A Little Bit About My Job

I get ticked off. Easy.

I have never minded working my butt off if that is my job.

Yesterday, we had a Bluegrass Festival, in addition to our usual grueling job. We had to rush to get it set up after the monsters....... uh, i mean Summer Camp crew.......... left for the day. We had no extra help; just my normal crew.

No problem. We had almost an hour to tear the pavilion down, put out trash, put up two tents, 5 tables, and run Do Not Enter tape, so nobody could sneak in.......... (mind you, this place is open.)

In the course of the day, someone forget to mention that there was an event in the Auditorium. A movie. Funny thing, this movie occurs every 3rd Wednesday. I happened to have to run past my office, and there was the gentleman who runs it... looking for me. The auditorium hadn't been set up, the sound booth wasn't open, and no tables were out in the hall for his movie sales..... not to mention the Federation Tower doors weren't open for the guests.

My guys, who were sweating as much as I was, whipped in there, cleaned the area up, set up chairs, set the tables out. In the meantime, I ran up, opened up the sound room and dropped the screen. Not a snag. We were done long before anyone arrived to notice the event had been forgotten. AND, we had the outside pavilion perfect! (We weren't the ones who forgot it!)

Why is it that, no matter where you work, the "little guy" (in this instance my workers, getting barely above minimun wage) never is applauded? If they were to go on strike, my company would collapse! They have NO clue what they ask for.

Years ago, I worked in a Nursing Home. Everyone was at each other's throat. So and so did so much more than so and so. Our Director of Nursing (one of the best women AND managers I ever met) decided that we should all learn what each person and each department Really had to do. We came up with " Walk a Mile in Their Shoes". The gist of the idea was, every department would participate, and find out what the other department had to do in a day.

She started the ball rolling by assigning the Nursing Supervisor to one of our Housekeeping staff. After one day, the nurse "had something important to do", and disappeared. However, that was the last time they tried that. And, they quit bothering the housekeeping staff about stupid stuff.

I find that I relate more to the laborer than the administrative personell. After all that, my boss told me today that I did a great job, and I could leave work early today. I'm wondering what I can do for my guys, who did, AND have done AND always do, such awesome work.

If i hit the lottery, I am starting a business. I am hiring all my best workers away from the company. I will appreciate them!