Boss Bitch

Overseer to galleys slaves: "Good news: We're taking a day off. Bad news: The captain wants to water-ski."

On the Titanic side, have you considered applying for the title of Deckchair Arranger?

I hear it's a fast-moving industry!

Most of our managers have been re-arranging the chairs there for a year or more. Oddly, it hasn't prevented the ship from taking on more water.

It appears that there is still room for improvement in deck chair location; re-org today shuffles me to a new team for no particular reason. Those chairs sure look better now... why is there freezing water up to my knees?

I'm sure they'll get on that question right away. It was supposed to be hip-deep by now. You're behind on yet ANOTHER schedule. tsk tsk.

Yes the spam filters are working well.

I have not been visiting much because the morons that run my company have decided to out source a signficant part of the code that runs our business. They announced a retention bonus to keep folks from jumping ship, and it has been not been working well so moral is low, workload is increased on the those of us that really do want to stick around and colllect the bonus, and to put a cherry on top my boss has officially become the king of trivialities. He was in town and took my coworker out for Dunkin Donuts and sent email asking " where were you?". I was in my office, which is right next to my coworkers. The coworker actually came in later than I did, I vaguely recalled the coworker coming in, but since I was already engaged in some shit storm involving a poorly coded .Net app I had my back to the door.

Just to make sure I was not nuts I later asked the coworker if he did say his morning greeting to me on his way in and notice that I was hunched over my desk. He did.

I swear I wanted to fucking tell the king of trivialities to shove it right then, but the concerta and the vague hope that I will be around to collect the 20% retention bonus kept from it....


So the pilgrims were human beings, eh?

I hate to jinx it, but since the gubmint tookover our biggest chunk of business we have all been expecting disaster. It's true that 30% of our workers will be gone within short order; by middle of next year. But on the positive side 300-400 jobs are being moved to my location. So that should reinforce it. Of course, that means more complete shut-downs of the other locations. Already in the 1,000 or two or more of jobs gone, and offices closed and sold. But I have ended up on the good side of those decisions, once again, thank God. But, more belt-tightening for those that stay(ed), of course.

You were way ahead with tightening your belt, eh, bill?

My son passed me up on waist size tonight I noticed while getting him some new jeans. I still have 3 inches on my inseam more than he does.
I am moving files over to a different Mac today. I find my first and only 2005 spreadsheet that I had begun to track my DESIRED weight loss. First entry 234 pounds. Hard to believe.
Oh well. ;)

Today concluded another week of people losing their jobs. So much fun and morale.
Only two more rounds projected by June. YippEEE!!!!
Of course, if we don't hit certain numbers, I'm sure it will go on ad infinitum.
Funny how it doesn't even faze me any longer. Something about that whole 'almost died' thing that puts these into perspective. lol

For a while at our place it was like the movies showed Vietnam. Folks wandering around with the "thousand yard stare," and never knowing when a comrade would disappear, or when you would. It's coming again, too, I feel it.

Henry Mintzberg has written a refreshing article about problems written earlier; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/henry-mintzberg/the-problem-is-enterprise_b_636852.html

I'm currently studying his management theories, but having a hard time taking the whole study that I'm doing seriously precisely because of the problems he's describing. What's the use of investing my precious time in work or study when a leader (or psychopath depending on which look you take at the situation) decides that his or her personal bonus is more important than the quarter after the current quarter?



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Let me first state that I am glad I have a job in this the time of economic trouble.
Yet again this week marks another all-too-common career dead-end action.
Let me state for the second time that I am blessed to have my job.
This situation goes something like this:

For the last 15 years, 8 months and 19 days (who's counting?) ....

1. I get put or moved to a new team
2. boss is at the same or one pay grade level above me - so there's no way s/he will promote me to THEIR OWN level, right?
3. boss gets promoted once or twice or thrice, opening up what appears to be a nice slot to or three for succession management opportunities
4. corporate or department crisis which involves a organizational restructuring
5. Go to step 1.

I re-booted to step 1 again this week. My boss is at the same level as me. So, boss will need two promotions before I can likely see one. Which would make that somewhere in the 17 years + range since most recent promotion.
This has happened time and again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYkeXNYOG8

Sorry, Jeffe. Competence is its own punishment.

lol

Reminds me of a yes minister episode:

Quote

Sir Desmond Glazebrook: They've broken the rules.
Sir Humphrey: What, you mean the insider trading regulations?
Sir Desmond Glazebrook: No.
Sir Humphrey: Oh. Well, that's one relief.
Sir Desmond Glazebrook: I mean of course they've broken those, but they've broken the basic, the basic rule of the City.
Sir Humphrey: I didn't know there were any.
Sir Desmond Glazebrook: Just the one. If you're incompetent you have to be honest, and if you're crooked you have to be clever. See, if you're honest, then when you make a pig's breakfast of things the chaps rally round and help you out.
Sir Humphrey: If you're crooked?
Sir Desmond Glazebrook: Well, if you're making good profits for them, chaps don't start asking questions; they're not stupid. Well, not that stupid.
Sir Humphrey: So the ideal is a firm which is honest and clever.
Sir Desmond Glazebrook: Yes. Let me know if you ever come across one, won't you.

pulled a work all-nighter.
my body and mind are just not geared for this anymore.

Sorry, Jeffe, that sucks.