Madness @ Work!

It is a tradition in my company that, when someone is hired to do what I do, he gets a couple of days of training and then is let to sink or swim. If you don't have the required skills or the ability to glean them from your co-workers in three months, you will be cut loose. Okay, that weeds out the weaker performers.

But we just hired a new guy and there is no computer for him to work on. The last two days he's going around scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get his own workstation together. He's making his own workstation. If that doesn't speak volumes about the kind of person you have to be to work here, you're not paying attention. I used to think anyone could do this job. Several sub-par hires have since fired proved me wrong. It takes a certain kind of duck . . . you have to let the insanity roll off your back.