Re: stay on or get off

Subject: Re: stay on or get off
From: Elizabeth Ross <beth -at- VCUBED -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:12:44 -0400

I'd add the following to Susan's excellent list:

*When the Vice-President who oversees the Tech Pubs department turns down a
request for an equipment upgrade because "Nobody reads your manuals."

Elizabeth Ross
Technical Writer
V3 Semiconductor Corp.
beth -at- vcubed -dot- com
http://www.vcubed.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Susan W. Gallagher <sgallagher -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM>
| Well, these are all signs that I've used:
|
| * When you can't stand to create yet another version of that @#$#%@ book.
|
| * When you try to do something new so you can grow professionally and
| you're continually told it's not your job.
|
| * When you try to initiate changes and your manager won't even listen
| because, "everything is running smoothly now so why change it."
|
| * When middle management is *so* careful not to say or do anything that
| could be considered discriminatory, because it usually means they only
| give lip service to equal opportunity.
|
| * When the CEO pits one worker against another and sits back to watch the
| battle and see who comes out on top.
|
| * When the company initiates a new reorganization strategy every two
months.
|
| * When the company tries to solve problems by adding yet another vice
| president in charge of something.
|
| * When there are regularly scheduled layoffs.
|
| * When they stop buying office supplies and no longer supply free coke and
| popcorn.
|
| * When the CEO says there's no such thing as a beta release.
|
| * When employees start circulating humor emails that poke fun of the
| company's organizational skills.
|
| * When you feel like you're walking at the front of a parade and the line
| behind you is shorter and shorter every time you turn around.
|
| * When the folks in the accounting department develop cold sweats and
| haunted looks the day before payday (because there isn't enough money
| in the bank to cover payroll yet).
|
| * When the company comes up with some hairbrained scheme by which they can
| work you to death and "owe you" part of your salary.
|
| * When you've accepted that hairbrained deferred salary scheme and they
| want you to travel and you tell them to give you some back pay so you
| can put tires on your car and they say no but you can rent a car with
it.
|
| * When your expense check is over 30 days late.
|
| * When you start sleeping in every morning because going to work just
isn't
| any fun anymore.
|
| * When you come home in tears every day and can't wait to open that bottle
| of beer/wine.
|
| * When something in your personal life gets in the way of work and the
| company doesn't understand, doesn't accomodate, and actually gives you
| grief because of it (unless, of course, you make a habit out of this
| sort of thing).

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