A former boss of mine (oh, how I hate to call him a boss since he had NO idea of how and what I did) was a dedicated member of the youre not typing / youre not working school of thought. The guy (a VP, no less) was gone most of the time on business, but when he was in the office I mean cubicle farm he just was such a pain, pick-pick-picking on things that he had no business with. For instance, he already knew that we distributed our 900-page parts books (and all other docs) as pdf files. And I knew (and told him) that multi-tasking on my terminal WHILE it was creating a pdf file was really playing with fire, since our terminals were virtual houses-of-cards. One glitch and your work either went bye-bye or you had to review the native file for corruptions and then start the pdf creation process all over again. Several times while creating various pdfs, Id be preparing for the next manual in the want-list, but not actually typing. So hed ask me what I was doing in front of all or else use that damn finger-wagging gesture to call me into his cubicle-office and then remind me to keep working. When I reminded him yet again of what I stated above and also of the books that took several tries because of system crashes, hed hear none of it and waved me away.
Even though I'm gone from there almost 3 years, I keep in touch with a few other peons still thereand nothing has changed. The morale has gone from bad to worse. Hell, working for Scrooge would have been a step up. IS there a special place in hell for these so-called "bosses"? Oh, I hope so. -- Kenpo -------------- Original message from "Cardimon, Craig" [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dori wrote: > > >>>>> > > Sigh, I'm counting it a major victory that I've managed to move us past > "if her fingers ain't moving on the keyboard she can't be writing". > > Consideration of telecommuting is far down the road. > > <<<<< > > Well, we should be grateful for that. I try to be grateful for one thing > every day. It is a shame, however, that many of us are still fighting > the fingers-on-keyboard vs. are-we-working-or-not battle. Yikes. > > Craig
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