Work  Small Rant  Past Jobs

It continually amazes me how absolutely screwed up the management structures in most companies are. Employees are left with little to do in most circumstances but shake their heads and say "well I guess that's how it is here". People with ideas are ignored, their talents left to go to seed while others are encouraged and rewarded to pump out the same boring droll as before. Promises are made and left on the side of the road like so many lost hubcabs, their owners knowing that they were secured to the car at one point but not able to pinpoint where it is they were lost. The only thing that keeps me going in the face of the forces that constantly batter down my will to do anything but show up at work and simply perform my duties are the faces of my students when a point I am driving home really sticks. A break in the clouds after three days of torrential rain doesn't even come close describing the look of when an experience of mine is processed and then assimilated into the knowledge of a student. I only hope that I can fill them so full of these grains of truth I relate that they will indeed graduate better people for the time they've spent. So bring on your managerial hijinks. Throw as much political BS as you want at me. I defy your attempts to beat down my pride and respect, to corrupt my thoughts and corrode my excitement. As long as I can make my students laugh and learn, I doubt think there are stones big enough for you to heave at me to make me stop.