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Was steak knives one of the prizes?
Posted on 05/06/2022 7:46:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
She’s onto us.
[Caution: some profanity]
IS this what our future generation is?
If so we are sooooo screwed...................................
And wear pants..................
You must have been Very Important, needing to be called out of a meeting with the executives!!
In my experience, that is entirely accurate.
The amount of people who do nothing or next to nothing is breathtaking.
I was so embarrassed! A few days later, my boss told me the President told him he thought it was strange that I was there! But never said anything...............
Well, in my office, now home office (the silver lining to COVID), you wouldn’t get away with not working. There’s far too many sync-up meetings and status meetings that if you didn’t show progress, people would be complaining in a week or two that you’re holding up the project. Then we have charge numbers for each task on a project that our time is accounted for/to and the program managers are not going to pay you to sit around and not produce. Everything is quite visible that way. Of course, my company produces physical products so it may be quite different for ESG jobs, etc.
It’s especially true of tech companies. I have young relatives who work for tech companies, and they are very upfront about doing nothing most of the time.
Is that AOC?
Back in the ‘Old Days’, we had a project board on the wall with ALL OUR NAMES ON IT and a chart of our part of a project, and it was a horizontal bar chart of each of our progress.
Anyone who was not on par with the rest of us better have a damn good excuse..................
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Working at an “office job” I sometimes wonder that myself.
Said the little brat that doesn’t produce anything.
My government office job consisted of tracking down bomb-makers and developing target folders so that they meet an unhealthy demise.
It doesn’t just happen by itself. There has to be inertia.
“Back in the ‘Old Days’, we had a project board on the wall with ALL OUR NAMES ON IT and a chart of our part of a project, and it was a horizontal bar chart of each of our progress.”
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Seems like yesterday, but I guess it was back in the old days.
My high school has a group that gets together at a campground by a lake every year. I’ve never been but I was shown pics by a friend who has a Facebook account the other day of the gathering and it’s the first time it really sunk in just how old I am. On the other hand, it showed just how well I’ve aged comparatively speaking - lots of those people must’ve lead a hard life since high school, that’s all I can say.
"You want fries with that?"
The ‘prize’ was a ‘paycheck’ every two weeks if you succeeded...............
Classic!
Nearly the same experience.
Wish I had not been there because of what I learned that I really did not want to know.
Honestly, I’m convinced that the, “Office Job,” white collar people are just there to make us blue collar people’s jobs harder.
What gets me is how many women of her generation and the generation before hers that always talk with a potty mouth. My mom taught us that talking dirty represented a dirty mind. If she caught any of her kids talking dirty she’d actually, phsyically, wash their mouth out with a bar of soap.
The Plan
In the beginning was the Plan.
And then came the Assumptions.
And the Assumptions were without form.
And darkness was upon the face of the Workers.
And they spoke among themselves, saying, “It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh.”
And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said, “It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odour thereof.”
And the Supervisors went unto their Managers, saying, “It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it.”
And the Managers went unto their Directors, saying, “It is a vessel of fertiliser, and none may abide its strength.”
And the Directors spoke amongst themselves, saying one to another, “It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong.”
And the Directors then went onto the Vice Presidents, saying unto them, “It promotes growth and is very powerful.”
And the Vice Presidents went unto the President, saying unto him, “This new plan will actively promote the growth and vigour of the company; with powerful effects.”
And the President looked upon the Plan, and saw that it was good.
And the Plan became Policy.
This is How Shit Happens.
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