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

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

even sillier is that there were actual jobs assigned to positions that no longer exist so there was no one to do them.

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

*Laughs* mental. Utterly mental. Can you gather some people and explain to your boss why it makes no sense?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

the thing is I even offered to do one of those jobs, but was told no. I take tickets. That's it. It didn't matter that there were no tickets to take.

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

I have to meet your boss one day. She sounds... singular.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's one word for it