Friday, July 08, 2005

Class and Ron

I think I have officially been brain washed by Ron. I am currently taking a very compacted class. It's Organizational and Leadership Behavior (Management stuff). It's a big discussion type class and we meet for 3:15 a day T-Th in July and two 8 hr Saturday's. Our first class we were talking about what makes employees satisfied, blah blah blah and the subject of everyone's worst job ever came up. This turned into the profs lame way of doing an ice breaker for everyone to participate in. I got up and was describing my experience ina slightly more than minimum wage job after my sophmore year. It was a book bindery in Kingsport. No fear of theft, I was 1 of 5 people there that could read, I think. Anyway, the plant was not air conditioned, the fans were not good, TN is hot and humid and there was a lot of manual labor and machines running. So my response was I worked in said Bindery "Lots of people, lots of machines, no air conditioing and TN is hot and humid in the summer..I didn't like it." I also mentioned that I was higher educated after 2 yrs of screwing aroudn in engr than everyone but the top management at the plant. Needless to say in my description all I could think of is Ron's Deer Hunting story at 4:30 AM.
The better part came last night though. We had a case study on layoff procedures some NY CEO did after taking over a midwestern department store chain. Needless to say, the styles of mgt the folks were used to and his style were quite different. We talked about issues such as layoffs and how it affects morale, etc. One thing that came up was how many folks are called in 15 min before the end of their Friday shift, told the news and escorted out. No packing their stuff, no saying good bye, security escorted out. Needless to say another Ron story came to mind. I kind of chuckled to myself. I wanted to interject prior to Ms. Gastoni. She has apparently experienced every thing possible in business by teh age of 29. I just want to know how managing the IT department at a trailer park jsutifies such experience. Anyway I wanted to through out the following "Yeah, one time I got laid off. They threw me out. I didn't get escorted to my work station to say 'Bye everyone, I've gotta go' I got throw the f' out."
So two classes down, and two perfect places to insert Ron. I can only imagine what is going to happen when we work as groups all day on Saturday and I really get bored and someone puts one ona tee for me. I'm hoping to insert a Mercedes comment or a "Well I gotta place to f' your sister."

1 comment:

Lawtonfunk said...

I was thinking Ron Burgendy the entire time I read this. Nothing made sense. Ron White. . .Ron White.