fuck this job.com

I suggest to start looking now before your area is flooded with all of your coworkers. Isn't that sweet though, they read a book to you. Bump them! Look out for #1, that is you.

I have not read that book, but your experience reminds me of one I had several years ago. They rented a huge meeting space for the entire company at a Sheraton and made everyone go sit there in the auditorium and listen to the CEO tells us the company was going down as of 3/31/00 (this was Feb 2000). And we would be out of jobs, and out of medical, and oh yea, only a trustee company for a year to act as reference. Ah ... such fond memories of the dot com crash.

It sounds like your company has a similar fate in store. In retrospect, I think I like the 'firm date' approach much better. That definitely launched me into planning mode and helped turn me into the bitter, maladjusted worker I am today at a new 'cheese station'! LOL.

I have been bombarded with self-help business books in the past few years. The titles are diluted enough that you wonder what nugget of wisdom awaits you as you turn the first page...

"Who Moved My Cheese"? Gimme a break! What about "How Can I Have a Paycheck the Reflects the Work I Do For You Asswipes?" Or, "How to Make Your Manager Cry in Misery Like You Do Every Morning?"

f8_smyled

Any work related self help book I have ever picked up has been for one selfish reason and one reason only, to validate my own feelings and confirm the fact that I am right and other people suffer the same fools, politics, rage and righteous indignation that I do. If it doesn't do this for me in the first chapter, it's toast.

Hey, at least I'm honest.

This market KNOWS who it's targets are. Anyone, and I mean anyone can write one and get lucky enough to have it published and become a big seller. There is no special skill involved in writing these books.

For the most part, many of these books will have at least something in them that confirms our own feelings. Some are just so much drivel. The better ones are at the very least, entertaining and well written. The very worst ones will convince you that you are a VICTIM and nothing is your fault. Easy to buy into for some people, and usually written by serial victims. As revenge. No doubt.

But they are not a solution. I have never found any astounding "answers" in any of them. Although I have read many well written ones that were entertaining and did offer some common sense advice.

And the ones corporations force down the throats of their employees are usually the worst written, most boring, ass sucking books on the market. Suck ass books. And some peckerhead got rich off these books which even makes it more annoying. You know all the popular titles....

Anyways, they do have something to offer, but I would read them the same way you read those Amazing Home Remedy books, with a dose of salts.

You must work in healthcare - I did - that book was originally prescribed by a smarty-pants quack MD-turned-reorganization guru for healthcare workers to get fired if they don't get with whatever the new program is. So dumb you can't even believe it's for adults. It is pure evil but if you think your company is committed to it (mine dropped it immediately after a huge nursing backlash) you better go now.

I bought "I Moved Your Cheese" and left a copy on the guy's desk before he left but it isn't really a good book. It's worth leaving a few copies around (like on the CEO's desk) though.

Misery loves company, and the company loves misery

* When it sucks (life is too short)

* When there are rumors of a "paradigm shift" (always bad)

* When the benefits change (always for the worse)

* When the human resources dept rep on the phone has an Indian accent and the connection is scratchy (the human resources dept outsourced with your records)

* When life is great at work (you aren’t being challenged enough and something bad is bound to happen)

* When you have been at a job for more than a year (time for a change!)

* When the manager (or secretary) gives you an "overhead charge number" to charge to on your time card.

* When smss.exe appears on your company computer's task list and your mouse behaves like someone is taking control (your being monitored remotely)

* When your manager can tell you to the second when he/she is going to retire (you won't last much beyond that)

* When "sourceforge.net" is considered a "subversive site" by your IT department and is blocked(anal security keeps you from doing your job).

* When there is no toilet paper in the restroom (consumable cut today, you tomorrow)

* When you become "indispensable" and are told this by your boss. This is not good, it translates like this "you are the biggest risk to the project" and risks must be mitigated.

* When you are irrelevant (why keep you).

And the number one reason:
* If you are doing a good job and are indispensable, when you quit, you make the management chain find the cheese.

Mr. Plankton

Thank you Mr. Plankton. Who moved the cheese seems to have taken on the role of Kiss My Ass.

Management moves your cheese, and cuts the cheese. That's my attitude towards any jive-ass politics they push on you.