Not a Real World entry!

Yeah, some day I'll write about it again. On with life...

So last week I had to do this thing where we walk around the section of our building and check to make sure stuff is locked up, unplugged and closed. There’s about twenty-five or so safes – twenty of which’s only job is to make sure the floor doesn’t just up and float off. As I checked yet another safe that hadn’t been opened all month I began to wonder, “Is there really anything in these?” So it’s pretty boring and one might begin to find things to occupy oneself. I played with a paper clip and rubber band for thirty minutes!

Ah yes, my point. I was wandering around looking at the job descriptions on the outside of peoples cubicles. It’s okay, the safes were holding down the floor so everything was taken care of. So outside of our cubicles we have these ID things with our name, job, duties, etc. Under the Major Responsibilities section somebody wrote “Does stuff”. Another person wrote “Does everything that nobody else wants to do” on his. I always thought this section was stupid. I mean, how many people walk around saying to themselves “Who’s the Matrix Developer (I made that up, hopefully) in this building? I think I’ll just walk up and down the rows until I see that under the Major Responsibilities section.” Wouldn’t you just ask someone who the person in charge of Matrix Development is? “Yes, Jerry is in charge of that. He sits over by the Signage Maker in the Missile Engineer’s building.”

Missile Engineer? What is that? I actually saw that too under the Job section. Aren’t those usually called Aeronautics, Mechanical, Electronics, etc. Engineers? There’s not Missile Engineer. Somebody designs the electrical components, Electronics/Electrical Engineer, somebody else designs the housing and mechanical parts, Mechanical Engineer, and somebody else makes sure it flies, Aeronautics Engineer. Sure, I forgot some other disciplines involved in the process but there is not one type of engineer that makes a missile. Is there a Missile Engineering degree out there somewhere? Maybe I just don’t know.

What can I do next? Signs! I love signs! The ones people make because they work with other people who just go out of their way to bother and disrupt their daily life. My gosh! Somebody threw a bunch of trash in the trash can and now it’s full. I’ll make a sign telling people the location of the dumpster because I can’t possibly wait until tomorrow for the Custodial Engineer to throw the trash again. Oh no! Somebody printed something and forgot to pick it up. I’ll make a sign reminding people to remember to pick up their stuff. There’s even a sign for how to be considerate when using the lunch table over in lady-who-wears-too-much-perfume’s section. It instructs on how one should put their chair under the table when they get up and to use a placemat. A placemat? Really? Because…NO! We don’t carry around placemats! They’re in that safe that hasn’t been opened for three months and I don’t have the combination!