Tuesday, August 27, 2013

I don't make mistakes

Some time ago, poor Spoof had to sit through a series of management classes with Shoes and the Hutt. So, picture Spoof:


Meanwhile, the Hutt and Shoes are acting like this is the best, most interesting class ever. Got that picture?

Spoof says that they spent the entire class talking about how wonderful they were. 
     "We're always out on the floor" (half of the people who come to Tartarus have no idea who either of them are) 
     "I never yell" (the Hutt doesn't seem to be able to speak at a normal decibel. It's normal speaking voice is a yell) 
     "I listen to everything my employees say" (they are champions at dismissing employee suggestions without consideration)
     "I never make scheduling mistakes"

It's this final point that we'd like to discuss today. Never is a pretty strong word. Even very careful people make mistakes occasionally. We're human; it happens. No big deal. We would wager, though, that the Hutt makes more than the average number of scheduling mistakes. Take this week, for example.

Several people are away this week, leaving us rather shorthanded at the main desk. We're working around it. The Hutt did not notice that there is one day that Speck is scheduled to work the desk for three hours completely alone. Those three hours include closing. No one is ever supposed to be alone in Tartarus. It's a safety issue. And at closing, there is just too much for one person to do alone. Oversights happen, so we pointed it out to the Hutt. We got no response. So, we pointed it out again. Said the Hutt, "oh. Huh." No suggestions what we should do about it. Just "huh." Finally, someone volunteered to work with Speck, settling the issue. 

Now, if this were a singular event it wouldn't be so bad. But this is the third time this kind of major scheduling mistake has been made in the last year. 



No, Hutt, you never make mistakes.




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