Madness @ Work!

The General Manager is out of town for family medical reasons, and he said if we had any problems to ask the Warehouse Manager (NOT our boss in the front of the building) for help.

So here it is, day 2, and 2 memos from WM have been posted. One of the workers (K.E.) in my area made a fort around his desk, ostensibly to line up the work he has (server cabinets & big computer stuff) in order of first-in, first-out. Last night WM had K.E.'s area rearranged to suit his preference.

Friction. Sparks.

WM and K.E. were going at each other about 1/2 step below yelling. WM is big on thinly veiled threats of firing people to get them to line up, which works well if you are a warehouse man on parole on your second chance first job after being locked up. If you are a freeman and non-felon, not on parole, it doesn't work so well. WM says to K.E. maybe K.E. should take a month off and we'll see if numbers go up or down. K.E. says he will if WM pays him which WM says he won't. So K.E. says to WM that the numbers have gone down since he joined the company (which WM admitted) and K.E. said why don't YOU take a month off and we'll see if the numbers go up or down!?

I was hollering laughing from across the room. Laughing hard is not good for taking good photos, by the way.

Man, it's great to work for a small company sometimes.

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For those people who are stuck in Borg hives for a living, here is some perspective. We started as 2 guys going to garage sales, and our current location is the 4th building the company has been in, not counting the owner's houses, since we grew out of the previous 3. WM is the same person who comes around and says "I've got something for ya" and passes gas next to your desk. I told him if he ever did that to me I would punch him, and I was serious, and he knew it. He hasn't. Yet.