OPEN BAR: NO CISNORMATIVE ELVEN PATRIARCHS ALLOWED

[Cain]

Well, at least most of the consequences of this place not working properly are less severe.

I mean, no-one's gonna go home missing an arm because something blew up because the head of cleaning is a self-important jackass.  Heavy machinery...slightly higher range of worry there, IMO.

[Doktor Howl]

Well, at least most of the consequences of this place not working properly are less severe.

I mean, no-one's gonna go home missing an arm because something blew up because the head of cleaning is a self-important jackass.  Heavy machinery...slightly higher range of worry there, IMO.

Yeah, but it's the same feeling of not accomplishing a Goddamn thing with your irreplaceable time on this planet.

[Cain]

Yeah, there is that.  Fortunately, my degree is what I consider my "real" work...this just pays the bills while I do that.

It helps.  Somewhat.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Hey guys.

I quite honestly don't know what is keeping me from here. Probably just something I just need to sort out in my head. Just checking in, letting you all know that Twid is ok.

Actually, I have a bit of good news.

Dr. S, the man who fired me many years ago but I still work on the same floor with, recommended me for extra responsibility. I accepted. I had a meeting with a PI today, and we did the preliminary sussing it out.

I was pleased. Dr. S and the PI I spoke to are close friends. I don't know what happened there but I'll take it.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

It's not much, but I am resuming a responsibility that I had under Dr. S. And it's being extended towards the whole floor.

I guess I wasn't a totally shite administrative assistant after all.

[LMNO]

I have officially been told not to properly troubleshoot things, because "you might not be right - right away - and that wastes time", and my new officially-mandated procedure is "do whatever the non-technical people guess during the staff meeting."



I am SOOOOO okay with this.

Please tell me someone wrote that down and signed off on it.

URGH THIS FUCKING PLACE

Apparently asking the cleaners if they cleaned a room where something went missing, is racist.  I just had a very angry email from the head of the cleaning crew, making all sort of wild accusations, that I "immediately" suspected the cleaners etc etc...a whole bunch of bullshit.  Basically, the two other members of staff on duty that day said they knew nothing about it.  The other kid in the cluster of flats knew nothing about it.  Hmm, who to ask next? 

I've just written a very nasty email in reply, and then essentially told him to take all future complaints to my boss, as I give no fucks.  I'm going to sleep on it before sending, but I'm 90% likely to send it.

It's like Tumblr has leaked into the real world.

[Cain]

Nah, it's just that professionalism here is completely nonexistent.

I mean, if you were having a problem with someone at work, for whatever reason, you would go to their line manager, right?  It's a no brainer.  You're not in a position to tell off your colleagues, and doing so is likely only to cause resentment.  You go to the person responsible for them and let them make the decision.  It's...like such a basic concept of how to act and run a company I can't think of any more simple a way to put it.

Yet the concept seems to be completely alien to most people here.  Now, it is a new company (4 years old).  But the thing is, the actual company side of things, the management and corporate structure, is really well set up.  I mean, there's a proper HR department here, a whole department that deals with communications between parents, student and teachers...things I've never had at any other school I've worked for.  So it's just bizarre that they have this excellent set up, populated and run by idiots.

[Cain]

Besides, most of the cleaners are Portuguese, which makes them white imperialists.

As someone of Scottish ancestery, I am far more oppressed than them, and thus they are the real racists.

[Junkenstein]

It's...like such a basic concept of how to act and run a company I can't think of any more simple a way to put it.

Seriously, you would not believe the number of businesses that utterly fail to implement simple concepts.

FFS, I've consulted for people that haven't had a billing procedure. Let me repeat that, the company did not have a system to bring money into the business. I'm relatively certain at this point that every single firm in at least the UK is missing at least one very business critical system. Or it's there and utterly ignored and unused.

9/10 new business still fail in their first year. I'd bet good money that at least 3/9 fail because they can't actually drag money in, even when owed and work completed.

[Doktor Howl]

My apologies for my absence and my failure to write down the SCIENCE GESTAPO shit in a reasonable amount of time.  Lillie has instituted a program of all day meetings in which we are told why we suck, and Jenn and I just had an anniversary, so I've been otherwise occupied at home.

I'll be back when I have a chance.  Shouldn't be long.

[Cain]

You suck because you have meetings all day instead of getting shit done.

You have meetings all day long because you suck.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

god, it actually feels like she thinks shes running a marketing firm or something where having meetings to get everyone on message might actually do something. She seems to genuinely struggle with the realities of having to produce real tangible shit.

[Doktor Howl]

god, it actually feels like she thinks shes running a marketing firm or something where having meetings to get everyone on message might actually do something. She seems to genuinely struggle with the realities of having to produce real tangible shit.

No, she understands tangible shit.  She's stupid, but not ignorant.

What's happening is that she's in way over her head, and she's panicking.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I have officially been told not to properly troubleshoot things, because "you might not be right - right away - and that wastes time", and my new officially-mandated procedure is "do whatever the non-technical people guess during the staff meeting."



I am SOOOOO okay with this.

Ummmmm  I like to tell my mechanic the same thing, and then I just have her listen to the suggestions of a bunch of the pre-schoolers down the street.

Because LOGIC.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hey guys.

I quite honestly don't know what is keeping me from here. Probably just something I just need to sort out in my head. Just checking in, letting you all know that Twid is ok.

Actually, I have a bit of good news.

Dr. S, the man who fired me many years ago but I still work on the same floor with, recommended me for extra responsibility. I accepted. I had a meeting with a PI today, and we did the preliminary sussing it out.

I was pleased. Dr. S and the PI I spoke to are close friends. I don't know what happened there but I'll take it.

Nice to see you, Twid!