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That was the subject line in the email from "Lane Camacho", a name I'm going to use if I ever need an alternate handle in a message forum. Ah, junk mail. Binned!
I was calm and unruffled going in to work yesterday. I'll admit I was curious about who'd done Palooka's graveyard shift, but that was about it.
So when I got there, I saw what had to be the worst report ever by some new guy. And by worst report, I mean that by his own written record he'd done absolutely nothing.
Well, except for bringing in the newspapers and "breadbaskets". That was duly noted next to the time.
When the client's Eyes and Ears saw me, he began chortling. "You'd better not take a bath for a week or so, man!" he said.
That was a bit obscure.
"She [the client] had your boss in here first thing in the morning and reamed the hell out of him! She said, in no uncertain terms, that he'd better take care of you because you're the only person from your company worth having and we'd hate to see you leave. She gave him two weeks to comply."
Ah, he thought my boss would have to kiss my ass. That explains the suggested bath boycott.
Sweet Jesus, "take care of me"?! He's gonna send me to sleep wit da fishes!
Unfortunately, she met with Cookie Monster before Eyes and Ears could give her the extensive records and analysis of The Sleeper and his utter lack of performance. She was apparently furious that she didn't have that to hammer Cookie Monster with, and I hope that she doesn't let it slide. How often can an affirmative thrust like this happen?
About half an hour into the shift I got a call from... Cookie Monster. He asked me if I was on site, then said "Of course you must be. It's 1630." Good save, assmonkey. You called me on the site phone too. He then asked if I could meet him out front.
When I got out there, he didn't offer to shake hands or anything, but he did look at me searchingly for an extended beat. After that, he asked if I'd spoken to The Client. I told him that I hadn't. He asked me if I knew what was going on, to which I responded with all of the stupidity I could feign "No, what?"
He said that the client was concerned about union organizers being on the site, taking advantage of all the managers being away (that was last week, and they're all back now). He said that he had a long talk with The Client (emphasis his - I don't know if he was trying to express to me that he talks to people above my head and thus has secret knowledge or what) and she wants us to escort people off the site if they're not employees (standard) and if we see anybody in the common areas (outside basically, or the lobby) or if we see any union materials on a desk or anything, we're to contact the director of HR.
He'd already told this to The Sleeper, he said, and he also had a pair of plainclothes in the cafeteria for some of the day trying to eavesdrop on conversations.
Wow.
Pardon my urdu, but isn't it highly dubious to be reporting on union activity in a publicly traded company in this manner? In fact, scratch "highly dubious" and replace it with "illegal".
Anybody out there have a legal opinion on this?
Interestingly enough, after I met the new guy and straightened him out about a few things, he mentioned that a couple of our managers (one in charge of mobile, oddly enough, and of the same rank as Cookie Monster) came by at the end of his shift and took his keys away.
They were back where I usually have them locked by the time I got on, but I'm wondering now just what the hell was going on. I don't particularly trust my company, although I suspect they were using them for the plainclothes to move around.
Still, for them to know that I lock them in a drawer from which only myself and the client can remove them smacks of The Sleeper talking to Cookie Monster (since I instituted that after we got rid of Barney).
Wheels within wheels.
I was calm and unruffled going in to work yesterday. I'll admit I was curious about who'd done Palooka's graveyard shift, but that was about it.
So when I got there, I saw what had to be the worst report ever by some new guy. And by worst report, I mean that by his own written record he'd done absolutely nothing.
Well, except for bringing in the newspapers and "breadbaskets". That was duly noted next to the time.
When the client's Eyes and Ears saw me, he began chortling. "You'd better not take a bath for a week or so, man!" he said.
That was a bit obscure.
"She [the client] had your boss in here first thing in the morning and reamed the hell out of him! She said, in no uncertain terms, that he'd better take care of you because you're the only person from your company worth having and we'd hate to see you leave. She gave him two weeks to comply."
Ah, he thought my boss would have to kiss my ass. That explains the suggested bath boycott.
Sweet Jesus, "take care of me"?! He's gonna send me to sleep wit da fishes!
Unfortunately, she met with Cookie Monster before Eyes and Ears could give her the extensive records and analysis of The Sleeper and his utter lack of performance. She was apparently furious that she didn't have that to hammer Cookie Monster with, and I hope that she doesn't let it slide. How often can an affirmative thrust like this happen?
About half an hour into the shift I got a call from... Cookie Monster. He asked me if I was on site, then said "Of course you must be. It's 1630." Good save, assmonkey. You called me on the site phone too. He then asked if I could meet him out front.
When I got out there, he didn't offer to shake hands or anything, but he did look at me searchingly for an extended beat. After that, he asked if I'd spoken to The Client. I told him that I hadn't. He asked me if I knew what was going on, to which I responded with all of the stupidity I could feign "No, what?"
He said that the client was concerned about union organizers being on the site, taking advantage of all the managers being away (that was last week, and they're all back now). He said that he had a long talk with The Client (emphasis his - I don't know if he was trying to express to me that he talks to people above my head and thus has secret knowledge or what) and she wants us to escort people off the site if they're not employees (standard) and if we see anybody in the common areas (outside basically, or the lobby) or if we see any union materials on a desk or anything, we're to contact the director of HR.
He'd already told this to The Sleeper, he said, and he also had a pair of plainclothes in the cafeteria for some of the day trying to eavesdrop on conversations.
Wow.
Pardon my urdu, but isn't it highly dubious to be reporting on union activity in a publicly traded company in this manner? In fact, scratch "highly dubious" and replace it with "illegal".
Anybody out there have a legal opinion on this?
Interestingly enough, after I met the new guy and straightened him out about a few things, he mentioned that a couple of our managers (one in charge of mobile, oddly enough, and of the same rank as Cookie Monster) came by at the end of his shift and took his keys away.
They were back where I usually have them locked by the time I got on, but I'm wondering now just what the hell was going on. I don't particularly trust my company, although I suspect they were using them for the plainclothes to move around.
Still, for them to know that I lock them in a drawer from which only myself and the client can remove them smacks of The Sleeper talking to Cookie Monster (since I instituted that after we got rid of Barney).
Wheels within wheels.
posted by Rimmy at 08:55
2 Comments:
Yes, it does seem a little heavy although I know why they're doing it.
It's also interesting that while some of the people that were stoolies to the management before still do that for the new management, there are other people that do it now too.
The new regime doesn't so much reward such spies as make things slightly less onerous for them. It's an interesting method I'll have to consider for my own tyrannical empire.
What a shame that I haven't seen anything that I'd have to report, eh? ;)
Heh. I'm not going double agent. Rimmy don't play like that. :P
Jovknee - one of them is, the other is just a highly ranked working manager (equal rank to Cookie Monster).
And you're right, that's not security work.
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