People-There are more people here that don’t have any real meaning and I have no idea what the hell there contribution is. I would say it is 80-20 female to male and the back stabbing and sniping about each other is ungodly.
You have the hourly folks who drudge in right at 8:00am clock in and slowly make it to their desk, at 5:00pm it is a stampede to the clock. The true masses have no connection or care about this place. It truly is “Office Space†around here, I get the same E-mail from 5 different people who CC each other in that E-mail (including me) and I get it from all 5 of them with them CCing each other. The salary folks, most upper management but you have one real corporate douche who comes in every morning hollering “GOOD MORNING LADIES†and on Friday its GOOD MORNING LADIES IT’S A GREAT FRIDAY every fucking week. This dude has meeting about having meetings. I see people walking to his office like they are walking to the gallows. He has come in and taken people off the clock and put them on salary, but he has done so by reducing their pay, two people have already quit.
The Company- This place is losing money like nobody’s business, but it also makes a shit ton. People have told me to go in do your job and work with blinders on, I didn’t listen, tried to help reduce cost, I found an office supply place that was about 5 to 7% cheaper than who they were using, took it to the higher up’s and was told what a good job and they would get right on it. Which meant don’t every do that shit again because it would take too much work on our part and we know who we are dealing with. I don’t think anybody has ever really worked hard here, now that I know my job it only takes about 4 hours on some days, payroll days are much more hectic. They have a sensor’s on the company E-mail that I guess picks up derogatory words, I think it is set to stupid, I’ll mailed one the guys I went to hot springs with some pictures of us playing golf and the subject matter was Jack and Arnie. It kicked it back because of the word “Jack†.
My work area- I have an office and then there is a bull pen outside of it. It is a morgue out there, always quite. I set up my office and turned on my Pandora. Someone came to me about that because they had never been allowed to have music at their desk, I keep it low and they seem to have accepted it. There is a lady who runs the accounting dept, she is the owners sister, she’s knows a shit ton about the company and her job (been here 15 years) but she has no ability to think independent. Any decision that requires something be done outside the norm she will not do without approval. She gave me a 90 day review, I told her what I would do to stay here and she said that I would have to talk to her sister.
Me- The only part that I am having problem with is the lady (the sister), I am salary and therefore can come and go, everybody else is on the clock. I leave early other Friday (to go play golf) but I am here between 6 and 7 every morning so my hours are there in not more cause I stay to 6 some nights. Well a couple of days ago I told her I was leaving for about 30 minutes to go get something done and she asked if that was going to be part of my lunch. I told her no. The following morning we had a sit down and I explained to her the way I saw my hours ( I also worked till 6 that previous night). I give her credit, she apologized about the way it came across. I am trying to get into the corporate part, we get profit bonuses and such.
In conclusion I have decided that working in corporate America sucks. But being out of work sucks even more.
And yes this is a cool story.
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