Could Be Any Large Corporation

Could Be Any Large Corporation

(PM XLII)

One of the stations located here

in the plant where I work

experienced a restructuring

recently. What that means is

they shook up all the points of call

in the whole area

and packaged the routes out in

different orders for the paeons

to bid on and then

own.

Everytime they do this, there is

always a lot of tweaking to

be done and the union is forever

accusing the company of eliminating

jobs and making employees work harder

to cover it up.

This time has been no exception,

although it has been the most blatantly

poor restructure I have

seen in my short while here.

People who were outside delivering

for three hours are now lucky

if they finish in five.

People are calling in sick at a

tremendous rate,

leaving more work for those left

behind as they are now "forced"

back to work everyday to pick

up the slack.

People who are forced back often

call in sick the next day to

cover their anger

and the situation worsens.

Phone calls from irate customers

begin pouring in,

demanding to know why

their things are being delivered

at four in the afternoon

instead of ten in the morning.

The company will say anything,

blame it on a labour disruption,

the weather, Wikipedia or YouTube.

It doesn't matter, the real reason

will never make the news as the

loudest complainers will quickly

be silenced by superior, supervisor,service.

In other words one of them will

drop of Grandma's pension cheque,

and maybe get their cat out of a tree

while they happen to be there,

leaving them heroes,

and leaving us a bunch

of disgruntled, spoiled, overpaid,

lazy civil servants.

And that's why the country

is in the mess it is today.

MCC