And the van went boom!

Told the dummies at work it was gonna go two months ago....no one listened, as per usual...but what do I know....?

(apart from how an internal combustion engine works and how to work on them and what sounds they should never make?...or how to take a motorcycle apart and put it back together...or....or...OR...GRRRRRRRRRR....)

"I'm just a girl in the world...THAT'S ALL THAT THEY'LL LET ME BE!!!!!"
~Gwen Stefani

Now they want to pour 2300 bucks into a van that is worth maybe 500. Once they are done it will still be a piece of shit with mostly everything else broken or going that way and a new motor. They don't want to fix the sliding door that falls off if you open it......too much money, so let us just climb over the seats to get our stuff out.....they won't fix the a/c....there's nothing wrong with spending ten hours a day in a sweatbox is there? Or going to see clients sweaty and windblown wearing a muscle shirt to cut down on sweat stains? SO professional hahaha!

I feel my brain is revolting on me today.......

It just does not want to be stupid for another day....it does not want to do dumb drone work for one more minute....it wants challenge and reward....it wants to problem solve as it was meant to do, not run around blindly wiping up after the higher ups.

It's tired of rotting in my head as I drive from place to place like a (very) poorly paid trucker.
SO tired.....it wants to make decisions to make things BETTER and more efficient...not twist in knots watching the idiots run things.

Today my brain refuses to go numb and get in the van to go do something a trained dog could do for a piss poor salary and no hope of anything improving.

My brain says NO today......just CAN'T!

This could be a problem......hahaha....

BAD DOG

Random thoughts....

Perez Hilton.....putrid little sissy bitch. I'm glad he got punched in the face hahaha, he totally deserved it! I just wish the guy who slugged him packed a better punch he sure didn't do much damage for all the hoopla and crying coming out of Hilton's gate.....

His whining about it....GAWD I know people who've wiped out off a motorbike doing 50 mph who didn't snivel like him over that little papercut he got. Maybe he should go back and hide in the rectum of whatever shit him out in the first place!

Rule one of the REAL world...If ya dish it out, ya better be ready to back it up! That little quiff would last all of six seconds in my world with my crew with the mouth on him.

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Soooooo.....we have one of our elected dirtballs here in Canada saying (to girls) "If you want equal go to Starbucks....they have it there in little packages". Uh huh.....he's another punch in the face candidate as far as I'm concerned (one must own a set of balls to be able to be kicked in them-he is obviously poorly endowed that way so why even bother booting his hamsterlike 'nads?).

And very sadly that attitude is still out there WAY too much for my liking.....

Somehow inbred rednecks manage to get elected which would explain the ignorant pay gap that is STILL going on years after the so-called Women's Lib movement. I'd bet fifty bucks he has misspelled tattoos under his overpriced dress shirt, and an overfondess for his Uncle Dad hahaha.

I'm going to send him a link to this, so I will try to stick to small easily comprehensible words ;-) Ooops I blew it already.....and I'm just a stupid little female teehee so me not so smart.

A stupid little underpaid female who has consistantly been denied a DECENT job despite a trade license and more mechanical aptitude than most men you'll ever meet. Bitter, yes I am and I came by it honestly. 2009 is only a date on the calender-come a long way baby? To where? the right to work at a shitty underpaid joib AND STILL do all the housework? We should have never entered the workforce on these terms, it's total bullshit, we are just another sector of migrant workers. Great deal for employers, isn't it?

Right now I am kicking myself in the ass for not using a male name on my resume when I sent it in to a bike shop-woulda at least got me a phone call......if I was built differently I'd dress as a male and see where that got me-the thought has crossed my mind on more than one occasion. But I can't pass for a man, I can just do anything they can do and then some...but that ain't good enough, at least it hasn't been yet! Maybe one day someone will prove me wrong........

As it stands though?

Welcome to the 19th century.

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Working for a dying company is funny as hell some days. Like today. I suspect it is a terminal case of plain out STUPID.

I'm out of materials so I must measure and cut a bunch to fit. Then reverse the magnets on the crap. Hmmmm.seems when it's for shitty money I'm good enough to work with tools eh?

I go to put them in my company vehicle and the sliding door promptly falls off. Hmmm I'm good enough to fix that-again only because it's not for a good paying shop or something!

This vehicle has now taken to beeping when I stop and the oil light goes on. I have oil in it so I suspect it's the two cylinders it doesn't fire on taking the rest of the engine out. Yes I can check oil, despite being a lowly grunt woman.

33 Degrees C out and does the air work? LMFAO ya think? So I throw on a muscle shirt, tattoos hanging out and all, and show up sweaty and windblown. DO I CARE?

Hmmm...what do you all think?

Off to be ME, FREE!

BAD DOG

Don't ask me!!!!

So it's been a long time....good weather, bike ridin', a second job and 200 other things make sure I got no time to put my thoughts down here.....but this I have to ponder and get out there....in the hope it snaps even one of the sheeple out of their corporate coma!

One thing I am NOT blowing my leisure time on (what little there is) is my lame job and the goofs who own the place. AS IF!

I truly cannot even start to understand why people do...hero complex? Maybe they are actually dumb enough to believe there will be a reward? Hahahaha....ok. We pull off everything with nothing, on no notice, and I've yet to even hear a "thanks" or "good job" never mind anything USEFUL!

Today the new guy called with a big project in my area....trouble is I am already working on a big project in my area and it takes all the time they pay me for each day if I am to meet their deadline. No time for anything else and he can't bully me or cajole me into doing one minute more. No one can. I see it all for what it is....bullshit.

Hmmm....seems they are SOL, don't it? And I told him so.....find someone else or do it yourself, he seems to care, the silly boy maybe he'll give up another weekend for the greedy bloodsuckers.

He proceeds to tell me he was in Saturday from 9 am til 2 am and doesn't know why. So I asked him if he was paid extra? No he says. Does he get to bank the hours for vacation time? He says no. Time and a half? No again. Of course I knew all these answers, I've dealt with this cheapass idiotic bunch of slavedrivers for over two years now without even a cost of living increase or a "thank you" for a job well done. But I wanted HIM to see how stupid he is being...he is giving them exactly what they want...something for nothing. His spare time, his leaisure time, his family time, his time to laugh and be a free human being...a human BEING....not a slave.

I SO wish people wouldn't do that. If they coulkd grow a set of 'nads maybe, just maybe, we'd get the staff we need to do the job within regular hours? Maybe the ivory tower jackasses would have to start looking at their demands and thinking they'd better ante up if they want to continue playing? If the same two overworked people keep killing themselves to pull rabbits out of their ass things will keep getting done for these clowns, and they don't deserve things to get done. They deserve what they pay for....which isn't much! They deserve to fall on their faces and realize they need twice the staff!!!! They aklso need to pay the ones they have, which they haven't been doing......none of my people are being paid on a regular basis anymore, which is such a source of joy to me...NOT! They are now down to financing their stupidity off the workers money....cur dogs that they are.

My husband works some ignorant long hours sometimes. But he gets paid for each and every minute of them, time and a half etc. He has gotten more raises in the year and a bit he has been with this company than I have in SEVEN!!! They buy his time, not guilt him into feeling like we are some sort of team or something "has to get done". Hell if it was worth my while I'd work extra hours maybe.....why do it for free?

Have to have it? THEN FUCKING PAY FOR IT!

Team? Not when the money is concerned.

Bulletin-for nothing you get nothing.....

It blows me away how intimidated people are by the bosses...."Do three peoples work and this other thing too we need it by this date!" and they all jump.

All but me. I'd rather pick up cans in the ditches than snivel to the greedy pigs....I owe them NO loyalty, NO extra effort and refuse to be guilted into anything by some bullshit concept of being a team. We ain't a team, they the Massa we the Slaves.....

C'mon Sheeple...wake the HELL up and give them what they deserve, and not a minute more.

Frustrated,

BAD DOG

It may seem a departure-I am not railing against big business.....but it's all connected. I hate government (I REFUSE to capitilize what I consider a synonym for SCUM) more-and that is saying a lot.....

This is just yet another example in a very long line of them explaining how I came to be this way.....

Last year in the Summer, after having my M2 motocycle licence for well over the required 18 month waiting period to be tested for full M status, I proceeded to the DriveTest location nearest to me to get it done before I moved far away and the weather got cold.

The woman who "served" me (if you can call it that) would not book a test for me, she maintained I had not had my M2 licence long enough. I knew this to be incorrect and argued with her but in the end what could I do? She knew it all (bitch) and would not book a test date for me. So off I went shaking my head (yet again) in disgust as how moronic and bitchy their staff are).

Of course anyone who rides a motorcycle knows we would much rather be riding in the Summer as opposed to early Spring in tempermental Canada! I once went on a May 24 run that ended up being -1 and freezing rain....which is exactly why I did not want to wait til the last minute to be booking my test! Oh me and my silly logic and rationality eh...this IS the scuzerment I am dealing with, I should know better.....

This April I got my notice my M2 would expire in May...uh huh big suprise I knew it...Miss know-it-all apparently DIDN'T! So thanks to her incompetence and refusal to listen to someone with an IQ higher than a chair I was forced to go to their DriveTest center and book a test ASAP.

I now live an hour from it...oh how special....

So I did...but it doesn't end there. The pinheaded goof I booked the test with said "Would next Friday be OK" Now to me NEXT Friday would be May 15th...allowing me plenty of time to arrange the day off and also pray for decent weather. So I said yes that would be fine.

Well he can't read a calender, I get into my truck to go back to work and see his version of "next" Friday is May 8th...THIS Friday. Uh huh.....

Oh wait, there's a 1-800 number on the form-I will just give them a call and rechedule-no biggie! Except for this is a government office I am dealing with.....

I call the number-I have 48 hours to reschedule or I lose my (bullshit ripoff) fee but I'm still within the time. I finally get a human and after about ten second he says "We are having a fire alarm I must leave the building" (oh no PLEASE stay in there haha) and hangs up on me.

I try and try and try and finally get through again...well now I am past their magic 48 hour deadline and am told they can't do anything about it. This is taking into account they are damn well aware I called and that they had a fire alarm. I ask to be put through to a supervisor but the woman refuses. Facts are not good enough for these dummies.

The woman gives me the Drivetest (my patience) # and tells me to speak to a supervisor and they will rectify the mistake and reschedule me.

No they wouldn't. Again I request, but am again not allowed, to speak to a supervisor. The idiot tells me the woman at the ministry 1-800 line was "incorrect" and I must come back in to their office in person because of the 48 hour rule. Oh yeah...no prob...I just live an hour away and have a JOB! Never mind that at this point they really don't want me in their stupid office as I want to skin someone.....sooo I calmly tell this woman I was advised by Ministry personal that it would be possible for me to call and rectify this...and keep in mind this is all taped for "quality control" (yeah right) and documented. She tells me the woman was "mistaken". At this point I lose my cool. OF COURSE she was mistaken, she works for the _____ government so she's bloody well brain dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have emailed Jim Bradly, the Minister responsible for this farce....and will likely end up having to lose a days pay to fix this OR ride down in the rain and take my test, IF I can get the time off work with such short notice.

All this because of one idiot who didn't know how to do her job last Summer.
I am LIVID, to say the least.

Multiple experiences like this explain my utter lack of use for government. I'd be happier in a Mad Max world where I can at least behead people who piss me off this badly. Or maybe they'd behead me ha I have no illusions that life would be paradise...but I'll take my chances, with government oppression we don't have a chance excwept to bend over and take it. NOT my operating condition in the least.... After over 25 years of government office foul ups that have cost me time and time and TIME again I ...these IDIOTS need to be held accountable but it seems that never happen-especially when you aren't even permitted to speak to a supervisor FFS! I could do their jobs better, as most of us private sector ACCOUNTABLE workers could!

Hell, monkeys could!

They wreck my fuckin' fashion every time.....

How do I hate thee? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS....

Fair warning:

I hate the government and have for YEARS, and have very good reason to, so if you don't like bad language run away now....fast.

My most recent tangle with these joe jerk-offs was last week. I got a speeding ticket a few months back. Yeah that's my fault....I broke their precious laws...so I paid it, and the late fee because I had lost the ticket info moving and was late...fine, whatever my bad. Went to the courthouse and got ripped of like a good little dog.

I was then told I had to visit a Ministry office to get my licence "reinstated"...so I did that too. Some bullshit paperwork formality no doubt, I thought.

Nope. ON TOP of the speeding fine I was made to pay a 150 dollar fee for this "reinstatement" which consisted of NOTHING...........to say I was floored and furious is an understatment....I paid the fine, I paid the late fee. Another cash grab in Canada-the land of the not free (except free to work and be pillaged every time we turn around and free to do what we are told).

I DEFY any of of those bureucratic bitches to stand toe to toe with me and TRY...oh yes just TRY to rob me. Pack a lunch bring your friends.

No holding my livlihood over my head...no being backed up by a giant bullshit system that will put me in jail for disobeying their orders......just mano a mano try to take it from me. A weeks grocery money..two MONTHS car ins (that we are also under orders to have-but it never pays out as they are in bed with the scuzz-erment...) gone for NOTHING.

It'd never happen, I'd tear their pencil pushing arm off and beat them with it.

Render unto Ceaser what is Ceasers? All I owe Ceaser is a snap kick to the crotch...with a steel toe green patch boot. A few in fact..

This is the same government that fucked up my unemployment insurance claim to such an extent that I finally lost my home when I was laid off. They maintained I had not filled out a certain form, and that may have worked except that it fell out of my file onto the desk of the paper pusher I was argueing with right in front of my eyes and I grabbed it before she could.

"And WHAT IS THIS" I asked.

"Oooops it must not have been entered" Oooops...yeah, ooops this!

Got a cheque that day-too little too late....I came home to an eviction notice from the bank taped to my door. I'd even gone to Welfare (very hard for me) earlier at the suggestion of the UI idiots just so I could eat while they bungled my claim. They told me I was ineligible because I owned a home. No eat for me, no income for over 8 weeks. Clusterfucks.

Nice to hear, all the while the single mommy baby factories pushed past and got their cheques for doing nothing...breeding indiscriminately with losers perhaps?

This is also the government that accidently killed the horse I saved to buy by working at a farm baling hay for five years straight as a kid. I live with the damage in that shoulder every damn day but it was my dream, and we often sacrifice for dreams, and theoretically it should have been worth it. Until our nations retarded overlords get in on it that is. How it happened...well the story is too long but trust me, it was the first "Oops" in a long line of them.......

In fact, I'd say 99% of the time I've had to have dealings with our Scuzzerment they have fucked things up in some way or another.....

I usually don't think of these things, I really don't like to feel the rage I have or the degree to which I despise any and all things related to the government...or think of how there is no way for a tired working slob to fight or win with them, besides something totally insane a la McVeigh. I like to concentrate on what I do have, despite those motherfuckers....!

And, like the postal worker who shoots up the office, I'd never do it but by GOD I can see how it happens!

Once in a while something like that bullshit fuck in the ass fee happens and that buried rage lights back up like a smoldering bonfire, one that will never truly go out......

In Flames,

Leave of absence

Just took one...from the PC and from FITA Inc.

Went to Mexico....a place that is still free. Where one can still smoke and drink wherever one wants...where cars don't need to be safey inspected and E tested (gov cash grab part 785489726) and the bus has a cranked stereo, broken windows and flames painted on it.

THOSE guys have it right.....! A REAL Land of the Free, not this overgoverned nanny state we North American suckers are paying through the nose to live in.

Back to FITA Inc.....talk about a place I did not miss.....Sunday I am advised that another gutless employee has quit on me without notice. The idiots think they are "getting" the company when they do this, but I can guarantee it is not one of the greedy fatcats who have to go collect all the materials and do the work they ducked out of.

No...that would be me.

Employees....WHY do I stick up for those clowns again? Not one has left by giving me notice yet...they just get sick of it and decide one day (the day of the deadline) they just ain't gonna do it anymore.......ignorant.

I'm dying to quit this job...BUT I would make sure I am not dumping anything on my cohorts...the superiors yes. If I could make their lives miserable I'd do it in a flash. But I am not making any statement or "getting the fatcats" by ensuring my overworked coworkers have to pick up yet more slack...duh.

Speaking of picking up slack here's a good one.....my cohort and I had to set up an entire new division. We did EVERYTHING entailed in this, from the pain in the ass installations to the paperwork and pictures.

FITA hired a guy to run it. As we spent a third of the year on this project guess who was doing OUR work?

Yes, that would be NO ONE!

So this guy gets a shiny new operation to run courtesy of our hard work...and we get to clean up the toilet that is our division now...all courtesy of FITA inc. They are STILL making us do HIS fucking work.....as of this morning. My newest answer to everything is "So...what is wall boy doing?"

Not his job...we seem to be doing that still........

LOVED my vacation...HATE FITA.....!

I did a bad bad thing.....

Once my company vehicle broke down and I fixed it.

I got in trouble from the head beancounter for being "off the road" and messing with the vehicle on company time.

I pointed out that the labour rates at any real garage are quite a bit more than I am paid, never mind the wait time....and I had actually saved them a lot of time and money. Nevertheless I was told to NOT do that again.

Arighty.......I am not paid to think.

So yesterday the company vehicle breaks down and I take it to a proper garage as directed. And sit there like a lump, not working, in their waiting room anyways. It costs three times what I would have cost for me to do it and takes a lot longer too.

Now I am in trouble again LMAO because it was expensive....I told the new beancounter these were my orders and I could have just done it myself for a fraction of the cost but wasn't up for the bawling out.

Now it is apparently OK for me to repair my vehicle......

If they'd pay to get their damn server fixed they may have been able to email me this new policy........and any other info I am not receiving by mental telepathy!

More FUBAR FITA at it's finest....no wonder I don't care.....

Not in the Loop as there IS no loop,

The Proof

Things happen for a reason, and today (as I sat in a dealerships waiting room being bored to tears) I found some stats in the newspaper that I've heard for YEARS and am not suprised haven't changed. It backs up my last post.

For every dollar a Canadian male earns a Canadian female earns .65 cents.
(and my discount at the store/gas station etc for being female is...what?)

2/3rds of minimum wage earners in Canada are female.
(and how many are heading up families, without a dime in child support?)

Am I suprised? Hell no! Am I disgusted? HELL YEAH!

The reasons are many....there are quite a few areas where a man without a post secondary education (or the means to obtain one) can still make a decent buck. There are very very very few for women.

(I am not counting "escort" or "mistress" here....)

We end up in what I call "the Pink Collar ghetto". Customer service, office work etc........all notoriously underpaid and chronically underpromoted. Often running the show and catching the mistakes of the overpaid higher-ups on a day to day basis. But when something good becomes available we are passed over.

Let's take construction. Even if we can and want to do the work no one hires us. More of that unspoken silent sexism that is still rampant. Old men, WAY past their best before dates with outdated attitudes to match...doing the hiring. I stopped applying for such jobs when I started thinking of hitting them, just to show them how freakin' unfeminine and physically capable I could be.....

Society tells us that if we say something we are "bitches" or "feminists" and so many stay quiet. Yeah...and they used to tell us to let the rapist have his way and we wouldn't get hurt......how'd that treat us? I'll take the shiner and go home with my pants on...and HAVE!

Did the Black people listen to a society that wanted them to sit down and shut up in the back of the bus? Thankfully for them they did not, and look at the strides they have made compared to us women. We need to raise holy hell as they did, and we also need to quit being such a good deal for employers. Refuse to prove ourselves or work hard...for what?

More responsibility and no extra pay is what!

They get 65% of my effort, if that hahahaha. Then I work on my own (male dominated-motorcycle painting) stuff on the side...and make in a weekend what I'd make in two weeks for the corporate old boys.

The stats I have quoted here were true when I was twenty years younger...so what has changed? Fuck all, in my experience. Sometimes I wonder what I would tell a daughter like me if I had one....part of me would want to tell her to milk them for all they were worth while she looked good, and that's sad.

Hey one good screw deserves another ;-)

In Defiance,

Nice

One thing that probably contributes to my utter contempt for things corporate is the fact that sexism is still rampant-so they can't pat us on the ass these days....so what?

Their views are still colored (if they are that way) and they act accordingly. From a boss I once worked for who put his mistress in charge of us with a fat salary (and holy hell....said woman had the IQ of a potato) to this latest batch of goofs who only speak to the male, out of three regional managers.

I assume my female colleague and I are just smart enough to obey orders and they have already decided, without ever talking to either one of us, that we are stupid.

We have no worthwhile thoughts or solutions, only the male is worth asking anything of. They have been this way since day 1.

Now that we have completed installing a huge new program for them they are looking for someone to run it. Again neither of us were even asked, I found out today they are interviewing tomorrow.

With the way I am, well I am NOT suprised hahaha....I wouldn't consider me either. Because I long ago saw this circus for what it is and refuse to jump through any hoops for them. I am far from stupid.

But what about my female cohort who does not display the ignorant attitude I do? Their mega hoop jumper? The GOOD Dog and responsible corporate denizen?

She wasn't considered either and is fully capable of doing the job.

How sad is that? The one who is nice and worked herself into the ground for them....the one who hospitalized herself with stress for them. Ignored as certainly as this smartass coasting undriven one~yours truly. The position being offered would be a lot less stress for her, if that was any concern of theirs-and they've shown it is not.

Now some clown gets to waltz in and just "manage" what we did........how nice. I suppose we now go back to our neglected other job and try to clean that mess back up while someone new gets a shiny new operation. That we built. Where was anyone while we were DOING it? The hard part is OVER.
What this says to me is that we are just considered glorified grunts.....ooooooooh I have a business card........so whoopee for me I'm a corporate cleaning lady.

I've earned this attitude. As a young woman I was optimistic, hardworking and vowed to myself I'd never get by on my looks, I am too damned smart to have to.
So THERE world!

Twenty years later.....time and again I've seen bimbos get ahead (after giving said "ahead").

And even better, I've never been taken seriously....no matter how I behaved myself or dressed or even with a Trade (704X Fitter) license in my mitt. I'm sooo damn cute (operative word is DAMN). And looking young is great...until you realize people don't listen to you much, and don't look at you as knowledgable. Even talk down to you, as if one was a teenager..."When you get to be my age".

"Oh yes Wise Sage, three years older than me...what is the secret to Life?"

My experience in the workforce has shown me I would have been much better off swinging around a pole for a living and just being smart with the money for the early retirement age. Or maybe I should have stayed with bartending. With my IQ, with my mechanical ability and artistic aptitude, with everything I ever brought to the table worthless beside........my ass in some booty shorts.

Look at the media...society is still extremely Cro-Magnon in it's typecasting of its female people. Rap videos are a great example. A very pervasive attitude. Men want to look at women in various states of undress and that's cool....most of my pals are men...I get it....but how about in the damned workplace valuing and rewarding the rest of us a bit more? Economically. We have other parts.......

How about also taking into account that our outsides do not often match our insides? I have big butchy looking female friends who can't change a spark plug or their oil...and many biker male pals who can't either, come to think of it hahaha...........
Meanwhile I can rebuild a motorbike myself. Stereotypes........this one is tough and this one is dippy and that one is......

There's a few rude men who crossed my path that learned looks can be deceiving. And a lot of dudes who likely stayed stranded on the side of the road after I stopped and offered to help them and they giggled me away. It's 2009. We have a Black President...when maybe 200 years ago they were still treated like slaves!

But a woman handy with a wrench is still FUNNY and CUTE and very often still ignored? WTF? We have not "come a long way Baby", not near long enough for my liking.

When I look at my past workforce life I realize I could of had a ton less stress and ended up with a lot more, taking any one of the many "cute female positions" one can take advantage of.

That's just a piss poor state of affairs, to look back and see that. I'm glad I don't expend any energy trying to impress these clowns-I got the same as the ones who did! Hahahahaha!

Howling at the Moon,

No allies

There is a public service-type ad running these days. A guy at his office late at night trying to close a deal, all stressed out to the max.

His "other self" is standing there telling him to say screw it and go home. The man eventually does. This ad is not selling anything, it's being run by the Heart and Stroke foundation to send the much-needed message that if you let them the corporate pigs will happily run you into the ground.

But I knew that.

Bad Dog has no allies. The rest of the office is quite willing to kiss corporate butt until it kills them. Even after we allegedly agreed to let them fall on their greedy faces this time rather than work 24/7 to pull their mangy hides out of this latest fire. Nothing like charging in for the revolution just to have everyone else turn tail at the last minute......again.

So I guess I alone will refuse to work this weekend, and everyone else will do their best to save these human pieces of pond scum from their own cheapness. While our staff quit at an astonishing rate after being ripped off by these ass clowns the underpaid supervisors jump in to do their jobs. We can't do anything about them being ripped off, so we'll just pick up the work. What are we-a deranged version of Greenpeace?

"Save the Goofs?"

Over my dead body.

These guys need a reality check, and us fixing everything time and again is not doing it. But as the good Fidos and Rovers wag their tails after getting booted, I'm about to bite as I've already growled.

They need to learn that in North America people will NOT work for two dollars an hour.

You can tell people something only takes "ten minutes it's very easy" but after they realize it takes six hours and is a total clusterfuck that bullshit song falls on deaf ears. If you pay them for ten minutes after it took six hours they will never do it again.

If you treat staff like goofs they will leave, good and fair supervisors can only make up for so much. And eventually if any of the supervisors have any balls they'll stop picking up the slack.

I cannot wait til the day I get to walk in that glass and steel workhouse and tell them to shove it!

In Freedom,

Sunday

Monday wrecks Sunday...time creeps on until it is again time to be a wage slave. YUCH!

I'm sitting here dreading the total disaster that lurks at the office. I didn't create the disaster but I know the people who DID will throw blame anywhere and everywhere.

Funny stuff, blaming people who were not given proper training, enough of or even the correct materials...and were told to STOP half way through. And on it goes.

Being Bad Dog made me stick up for them haha, and list the reasons this project was going off like a lead balloon. I also threw in that ASKING the people who are "on the ground" might have been a good idea. In fact I likely said too much......I know "business" and "honesty" are not in the same playbook and I should have just jumped on their bandwagon condemning the workers for the mess.

Hate me see if I care. Fire me-give me my severance-I'll enjoy the chance to really speak my mind. Little do they know Bad Dog, whom the find so obnoxious, has been playing nice

Between my counterpart who works in another city and myself they would have gotten some useful info that could have alleviated a lot of BS if they ever had the sense to ASK the people who execute things like this day in and day out.

But business is a backwards foolish world in my experience-why is being smart cause to be ignored? I've found that is the m/o at almost every place I've worked. Are people's egos so fragile that they would rather stumble around screwing up rather than just ask others (and god forbid it would be one of the minions who does NOT wear a suit haha) for input or listen to observations that are valid? I thought the purpose was to make money. Efficiency usually contributes to that.......hey how about not doing things twice and three times....there's a brainstorm!

One of the things I really dislike about business type people-not having the guts to just admit they screwed things up royally. Or even, barring that, just NOT blaming others (who were hogtied from the word go) for what they know is their OWN doing. Too proud to listen to or ask for advice? Rather lose money and staff over it?

Know it alls. Money does not equal brains and it sure can't buy commen sense. That is very apparent. People with grand ideas and no idea how to execute them. Runaway egos that refuse to ask for help, but instead just want more and more out of the workers to clean up the mess they made. Work harder not smarter......WTF nice company motto.

Is it just me who finds this all so very very stupid? At my workplace it sure feels like it.

SIGH.........I've wasted enough time thinking about this which I cannot change. Guess I'll go in, do my time and keep my ideas to myself.

In Freedom,