Ignore this thread... it just involves a lot of whining.
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:34 pm
Like I said, ignore this thread. I'm just fucking pissy and need to vent.
Dearest Manager of Local Operations (aka my immediate boss):
Thank you for pointing out that you made nearly twice as much as my wife and I combined last year. I really appreciate the fact that you mentioned this considering that you come into work at 10:30, go to lunch for an hour at 11:30 and leave at 3:30, while I come in at 9:00, go to lunch at 11:30, and leave at 5:30 or 6:00pm and then recieve an average of 1-2 phone calls per night after I leave and 3-4 phone calls on the weekend from the people that work under me. I also appreciate the fact that you told me I have to start coming to work in the off hours to see "my guys and increase the morale of the department". I also appreciate the fact that you told me a year ago to start doing monthly training sessions (of which you have NO PART IN) with every shift and I appreciate the fact that I now spend even less time at home with my family and more time at work for half of your wages. I also appreciate the fact that you have weekly emergencies in your personal life which mean that you take days off without using your personal holidays or vacation days because you are salary. I also am glad that you get to work a half day (from what? 10:30 to 1:30) on days that your band is playing. What makes it even better is the fact that if I take even half a day to deal with the same type of emergency, then I have to use a full day of vacation or holiday time. I am also pleased that you go out of your way to promise the managers and higher-ups in other departments that we will hire their "just outta high school" children for work in our department. Everyone of these kids has been so incredibly dumb that it's made our department look even better to the regular employees. Clearly I was wrong with my hesitation to engage in nepotism like this. Thank you.
When you finish reading this, please pass the following message on to the new "Manager of World Wide Operations":
Dear Manager of World Wide Operations: I'm really glad that you call me all the time to talk about stuff that the Manager of Local Operations knows more about. I understand that with his busy personal life, he's not able to get you the information you need and that I'm clearly the one who needs to get this project done. I'm glad that you took over the world wide operations and have changed everything that that I built from the ground up over the last 8 years. Nothing pleases me more than to see an email from you treating me like I'm a stupid jackass because you can't click a button in an XL spreadsheet and change the formatting yourself... obviously you are above that. I will gladly put all of my quarterly goals and regular duties on hold to talk to you and change the formatting in a single cell in XL for you. I live to to that. And it's ok if I score really low on my goals because I would hate to get a raise or a bonus which I clearly don't deserve. And thank you so much for threatening my livelyhood with firing me and writing me up when you first were hired. I never realized how badly I had screwed up by making this department into a money saving, highly trained and professional organization. I'm glad you showed me the error of my ways. Oh, and thank you for hiring a guy, who works 700 miles away from our department and has never seen how it works, to write policy and procedure for our department. He is obviously better equiped to make these kind of decisions about how things run; and his forms are incredible. They have absolutely nothing to do with what we do here, but that's ok. We will be glad to do these things that we've never done and have no way of doing in the first place. Again, thank you.
When you finish reading this, please pass the following message on to the new "Director of World Wide Operations":
Dear Director of World Wide Operations: I would like to thank you for hiring a manager of World Wide Operations. We have almost reached the stage of "more chiefs than indians" which is very effective way of running a department within a corporation. I would also like to thank you for giving me the line "you're the next person to be made a manager" for the last 5 years. It is quite clear that we need another manager up here in Oregon. In fact, we could probably use another 3 or 4 managers so that we can outnumber the employees. I would also like to thank you for your personal relationship with the Manager of Local Operations. The fact you two are best friends and that he can do no wrong is great. I really enjoy knowing that if I had a problem or if any employee had an issue with the manager, that they would not be able to take it to anybody because they would be fired if they did. Thank you for hiring a team of monkeys to write policy and procedure and to make forms and databases that don't work for our department. I was mistaken to think that I knew what our department needed, and for that I am truely sorry. Please accept my most sincere apology for being a bad employee. I know that the endless hours I've put into this department have been wasted on your whims and desires. I hope you dont' give me a raise because clearly I dont' deserve it. Oh, and before I forget... thank you so much for assigning pay raises for my employees BEFORE you get their review. I know that you have a clearer understanding of what these guys are capable of even though you've never spoken to them or have never interacted with them. I was ignorant to think that I knew these guys better than you since I workt with them 40 hours a week and talk to them ~literally~ every day of my life. You truely are a superior person than I. I think it's an understatement to say, "I'm not worthy... I'm not worthy". I would also like to thank you for writing my review without having first consulted my immediate manager. I know that you know just how hard I've worked in comparison with my immediate manager and how I deserve pennies on the dollar compared to what he makes. It's clear, especially when he has so many stock options worth 10's of thousands of dollars and I have 2 thousand dolllars worth, that he works so much harder than I do. I will try to improve my performance this year by leaving my family and moving into a cot in my office. Thank you for not firing me to this date... yet. If you do decide to terminate me, then I understand exactly why. I hope I can improve my status with you, the new manager of World Wide Operations and my immediate manager.
Sincerely,
Liable.
Dearest Manager of Local Operations (aka my immediate boss):
Thank you for pointing out that you made nearly twice as much as my wife and I combined last year. I really appreciate the fact that you mentioned this considering that you come into work at 10:30, go to lunch for an hour at 11:30 and leave at 3:30, while I come in at 9:00, go to lunch at 11:30, and leave at 5:30 or 6:00pm and then recieve an average of 1-2 phone calls per night after I leave and 3-4 phone calls on the weekend from the people that work under me. I also appreciate the fact that you told me I have to start coming to work in the off hours to see "my guys and increase the morale of the department". I also appreciate the fact that you told me a year ago to start doing monthly training sessions (of which you have NO PART IN) with every shift and I appreciate the fact that I now spend even less time at home with my family and more time at work for half of your wages. I also appreciate the fact that you have weekly emergencies in your personal life which mean that you take days off without using your personal holidays or vacation days because you are salary. I also am glad that you get to work a half day (from what? 10:30 to 1:30) on days that your band is playing. What makes it even better is the fact that if I take even half a day to deal with the same type of emergency, then I have to use a full day of vacation or holiday time. I am also pleased that you go out of your way to promise the managers and higher-ups in other departments that we will hire their "just outta high school" children for work in our department. Everyone of these kids has been so incredibly dumb that it's made our department look even better to the regular employees. Clearly I was wrong with my hesitation to engage in nepotism like this. Thank you.
When you finish reading this, please pass the following message on to the new "Manager of World Wide Operations":
Dear Manager of World Wide Operations: I'm really glad that you call me all the time to talk about stuff that the Manager of Local Operations knows more about. I understand that with his busy personal life, he's not able to get you the information you need and that I'm clearly the one who needs to get this project done. I'm glad that you took over the world wide operations and have changed everything that that I built from the ground up over the last 8 years. Nothing pleases me more than to see an email from you treating me like I'm a stupid jackass because you can't click a button in an XL spreadsheet and change the formatting yourself... obviously you are above that. I will gladly put all of my quarterly goals and regular duties on hold to talk to you and change the formatting in a single cell in XL for you. I live to to that. And it's ok if I score really low on my goals because I would hate to get a raise or a bonus which I clearly don't deserve. And thank you so much for threatening my livelyhood with firing me and writing me up when you first were hired. I never realized how badly I had screwed up by making this department into a money saving, highly trained and professional organization. I'm glad you showed me the error of my ways. Oh, and thank you for hiring a guy, who works 700 miles away from our department and has never seen how it works, to write policy and procedure for our department. He is obviously better equiped to make these kind of decisions about how things run; and his forms are incredible. They have absolutely nothing to do with what we do here, but that's ok. We will be glad to do these things that we've never done and have no way of doing in the first place. Again, thank you.
When you finish reading this, please pass the following message on to the new "Director of World Wide Operations":
Dear Director of World Wide Operations: I would like to thank you for hiring a manager of World Wide Operations. We have almost reached the stage of "more chiefs than indians" which is very effective way of running a department within a corporation. I would also like to thank you for giving me the line "you're the next person to be made a manager" for the last 5 years. It is quite clear that we need another manager up here in Oregon. In fact, we could probably use another 3 or 4 managers so that we can outnumber the employees. I would also like to thank you for your personal relationship with the Manager of Local Operations. The fact you two are best friends and that he can do no wrong is great. I really enjoy knowing that if I had a problem or if any employee had an issue with the manager, that they would not be able to take it to anybody because they would be fired if they did. Thank you for hiring a team of monkeys to write policy and procedure and to make forms and databases that don't work for our department. I was mistaken to think that I knew what our department needed, and for that I am truely sorry. Please accept my most sincere apology for being a bad employee. I know that the endless hours I've put into this department have been wasted on your whims and desires. I hope you dont' give me a raise because clearly I dont' deserve it. Oh, and before I forget... thank you so much for assigning pay raises for my employees BEFORE you get their review. I know that you have a clearer understanding of what these guys are capable of even though you've never spoken to them or have never interacted with them. I was ignorant to think that I knew these guys better than you since I workt with them 40 hours a week and talk to them ~literally~ every day of my life. You truely are a superior person than I. I think it's an understatement to say, "I'm not worthy... I'm not worthy". I would also like to thank you for writing my review without having first consulted my immediate manager. I know that you know just how hard I've worked in comparison with my immediate manager and how I deserve pennies on the dollar compared to what he makes. It's clear, especially when he has so many stock options worth 10's of thousands of dollars and I have 2 thousand dolllars worth, that he works so much harder than I do. I will try to improve my performance this year by leaving my family and moving into a cot in my office. Thank you for not firing me to this date... yet. If you do decide to terminate me, then I understand exactly why. I hope I can improve my status with you, the new manager of World Wide Operations and my immediate manager.
Sincerely,
Liable.
