Boring Job Ramblings

Since I don't have a whole lot to do, I've been journaling about the
goings-on here. I thought I type it up. Maybe create some discussion.



It's unnerving, really, the atmosphere of this place. We've all known for
months that this period would come. Granted we thought we had awhile
longer to prepare. We still knew. It seems like no one is really working
to get other jobs. Even though we know we are going to lose ours.
Everyone is taking it differently. Some of the more immature people are
throwing tantrums now and then. Some of the veterans are laid back and
cool, but not really doing much work. Our fearless leader is occasionally
frantic and refuses to garner a bad rep even while the ship is sinking
and it doesn't really matter anymore. She still smiles and waves in the
halls like everything is keen, but when that door closes, there is stress
and there is panic. It seems like the door is closed a lot these days.



And so goes the downfall. Management continuing their facade that
everything is okay while peons run around spreading rumors and partaking
in doomstalk. Those that have chosen to relocate to another state must
feel weird. They are going to join "them." THem being the bad guys. The
future of our department. We're all having to deal with them now and we
all see the level of compentancy. They asked us to train the new people.
Bundles of our teams were sent there to teach them our jobs. They are
performing from manuals that we wrote, but our jobs can not be encompassed
in a manual or a three day training session. Unfortunately the only way
to get good at what we do is to do it for two or three months. Management
says we don't have two or three months. We have two or three weeks. It's
sink or swim, but the head honcho doesn't believe in sinking. If anything
sinks, it won't be her or her fault. Everything has a fall guy and for
most of what is happening, the fall guy is us. If our counter-parts fail,
it is our fault for not training properly. This concept is wrong on so
many levels. This concept is corporate America.

Paint a pretty picture and wait for people to smile at it. Once they've
smiled, you can do whatever you want to the canvas because by now they
are looking at something else. If they don't smile the first time, blame
the artist or if you are the artist blame the paint. Blame anything but
yourself. Accept no responsibility. Enough of that metaphor.


Some people are cut out for corporate life. In the past, stability was a
huge reason to work for a corporation. Now, stability is a good reason
not to work for one. If you're into long hours and total dedication to a
corporation that has no loyalty to you, it can be beneficial, but there
is no garauntee. It is the exact same for any other means to make money,
so why do we feed our society to these giants? These suits are
millionares because of the little peons who do the work. How is it
possible that so many peons are okay with that system? Oh, that's right.
We're all morons who will take any job if it has a 401(k). Moo.