Three Months!

Woot! I’ve been at The Shaw Group for three months! HOT DAWG! Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. I guess I never really thought I’d be doing a job that I actually enjoy and getting paid to do it. It’s quite rewarding to have persevered through the crap I put up with working at Wal-Mart and the never-getting-to-see-my-wife terribleness of working at FedEx to land the job that I have. Granted, it’s not a perfect job, there’s a lot of beaureaucratic BS that goes on that stems from the relics/legacies/management of yesteryear who haven’t quite made it into the 20th century yet. Yes, I said 20th century; that’s how far behind some of the things that go on are. I guess that’s just something that I’ll deal with since every company/coorporation seems to have it. For example, while I was working at Wal-Mart, my supervisor asked me, “So you’re pulling from the bins before pulling from the pallets, right?” I replied, “Yes, of course.” To which my supervisor replied, “‘Cause that’s what we do here.” And I’m thinking, “No kidding! As I recall, it was ME who went to your supervisor since you are unable to get my coworkers to actually rotate the stock, as I do, since you claim, ‘we are working on it’ even though this should have been something instilled in my co-workers from day one, retroactive training isn’t exactly effective.” Of course, when I did bring it up with his supervisor, I was told “You’ve been working here, what, two months? Your supervisor has been doing this for two years.” WHO CARES?! Nevermind my 10, YES TEN, years of experience in retail, so just blow me off ’cause I’ve not been here as long as that guy.