PHONE CALLS TO LOVED ONES

[surfer_rosa]

Everyone gets tired of working day in and day out. But at times there are things your employer does that make you so proud to be a part of the organization and this is one that makes me proud of mine

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[surfer_rosa]

No kidding!! Our company was on it immediately. It's amazing. They have a HUGE fund raising campaign going on in our company and are matching donations. They set up toll free numbers for our employees to call so we know they are ok. We are working with the emergency teams in deploying devices. My last few days at work have been OUT OF CONTROL in getting devices out for emergency situations and handling esclated issues from my clients. The majority of which I deal with are Oil Companies, Construction Companies and a major airline. Which was cool, the Telecom Mgr for the major airline called me to let me know they had a small shuttle plane they were going to be able to get into the Gulf of Mississippi. She said they were clearing and building a runway as we speak, they had two seats and wanted to know if we had any tech personnel that needed to get in to assess the damage to our towers. I called our tech guy that I work with and they got one of our emergency relief workers on the plane to go assess damage and get an idea of what needs to be fixed to get service back up. I am blown away at how quick everyone is responding within our company. It's awesome. :)

[feariebrat]

That rocks! It's just the oppisite at my work, I work for a university as a admision advisor and a student called in that is 3wks from completing her last class, but has lost everything she had but her clothes on her back. She called in and asked if she could drop without failing her class and paying the remaining balance. Since she wasn't my student I had to find who she belonged to, then I found outher adviosr no longer works here. so I spent a good hour searching and calling around trying to find help for this women, finally I gave up ad said fuck it, and I called the head boss of acedemics and said basically your entire dept could not help me or wouldn't, what are you going to do to help her? He said he will handle it. So about 10min later I got called into my bosses office and he was angry with me. He says..

1. I am not allowed to just call up a director on the board and demand that he help. that there is producal I must follow! That it came down on his head that he yelled at for it, since I one of his managers.

I lashed back and said this women is a victim and I spent over and hour trying to find help for her following producal and it failed. I wasn't about to let this women suffer by our hands because we had producal and will call her back in a few days, or worse yet make her fail her last class and loss her whole degree and pay more money then needed. And yeah no what he said......not I agree with you..but he said, "So let me get this straight, you spent over an hour on this issue? and he sat there just waiting for me to answer. Then he said, that I am not ever to do that again, that I need to spend my efforts on my own business, (meaning I need to spend my time bringing in more student to enroll at $30,000 each) instead of helping out a victim of the disaster, that we have a team in place to help people that need to drop! ....now it was my turn to be in shock, and I said that he can write me up, becasue I will continue to help victims if they call in before I think about enrolling another student. My morals come first, not their paychecks. money hunger fuckers! I almost wanted to go above him to his manager who use to be my boss and is some much more honest and good nature, not like this vile, suck up to corporate money whore.

[surfer_rosa]

god damn. Good for you punkin. ;) It's too bad some people have an absolute lack of compassion.