Post by Honeylioness on Dec 15, 2008 9:14:06 GMT -5
You know, today I can really relate to people from other countries who think that American workers are crazy. Take one of my supervisors for instance ...
All last week he was in the office snuffling and sneezing and trying to cough up a lung because in his mind he is SO important he cannot take a day off to stay home when he is clearly ill AND running a fever. What? Is he trying to garner some sort of special martyr medal? Are we now giving gold stars for attendance?
While it is a nice theory to try and soldier on - let's get real. What twisted sense of Puritanical guilt makes us think that:
A) People want to be around you when you are clearly dripping mucous from your nasal passages
B) Somehow you make points with your boss for just showing up
C) You actually get anything productive done - and if it is done - was it done right?
D) You co-workers will actually be GLAD you made them sick as well?
We have sick days for a reason people. So you can BE SICK!!!!! AT HOME!!!! Bundled up on your couch with a cup of tea and some toast and rotting your mind on daytime television, just as the Good Lord intended.
Perhaps if this simple policy was followed by more companies there would be fewer organizations being run by congested management teams who attempt to make important decisions surrounded by mounds of used kleenex. Then we could forget the Federal Government bailing out these businesses because the CEO's Day-Quil quit working.
It's a more plausible explanation than thinking that the executives really ARE that big a bunch of idiots with over developed senses of entitlement.
Pass the Vick's please.
**Note: the above was written while I was in the office with the same bug as aforementioned supervisor. I guess it is still a case of "Do as I say, not as I do" **
All last week he was in the office snuffling and sneezing and trying to cough up a lung because in his mind he is SO important he cannot take a day off to stay home when he is clearly ill AND running a fever. What? Is he trying to garner some sort of special martyr medal? Are we now giving gold stars for attendance?
While it is a nice theory to try and soldier on - let's get real. What twisted sense of Puritanical guilt makes us think that:
A) People want to be around you when you are clearly dripping mucous from your nasal passages
B) Somehow you make points with your boss for just showing up
C) You actually get anything productive done - and if it is done - was it done right?
D) You co-workers will actually be GLAD you made them sick as well?
We have sick days for a reason people. So you can BE SICK!!!!! AT HOME!!!! Bundled up on your couch with a cup of tea and some toast and rotting your mind on daytime television, just as the Good Lord intended.
Perhaps if this simple policy was followed by more companies there would be fewer organizations being run by congested management teams who attempt to make important decisions surrounded by mounds of used kleenex. Then we could forget the Federal Government bailing out these businesses because the CEO's Day-Quil quit working.
It's a more plausible explanation than thinking that the executives really ARE that big a bunch of idiots with over developed senses of entitlement.
Pass the Vick's please.
**Note: the above was written while I was in the office with the same bug as aforementioned supervisor. I guess it is still a case of "Do as I say, not as I do" **