Once again I’ve been published at workingfortheman.com . If you’ve got time on your hands, take a look and be amazed that someone with my attitude has managed to hold onto a job.
And now for a short trip down memory lane…
The very first thread I opened on the SDMB was to announce my first publishing at workingfortheman. My thread didn’t get much response, but it did get a snarky reply from a user named “Sweetstuff” (or something similar).
Sweetstuff was supposedly a 16-yr-old foreign exchange student from Brazil who hated everything about her host country but was panicked that she might get sent home. It was difficult to believe that such a seething package of bad judgement and poor attitude as Sweetstuff could’ve made it through the most rudimentary screening process of the most disreputable of exchange programs. For example, it really ticked off Sweetstuff if one of her classmates asked her to say something in Portuguese.
The last we heard of Sweetstuff, she had gone to a fraternity party, gotten drunk, and returned to her host home, where she stood in the street and screamed and then lifted up her dress and peed in the street.
hey lainaf,
Just wanted to stop in and say that i really enjoyed reading that. Next time you write another one, make sure to post a link to it on the boards.
At my company, we received our annual survey on Friday - it’s due by COB Tuesday. We should have had 2 weeks to complete it but, Oops, they forgot to mail the employee surveys to the employees (a small detail).
I’d think we worked for the same company except my survey has 100 questions, not 70, and I don’t know what the Furkley Initiative is.
I’m book marking that site. Thanks for the laugh, lainaf.
Thank you, scotcho and Slainte, for the compliments, and for rescuing me from the humiliation of having zero replies to my thread. Slainte, I don’t think we work for the same company; however, certain details in my story (e.g., my real name, number of questions, real name of the Furkley Initiative) were changed since I would like to continue working for the man at Big Corporation for awhile.
I think it’s the thread title that has caused low views/replies, lainaf, because your story really was quite funny.
Since I’m here, I’ll confess to sending in my annual survey nearly blank (filled in 4 of 100 questions). It’s supposed to be anonymous and it’s just too damn long to fill out. They moved up their deadline to COB today and I had a crappy day, so no survey participation from me.
We probably don’t work for the same corporation, but alarmingly, they all sound the same these days.
Oooh, we had that. Luckily they only gave us about 30 questions.
One of my favorite Action Items was one where we acted by sending in a question asking what our expected career path was, ie what should we be preparing for in order to advance our careers. We were (ha, I got retired in the last layoff) telecomm/datacomm techs called Network Operations Specialists (we went out to business customers and installed/repaired equipment).
Months later, the answer came back that our career path was proprietary information and H-R would not provide us that information.
I still have a notion that if we were corporately-sophisticated enough, we could have sent in a differently phrased question, possibly to a different corporate department, and maybe gotten an answer. My only reason for this optimistic belief was that the correct juju phraseology was necessary for a lot of communications, ie communicating with your boss. No juju, no results.
But after several years of trying, I got a result! (apparently). We were required to buy a minimum life insurance using some of our Benefit Dollars, and what finally worked was me informing our group at that horrible meeting lainaf referred to, that our premiums would buy on the commercial market $90,000 worth of the same (term) type of life insurance rather than the $10,000 that XXXX Corp was providing. There was a moment of silence at the meeting where everyone thought some corporately-incorrect thoughts.
But no one except me wanted to pursue it. So I obnoxiously stuck to the subject, and said if they’d let me word a question to send in, I wouldn’t bring it up next year, and the group OK’d it to shut me up. So guess what, next year H-R reshuffled the benefits so it was impossible to compare from year to year, but there was no longer a requirement to spend a yearly increasing percentage of your benefit dollars on an apparent kickback scheme.
