Entertaining the Entertainers
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I have talked to dozens of people about the situation I’m in right now and they’ve all said the same thing. When new owners take over the management feels like the solid job they’ve been living, on turns out to be a frozen lake, and summer is coming real fast. Company I work for was recently bought up by a larger company and suddenly the management are a breath away from getting canned. The other thing everyone has told me, which I kinda already knew, is that if bossman ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy.
At first everyone one was excited. We were getting new owner’s that might actually care about us. They had all sorts of plans to by more, new games to replace the falling apart ones we had. They planned on getting us new lighter, shinier tokens, new tickets, and new toys for the little kids to win. (That’s not all that changed, but that’s basically what affected me.) No one ever stopped to think about how bad they were going smash, cut, and burn themsleves tring to put together and move these new games. No one thought about the four hours, after hours, they would have to spend replacing all the old tickets. No one thought about the overnight 16 hour shift they would have to pull just to replace every last token, and token accepter. Yup, in the blink of an eye the honey moon was over.
I was there right along side my boss, Joe, for every single piece of that. Unfortunately, that’s the only time I ever really worked with Joe. My 90th day came and went fairly unnoticed under all the excitement, and about my 120th day there we had my 90 day review.
Now, I have to break there so I can give you a little more background. Other then the late nights at work the only time I ever really worked with Joe was for maybe an hour a day, three days a week. Now when you work until two or three in the morning you don’t usually get to sleep until maybe four or five in the morning. That means for eight hours of sleep you need to sleep until noon or one. Well I liked to sleep more so there were days when I’d sleep until three, get up and go to work. So for the first hour or so I wasn’t exactly aware of my suroundings. Which, if I’d realized at the time, made me look pretty bad in front of Joe. The other part of my problem was the cliché, “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”. Every time I prioritized the list of thing I was supposed to do, and accomplished it all, more was added the next day. This got to the point where I couldn’t accomplish all the tasks. Again this also made me look bad because who cares about the three 800 pound games that I did move and pack up, I forgot to package a computer board. That is the faliscy with lists, there are only good when completed.
Back to my review. I was very optimistic about it. I felt I had learned a lot about the games and also learned how to deal with geusts better and be more friendly. Unfortunately the manager that reviewed me was a manager that reviewed me was the day manager and I work the night shifts. You can tell where this is going.
Well my review was less than satisfactory. What I thought were my strongest points in performance, turned out to be my weakest points in the review.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
At first everyone one was excited. We were getting new owner’s that might actually care about us. They had all sorts of plans to by more, new games to replace the falling apart ones we had. They planned on getting us new lighter, shinier tokens, new tickets, and new toys for the little kids to win. (That’s not all that changed, but that’s basically what affected me.) No one ever stopped to think about how bad they were going smash, cut, and burn themsleves tring to put together and move these new games. No one thought about the four hours, after hours, they would have to spend replacing all the old tickets. No one thought about the overnight 16 hour shift they would have to pull just to replace every last token, and token accepter. Yup, in the blink of an eye the honey moon was over.
I was there right along side my boss, Joe, for every single piece of that. Unfortunately, that’s the only time I ever really worked with Joe. My 90th day came and went fairly unnoticed under all the excitement, and about my 120th day there we had my 90 day review.
Now, I have to break there so I can give you a little more background. Other then the late nights at work the only time I ever really worked with Joe was for maybe an hour a day, three days a week. Now when you work until two or three in the morning you don’t usually get to sleep until maybe four or five in the morning. That means for eight hours of sleep you need to sleep until noon or one. Well I liked to sleep more so there were days when I’d sleep until three, get up and go to work. So for the first hour or so I wasn’t exactly aware of my suroundings. Which, if I’d realized at the time, made me look pretty bad in front of Joe. The other part of my problem was the cliché, “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”. Every time I prioritized the list of thing I was supposed to do, and accomplished it all, more was added the next day. This got to the point where I couldn’t accomplish all the tasks. Again this also made me look bad because who cares about the three 800 pound games that I did move and pack up, I forgot to package a computer board. That is the faliscy with lists, there are only good when completed.
Back to my review. I was very optimistic about it. I felt I had learned a lot about the games and also learned how to deal with geusts better and be more friendly. Unfortunately the manager that reviewed me was a manager that reviewed me was the day manager and I work the night shifts. You can tell where this is going.
Well my review was less than satisfactory. What I thought were my strongest points in performance, turned out to be my weakest points in the review.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished