CW: Working for the River Tribe.
RT: Hey, so you don't write down all the things you find wrong with your job, so we're going to not give you a raise this year.
Me: Whatevs. I'll just do the extra work of leaving a paper trail for you to ignore instead.
RT: Put together an agenda to train a new contractor to do your job. He starts in a week. You have 2 days.
Me: Okay. Here. *delivered*. Everything it took me a month to learn and 6 months to be competent in.
RT: New guy is here. He has 2 things out of 10 to actually be a useful employee. You're in charge of the rest.
Me: O, okay? Is his manger (mine too) going to be doing anything useful?
RT: Lol no. He's a manager. he doesn't even need to be on campus right now. Also, keep working tickets alone. and train the new guy, and make sure his token works, and he doesn't have a laptop, so why don't you manage that too.
Me... Tim Bray is my fucking hero.
re: CW: Working for the River Tribe.
This is finally starting to give me an answer to my question, how does such a labyrinthine company get anything done? By making employees do other employee's jobs and their own.
re: CW: Working for the River Tribe. (update)
Ney guy had one day with me yesterday. I get in and find that no one sees him. I'm torn between telling my manager right away and trying to cover the new guy, because he wasn't having the best energy day yesterday. Wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. Then my manager asks me a direct question and I couldn't think of a lie fast enough, so I just told the truth.
M: $new_person.first_Name is not returning. We're working on a replacement.
Me (internally): Did the cloning labs finally get out of testing?