Fear is a very useful tool in Brainwashing

More news from Tyler Gifts...

So Rananah, the new Web designer, was sent to Florida for training this week. Or at least she was supposed to be. You see, Philly airport has a tendency to delay flights if too many mice in the area fart at the same time and stir the wind up to .036 MPH and Saturday night / Sunday morning brought a foot or more of snow to all of Eastern PA. Her flight was supposed to be at 3 PM Sunday. Early Sunday morning Rananah called Franz and asked him if she could reschedule her trip, she didn't feel safe driving and chances were her flight may get canceled anyway. Franz said absolutely not and told her he would take her.

He didn't tell her he would stay and wait with her.

I hope she brought a book...and something comfortable to use as a pillow...and, now that I think about it, I hope they bothered to think about arranging her transportation when she landed since she's too young to rent a car and because she would have been inexperienced enough in such things to not think of it, and because if they were going to front the cash she would need to ask like 2 weeks in advance.

All this adds up to giving your brand new young person an impression of how the company works that is guaranteed to scare her off in no time. Meanwhile, Franz, you paid $5k for the trip to boot. You're a shrewd business man, alright.

So this place they sent her for training on the company's database is the same place they sent me last November. [Just for the record, in November I suggested that they wait until after the new year to send me because it was a very busy time for us and because I knew secretly that I would probably be leaving soon and I wanted to save them the money. There's another $5k in the toilet, gentlemen -- thanks again for listening to me.] It's good training that she should have (assuming they sent her for the right training, which they didn't with me, which meant I wasted two days and bunches of their money -- again, Franz's fault), but Fred the IT guy REALLY needs it too and Fred could have gone too if Franz would have waited a week. Actually, a lot of the logistics would be easier if Fred could go at the same time, but OH NO, Franz can't wait an extra week. Even though it would be one $7500 trip instead of two $5k trips. Even though it would help Rananah to actually get some time with the Db at Tyler before going down. Even though the information is not time sensitive and there is NO REASON to force this trip and ignore the facts in the last two sentences. What a tool.

It would be one thing if the place was AT&T and had more money than they know what to do with, but this is the place that had people work until midnight on New Year's Eve so they could get all the money they could before month's/year's end. Unbelieveable.


Complete side note: I taked to Tom @ the ISP last night. We might get to hear some interesting stories from him in the near future.