Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Using my blog to bitch
Not that its anything new, but I'm going to use my blog to bitch a little.
Upper management took it upon themselves to hire a few fresh faces a while back. Three souls in total (which for our firm is noteworthy). All female, all under the age of 21. This has been a recipe for disaster. Our office staff is predominantly female to begin with and when you added the new young ones to the mix its like working in a friggin' chicken coop. Cluck, cluck, cluck and scratch the ground each others desks all day. The worst is when they come into my office to cluck with my assistant. There's something that just grates on me. I can't handle it in the mornings.
The clucking is only one part of it, though. There's one of them and (of course) she's been placed at a desk outside my office. All day long this girl takes it upon herself to announce to the rest of the office whatever is happening at that moment. Its like she is crying for help from a non-specific source. I think that this might be what G*d endures on an eternity wide basis. Some of her greatest hits include: "My computer is frozen"; "The phones aren't working"; "What's wrong with the Internet?" All day long, the non-specific plaintive cries of a confused girl. You'd think it would soften me up, but no. I tried to be super helpful to her one day and that just brought more questions into my office. So I killed that program fast. She's so bad that another one of the new hires that is also particularly ditsy makes fun of her.
We also re-hired one of our Sales guys that was arrested for shoplifting a while back. Alright! In Sales it only matters if you make the numbers, this is what I have learned. I feel bad for this guy; he's got (or had, as he claims) a substance abuse problem, some hungry kids and a real bitch of a wife. I don't know, maybe we were right to hire him back just to be good people and give the guy a chance. Either way, wasn't my call!
¶ 4:14 PM
Upper management took it upon themselves to hire a few fresh faces a while back. Three souls in total (which for our firm is noteworthy). All female, all under the age of 21. This has been a recipe for disaster. Our office staff is predominantly female to begin with and when you added the new young ones to the mix its like working in a friggin' chicken coop. Cluck, cluck, cluck and scratch the ground each others desks all day. The worst is when they come into my office to cluck with my assistant. There's something that just grates on me. I can't handle it in the mornings.
The clucking is only one part of it, though. There's one of them and (of course) she's been placed at a desk outside my office. All day long this girl takes it upon herself to announce to the rest of the office whatever is happening at that moment. Its like she is crying for help from a non-specific source. I think that this might be what G*d endures on an eternity wide basis. Some of her greatest hits include: "My computer is frozen"; "The phones aren't working"; "What's wrong with the Internet?" All day long, the non-specific plaintive cries of a confused girl. You'd think it would soften me up, but no. I tried to be super helpful to her one day and that just brought more questions into my office. So I killed that program fast. She's so bad that another one of the new hires that is also particularly ditsy makes fun of her.
We also re-hired one of our Sales guys that was arrested for shoplifting a while back. Alright! In Sales it only matters if you make the numbers, this is what I have learned. I feel bad for this guy; he's got (or had, as he claims) a substance abuse problem, some hungry kids and a real bitch of a wife. I don't know, maybe we were right to hire him back just to be good people and give the guy a chance. Either way, wasn't my call!
¶ 4:14 PM
