I know, I know, not enough posts to really be calling this The DAILY Bitch. Should be more like the "When I Freakin' get pissed off and want to rant" Bitch. I'm a busy guy and sometimes I forget. I've gotten the idea from all the e-mails, thanks for the those, I'll be stealing..er using them soon. For the rest of those just wondering why I don't update more, well, I'll try.
Today's Topic: Helping the helpless and screwing the Helpful!
Yeah, that's what it's all about...today I heard that they are bringing some people back (that were laid off previously) to help with a project in another building. Why? Because they are too busy? Because they need the help? Because the local folks don't want to do it? It doesn't matter the reason why, actually it does, but first let's look at why this is happening.
Managment & "The Bottom Line." Things have gone to shit around here. Pay raises that were promised have been frozen again. More and more every day it seems that the "Upper" managment wants nothing to do with us and only when the "Client" starts making grevious noises do they spring into action. We've been cut to the minimum and finally "they" are starting to see that. Good for them, bad for us. Using a recent example will illustrate this perfectly. A couple of weeks ago, we were hit hard by the latest virus buggy circulating. We saw the ticket load jump 300% (if not more) due to all these infected machines. Now, if we would have had our normal complement of worker bees then this would have been a small bump rather then the life draining cluster-fuck that it turned into. It took "people in charge of virus" almost 4 days to come out with an official fix for this. Our ticket closing time was totally blown off the charts, but that's okay, because this was such a train wreck, management just said all of those virus tickets don't count. Huh? So, the huge ass pile of shit sitting there just got turned into a fart with a strong breeze blowing so not trace was hardly left. Yeah, until the variant of the same virus stopped by 2 weeks later AND IT HAPPENED ALL OVER AGAIN! No lie.
So enough on management and their screw-ups. Let's talk about people who don't want help. I work with some really smart people. One of them (during this first virus outbreak) wrote a little VB tool that worked in conjuction with the virus scanner. Worked great, we had it out and working 3 days before the official fix came out. The head virus honcho (who we'll call Mr. Raoule) got a hold of the tool and then got a hold of the creator. What do you think happened? Yep, Mr. Raoule is a bit anal retentive and bit of an egotistical shit head with no management power whatsoever. That did not matter to Mr. Raoule, he proceeded to verbally ream the creator for a good 10 minutes and then threatened him with getting him fired. Uh-huh. Yeah.... I have to give it up to the "Mr. Creator" because I would have gotten in my car and drove to his office and gave him a really good reason to fire me. I don't Mr. Raoule would have been as "verbal" with my foot 6 inches up his ass. The conversation was THAT bad, even a manager or two got pulled in on this one. The Rogue Team strikes again ? !
Being helpful is tough too. See Mr. Creator has come up with some really neat tools that would and could save tons of time, and it's free. It just requires a little work on the user's part the first time to get it setup. Do you think anyone that doesn't know Mr. Creator has come forward to say "Hey! That's great can I get some of that?" Nope. It's basically seems like it's just easier to play the ignorance role and just sit there looking for help, but only the help that you want. The kind of help that doen't require you to do anything. Reminds me of a joke I heard once:
....a small town is flooded. As the water rises, the homeowner, a religious man, prays to God to keep him safe. As the water fills the basement, a 4x4 truck comes by and offers him a ride. The man passes, knowing that God will protect and save him. The water continues to flood his house and he moves to the second floor. A boat comes by and offers him a ride to dry land and safety. Again, the man passes, knowing that God will protect and save him. The water rises high and forces the man onto his roof. About that time a helicopter spots him and offers to winch him up, but once again, the man passes, knowing that God will protect and save him. Finally, the waters rise above the roof and drown him. Upon reaching heaven the man storms up to God and says, I believed in you, how could you not save me? God replies, "What more do you want? I sent a truck, boat and a helicopter?"
Me? I could give two shits. I've been busy working on my new idea, the RRU. Resource Recovery Unit. Yep, I started my own group and I figure that it will look really good on my resume. What does it do? Exactly that, recover resources? What kind of resources? Oh you name it. This week, it's rubber bands, tomorrow it might be post-it notes or paper clips or maybe those binder clips. I'm working on filling the Unit's filing cabinent and making it the secondary supply location. Leave it laying around and chances are it will be RRU'ed. Doesn't it sound impressive? My own initiative and self direction taking me down the path of future employability. Yeahh...that sounds real nice.
Time for lunch...later!
