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My friend, whom I have mentioned before, told me he too has a new supervisor, a special investigator for his company.. This lady gave him her personal cell phone number in case of "serious incidents."
A serious incident occurred (a shooting) and he called her; getting her voice mail.
Her message said:
"You've reached Mistress Lash, I'm working with the slaves now, leave a message for the House of Discipline."
He double checked the number. It was correct. He didn't leave a message.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Going to His Head
One of the lobby workers did something beyond the call of duty. He was the talk of the staff and clients. A few people gave him personal accolades. He deserved it.
A few folks were heard to say, after hearing the story about his feat.
"Don't tell him he did a good job, it will go to his head."
As these folks did not personally know the man, I found the comment strange... and denigrating.
I believe that if he had made a serious error, they would have no problem criticizing him.
I guess this is a common belief. It leads to little or no appreciation for someone doing a good job. An unintended consequence is of course the potentially big headed person becoming apathetic, and performing just enough of the job to not get fired. "WOW, I just did a super job and no one appreciates it, why bother?"
Contributing to our present culture of mediocrity.
Good job people! Way to stifle performance. Does it makes you look or feel more competent? If someone is lionized does that diminish you? Apparently so in your view. So sad.
If the man still continues to do great work despite the lack of appreciation, it is his strength of character. Today, such a thing is awfully old fashioned dude.
Probably lead to him getting a big head.
A few folks were heard to say, after hearing the story about his feat.
"Don't tell him he did a good job, it will go to his head."
As these folks did not personally know the man, I found the comment strange... and denigrating.
I believe that if he had made a serious error, they would have no problem criticizing him.
I guess this is a common belief. It leads to little or no appreciation for someone doing a good job. An unintended consequence is of course the potentially big headed person becoming apathetic, and performing just enough of the job to not get fired. "WOW, I just did a super job and no one appreciates it, why bother?"
Contributing to our present culture of mediocrity.
Good job people! Way to stifle performance. Does it makes you look or feel more competent? If someone is lionized does that diminish you? Apparently so in your view. So sad.
If the man still continues to do great work despite the lack of appreciation, it is his strength of character. Today, such a thing is awfully old fashioned dude.
Probably lead to him getting a big head.
New Managers
My guard company has new local managers. All are of course expert security practitioners <sarc>...all security problems just need a guard assigned. They have at least a year in the industry!
I got reassigned to another site for a while due to threats against a manager there. After a while on that job, I find that there was a question as to whether I would be able to return to the same mini-mall lobby. It seems one of the new managers had a Friend who needed a job and thought mine would be a good one for him. The property owner insisted I be returned or he would cancel the contract. I was returned. [My proposed replacement guard managed to alienate the property owner, the staff and the clients in a very short period of time.]
So I am back in the lobby, oh joy!
My other new guard manager is a young man who thinks management means being a tough guy, hard to pull off when he is 22 years old. He is BTW, a Very Close Friend to the new manager mentioned above.
He expressed surprise at the salary I was receiving and said "This is a well paid location." I mentioned that the pay rate included 2 merit raises I had been awarded by the property owner and the next guard might return to the standard rate of pay.
He said it was grossly UNFAIR... that I received more than any other similarly situated guard. He was frankly outraged. He is a socialist UNION man. Merit--no such thing!
If you do a good job we all should get a raise; regardless of performance of the individual guard.
I got reassigned to another site for a while due to threats against a manager there. After a while on that job, I find that there was a question as to whether I would be able to return to the same mini-mall lobby. It seems one of the new managers had a Friend who needed a job and thought mine would be a good one for him. The property owner insisted I be returned or he would cancel the contract. I was returned. [My proposed replacement guard managed to alienate the property owner, the staff and the clients in a very short period of time.]
So I am back in the lobby, oh joy!
My other new guard manager is a young man who thinks management means being a tough guy, hard to pull off when he is 22 years old. He is BTW, a Very Close Friend to the new manager mentioned above.
He expressed surprise at the salary I was receiving and said "This is a well paid location." I mentioned that the pay rate included 2 merit raises I had been awarded by the property owner and the next guard might return to the standard rate of pay.
He said it was grossly UNFAIR... that I received more than any other similarly situated guard. He was frankly outraged. He is a socialist UNION man. Merit--no such thing!
If you do a good job we all should get a raise; regardless of performance of the individual guard.
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