6: Best Site Staff
I was having a discussion last night with one of my new apprentices. I won't tell you who he is, for fear that I'll have to bitch people out again for sucking, having no work ethic, and being generally lazy, and using the vB4 as an excuse to not work, when in fact, it should be the impetus to work, even before it gets installed.
I didn't quite tell him this, but the quote that was going through my mind was "Pigs don't know pigs stink."
But, I've also read the Dale Carnegie books, and I should know by now, that calling attention to people's faults directly tend to get you in a lot of trouble. I don't know if people know who I am, or why they should be listening to me, but I'll let that slide. I will let my dedication and efforts speak for me, and if people don't care, they can take a flying leap, because I'll keep doing what I'm doing, and I'll do my damned best to get it right. That's more than I can say for other people. I'm not infallible: I am frequently wrong, but when people don't let me fix what I've done wrong, or if they actively attempt to bar me from doing what am putting in my time and dedication for, it tends to upset me. It tends to upset me greatly.
But in any case, a lot of the Site Staff have been some of the harder working people that I've ever seen in my time here. Though there certainly are exceptions, there's no worse than doing stuff, not get recognized for it, and then have someone else step in and say "we had to do it behind closed doors."
We have lost several Site Staffers recently, and others have been unable to fulfill what I thought to be the best of their potential. They lost their focus, they lost their dedication to contribute to something that provides for other people, and not themselves. And it truly sickens me. I can only hope that even after this, people will respect the people on Site Staff who give enough of a damn to help other people by maintaining and adding to the site.
I can admit that there's room for growth; there is a real opportunity to learn how to do something. We tell people every day "work smart, not hard," but sometimes, you just have to do the hard work. There's no way around it sometimes. No physicist ever survived without an engineer, and no engineer survives without his team of peers and people who build his
for him. And to them, no man can live without his food, his space, and his drive for recognition.
Originally Posted by theundeadhero
