Follow the Dancing Thumb
Let's play a game. It's called: "follow the chain of events and see if we reach the same conclusions".
1. I joined facebook (many many many moons ago)
2. I took a job at InternetCompany
3. My boss, 'K,' is fired
4. I got a temporary boss, Energy
5. I got bosses TerribleLead and WalksSoftly. TerribleLead reports to WalksSoftly who reports to Energy
6. I needed to purchase a membership for the free shipping account. TerribleLead gave me his corporate purchase card and told me to buy it. I did so. Previously under K we were allowed to use this account for personal purchases. I continued to do so.
7. Coworkers Happy and Grumpy were hired. I shared this free shipping account with them.
8. Energy joined facebook—and added me as a friend. Um... okaaay
9. Months pass.
10. TerribleLead "discovered" what was "going on" with the free shipping account and freaked out!
11. And reported us to HR, resulting in the three of us getting called in for a "sit down."
12. Pissed I went home and updated my facebook status to "I'm looking for a new job. Hire me." At the same time I noticed Energy was recruiting down at BYU. Sadness, he didn't take me.
13. This morning the edict from On HIGH is handed down—we're all getting written up. Frankly, I think this is ridiculous.
14. The building had a fire drill. While we're milling about I comment to Happy that I updated my facebook status, and I think Energy saw it.
15. Many hours pass.
16. I notice that Energy has returned from his recruiting trip, and updated his facebook status.
17. 30 minutes pass. Happy, Grumpy, and I are all called into TerribleLead's office for a chat with all of our leads (we each report to a different person, then to WalksSoftly).
18. In this chat we're reassured that our work is valuable, and that they don't want us to leave the company (or the team), and they need us on the team, and this won't effect our reviews, etc, etc, etc. About halfway through this I reach the conclusion that you may have reached long ago—Energy had finally seen my facebook status and reported back to TerribleLead something to the effect of 'people are unhappy and thinking of leaving the team. If you don't want that, you might want to speak up.' I spent the next 5 minutes trying not to laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation. Energy is no idiot, and, the three of us who are involved in "The Great Embezzlement Scandal of Fall 2007" are among the top 5 or 6 people on our team. Loosing us would not only cut the numbers by 1/4 (and non-managerial numbers by 1/3), but would mean that half the team was now totally incompetent. Yeah, I'd love to see them recover from that.
As soon as we were out of earshot I turned to Happy and (with a totally unpenitent smirk) told him my conclusions. He agreed.
The good news: Energy is handing out the written warnings next week. This should prove interesting.
1. I joined facebook (many many many moons ago)
2. I took a job at InternetCompany
3. My boss, 'K,' is fired
4. I got a temporary boss, Energy
5. I got bosses TerribleLead and WalksSoftly. TerribleLead reports to WalksSoftly who reports to Energy
6. I needed to purchase a membership for the free shipping account. TerribleLead gave me his corporate purchase card and told me to buy it. I did so. Previously under K we were allowed to use this account for personal purchases. I continued to do so.
7. Coworkers Happy and Grumpy were hired. I shared this free shipping account with them.
8. Energy joined facebook—and added me as a friend. Um... okaaay
9. Months pass.
10. TerribleLead "discovered" what was "going on" with the free shipping account and freaked out!
11. And reported us to HR, resulting in the three of us getting called in for a "sit down."
12. Pissed I went home and updated my facebook status to "I'm looking for a new job. Hire me." At the same time I noticed Energy was recruiting down at BYU. Sadness, he didn't take me.
13. This morning the edict from On HIGH is handed down—we're all getting written up. Frankly, I think this is ridiculous.
14. The building had a fire drill. While we're milling about I comment to Happy that I updated my facebook status, and I think Energy saw it.
15. Many hours pass.
16. I notice that Energy has returned from his recruiting trip, and updated his facebook status.
17. 30 minutes pass. Happy, Grumpy, and I are all called into TerribleLead's office for a chat with all of our leads (we each report to a different person, then to WalksSoftly).
18. In this chat we're reassured that our work is valuable, and that they don't want us to leave the company (or the team), and they need us on the team, and this won't effect our reviews, etc, etc, etc. About halfway through this I reach the conclusion that you may have reached long ago—Energy had finally seen my facebook status and reported back to TerribleLead something to the effect of 'people are unhappy and thinking of leaving the team. If you don't want that, you might want to speak up.' I spent the next 5 minutes trying not to laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation. Energy is no idiot, and, the three of us who are involved in "The Great Embezzlement Scandal of Fall 2007" are among the top 5 or 6 people on our team. Loosing us would not only cut the numbers by 1/4 (and non-managerial numbers by 1/3), but would mean that half the team was now totally incompetent. Yeah, I'd love to see them recover from that.
As soon as we were out of earshot I turned to Happy and (with a totally unpenitent smirk) told him my conclusions. He agreed.
The good news: Energy is handing out the written warnings next week. This should prove interesting.
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