Shades Of Mediocrity
Posted: 12/28/2009
Written By: Matt
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You find your own moral to this one. Here is a copy of an email I wrote to my wife last week. It will make more sense if you know that I've been on the job for fewer than two months.
Holy Crap.
Remember that meeting I held yesterday with all the managers and supervisors in the company? It was about 20 people in the room with me in front and the software up on a screen behind me.
I was demonstrating the new Paid Time Off form, and one of the PTO categories is bereavement pay. One of the fields on the form is the relationship to the deceased, and it is a required field. For the purposes of the demo, I had to fill it in, but it would have been terribly awkward if I had mentioned a real relationship like my mom or sibling or something.
So I entered "My Pet Dog". And I carried on my merry way.
I just walked in from lunch, and the receptionist stopped me to tell me that she heard about my meeting. And then she told me that the Finance Controller, who was sitting in my meeting, took a paid time off day last week.
Because his dog died.
She was laughing, and apparently the controller in question was the one who told her about it and he was laughing then, too. I however, will be cringing forever.
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