One day I was at work, fat, dumb, and happy, and one of my partners observed that “That’s weird!”
I asked what was weird, and was directed to peruse my agency e mail.
Having done so, I noted an epistle, at length, railing against the fact that (among other ”failings” of this organization), a soul who had been hired on the order of a month prior to this bulletin, from a temp agency, as a temp agency employee at that, was denied the opportunity to seek a promotion, verily, before said soul’s probationary period had been successfully completed, and that THIS WAS NOT RIGHT! (or, something like that).
The rest of the homily read as a catalogue of woe, painfully detailed, regaling one and all (everybody encompassed within the set of “Send All”) with a detailed account of how this organization was The Heart Of Darkness, thoroughly lacking in Respect for Employees, and displaying a shocking lack of understanding of How One Ought To Treat Folks!
Or, at least, that is what I recall from the notice. That, and The Narrator was DONE!.
One of my partners wondered, out loud, if this was the single cleverest pathway to steady employment, that they had ever encountered.
And, after reflection, considered that to be unlikely.
Another suggested that the temp agency employing this soul (however briefly) might take some time for the burning of their ears to heal, once the scorching telephone call from our administration to theirs was concluded.
I wondered about this soul’s previous career trajectory. “So, Insert Name Here, were you really a master sergeant once you had completed BASIC FREAKING TRAINING? Had you achieved the rank of captain, about the time you were no longer the probie on your fire department’s engine company? Just how meteoric has your previous career path been, such that you come to us from a freaking temp agency? Please, explain it all to me, but use little words, and go slowly. I don’t want to miss any of your tale!”
PRO TIP: The more strongly you are thinking, “THAT will show ’em!”, the more likely it is that you will NOT like the consequences of “showing them!”