ARGH!!!!!

Song of the MOMENT: YOU DON’T KNOW THIS MAN from the highly under-rated (only slightly flawed) show Parade

We’re having this issue at Lockheed. We fired the training secretary for basically being too lazy to do all of her work, and haven’t hired a new one. Well, the old secretary was lazy, but prompt. The times that she wasn’t taking month-long vacations back to her childhood home in St. Thomas, she was here from 6:45 to 4 every day. Doing nothing – but she was here.

Well, the training area needs someone here early to make sure the training lobby is unlocked and the coffee service has been rolled into the classrooms.

Well, none of the other workers want to be here that early. In fact, even though the workday is supposed to start at 7:30 (which would be soon enough to do this), they all stumble in around 8 or 8:30, sometimes 9…

Now that there are issues with teachers, janitorial, coffee service, and others not being able to get into the classroom, it’s becoming vital that someone is here.

Well, one of the lazy asses – the one who has the office next to me – said “They’re almost all Leadership 21 classes, and Steve is usually here that early—“

Well, that’s as far as that cow got. “OVER GOD’S DEAD BODY!” I said.

I informed her and everyone else that I am a consultant, not a Lockheed employee. I am not required to be here any set number of hours, and I was not going to cover for their obvious lethargy. Because even though they are supposed to be here at 7:30, they all never keep regular business hours. And I warned them that if they couldn’t come up with a solution among themselves, I was going to bring their tardiness up to the Vice President, thereby guaranteeing that they all would be here promptly at 7:30 I the morning to fix the problem.

So, that threat was enough to make me the ogre today. They all have been talking behind my back.

By the way, today – for example – I had to meet with another client and couldn’t get in until 10am.