Pissed at the office

[bjarvis]

I'm sitting in a very empty office at the moment.

The rest of my corporation is enjoying a day off work thanks to the recent death of Gerald Ford. I, however, was nominated and summoned by the powers-that-be to work today as "critical personnel," along with three others. The three with me are contractors; I'm the only full-time employee here.

Six others are deemed to be semi-critical: they need to be reachable by pager but are allowed to telecommute at their pleasure from wherever they happen to be.

The other 100+ people in my division are enjoying an additional paid day off, above & beyond their usual paid vacation time.

Why, yes, I am feeling rather pissed about this, thanks for asking. I'd bitch to my manager but he's not in today. Neither is my director, nor my senior director, nor my junior vice-president. They, apparently, are not "critical personnel."

Comments

[allanh.livejournal.com]

I'd say this is a good day for critical personnel to review the next issue of the Call Sheet. [evil grin]

FWIW, I'm working today, too. In my case, I'm working with a school district that has only the remainder of this week to upgrade their network before school starts up again on Monday. And the people in the district are really nice and a joy to work with, so I don't mind.

But 45 minutes of a blow-by-blow radio report on Mr. Ford's funeral ("Mrs. Ford is standing, she's 88 so she's a bit stooped over, but she IS standing...") was more than I really wanted to hear this morning...

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind working today if everyone else in my division was too. It's the general unfairness, that everyone else deserves and additional vacation day except me that burns.

And reviewing the Call Sheet is on my to-do list for today. I have a printed copy sitting beside my CSDS-equipped laptop as I type this. :-)

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Oh, I absolutely agree with you re: the unfairness. The competent people always get penalized for being competent. It happened to me constantly in the hotel industry ... I'd have to work shitty shifts on holidays because management didn't trust any of the fuckups to run the front desk with minimal or no supervision.

Of course, you've probably noticed I'm no longer working in the hotel industry ...