I just can’t let this go without comment.
From thepittsburghchannel.com: “PITTSBURGH — If Port Authority workers vote to strike in September, downtown business leaders want to be prepared for their employees’ commuting and transportation issues.”
So what does our HR department do? Sends out a survey. Sounds like a good idea, right?
Well it WOULD be, if the survey asked us anything of relevance. But basically the questions were geared toward how employees currently commute to work. And since 99% of us have our commutes CAPTURED IN THE HR PAYROLL SYSTEM BECAUSE WE HAVE OUR BUS PASSES AND/OR PARKING FEES TAKEN OUT OF OUR PAYCHECKS PRETAX, these effing NIMRODS in HR asked us questions in the survey that THEY CAN ALREADY ANSWER through the payroll system. (And for those with information not reflected in the payroll system, for whom, I’m assuming HR would need the information from the most, a simple query should allow for the distribution of a targeted survey.)
Really? REALLY PEOPLE? And what in the WORLD did you think you were going to get from this survey?
And to the dipshit that added the question about whether providing us with bike locks would get us to ride our bikes to work: Stick your EFFING HEAD out the EFFING WINDOW and take one freakin’ look at the TRAFFIC out there (not to mention the geniuses that fling their parallel-parked CAR DOORS open into that very traffic) and tell me that you think it’s really a lack of a BIKE LOCK keeping me from riding my bike to work. REALLY? This is health care, folks. You weren’t worried at all about safety? (Or maybe WINTER COMING?)
I can’t WAIT to see the contingency plan they drum up with the responses from THIS survey. Not one question about telecommuting. Not one question about flexible schedules. Not one question about…hmmm…putting commuter rails out of downtown going in ALL directions instead of just South.
After taking said survey yesterday, I’m routing for that Port Authority strike just for the entertainment of it - especially since that money from the ridiculous chunnel project is already at the bottom of the river. Yeah, we needed a light rail going under a river that already has 13 bridges going across it. That was some kind of brilliance too bright for my beady little eyes.
Kudos to both my HR department and the Port Authority for making me feel like the president of frickin’ MENSA INTERNATIONAL for a day. It’s always nice to be reminded of just how far to the right side of the curve my own pathetic gray matter might be. WOW.
