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*shakes head and talks to himself*
18 years ago
Sometimes all I can do when faced with some of the lunacy of humanity is shake my head. There was a district big something-or-other supposed to be coming to the store where I work this morning. I work overnights so I had already put in my 8 hours (and change) before the sun even came up, and I was watching managers run around the store looking for something to spit polish so they could look like they were accomplishing something. I find this amusing and a little sad because everything had to look so good for the big wig visiting. Yet somehow the store manages to function the rest of the year as well . . .
I find this a little annoying as well, since I do as well as I can every night, thank you very much for noticing, and I'm not someone that is sandbagging most of the time and just does the best when the boss is in the room. As Snoopy might say, "Blech."
I actually voiced an apparently radical notion of mine that it might do us some good if we left the buckets and "Wet Floor/Piso Mojado" signs out so he might see how much the roof leaks when it rains as much as it has here in the past couple of days. Perhaps property maintenence might get to be a little higher on the priority list if he had some idea just how much of the roof is leaking. The Assistant Manager I spoke to said "I'll have to get with someone on that." For those of you without a Universal Management Translator, that means "Whatever."
This will be my fifth Christmas at this store and the roof over the grocery addition has leaked in several places since I have been there, at least. Not that it should surprise me. The roof of the lawn and garden greenhouse addition has leaked since it was built 3 years ago and that was under warrenty for a year. They could have had it fixed for free if the store manager had "gotten with them on it." :p
I find this a little annoying as well, since I do as well as I can every night, thank you very much for noticing, and I'm not someone that is sandbagging most of the time and just does the best when the boss is in the room. As Snoopy might say, "Blech."
I actually voiced an apparently radical notion of mine that it might do us some good if we left the buckets and "Wet Floor/Piso Mojado" signs out so he might see how much the roof leaks when it rains as much as it has here in the past couple of days. Perhaps property maintenence might get to be a little higher on the priority list if he had some idea just how much of the roof is leaking. The Assistant Manager I spoke to said "I'll have to get with someone on that." For those of you without a Universal Management Translator, that means "Whatever."
This will be my fifth Christmas at this store and the roof over the grocery addition has leaked in several places since I have been there, at least. Not that it should surprise me. The roof of the lawn and garden greenhouse addition has leaked since it was built 3 years ago and that was under warrenty for a year. They could have had it fixed for free if the store manager had "gotten with them on it." :p
I had a good freind write up a method - where by - my last compnay would have saved a half a million dollars per year. Nothing happened and the idea was not acknowledged. Two years later the boss has this idea... that will save half a million dollars a year.
Very few places I have ever worked has management actually been pro-active in working with their peons.
*hugs....
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Fortunatly some of the cooler hourly supervisers at my job have figured out that the brain learns nothing after the butt has gone to sleep and at least try to keep meetings and classes brief. Sometimes there's not much to be done for it tho . . .