Appreciation
I'm Minuteman Store Number 501's Employee of the Month.
Reaction to this has been kinda funny.
Skokie: Wow Nenie, congratulations. This must get old for you after a while huh?
Nenie: Huh?
Skokie: Well, don't you have a stack of those certificates?
OK, we should back up here.
There are two things you need to know:
1) Skokie just started at The Minuteman a few months ago
2) One of my trademark lines at work is "...which are validated by the plethora of employee of the month certificates that adorn my walls."
Cuz, in the nearly two years that I've been there, I've never been EoM.
Skokie: So you've never won?
Nenie: No.
Skokie couldn't believe it.
Skokie: But this place would fall apart without you.
Feeling that I'd just made a friend for life I let Skokie in on the full backstory of my tenure at The Minuteman, complete with how they promoted Yellowstoner to Commander over me.
Skokie: What? Him over you? Who thought that was a good idea? He does less than just about anyone I've ever seen.
OK, so I know this might seem petty, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels underappreciated at work. It wasn't a big deal before the blown promotion last August but since then every time Cmdr. Yellowstoner screws up (which is pretty often) I feel like more of an idiot than I did before the last time he screwed up because I think "wow, I was less qualified than this jackass?"
But knowing that someone, somewhere notices that I'm doing my job well, be it other folks on the floor or the rest of the officers is a help.
That and I keep catching Cmdr. Yellowstoner looking at job postings in the Pacific Northwest.
I wonder if there's anything we can do to get his stoned ass out of here.
Reaction to this has been kinda funny.
Skokie: Wow Nenie, congratulations. This must get old for you after a while huh?
Nenie: Huh?
Skokie: Well, don't you have a stack of those certificates?
OK, we should back up here.
There are two things you need to know:
1) Skokie just started at The Minuteman a few months ago
2) One of my trademark lines at work is "...which are validated by the plethora of employee of the month certificates that adorn my walls."
Cuz, in the nearly two years that I've been there, I've never been EoM.
Skokie: So you've never won?
Nenie: No.
Skokie couldn't believe it.
Skokie: But this place would fall apart without you.
Feeling that I'd just made a friend for life I let Skokie in on the full backstory of my tenure at The Minuteman, complete with how they promoted Yellowstoner to Commander over me.
Skokie: What? Him over you? Who thought that was a good idea? He does less than just about anyone I've ever seen.
OK, so I know this might seem petty, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels underappreciated at work. It wasn't a big deal before the blown promotion last August but since then every time Cmdr. Yellowstoner screws up (which is pretty often) I feel like more of an idiot than I did before the last time he screwed up because I think "wow, I was less qualified than this jackass?"
But knowing that someone, somewhere notices that I'm doing my job well, be it other folks on the floor or the rest of the officers is a help.
That and I keep catching Cmdr. Yellowstoner looking at job postings in the Pacific Northwest.
I wonder if there's anything we can do to get his stoned ass out of here.
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