Since I'm always trying to be prolific, I've decided to, for the time being, forgo putting up the 'best of the best' lists until a later date. I get the feeling people get tuckered out by the time they get to the week's topic and it's probably best to put the most participatory thing first. If you're interested in what others had to say from previous weeks, peep the comments section or facebook--assuming you have the hookup like that. Now onto the business...
Get on your J-O: Workplace Annoyances
- Nametags: I know it makes for a friendlier experience, but don't call me by my first name unless you know me like that.
- Greeting people: I couldn't care less if you enjoy your workout or not.
- Dumb customers: No; you can't bring your cousin in for free. Yes; we are really enforcing that rule now. No; I'm not convinced you suddenly don't understand English, my ethnic friend.
- Training sessions: I wish I could say I was paying attention so I could further grasp the nuance of whatever is being taught, but my mind has been occupied by the thought of anything that's not what my trainer is saying.
- The time clock: It's not like I'm working the whole eight hours anyway, right?
- Faking productivity: It's bad enough I'm watching the seconds of my life tick away, that I have to hold a phone pretending to make a sales call while doing it is just undignified.
- Days off: Just more time to wonder why I have a job that requires a nametag.
- Training manuals: Corporate enthusiasm is even more obnoxious on paper.
- Using the bathroom: Nothing wrong with the facilities themselves, save for the plethora of old man nut sac I tend to encounter on the way there.
- Lack of abstraction: I did sell a membership...I didn't sell a membership...I did sell a membership...I didn't...premier plus system 30...contact management...T.I. on line one...red t-shirt...nametag...nametag...red t-shirt...all work with no texture makes Jack want to hit himself with a tack hammer...
There you have it, friends.
THROW DOWN.
