You may remember me from other MPSIMS postings including my pay being cut 25%. I am fed up with this place and just waiting for various paperwork to leave.
Word was passed this that we would have a meeting at 18.00 is our rec center. So I showed up. Informal, there are so few of us that we pushed armchairs in a circle.
Boss: “I called this meeting to address rumors. We are not going to consolidate you two in an apartment. Any questions?”
Co-Worker 1: “Will we get a post office box?”
Boss: “I don’t know.”
Co-Worker 2: What about our crewed up pay?
Boss: “I don’t know.”
Co-Worker 3: What about the pool?
Boss: “I don’t know.”
Co-worker 4: What about our health insurance?
Boss: “I don’t know.”
So I got up and left. I didn’t say anything. I just left. Nothing the guy can threaten me with. Nothing he can help me with. He seems pretty useless all in all.
Honestly, I thought it would be liberating. In fact I am such a Goody Two-Shoes I feel worried.
Thanks. I have a small fever too. I am sure that has helped put me in a surly move. Walking out like that was (for me) like going on a blue tear of cursing for most people.
Sometimes you just have to say (one way or another) “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
sounds like you did just that. Well done. I am way too old to put up with meetings where nothing is accomplished and nothing is imparted. It sounds like you’re going to a better place all 'round.
Was he being honest or just an idiot? Was it his fault?
There’s all kinds of stupid shit going on where I work, and management doesn’t answer questions like that. They give us long speeches about how great the company is, and how great we all are, and how ‘a little shake up’ is a good thing, etc.
Which is why he didn’t speak. He let his actions speak for him. I applaud him. If more people had the nerve to walk out of meetings that are complete wastes of time, we’d all be better off, IMO.
Heh - this has me picturing no meetings ever coming to a conclusion again. Very Dilbert-y.
I think it’s good for you, Paul. Sometimes we just have to do what we need to do. Honestly, what are you worried about, if the guy has no way to influence your life? Do you just feel bad that you were potentially slightly rude?
I think I’d have thought you were leaving because you didn’t want to be bothered with such drivel. And I think I’d have admired that so much I’d have gotten up and :smack: ollowed you out (unless I really needed my job there and that would have made me lose it, that is).
.Sorry, I don’t see how to get myself out of the quote box here.
Air France, here to Chuck DeGaulle then on to Washington for two weeks, I got to sort out my taxes, then to Mexico on 1 August to do a course which winds up on 1 September, then on to (someplace) to do (something).