Reasons
There are a few reasons to run a blog. One of them is to get your ideas and opinions out there. The word ?there? being an ambiguous term to denote the internet and the space of public approval, review. That is one reason to run a blog. There are still others.
In other areas you could, say, write book reviews, film reviews, music reviews, city reviews, live reviews, or whatever you wanted. You could merely get online and write about specific interest, say strip joints, Irish pubs, fermentation, or distillation. You can do whatever you want with your blog, if ya got one, to include add pictures, create links, update with news, events, history, or just non-sequiters that really, and ultimately, mean nothing to the lay individual.
Still, the blog can be a place where you go to just complain about everyday life. Work. Coworkers. Church. Dating. Kissing. School. The lack of? alternative enjoyment. Being single. Or whatever. In this case, let?s focus on work.
Work sucks. Not all work sucks. Just my job. My job that takes forever to get to (because I moved closer to where I will be going to school), they don?t treat their employees like assets, in my opinion, and the ?voluntary? overtime is never voluntary. Let me see if I can expand on that to make the world understand. When they tell their employees they never have to work overtime, and then schedule them for overtime without asking, and then get upset when working overtime is called into question ?strongly? encouraging the employee that some ambiguous entity will become displeased if they don?t work the overtime and that, somehow, it will negatively affect any future possibilities you have with the company, there are problems.
When your only goal is to become an employee of said company, you don?t really look at what is happening. Some places require their employees to be overly dedicated to the job, to give up family and social lives, to make themselves available at all times, and not to complain when, at times, they are required to reschedule their lives on a whim simply because some ambiguous entity changes the schedule and expects them to kowtow to the new world order. This isn?t right and doesn?t breed, in up-and-coming crops of employees, a sense of camaraderie and in the end only breeds contempt and ill-will when it comes to the expected, or desired, outcomes. The expected, and desired, outcomes are highly trained and certified representatives who will happily stay with the company for a long period of time.
What I thought was odd, and am now realizing is a part of this division?s culture, is how the groups tend to talk when it comes to training groups. They complain about the numbers of people who quit part way through the training process; they talk about employees having to decide which is more important, school or work, and when put to the test, choosing school; they moan about how much money is lost on training; and then they continue to do exactly what they were doing, to begin with, by undermining their own hiring strategies and expectations by NOT encouraging their employees to have a job, finish school ? if that?s important ? and more openly working around the employees schedule rather than requiring a Waterloo moment in their employees.
The problem I have come across, again and again, is the expectation that the employee will do whatever it takes to maintain their job, regardless of what that may mean in the long run. Less time with wife and children. Get over it. Less time with boyfriend/girlfriend. Get over it. Less time for a personal life. Get over it. Less time to improve oneself outside of the work environment. Get over it.
I have some experience with this employer, now. Enough that I can see interesting differences between divisions under the same company umbrella. Where one rewards, and its clear there is a reward; the differences between another division and the various employees rising through the ranks makes the ambiguity of the longevity of the job a bit more frustrating. There are no real long-term objectives that can be met in this division and it?s a wonder, and no wonder, that some people have YEARS of experience here when they can find more success with less effort in another division of the company.
The outcome, for me, is to look for something else, another job, another opportunity, elsewhere, something that doesn?t require me to work insane hours. I keep wondering, now that I can wonder about it, why I thought that the division I came to was better than anything else I could do with this company. This is a good company, but they are trying to grow and adapt a business model to a new way of thinking. The new way of thinking is important, but to be a part of the mistakes that are being made, to know that the mistakes were being made long before I decided to come here, make the whole experience that much more difficult. Unfortunately, I don?t know of any way to get out of what I am doing now. That is sad.