pissed off about having to follow the same rules everyone else does, but if they called enough and complained enough and yelled enough, inevitably my manager would let them get their way. And it pissed me off SO bad. Maybe if the squeaky wheel didn't always get the grease, they'd stop fucking squeaking!
Course it's no surprise that even in professional fields, this is how people behave. People have fallen into this mass feeling of entitlement - people walk around convinced they have a perfect right to have everything exactly the way they want it all the time. Someone is smoking near you and you don't like it, make a law! You want to have a baby but don't want to stop working, demand free day care! Don't like someone's opinion? Make voicing that opinion into a hate crime! Didn't get your way? SUE!
Ugh. Sometimes I look at the people around me and the messages being put out, and I just want to scream. Where did common sense go? Where did personal responsibility go? Wherever it went, I'd really love for it to come back. I don't want to have children and have them grow up in a country that teaches them that it's only ok to have an independent opinion if it's not potentially offensive to ANYBODY (except straight white males - i think you get extra points for offending them), and that unless you ARE a straight while male, you need protection from the government from the big, mean, nasty people who want to oppress you and put you down. That is crap. Pure and simple crap. And I really hope the height of it goes down soon, because I can't much stand the stink.
Just had an interesting incident here. There is a bid opening in the office that I am temping in, and no bids could be accepted past 2:00pm according to the clock on the phones, because they are set automatically. So everyone was in, the bids were in, it was announced that bidding was closed and the door was shut, and then like 30 seconds later this guy comes in and says he has a bid. I told him that bidding had closed, and he got all pissed off and banged on the door of the conference room. Anyway, they ended up letting him in, and he was the low bidder, so he got it. The woman who I've been most in contact with here was running the bid opening and she is so mad that he got it. We're kind of hoping the second lowest bidder complains that it was accepted after bidding was closed, even if it was only 30 seconds after. They said if someone does, they will probably end up throwing the low bid out. I hope that does happen - I think people who use being loud and unpleasant and threatening as their was of getting the rules bent for them need to NOT get their way. This happened a lot where I used to work - people would call up pissed off about having to follow the same rules everyone else does, but if they called enough and complained enough and yelled enough, inevitably my manager would let them get their way. And it pissed me off SO bad. Maybe if the squeaky wheel didn't always get the grease, they'd stop fucking squeaking!
Course it's no surprise that even in professional fields, this is how people behave. People have fallen into this mass feeling of entitlement - people walk around convinced they have a perfect right to have everything exactly the way they want it all the time. Someone is smoking near you and you don't like it, make a law! You want to have a baby but don't want to stop working, demand free day care! Don't like someone's opinion? Make voicing that opinion into a hate crime! Didn't get your way? SUE!
Ugh. Sometimes I look at the people around me and the messages being put out, and I just want to scream. Where did common sense go? Where did personal responsibility go? Wherever it went, I'd really love for it to come back. I don't want to have children and have them grow up in a country that teaches them that it's only ok to have an independent opinion if it's not potentially offensive to ANYBODY (except straight white males - i think you get extra points for offending them), and that unless you ARE a straight while male, you need protection from the government from the big, mean, nasty people who want to oppress you and put you down. That is crap. Pure and simple crap. And I really hope the height of it goes down soon, because I can't much stand the stink.