home_and_away (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
home_and_away) wrote2007-09-27 08:40 pm
home_and_away) wrote2007-09-27 08:40 pm
Entry tags:
It's refreshing as all hell
to know that I'm not the only one having issues with The Man, recently.
(because if you'll all flash back to your Psyche 101 course--"If you're the only one with a problem with a person, chances are the problem's really with you. But if three of you independently have the same problem with the same person, chances are the problem's with THAT PERSON.")
Less refreshing to realise there's not a lot to do to change this particular system, because the people who set it up in the first place seem more dedicated to exerting their authority over their machine than to building a machine that runs itself.
I'm having trouble swallowing the slightly confrontational urge to see whether I can ask polite, pertinent questions long enough provoke bullshit passive-aggressive responses, just so I can see the fireworks, too.
"Pardon me, I've got a question about this new policy here. Could you please explain it to me? What about *this* approach? Was there a reason you didn't take that one first? Oh, do please enlighten me. I don't get it yet, but I want to, really."
"Hi, I'm new here, so I'm not sure whether you guys realised--this part of your system's broken. Fixing it's easy, you could do it like this. Em... Why haven't you? Why do you do things this way?"
Note to self: Don't make Jonestown references, even to yourself, when walking into a business model whose employees warn you straightaway "People say this is kindof like a cult. But I promise we're not." The next day, you WILL be offered Comforting Tea in the group meeting. And you WILL be expected to consume it while the boss watches.
....
~fume~
(because if you'll all flash back to your Psyche 101 course--"If you're the only one with a problem with a person, chances are the problem's really with you. But if three of you independently have the same problem with the same person, chances are the problem's with THAT PERSON.")
Less refreshing to realise there's not a lot to do to change this particular system, because the people who set it up in the first place seem more dedicated to exerting their authority over their machine than to building a machine that runs itself.
I'm having trouble swallowing the slightly confrontational urge to see whether I can ask polite, pertinent questions long enough provoke bullshit passive-aggressive responses, just so I can see the fireworks, too.
"Pardon me, I've got a question about this new policy here. Could you please explain it to me? What about *this* approach? Was there a reason you didn't take that one first? Oh, do please enlighten me. I don't get it yet, but I want to, really."
"Hi, I'm new here, so I'm not sure whether you guys realised--this part of your system's broken. Fixing it's easy, you could do it like this. Em... Why haven't you? Why do you do things this way?"
Note to self: Don't make Jonestown references, even to yourself, when walking into a business model whose employees warn you straightaway "People say this is kindof like a cult. But I promise we're not." The next day, you WILL be offered Comforting Tea in the group meeting. And you WILL be expected to consume it while the boss watches.
....
~fume~