Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Leeches of life

Wouldn't it be great to have a boss that really wanted to understand what we "servlings" go through everyday and who truly want to make our jobs as painless as possible?
Well, I'm sorry to say that I doubt that any of us really have that much luck.
Some may know what we're going through to make them money or look good, but very few indeed would go out of their way to try and make things easier for us.
I've been through my fair share of bosses and only at one job was I lucky enough to have an absolute saint for a boss who gave me like R500 worth of biltong almost every other week and generally went out of his way to make my job heaven.
But hey, life ain't supposed to be fair and I ended up working under a new manager.
Next boss was a real "doos".
The thing that really bust my b@lls was when he told me last december that unfortunately he couldn't pay me my whole salary since the company had a bit of a cash flow problem...hell that was okay right until he took the so-called non-existent money and left on a 2 week holiday 2 days later...WITH MY FU@#$ng MONEY!!!!!

Anyway these days I work for a wonderful lady that really likes chucking you in the deep side and then commanding you to walk on the water...hell, keeping head above water just doesn't do it for her, you have to do miraculous things otherwise she'll step right on you head and push your head right under the water.

Luckily for me I appear to be able to breath underwater and "sometimes" that seems to be miraculous enough for her to at least leave me in peace to drown without her constant yapping, bitching and moaning to aggravate all this wonderful suffering we have to constantly endure under her.

Shame, must be hell if even you own parents hate you.
Can't imagine what it must be like to look herself in the mirror every morning.
If you can't stand the look of you own reflection then I guess it's normal to take your hate of everything and everyone out on the world.

Point is, if I was in management I'd really go out to make thing easy for the folks under me. I believe that a happy employee is a good employee. No person that is constantly attacked will EVER go out of his way to do a great job.
But people who are rewarded, not necessarily with money, ALWAYS do n little bit more for their employers.
For me a tap on the shoulder and a grateful smile will do wonders and I'm sure that's the case with most if not all people.

I think the biggest reason that very few people in management positions are like this is because of a chain reaction.
Somewhere along the line they were under such a person and people tend to forget the good things and simply remember the bad things especially when one day they themselves get into "power".
Right then it's time for revenge even if it's against innocent people.
Please people, try and remember how it felt when you were in that situation and try and be the person you wished your manager had been instead of the idiot he/she turned out to be.

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