Nobody, employees or consultants are happy about the ridiculously stupid move by the upper management. The only people happy about the move are the managers, who have offices rather than cubicles and reserved indoor parking spots for themselves. Because didn’t you know money is much better spent on getting reserved parking spots inside the building for the privileged few managers than on procuring enough parking space more than a hundred yards away from the building for the vast number of peasants where there is no street parking or even paid parking available anywhere close? Not that anybody’s surprised since what do you really expect from the management that gives out gas cards to the directors and up, who really don’t need them, when gas price skyrocketed, instead of devising a plan for people to either telecommute once a week or work more hours each day for 4 days a week or some such thing, right?

Today another consultant and I had to go to the data center and so the employees in our group decided to drive us to the headquarters and have lunch in the cafeteria over there. But the system started having problems, and we had to call support to bring in some parts and replace the parts. Since not all of us in the group could work on the single system, the others waited for me watching TV in the cafeteria. But then finally the person who drove the car had to get back for a meeting, the other employee didn’t have the car because he car pooled with somebody else today. So the other consultant had to go back to the building with the others, work at his desk until I called him, drive back in his car to pick me up. Even though it’s only a few miles away, the traffic pattern and such around the highway makes the round trip take about 20 minutes, not to mention the time spent on walking back and forth from the building to the parking lot, while I waited talking to the operators about dogs and houses and such not at all related to work.

So as a consequence of the stupidity on that part of upper management, the company lost about six hours of productivity collectivly amongst our group today.