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Well Gents,

I've done gone and retired from work. It's over, no more sucking up to the big weenie, CEO or whatever it is he wants to call himself.

The company I worked for is in full swing of developing a new "no knowledge" work-flow, so they can hire anyone for the lowest price possible. The problem is that if you are going to design a no knowledge work-flow, it's helpful to know how the work is done!

So... I had enough... there's only so much beating my head against a wall, before I give up and just don't care anymore. I got to that point and realized there was no point in me staying... nobody was going to listen to me... they had their own master plans laid out, and no clue that it wouldn't work. The last thing they were interested in, was listening to an old codger like me... so I left.

I honestly gave up when I talked to an engineer.... he claimed the new work-flow was superior because it saved time. Items were to arrive at my work station, get re-labled and sent to a computerized station that would re-sort the items and deliver them to where they were going. The problem was that we (where I worked and where we would re-label the items) were backed up over 1 month. We could have manually done all the work with our brains and hands, clearing out all the backlog in less than 5 days. BUT, the engineers said that the computer system could deal with it faster, once we processed it with our computers, never mind the fact that it was taking us forever to do just that.

The trick was to ignore the fact that it would take over a month to get the items prepped for the computer. Once the items were corrected, the computer could do the work in no time... it was just that it took humans forever to fix it so the computers could do the job. Doing it the "old" way would have been weeks faster, but we were not to concern ourselves with such nonsense. After all, it would make the engineers look bad!

So... I'm out, bored and tired.... looking for trouble!

Regards

Christian

AKA

Kaptain "Say what?" Zero

Sometimes it feels like we're swimming upstream and a change of scenery is required.

Welcome to the retirement village of no stress, I think you are going to like it. Sounds like they hired the team that designed the federal governments new payroll system. Fresh from one success and eager to notch another success story.

Bob

Think we may work, or you used to, in the same place.

The new style executive seems to think their fingers are "Magic Wands", as they wave them in technical people's faces and say, "Fix it", or may other new favorite, "That's unacceptable".

Being I'm rather senior in the food chain myself, I lost it a bit the other day when I said to two young VP's, "You need to help find solutions to the problems we're facing with the resources and tools we have, saying, "fix it" and that's "unacceptable", tells me that you have nothing to contribute.....well!?!"

The new staff that is being hired more or less recently out of school, or with less than 5 years experience, all seem to think they should have, "staff", and that if they don't, they just pick certain people and get them to do their jobs for them. A senior DB Analyst, I had to tell her next time one of these people approaches you, tell them they know how to read and Google as well as you do, and if that fails, fall back to the old, "R T F M!"...

Or of course, "Let me drop all my problems and work so I can do yours!!"

I'm with you brother....

Thanks guys....

I'm happy to see it wasn't just my place of work that has gone bonkers.....

The only thing now is that I want to survive on my pension for a good long while, before the executive bullsh*t hits the fan!

I honestly feel sorry for not only the new employees, but the customers....

To quote a "motivational poster" I once read:

"If we really care about our customers.... shouldn't we tell them to go somewhere else?"

Regards

Kaptain "I don't care as long as my pension check keeps coming" Zero

I promise you, if people these days cannot push a screen to make something happen, they are LOST!
Not uncommon for some to know nothing practical about what is being sold.
Business, personal, food and water.

Too many are putting too much faith in a grid.
Folks should know an alternate. Like CASH instead of debit. Seeing something before you buy. Licking stamps, opening books, etc.
JMO

Congratulations, Christian. I think many of us experience this to some extent. I don't even care anymore, haha, just smile and do whatever I'm told.
Manitoba looks like a beautiful place. How about some fishing, or walking, or long drives?

Just before I retired, my co-worker created this therapy center. It was in response to having to deal with the f**kwits, as she called them, and she is not one to use foul language normally!

Originally Posted by kaptain_zero

Just before I retired, my co-worker created this therapy center. It was in response to having to deal with the f**kwits, as she called them, and she is not one to use foul language normally!

We all have them, f**kwits that is!

I sometimes can't believe the stupidity.

Bought a little placard at a truck stop years ago that seems to sum up the workplace situation for a lot of people well.

"If A Holes could fly, this place would be an airport" Needless to say it did not last long posted in our lunch room. Seems they don't have a sense of humour either.

Bob