holy shit
~o~
"O Jesus, dear God and father of the lamb.Who sees us in fetters and in bondage so hard. As you made us Christians between Friday and Monday protect us now from this scum. "
~o~
As all of you might know we are celebrating the Lenten Season this week, today is Good Friday, the day Jesus died on the cross and redeemed the world. So the crucifixion took place, his disciples weeped and mourned. But I think we call it Good Friday because, within a "pious" context, it is in that tragedy that the greatest good shall flourish and bear fruit.
I should not have started this entry with such a formal, religious tone to it, maybe it was brought about by the "holiness" of the week and how people should act in these chaste times. Knowing the person that I am, obnoxious, profanity-loving individual...the introduction was rather unfitting. But today, when I got in the office, last day of the work week and looking foward to a long, well-deserved weekend, (i'm on leave monday and tuesday) I arrive at my workstation, logged on to my computer, got to the desktop...NO DESKTOP. NO RUN FUNCTION. DISABLED LAN SETTINGS OPTION. NO MS OFFICE. This is messed up. No, it's FUCKED UP.
This occurence is only a fourth-part of a series of unfortunate changes within the company. Recently, a directive was sent to all employees about the "NO CELLPHONES ON THE FLOOR POLICY", starting March 29th. Only supervisors, managers, IT and non-ops staff are allowed. You leave yer phone at the reception desk, or whoever is the security guard on-duty at night, and then you get a tag to claim. For emergency calls, a family member can call forcedesk and leave a message, forwarded to the manager until it is recieved by the agent.
Another change that was implemented just yesterday was the availability of personal drive space, or commonly known as the U:/ drive among employees. Restricted access. I'm not affected at all by that, I don't use it anyways. What is a 20MB folder compared to a 40 GB drive! I know my way around computers. I had everything. But not anymore! Without the desktop and the RUN option means you can't have access to storage and you can't save files (even the office-related ones) on your computer. No heart.
Here's the big one. The team had to be downsized from 20 to a mere 7 agents. The six newbies get transferred to another program and the remaining 13 ghosts get to battle it out for the Top 7 dwarfs. The results are based on schedule adherence and performance. Sounds like a talent search isn't it? WELL IT'S NOT. AND IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY. It was indeed the saddest day for the Shared Team, just the same as a day of mourning in church. We were shocked when we heard the news. We never saw it coming, at least I didn't. It was the client's decision, and it sucks that we can't do anything about it. I'm disheartened. I hate saying goodbyes and it breaks my heart even more seeing people leaving the team. With all that is happening, I can't help but ask was there any sense in staying on with the team? I don't want to leave but I want to see some improvement in my career. Fuck. I've been here for almost two years now and I feel like I'm getting nowhere.
I can only hope that there is something good that can come out of it, for whatever its worth...
It's sad that the things that you hold most closely are the things you can't wrap your fingers around.
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