I was once in (doesn’t matter what shithole country it was) and we was struggling to get on a flight because the queue was disorganised and staff wasn’t moving us fast enough.
This was the breaking point for a guy I was with and he said “I wish one fucking person in the country gave a shit about anything”
And sometimes it does feel like that.
Also worked with another guy that was very quiet and kept to himself and was pretty calm. But he used to say whenever we had an issue “people just got to come in and do their job” (implying the fuck up was due to people not doing their basic job)
Edit: changed my spelling coz I’m retarded (actually am a bit so I’m allowed to use it like the blacks)
Well he’s not wrong, nowadays people take very little accountability in what they do. Maybe because there are very little to no consequences for incompetence. And the worst is that it seems proportional to the amount of responsibility required for the job. Take CEOs/Politicians, they can fuck up massively and not even a small fine whilst a cleaner who forgets to clean a surface can get fired on the spot. This “laissez faire” and lack of leadership by example puts democracies at risk. It turns populist/extremist political parties into very attractive options with their promises to “clean the swamp” which seems to keep on growing…
I guess I’m going to complain about work to strangers now.
Yesterday a colleague in another area of the organization emailed me about something that is a matter of legal concern within our purview, but not directly within our scope that they had only accidentally learned about. Seeing the project, the names of the players, and knowing their dispositions and general quality of work, as well as the importance of what they were fucking with, I responded, looping in all the possible stakeholders, explaining the concern, and requesting input. The Director of the area that initiated the changes responded with a long email that basically said they weren’t going to consider any concerns other than their own - not even legal compliance that didn’t impact the nuts and bolts of the work they do - despite my offer to facilitate the compliance and policymaking that needs to happen.
Privately, I messaged my boss, and the colleague who brought the issue to me - a manager - to say that I think the response was not considerate of the broader organizational needs and that we needed to probably intervene more directly, given the severity of the situation that’s brewing.
My boss: Well, if they don’t want to do it that way, they don’t want to do it that way.
Motherfucker. I am the responsible party. If their stupid fucking project gets us sued, this shit falls on my lap. I’m telling you, they can say what they want, but the buck stops with me.
But no. Let’s just shrug and claim helplessness because it’s not in the vibe to tell someone they are stepping on my toes. Zero fucking responsibility. No wonder I’m constantly teetering on the brink of burnout.
One time at one very busy Airport in the center of Europe, all flights cancelled due to snow, everyone queuing for miles to get accommodation and new flights. As soon as 11pm struck, people attending stopped working, hundreds of people still queuing. They just said, sleep at the airport, tomorrow we’ll open again.
This was me in a southern European airport after a weeks long exhausting adventure (aka 2 wk hangover) and we still had two days of travel home. I think I started actually crying as I kept muttering “I just want to go home now”
I was once in (doesn’t matter what shithole country it was) and we was struggling to get on a flight because the queue was disorganised and staff wasn’t moving us fast enough.
This was the breaking point for a guy I was with and he said “I wish one fucking person in the country gave a shit about anything”
And sometimes it does feel like that.
Also worked with another guy that was very quiet and kept to himself and was pretty calm. But he used to say whenever we had an issue “people just got to come in and do their job” (implying the fuck up was due to people not doing their basic job)
Edit: changed my spelling coz I’m retarded (actually am a bit so I’m allowed to use it like the blacks)
Well he’s not wrong, nowadays people take very little accountability in what they do. Maybe because there are very little to no consequences for incompetence. And the worst is that it seems proportional to the amount of responsibility required for the job. Take CEOs/Politicians, they can fuck up massively and not even a small fine whilst a cleaner who forgets to clean a surface can get fired on the spot. This “laissez faire” and lack of leadership by example puts democracies at risk. It turns populist/extremist political parties into very attractive options with their promises to “clean the swamp” which seems to keep on growing…
I guess I’m going to complain about work to strangers now.
Yesterday a colleague in another area of the organization emailed me about something that is a matter of legal concern within our purview, but not directly within our scope that they had only accidentally learned about. Seeing the project, the names of the players, and knowing their dispositions and general quality of work, as well as the importance of what they were fucking with, I responded, looping in all the possible stakeholders, explaining the concern, and requesting input. The Director of the area that initiated the changes responded with a long email that basically said they weren’t going to consider any concerns other than their own - not even legal compliance that didn’t impact the nuts and bolts of the work they do - despite my offer to facilitate the compliance and policymaking that needs to happen.
Privately, I messaged my boss, and the colleague who brought the issue to me - a manager - to say that I think the response was not considerate of the broader organizational needs and that we needed to probably intervene more directly, given the severity of the situation that’s brewing.
My boss: Well, if they don’t want to do it that way, they don’t want to do it that way.
Motherfucker. I am the responsible party. If their stupid fucking project gets us sued, this shit falls on my lap. I’m telling you, they can say what they want, but the buck stops with me.
But no. Let’s just shrug and claim helplessness because it’s not in the vibe to tell someone they are stepping on my toes. Zero fucking responsibility. No wonder I’m constantly teetering on the brink of burnout.
If I do an amazing job and the company ships another 10k widgets, I don’t see an extra dime.
One time at one very busy Airport in the center of Europe, all flights cancelled due to snow, everyone queuing for miles to get accommodation and new flights. As soon as 11pm struck, people attending stopped working, hundreds of people still queuing. They just said, sleep at the airport, tomorrow we’ll open again.
This was me in a southern European airport after a weeks long exhausting adventure (aka 2 wk hangover) and we still had two days of travel home. I think I started actually crying as I kept muttering “I just want to go home now”