My Life is a Dilbert Cartoon

[donutsweeper]

I spent the last hour and a half or so taking tickets for an event that had no tickets issued for it.

Yep, I sat there because I was assigned to take tickets even though there WERE NO TICKETS.

How does something like that happen you ask?  Well, the work assignments for the annual meeting are drawn up every ten years and assigned by job title.  So, as Assistant Membership Director, I collect tickets.  As it happens the decision was made to quit printing tickets seven years ago, but that minor detail hasn't affected the duty roster yet.  Why?  Because they only rewrite and reassign jobs for the annual meeting every ten years because (as my boss said when I asked her about it) "that's the way it's always been done."

*blinks*

Gotta love corporate logic.

Comments

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*blinkblink* It sounds like you're actually in the Matrix. Just try realise the truth - there are no tickets...

*giggle* There is no level on which that makes sense. Brilliant. In an annoying kind of way, but still. I didn't realise these things happened in real life...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god, a voice of semi-sanity! It's not just me! My boss couldn't figure out why I thought the whole thing was silly!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

What did she think you were doing for all that time? Did she expect to receive the collection of non-tickets at the end?

Oh, please tell me she did! That's just too good...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I sat at a small table with the ticket box where I was to put the nonexistent tickets. I handed the box back in after the meeting was over, I don't know if she checked it for tickets or not. I hope not

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do! I hope she has a book somewhere that she has to note the contents of the box in. Because otherwise it's just not funny enough... :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

just to satisfy my curiosity I checked her tally sheets folder (on our shared computer). Yes, there is a tally for the number of tickets sold and collected each year, with a "zero" listed in both columns for the past 7 years. why keep up the tally when there ARE NO BLOODY TICKETS SOLD?!?! *takes deep breath*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*falls over laughing*

Sorry, hon - I probably shouldn't find this as funny as I do - but it takes a particular kind of 'genius' to do that kind of thing...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm laughing too. It's either laugh or pull out my hair so I think laughing's a good option.

I think I will be treating myself to a very expensive frozen coffee drink shortly though, because, after a day like this, I deserve it.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

As long as you're laughing too - it really is one of those things where you have to just say "this makes no sense" and give up on it. And laugh.

Enjoy your coffee! You definitely deserve it :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

last year (when the same thing happened) I spent the whole day grumbly and annoyed, this year I vented to all of you and found the ability to laugh at it.

Thanks!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

That is priceless. WOW. Brings new meaning to the phrase "set in their ways"! Hee.

Also - every ten YEARS? That's good. Because these days, nothing changes very fast, technology is fairly static and all. One wouldn't want to cause unnecessary commotion!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

it is amazing, isn't it? Priceless is the perfect word for it.

*shakes head*