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Management Reportback - it had to be expensive
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<blockquote data-quote="curiousbrain" data-source="post: 977172" data-attributes="member: 31608"><p>On the occasional lonely night, that has to grind on your soul a little bit, I would imagine.</p><p></p><p>I'm pondering a full time position; and lately, I've begun considering that there are, in fact, moments in life where critical mass is reached and a decision has to be made that will alter the course of ones life. Don't get me wrong, being raised in a strictly capitalist society, I'm in it for the money and all that, obviously; however, maybe thirty years from now I will reflect on the hypocrisy you two readily affirm. Not to put you two (or anyone else) on the spot, though - I understand (or at least, I think I do) that the inability of some to affirm the reality of operations (not for a lack of desire, but more an operational constraint) is more an organic outgrowth of corporate culture in this country as a whole, and not something that is endemic or unique to UPS by any stretch.</p><p></p><p>I think what tends to bother me the most about this sort of situation is not that it exists, because I will survive regardless, but of the inability to change it. Even in my short stint at this company, I've watched countless people come through the door with a positive attitude, and the molten crazy that is operations shapes them into something that expects nothing, and doesn't believe it when anything comes their way anyway. And, I can start to see why.</p><p></p><p>When I was a preloader, I was so focused on my job at hand, I never really bothered (perhaps out of necessity for my sanity) to consider the pressures that were leveled on those in the "back office." When I was made a part-time soup, I didn't really have a taste of it; now, apparently I've been deemed responsible enough to take on tasks that I will call ... "operationally abstract"; that is to say, things look a lot more like numbers on a spreadsheet, and a lot less like people I used to work next to. And, it feels so easy to fall into that trap of compensating for production requirements by just doing the best I can within my own time constraints, and then punting it to the belt soups by barking "make it happen" or some other institutionally obsequious remark.</p><p></p><p>Unless some other Fortune 500 company makes a competitive offer to some guy with no degree and a hat full of unpopular opinions, the next twenty-plus years will be interesting; I already crack a little smile when friends talk about "pressure in the workplace."</p><p></p><p>[/end quasi-disjointed, quasi-personal, quasi-meaningless rant]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curiousbrain, post: 977172, member: 31608"] On the occasional lonely night, that has to grind on your soul a little bit, I would imagine. I'm pondering a full time position; and lately, I've begun considering that there are, in fact, moments in life where critical mass is reached and a decision has to be made that will alter the course of ones life. Don't get me wrong, being raised in a strictly capitalist society, I'm in it for the money and all that, obviously; however, maybe thirty years from now I will reflect on the hypocrisy you two readily affirm. Not to put you two (or anyone else) on the spot, though - I understand (or at least, I think I do) that the inability of some to affirm the reality of operations (not for a lack of desire, but more an operational constraint) is more an organic outgrowth of corporate culture in this country as a whole, and not something that is endemic or unique to UPS by any stretch. I think what tends to bother me the most about this sort of situation is not that it exists, because I will survive regardless, but of the inability to change it. Even in my short stint at this company, I've watched countless people come through the door with a positive attitude, and the molten crazy that is operations shapes them into something that expects nothing, and doesn't believe it when anything comes their way anyway. And, I can start to see why. When I was a preloader, I was so focused on my job at hand, I never really bothered (perhaps out of necessity for my sanity) to consider the pressures that were leveled on those in the "back office." When I was made a part-time soup, I didn't really have a taste of it; now, apparently I've been deemed responsible enough to take on tasks that I will call ... "operationally abstract"; that is to say, things look a lot more like numbers on a spreadsheet, and a lot less like people I used to work next to. And, it feels so easy to fall into that trap of compensating for production requirements by just doing the best I can within my own time constraints, and then punting it to the belt soups by barking "make it happen" or some other institutionally obsequious remark. Unless some other Fortune 500 company makes a competitive offer to some guy with no degree and a hat full of unpopular opinions, the next twenty-plus years will be interesting; I already crack a little smile when friends talk about "pressure in the workplace." [/end quasi-disjointed, quasi-personal, quasi-meaningless rant] [/QUOTE]
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