Clean up in aisle 3 and for some reason a slam on smokers

Clean up in aisle 3 is not something I want to yell when I go to use the company washrooms.

Today I went for my mid morning think, document in hand (because I wouldn't want it to be considered an official break ) when I arrive at the first stall I notice that the seat was covered in urine and the log was still floating... I at least have the decency to do what the previous person could not and flushed. As for cleaning up their urine I am leaving that to their mother.
My arrival at the second stall was beyond anything I could have expected for NASTY.

Not only was the seat covered in urine so was the floor; a puddle that was almost as big as two 8 by 11 sheets of paper. My first thought was how small is your penis that you can't grasp it enough to aim and how absolutely disgusting is this person’s home.
My second thought was they probably didn't wash their hands either. New rule no shaking hands...

I have these words of advice to these kindergarten rejects; "if you make a mess, you are responsible for your mess so clean it up." and if your penis is that small use the urinal; they are made for people who want to stand and take a leak.

I am willing to bet these are the same people who litter not even 5 feet from a garbage can, or throw cigarette buts from cars into the road. I know I have heard the argument a million times "but it's so tiny and biodegradable." Maybe if you’re smoking without a filter asshole, otherwise the filter is made by

"The comprising a thermoplastic polypropylene resin, a volatile blowing agent and a nucleating agent is extruded through a die to produce a strand of foamed resin with the strand then being cut into individual filter elements A particularly effective combination is the use of calcium carbonate as the primary nucleating agent and potassium benzoate as the synergist compound." Just look up the patent.

You should also take into account that’s before you suck all that tar and arsenic through the filter. So for all of those people too weak willed to stop sucking on your oral fixation, please try to understand that the wildlife does not want to eat this and it will last a lot longer than you think in the wild.

So while your penis may be small it is not biodegradable so clean up after yourself or some one might take your toy away and make you go for a timeout.
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Matrix Management

I will be blunt with this one; who ever dreamt up matrix management was obviously immune to its effects. I will first try to explain the theory for any lucky enough to never be exposed to this “management” technique.

Essentially you (the poor forgotten employee) have a manager who if you’re lucky used to do your job. Your manager is responsible for all aspects of your work life except … your work.

For your work you are loaned out to the other departments in intervals based on need for your skills or abilities. The benefit is you can focus on the parts of the project that you excel in leaving all the other tasks to the people from other teams.

I compare it to outside the business world as the equivalent to being a porn actor on loan to a pimp, you both know it’s about the business but that’s where it ends. The pimp is expecting you to make money with the overweight small endowed men and you’re expecting all the customers to be well hung actors.

Usually what happens is far from the ideal your manager is loaned out as the foremost expert so has little or no time for you and that’s if your lucky enough to have a manger who knows what you do for a living. Now that the market has been flooded with MBA’s and PMP’s who are convincing the executive that you don’t need to know the business to manage it, just need to know how to manage. The worst case is the non-skilled manager with time on their hands, you can recognize these when they try to help and make it way, way worse. For the other side of the deal by the time you’re loaned to the project they have already estimated the effort required for your part and were not even a little close.
This means you have to perform duties in time frames that are not realistic and tasks are assigned to you either under your skills or not at all aligned to your skills. If you are successful then it’s all because the project manager did a good job, if you fail then it’s because you failed… No win for anyone technical.

Why do we expect so much from our politicians?

I know when the Liberal leader (either one will do but I will stick to Provincial for this example) made his promises to govern Ontario he would not be able to follow through, Dalton might have thought he could have, but the realists all knew that to do the things he promised it would take money and one of his promises was to not raise taxes so anyone who can do math knows you can’t provide more service without more money. I am guessing that whoever did vote for him was probably hoping he wasn’t as bad as the other guy. I can live with that because most of his promises fit the Liberal mold “free money for little or no work.“

Similarly when Ralph Kline won in Alberta people were surprised. Why the shock, in his years in office he has at least attempted to do as he committed (succeeding frequently) or to give the left wing swing on it “economic reform at the cost to social programs.“

The USA recently held elections; again people were surprised by the result. Did they vote for his policies hell no, they voted for him because he was what he said he was a right wing, religious, capitalist who is waging a war on terror in other peoples countries. His opponent Kerry was a war hero that was anti-military and spouting liberal policy mixed with conservative rhetoric. He lost because he confused people not because George W Bush was better.

My theory is that people no longer vote for the best man. They vote for the least worst and hope like hell they don’t do any damage while they are in office.

What I have discovered is when a politician does not follow the party that they were elected in or act in a way that defaces the country they should be “Let Go”. They are hired / Elected to represent their constituents not exercise their personal Ideals. If they want to run on their ideals then run as an independent or better yet start a party that supports those ideals when you have a party then you stop being a nut-job and are well on your way to being a minority.

It’s great to see the Green party out there picking up where the Rhino’s dropped the ball. Exercising their civil right to run is one thing, do I think they should run the country probably not if we want to keep trade routes open with the rest of the world but they are showing that there is an interest in ecology and other parties took note and altered course.

I remember when a Conservative was a moralist, capitalist, a Liberal was a socialist, tree hugger and the NDP were just owned by the unions, and the FLQ was a terrorist’s organization and everyone wanted Quebec not to separate.

Ah those were the days. Now the Liberals are making social cuts, Conservatives are proposing tax cuts and the NDP have pissed off the unions the FLQ terrorists have formed a Quebec federal party and now there is talk of other parts of Canada talking about separation.
Come on honorable member either rename your party to suit the platform so we know what we are voting for or we have to stop expecting so much from you.

Job Titles

I am going to do the old guy thing; I remember a time when you got a job and had a job title that meant something.

When you spoke to a director you knew they had authority in the company, administrators were the gateway to anyone important, IT staff knew how a computer worked and accountants were different from bookkeepers.

Now there are managers that don’t manage anything, administrators that administer a phone and leaders who have to do the same thing as the people they are leading, accountants that manage only a ledger, IT staff that don’t know a NIC from a KNACK.

Why?, well I have a theory. In our attempt to be better than then next guy, the emphasis got away from what you do and toward what they call you. “Yeah I will clean toilets but I want to be called a custodial engineer because my buddy cleans toilets and he’s called a facility supervisor so my job must be better since my indicates I am an engineer.”

The HR supervisor hears this and says to himself “Hey if his buddy is a supervisor that cleans toilets and my job is so much better than his I want to be called at least a director.” When the HR director gets this request he doesn’t say ”stop being an idiot” instead he books a meeting with the executive and says “I am responsible for 4 HR managers and 2 resource administrators (a.k.a. file clerks) therefore I must be a director.” The directors agree then alter their titles to VP’s “since we manage more people.” As a result the VP’s become division presidents.

Several weeks later the president’s toilet backs up and when he calls for a janitor and is informed that they don’t have any but the custodial engineer will be right there to clean up. He then retires knowing full well that the company is going to fold within a year since he has nothing but idiots running things.

You can tell that a company is still efficient when the first person you meet is a receptionist not an executive assistant, the person cleaning is a janitor and everyone in the company is doing work that sounds remotely like the job title they have.

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