The sad thing is some of these turds that get their feelings hurt are Gen-X and older than me. I'm in my mid 40's so came into the world at the tail end of that generation; so they'd be late 40's to late 50's.
Probably doesn't help that I'm a State gov't employee so I get to deal with that shit at times too. I feel so out of place sometimes. I'm one that wants to get things done as efficiently as possible and produce top quality results. When I was first hired as supervisor, my section was full of useless, lazy people producing crap work. The same type who would also get offended at the drop of a hat.
I remember this one person was not wanting to do their work. I told them they are expected to run 2 instruments at once. They literally pitched a fit, threw papers across the room, and cried something about "I'm going to quit" then ran to tattle on me to the manager. My response was bye. The manager coddled them and I got a talking to because I told them to do their job.
It took me a few years to finally run those people off and hire good working, intelligent people. Now our stuff runs like clockwork, and has been that way for the last 7-8 years. You can go to me or any of my staff and ask about what we're working on. Any one of us can tell you what's being worked on, where it's at, and how much longer until it's complete. I also did a lot of work in the background to automate all the mundane stuff. So all we need to do is input a few numbers and the rest is auto-updated.
It's why I have time to screw around on RT. We have our stuff done up front are are usually waiting on other people to get their shit together. As soon as that work hits our hands; bam... it's done.
I do have a really good group. We all get our stuff done. I can critique them and no one gets butt-hurt about it. They take it as a way to improve or be more efficient. It's a two way street. They critique and help each other out. My staff can even call me out if I have a stupid idea or they have a better way of doing something. I don't take offence to that. And if it is a better idea we run with it. Regardless of who's suggestion we go with, if it doesn't work out we walk it back and try something else. No one gets upset over it.
Can't say as much for the rest of the sections. Half their stuff is in disarray, the other half is barely being kept up with. It's all because of useless staff, useless managers, and everyone walking on eggshells so no one gets offended. Hardly anything can get done like that. I really don't know how they function sometimes. Perfect recent example, We just had our EPA audit. The auditors were scrounging to find something wrong to give my section a finding. All they came up with was "even though you're doing it correctly and there's no regulation that states it, you split the extract into 2 vials instead of putting it all in one. We got that one BS finding.
Meanwhile the department's other section received 18 findings for all sorts of stuff they didn't do right, or just didn't do at all. If I had a say in it I'd be asking how did you fuck up so bad? But heaven forbid someone tells these people to do their job and do it right. The next thing you know everyone's running to HR whining about their feelings being hurt.
While I'm thinking about it... Does anyone have Elon's number? I'd like to get his input on a few things.
