just another day in paradise

So where to begin. First day back from a “semi-mandatory” week vacations. “So that I won’t lose any of my time AND that we have to make money here;” is what the manager said. Guess the vacation pay is taken from the home account and hence we get “reimbursed for an employee taking leave.” Which in the 14 years I worked in the office I never heard of this “policy.” But then again, as it has been pointed out to me in the past, things change over time. Yeah well, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

It’s pretty much a common given that the reason why I was “given” this time off is so the manager could do some “damage control” after the Mag Hall misstep. Won’t go into great details here, but there is an issue in the building that the manager said had been taken care of by Marilyn and myself. Needless to say, neither of us knew anything about the problem. Which in turn was caused by the total ineptness of the manager, AND our in-house plumber. Let’s just say there was an issue there and the plumber blew it off and the manager (without checking) told the CFO of the college it had been taken care of by us. Lets also point out that this issue was caused the first week of April and we just found out about it at the end of May. Yeah, pretty nice huh.

So, as it is, I created quite the commotion about it all. Right along with some of the college staff personal, but still, I affirmed all that was being said by them. Realize this is a sketchy rehash of everything and much more stuff had and is going on and the fact that I (and a few others) have been shining light about other matters that Sodexo Management have been “missing” for quite some time. Let’s face it, Sodexo has been screwing the college over for almost 5 years now. This fact is what ticks me off the most I think. I know what Sodexo is capable of, what management is truly supposed to stand for, what their true policies are. But unfortunately, we have had a series of managers that do not share this same knowledge. But how can they, when Upper management keeps sending us or hiring worthless people who are willing to tell you how wonderful and committed they are and overlook simple policies all to send the most profit back to the Home Office.

Now, let’s go back a bit here and bring up the plumber again. Supposedly he was to take care of the mess he created in the basement of Mag Hall. Needless to say, when I came back and checked it is all still there. Today I heard that he had blowup at the Admin for the shop and was to be “written up” on Friday. What has come to me is that the manager and the plumber had a “nice chat” in the manager’s office. According to the Manager, the plumber was written up and told that if it continues he will be fired, according to the plumber, nothing like that happened.

Let’s just put it that all the managers “damage control” that he attempted throughout last week has been pretty much negated today. Things have been put into motion, and hopefully will start to bear fruit around 4ish today ;-)

I just hate it when someone in a position of power, tells everyone how wonderful, overly qualified and how committed they are. Most of the time I’ve noticed that when people start to tell me how much they are qualified to manage, they aren’t.