In Remembrance of Me

Saturday, April 12, 2003

Shame on me for not posting for so long. *sigh* It has been a horrible long week. Can someone please tell me why, no matter where I work, there is always one psychologically, emotionally unstable person working higher up on the food chain than me who revels in making my life he**? What is up with that? Is there some kind of karmic rule that I have broken along the line that is forcing me to endure stupid people in charge? Is this some kind of life lesson that I am being forced to learn? What possible universal good could come from me learning to withstand and cope with other peoples psychoses and neruoses from that level? I understand the argument that John presents, that stupid, psychotic people rise to middle management because intelligent, sane people know what a useless, powerless position it is and refuse to take the jobs. But for crying up a tree!!! Shouldn't there be a certain level of screening done to weed out the type who have an anurism in the middle of the foyer because the fax machine runs out of paper and thinks that everyone is verbally sparring with them when they try to talk to her? Shouldn't there be a criteria set that says that if she admits that she isn't even aware of what her department needs, what her people are working on or even what she herself needs or is doing that this person isn't cut out for the position? I support 9 people in 2 seperate offices 1 1/2 hours apart. I don't have time to deal with someone who has no idea what she wants or needs or is even doing but then feels unsupported by me. CRIPES!!!!!

Anyway, we finally heard back from Mary Jane. We are going in to go over her report on Ian on the 24th. I hope she is planning on sending a copy of the report along to us first so we have time to read it over and formulate questions. I didn't make the appointment, John did, so I don't know what the plan is.

**sheesh** what a week. There is certainly an up side and a down side to the human race.