I don't care?

[dadadadio]

About 20 hours after flinging my poo-filled email at Hermanos I relieved him at the end of his shift. Nothing was said. I could feel the tension. He was pissed. Once again I found a project had sat much of the day.

"I think it's bullshit this MTA project sits idle all day when you have help but I'm capable to keep it running at night when I'm alone

Comments

[sharpchick]

Ahhh yes....I know that one. Around here, it's completion of mandatory reports. All team leaders - six of us - are supposed to do them.

Three of us do. And when we three complain about why, if they are mandatory, we are the only ones doing them, the Boss Lady makes excuses for the others.

I am seriously getting ready to apply for another job...

[dadadadio]

Doesn't it make you crazy? .... people in charge making excuses for the slackers when they should be kicking them in the ass. A 'team leader' with no stomach for confrontation will get walked on. Slackers take advantage of lax management. This is a serious problem at Monkeytech.

My resume has been updated for at least a year. If the economy were better I would have mailed it out to see if there's an opportunity elsewhere. Unfortunately this valley has few companies doing what we do. I'm thinking I should send it out regardless of the recession. I moved here months after 911 when business was not-so-good.

I've considered relocating again but personal issues, like my son, make that more challenging than it was in 2002.

You've been ready to move on at least as long as I have.

[openscarf]

Since I've been out of that world for 4 months now and can look at it from further away, I see that it's like wanting the weather to change, it ain't gonna change. Its not the way humans operate in the business world. Especially in places where no fresh ideas can squeeze thru the caulked over cracks or no new employees are hired. Everyone is just doing what they need to survive, the same way, at a mimimal level. What's the incentive to do more? What are the consequences of doing less? I just finished Revolutionary Road, this shit's been going on since the invention of the cubicle, at least

....sigh

[dadadadio]

I don't see myself as doing 'extra' work. I'm doing what I'm capable of. I resent that others do less leaving me with more to do sometimes resulting in stressful nights of running around like a retarded monkey.

I have no problem being busy. It makes the hours pass and before I know it 5 AM is here.

I know what you mean by the weather and I agree nothing will change as long as our company culture remains as it is.

Back east I worked for two companies with profit sharing programs. There were fewer deadbeats in those companies and when they popped up other employees were more willing to call them out. "Your slacking cost everyone money."

As stressful as this is .... I know I'll come out in the other side being better for doing the work and speaking up. It just won't be pretty.

I must go to bed now. This has been a wierd day. I slept from 2:30 to 6:30. I watched a movie then did 3 hours of yard and pool work I did not get done yesterday. Now I must sleep a few hours before cooking dinner.

[hotarunokokoro]

The creation of the HR department has cause many a manager/supervisor to develop sensitive feet-from continuously walking on eggshells. Good managers have been reduced to bowing to the most quibbling of employee's in order to appear fair or worse, politically correct.
My studies in HR management had forever cured me of wanting to work in the business world.

[dadadadio]

I agree that HR is an issue in many companies but this being a small shop, only 15 employees, we don't have an HR department. The owner and his office manager are all the HR we have.

If you know of a another world for me to work in and make a good wage, I'd listen.