To the bitches at my work that have worked at this shitty job since the place opened 15 years ago, get a life. No one gives a shit that you think you own the place, nor do they listen when you try to micro manage the newer staff because guess what? You’re NO ONES boss sugar. Especially not mine 😉 —Still laughing at your dumb ass 🙂
This article appears in Jan 8-14, 2015.
They own the business, work there but don’t manage it?
I hope Ivan is listening to this.
Damn straight I am. Here at the gulag, us old lags take our mentoring seriously. We coach the FNGs in how to bring the system down from within.
RSVP: The Pork Eating Crusader
BRINGING THE SYSTEM DOWN FROM WITHIN
FNGs? But speaking of “bringing the system down from within,” I’m now reading – for leisure only of course – Ben MacIntyre’s “A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal” (McClelland & Stewart, 2014).
“One of the richer ironies of Philby’s position,” MacIntyre writes, “is that while he could do no wrong in British eyes, in Moscow he continued to be viewed with mistrust. The main source of Soviet suspicion was a plump, blond, highly intelligent, politically doctrinaire and fabulously paranoid NKVD analyst named Elena Modrzhinskaya, the head of the British Department at Moscow Center… She suspected a gigantic plot; she simply could not credit the ‘incomprehensible’ risks the Cambridge spies claimed they were taking on behalf of the Soviets… Here then was a truly bizarre situation: Philby was telling Moscow the truth and was disbelieved but allowed to go on thinking he was believed; he was deceiving the British in order to aid the Soviets who suspected deception and were in turn deceiving him.”
Bringing the system down from within indeed! I hope, in taking your mentoring seriously, that you shall not yourself become embroiled in a similarly bizarre situation.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
It’s like that wherever you go, OB. The oldies will always feel they’ve gone one up on you.
Especially in the provincial government. SMH.
And yes, I’m back, bitches. You can ban me (for no fucking reason) and block my IP (I deserved that), but you can’t keep me down. #changingIPaddressesiseasy
MM, it sounds like James Jesus Angleton had more than one counterpart on “the other side”
I enjoyed Macintyre’s “The Forgotten Fatherland” about the failed German expat colony set up in Paraguay by some of Richard Wagner’s offspring.
I do take my mentoring seriously. I’ve shown several generations of youngsters how 3 banana boxes filled with bubble wrap make a perfectly adequate bed, especially if you can arrange to have them blocked off from casual view. And the tried and true tactic of walking around with a clipboard and furrowed brow has never failed me yet.
Yes, Angleton was a rum character, as the expression goes. Did Wagner’s offspring form a choral society while in Paraguay, that heartland of liberal democracy? Did they sing the old songs from the Schwarzrwald? But the man question of course is what were you doing with those three generations of youngsters in the banana boxes filled with bubble wrap. Did the squeaking draw unwanted casual viewers? My God, three generations! That’s stamina for you!
No one fucks with someone walking around with a clipboard and a furrowed brow, Uncle Vanya.
And what did YOU say to be banned? Wear it like a badge of honour, PK. LOL! Glad you’re back!
Especially if you are swearing quietly to yourself, Breakie.
Hing Frogg, Shtum! This is BreakfastSandwich, an entirely new commenter, you are talking to. >; )
I had a sandwich for breakfast this morning. It had bacon on it so it was anti-semitic but I’m protected by freedom of spork.
OH! Yes… 1,000 lashes! BTW, can I get the individual mink ones? The glue is hypoallergenic, right? Not those types of lashes? Oh…
Well, with Ivan as the whip master…
If I recall correctly, Hing, PK got banned when she told Mo’ Fool that we are happy she isn’t a shrink and dared her to report her for being a ‘meanie.’
*shrug*
As a confirmed lifer myself, I think it would be helpful if the newbies showed just a touch of respect for their more experienced brethren and sisthren (is that a word?). The so-called lifers are often trying to make a career of their job (such as it is) and make the best of what may be a difficult situation. When some young un’ shows up and makes it obvious that they a) think it is a shitty job and b) are only there until something better comes along – how do you think it makes the lifers feel? Some of them do not have the options that you may have due to their education or other commitments. So, OB, try to be a bit more understanding and respectful of the lifers and I’m sure they will do the same for you.
WHO’S A LIFER?
“Some of them do not have the options that you may have due to their education or other commitments.”
True, true as you say, particularly about the education. But how do you determine who is a “Lifer?” What calculus do use? Is it intuitive or is it rational? Write back soon.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
“What calculus do use? “
…. the probability of a person leaving their job is inversely proportional to the number of years already dedicated to that job. The probability of being a lifer increases (and the probability of leaving for another job decreases) with each year spent in the job …..until the person retires at which time the former reaches 100% and the latter reaches zero.
“WHAT CALCULUS DO USE?”
Could you put that in proper mathematical notation? Further, would you indicate the real-world source of your “probabilities?” In other words, on what real-world grounds do you claim that there exists such a tightly symmetrical relationship between the years spent on a job, on the one hand, and the probability that one will leave that job, on the other? In still other words, on what grounds do you advance the claim that real-world behaviour is reducible to some sort of mechanical algorithm? Write back soon.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
OB – It’s called “work ethic”, you should get some.