Ridiculously Stupid Defined

I work as a consultant in IT division of this company, an international multibillion dollar corporation you ALL would know if I uttered the name of this company. IT division has been hiring so many people, most them project consultants who are hired just for one project, as opposed to contractors, most of whom have worked here for a long time. I myself have been working here for 10 years.

The IT division ran out of space and we are moving out of corporate headquarters to another building a couple of miles away. They decided to lease this space knowing that this building has less than 300 parking spaces available and there are more than 450 people moving over there. The people making the plans really don’t care about the parking spaces because they get to have reserved parking spots, indoors of course. They divided the parking space into two, one for the employees and the other for the consultants. There are enough spaces to accommodate all the employees. There are 145 spaces available for more than 300 consultants, first-come first-serve basis. Once the parking lot is full, the rest of the consultants are supposed to come to the corporate headquarters, park their cars there, then take the shuttle bus, which they are, using the word they actually used, OFFERING us free of charge! OH HOW FUCKING NICE OF THEM!!! The shuttle bus only runs 7:50am-8:50am, 11:45am-1:15pm and 5:10pm-6:10pm. So if you miss this bus because of traffic? You are on your own and you have to take a fucking cab.

So. My work hours have been 10am-6:00pm. If you look at the shuttle bus schedule, you’ll realize I would always have to take a cab. So they tell me to do 12noon-8pm shift because then I’d be able to take the shuttle to come to work, and they get to have somebody who’s covering until 8pm, which they have wanted so so bad but they couldn’t even ask anybody because nobody wants to work until 8 fucking pm. But then did you notice there is no shuttle running after 6:10pm? Yup, I have to remember to take the shuttle at the end of the day and drive back to work each and every fucking day.

The data center is still in the headquarters, and so if something happens like server crashes? There will be reserved parking spots at the headquarters for employees’ cars. Consultants should car pool with employees to get over to the data center. So we figure when the two employees in our team are off and if there’s an emergency in the data center, we’ll just sit around at our desks and toodle our thumbs.

AND! That’s not all. Now we consultants are supposed to sit in a totally different area from employee area away from the team members and the bosses. And we are not to walk over to the employee area without an appointment, which is supposed to be kept at minimum. If we need to talk to the employees including the boss, there are conference rooms we are to use so as to prevent us from walking into employee area.

I’m not making this up and these are not rumors. All these things were written in PDF and then distributed to all the consultants and employees in our division. We are waiting to hear the words that we should cover ourselves when we have to walk into the employee area and we should use separate outhouses. I just hope they have marked the Mason-Dixon line very clearly so that we lowly consultants don’t make a mistake of crossing the line without covering ourselves and end up getting lynched.

In the mean time, I, a lowly consultant, is allowed to have root privileges on all the UNIX servers at this location – for non-UNIX people, that means I have the Godlike power on these servers. How’s that for ridiculously stupid?