Because everyone needs a chuckle
Thursday, October 27th, 2005 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoPeople on my friend's list seems to be having sucky days at work lately. You are all the coolest bunch of people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Hell, you don't even give me too many weird looks when I start babbling about my cats, giant crocodiles, giant crocodiles showing up in the middle of hot yaoi manga, my dirty-underwear waving girlfriend (don't ask), boy nipples, blood eating birds, or anything else that I ramble on about.
So I present you five things I have learned through the wonder of holding temporary jobs.
1. There is no process so simple that someone can’t make it complicated (and usually it’s your manager)
2. Companies love to hear their employee’s suggestions (and as long as it doesn’t cost them money to implement, make anyone’s job easier, takes at least four meetings to discuss, and is suggested by a member of upper management, it’ll happen)
3. Technology is only as useful as the people who use and implement it (and those people are usually morons)
4. Once a company gets to a certain size, it is required by law to hire an asshole employee and an incompetent employee (and some companies cut costs by hiring a person who fulfills both roles)
5. At temporary jobs you will meet strange and interesting people, be exposed to a variety of management style, and learn how to do many new things (and then you will take the first permanent job you find because oh god, these companies are insane)
So I present you five things I have learned through the wonder of holding temporary jobs.
1. There is no process so simple that someone can’t make it complicated (and usually it’s your manager)
2. Companies love to hear their employee’s suggestions (and as long as it doesn’t cost them money to implement, make anyone’s job easier, takes at least four meetings to discuss, and is suggested by a member of upper management, it’ll happen)
3. Technology is only as useful as the people who use and implement it (and those people are usually morons)
4. Once a company gets to a certain size, it is required by law to hire an asshole employee and an incompetent employee (and some companies cut costs by hiring a person who fulfills both roles)
5. At temporary jobs you will meet strange and interesting people, be exposed to a variety of management style, and learn how to do many new things (and then you will take the first permanent job you find because oh god, these companies are insane)
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Date: 10/28/05 11:08 am (UTC)Manager: "We need to have a meeting in order to find out why it was done this way in the first place before we can have a meeting to discuss if we need to change the process."
Tsaiko: "No we don't. We do it more efficiently this way. If it doesn't work after two weeks, we change back. The end. Now stop wasting time and go actually do some work for once."
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Date: 10/28/05 02:34 am (UTC)(And your rambles are hella fun. XD)
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Date: 10/28/05 03:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 05:17 am (UTC)Add a comma after dirty.
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Date: 10/28/05 11:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 12:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 03:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/28/05 05:15 pm (UTC)(Or, really, I enjoy pointing out grammatical structures with potential double meanings. I'm just weird that way.)
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Date: 10/28/05 01:19 pm (UTC)Shit...THAT'S why they hired me for a position I was desperately underqualified for! Goddamnit...
And thanks for the laughs - all of them. I always enjoy your posts. They help me get through the day.
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Date: 10/28/05 02:36 pm (UTC):D ala Dilbert. I'm sure they must be funny to watch, but not so fun to work with
but these weird things happen in perm jobs too, rite?