Comments: Nonproductive Addendum

He's a dink. Seriously.

Posted by kormantic at August 22, 2006 08:58 PM

Yeah, he's a bit of a dink. I mean, I exaggerate for effect sometimes, but he's something of a lunatic.

Although, in fairness to him, twenty years ago I had jobs where I was the Do Everything person in the office and I didn't really resent being torn fifteen directions at once and being expected to have a skill set that, if present in six other employees, would have cost the company $200,000 a year in salaries to cover.

Maybe it's because I'm getting old or something but I find that, more and more, I resent things like him laying off the tech person because "we don't need a tech person", and then demanding that I be able to fulfill their functions.

Or, maybe, it's because 20 years ago I hadn't spent 20 years developing a skill set of my own that's being wasted in this job?

Or, maybe, I'm just grouchy.

Posted by Anne at August 23, 2006 09:33 AM