First Day Back From Honeymoon!!!

Get this folks!!! I went on my first ever vacation last week not to mention my honeymoon. I got a full five days paid for plus a four day weekend (that's just how my schedule work(s)ed out. I got a call monday afternoon while i was still on my honeymoon, coming back actually from florida, from work telling me that I had to be in early teusday. I was like what the heck! My regular start time is 4pm and they wanted me to come in at noon instead. Not a big deal but here's the problem: the reason they wanted me to come in early on the day I would have gotten back anyway is that my site super scheduled a mandatory supervisor emergency training for that particular day. He did the schedule WHILE I WAS ON MY HONEYMOON assuming that he could tell me to come back early. We drove to florida mind you and spent the night on the way down and back in a hotel and it would not have been physically possible to be there as we were getting quite late monday night, or should i say around midnight teusday morning. We hadnt slept much on the way back, maybe four or five hours each. Being out of town is one thing but being called in early while on my HONEYMOON is asinine. No, I'm sorry, ASININE is telling me that if I don't come in early that I'll be written up. So I'm loaded for bull when I go in yesterday afternoon not really knowing what to expect and trying to keep things from going through my head and out of my mouth that will get me fired. I get there and find out that the site super who caused this whole problem because he's a moron and can't rectify his own scheduling conflicts has had a family emergency. His 87 year old father needed to be moved from Henry Ford Hospital to U of M Hospital at the last minute. My afternoon super was called in early thereby getting me off the hook and keeping me out of "trouble". I guess that's God's way of telling my boss to screw off and letting me keep my job so I don't have to open my big mouth and get myself fired or so worked up that I quit.

I just have one question about this whole thing: If someone has paid and scheduled time off how do they get in trouble for having paid and scheduled time off.

Murphy's Lay: everyone rises to their highest level of incompetence...and remains there. In other words, the more incompetent you are, the higher up you go. Now, if one were to apply that to politicians where we all know that good ones surround themselves with people that make them look good, what's that tell you about the president, presidents cabinet, and the government in general? They are ALL incompetent IDIOTS!!!

Here we go again folks

I got to work yesterday and there are two posts that our resident idiot and I switch off on. If one starts on patrol that means he ends on the truck gate. Now, captian screw ball started on patrol the day before yesterday which means he ended on the truckgate that night. Now, yesterday was the weekly fire testing which means there were four people on shift instead of the usual three. I was trying to be fair to the Mario Bro's look-alike and asked my super where he wanted me to start out on so that he didn't get stuck at the truck gate two nights in a row. My super kept telling me that we were on a three man rotation so I said ok, that means I''ll start on the truck gate so I'll end down there. (Usually we have a two man rotation and the super stays in the office most of the night). My super told me no so I asked him where I should start so that it works out fair for the both of us (resident idiot and I). Then my super said since we were on a three man rotation that I would start out on the truck gate so that I would end down there. I looked at him and told him that's what I just said. He said, "Yeah, I just wanted to make sure..." Ok, I ask a yes or no question, I expect a yes or no answer, if I get otherwise it is obvious to me that someone is lying about something or trying to hide something, more or less both. If I ask a direct question and don't get a direct answer then it makes it impossible to do my job. I can go in and do whatever the hell I want and it doesn't matter, so long as it looks good. I've never been one for keeping up appearences and my philosophy is that I would rather do something productive and worth while, than stand around and look good for no good reason. If you do your job well then you don't have to worry about making it look good because it already is good and people will see that proof clearly. It makes me think of Rob Zombie's song Educated Horses only in this case I think it's more appropriate to think in terms of Educated Jackasses: they know what they're doing but they're stubborn as hell and are going to do it their way regardless of what I need in terms of communication and information to do my job. I'm getting married in less than three months and will probably quit my job and move to Wisconsin. Not that there won't be idiots over there I'll end up working for butI think we all get tired of being around the same stupid people day in and day out. If you hang around an idiot long enough you kinda start acting like one. I'm about at the end of my rope.

First Day Back From the Holiday

Ok, So it was my first day back from the holiday which was a four day weekend for me. I get into work and my super tells me that he got another emial from the shipping department telling him that I did something wrong agian. I was thinking this had to be some sort of joke. I hadn't been there for four days. There was a new driver that came in and didn't quite know how things worked and asked me what he was supposed to do. I told him to drive around back, park his truck and trailor, and wait till morning. I even drew him a map of where to park. He went back and was still quite lost and shipping got pissed. It never occured to them that all they had to do was tell the guy hey, no problem, just park over there and wait until morning and we'll come get you when we're ready. That's all it takes. Instead, shipping told the midnight super, she told the site super who in turn sent my super an email, who then in turn told me. Is this some sort of bad joke? Isn't this the kind of thing that people write comic strips about or make sit-coms out of? Hmm, that is not a bad idea.

He's in Top Form, Folks

So yesterday I get to work and drive down to the truck gate and the site supervisor is down there, whom I am relieving so he can go home for the day. As soon as I pull up a black car with a woman pulls up behind me and my boss says, "Here, hand these to the Boss". I said OK and gave her the envelopes and after I closed the door I asked who she was. He said, "She's the BOSS". I said, "and who is that?" he said, "the Boss". I asked, "What's her name, who is the woman in the car? Is that Amy or someone from Ford?" Finally, he told me, "That was Amy. What? You've never met her before?....Ira....Mark..." Yeah, he started rambling on about something and trailed off. I told one of the truck drivers that came in about it and he laughed and said that it was the same way at his office. He said he'll ask the boss a question and the boss will say he doesn't know and it's like, "What do mean you don't know? You're the BOSS!!" It would seem to me that the more of an idiot you are and cover it up by not giving someone a straight answer defines leadership. The better you are at this, the higher up you go. Murphy's Law states that in individual will rise to his highest level of incompetence...and remain there. Therefore, if you are highly incompetent, you too can become a site supervisor, account manager, mayor of Detroit, or even good ol' president of the USA! Here's a question for you: if I'm not right, how come we haven't had any Nobel Prize winning presidents in our history? Those people are highly competant. Our company moto is "Do the Right Thing" and they claim to have been "doing the right thing" since the early seventies but it's not what you think. It's all for show. Back in the early seventies when the company started there was a huge deal with civil rights so my company decided to write a policy and a code of ethics regarding this. There's NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS I want to make that clear, but they did it because it was popular not because it was the right thing to do. When i applied for this job they told me on the website that there was an extensive process I had to go through including a 40 page application, references, background check, and formal interview. They said that they pay competitive wages as well and that because of this they have one of the lowest turnover rates in the indstry and that this allows them to hire the best of the best. As far as getting hired, all I did was make a phone call asking if they were hiring. They said yes, so I showed up for about seven hours of paperwork that included about three hours of driving time to different locations for a drug screening and fingerprinting. After I was officially hired, I sat through even more videos and paperwork. Now here's the funny thing: I did this all at the account managers office and never met her. Her being Amy. It will be a year in September that I've worked here and I've never officially met her. When she pulled up and I handed her the envelopes, I said, "Here ya go." She said "have a good afternoon" I said, "You too." and that was the end of it. Lets count the words we've spoken to each other: me: five words, her: 4. I find it interesting that I've spoken more words to her and never met her officially. She's the account manager for crying out loud and she can't even take the time to return phone calls, emails, or stop by just because she wanted to meet a new hire, or even someone that's been there for some time now. OK, now I'm getting down right nasty about it.

Oh, My Boss!!

So I get to work yesterday and my boss is on the phone talking with someone who needs to know where there is a NAPA Auto parts store on Plymouth Rd. I work on the corner of Plymouth and Middlebelt between Farmington Rd. and Inkster. He told the guy he would call information and see if there was one on Plymouth. He hung up and I told him to get online and find a store locator and that might be the best, most time saving way to get the guy where he needed to go. He didn't respond to that, but instead called information and found out that there was no NAPA on Plymouth, called the guy back and said, "Sorry, can't help ya. Good luck." I got changed and by the time he was finished talking with the guy I had found a store locator that put a NAPA nearby on Farmington Rd, which intersects at Plymouth, probably the one the guy was thinking of. I told my boss that I found one and he ignored me and carried on with a few other people in the office about how there used to be this and that here and there. He never even called the guy back to tell him what I found. I work at one of the Big Three here in D-Town who for many years had their own security department. A few years ago the security department was outsourced so now there is a mix of the way things used to be and it ain't that way anymore and God forbid an it ain't that way anymore have a better idea than a way things used to be. We're supposed to be courtious, helpful, professional and polite. We are a highly visible entity that has to do more than shuffle paperwork and answer phones and tell people just enough to shut them up. We have to go every extra mile to satisfy our customer. How is it that my boss gets paid to do what I did and yet he did not? How is it that I don't get paid to do what I already do better than he does? More to come from the working class idiot...

...here we go again folks...

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