Bob Slydell: So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers? Tom: That, that’s right. Bob Porter: Well, then I gotta ask, then why can’t the customers just take the specifications directly to the software people, huh? Tom: Well, uh, uh, uh, because, [...]
Peter Gibbons: You see Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. Bob Porter: Don’t… don’t care? Peter Gibbons: It’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation? And here’s [...]
A fellow slave/coworker commented that work is a lot like the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. Just read the plot summary below but replace “weather man” with “call center monkey”: A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on [...]
The madness at work continues. I know I had previously come to the realization that I was a phone monkey, but yesterday I had a true epiphany: I don’t need to take the shit I do any more. It happened at a fairly random time, but I remember clearly how I just sat there and [...]
Today sucked major butt at work. It was a pretty busy day, typical of Mondays in general. But it wasn’t so much the frantic pace so much as the realization (long ago, mind you) that I am a phone monkey. Three years of college and a degree in Computer Science and what does it amount [...]