Quiting Time

I helped The One write her two weeks notice last night, and just now printed it out. Her job has gone completely bonkers. Her retelling of their staff meeting yesterday reminded me of the Papa John's incident. Concerns were being brought to the director and apologies were being demanded. And all that could be said on the other end, "I'm sorry you feel that way." Not an apology and not an answer to the problem.

Worse yet, was not all the staff was there. One of the culprits that is rotting the inside out of that daycare did not show up. Much like she does not show up half the time she is scheduled. It might be harsh, I do not think highly of either this person or the director, but that is what happens when you are scheduled to come in at a certain time and do not show up at all for work that day. Then in that same day you come into the office to pick up your paycheck which already has that days hours calculated into it. The integrity in both these people is not lacking, it is non-existent.

The One is not alone in this. Besides her friends, family and me, her co-workers are also planning to submit theirs. I am about to print out two more. I do have to say the idea is solid, and I will admit I am excited to have it play out. I am not excited for The One to lose her job, she loves working with those kids. I am excited to see a staged protest against a totalitarian leader who should have been taken down a long time ago.

After printing those other resignation letters, it appears The One was going to be the John Hancock of this liberation. Her letter font was much larger than the other two. I liked it, The One vetoed it. I will be printing out more with appropriate sized font.

I found a quote that I think sums up how my purgatory office has been working.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

- Otto von Bismarck

The idea of that office is sound. It gives our customers a centralized location for them to work things out. Unfortunately it has not received any backing whatsoever, well aside from my office, that it needs to be successful. This week has been going fairly smooth. But I have a feeling that it is giving false hope to all us. On Monday we have an inspection that we have been set up to fail for. The purgatory office is a sinking ship; and while its workers are busy bailing out with our bare hands, there are people who are just standing there telling us to spread our fingers out to get more water. Worse yet, I feel as if some people have found buckets but are using them to pour water into the ship and not take water out.

No two weeks notice from me though, contract and all. I will continue to do my best there and try not to undermine anything that might be a success. It really is a good idea in concept. It was rushed to put together and not taken seriously for the first six months of existence. We are where we are because of how we have been, but we can change where we are going.

~Skate