Archive for June 2009
Odd, but sad
I have a job, some people would call it a career, I call it a job. I might be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a circus clown. What I do is not that important, and really not that exciting. The point of this particular post is the oddness (in one particular aspect) of my job. Like most office(s) mine has a quirky sense of achievement. We have summer interns every year, and mostly they are fresh faced, bright eyed, young pups trying to show the world how determined they are to do my job. The point is that my job requires a lot of grunt work, work that numbs the mind, and glazes over the eyes. Perfect for a summer intern right? Yeah not so fast. Parts of my job are in some ways exciting, and you have to have been employed there for a while to get to the good stuff (like most jobs). I have been in my office for a fair number of years, and do upon occasion get to do some of the exciting stuff. However, in a fit of inspiration my office ALWAYS lets the summer interns participate in the exciting stuff. Not that they have a clue, nor can they really add anything to the project, but there they are without fail getting the plum jobs. While myself, and my other colleagues are busy cleaning the toilets. I am not sure where it is written that the fucking intern gets to do a Macbeth like speech to the world, while the rest of us have no speaking parts at all, but it does rankle a bit. I mean sure you want to show these freshly scrubs cunts the bright future that exists in their field, but do you have to treat the people who do the actual work like a bunch of slack jawed yokels to achieve that goal? After all, we are the ones keeping the damn production going, not Sally the ballerina intern or Freddy the pot smoker. It just seems a bit backwards to give the plum assignment to people who are in your office for three months, and whom it is almost a dead cert you will never see again. All the while the people you should be “training” to do the good stuff are swamped with their own load of grunt work, and any extra grunt work that arises because one of us has to show the intern how to do the good stuff. Makes you wonder why fuckstick companies like GM go out of buiness. Is this the business model for success. After all, loyalty to your employees, and keeping their morale up is not really that important is it?
