Cowards make lousy employees. - House

House said it best in last nights rerun. That is how I will sum up my experience in the Tech Ops department at Warner Bros. That department needs some serious cleaning out. There are more miserable and insecure people in that one area than in the whole of Warner Bros. Youth and intellect scare them. My assignment was simple (although they told the agency it is a very hard assignment and we need someone really smart) basic data entry. A no brainer to me since I had experience in that area and I knew some of the people there. Monday. I walk in to an empty workspace. I sit and sit and sit, three hours later Ann (the woman I reported to) comes over and tells me that I will be doing a ton on data entry but she needs to print out the sheets for me. In the meantime do filing for another manager. Cool. Three huge stacks are plopped on my desk. The woman who plops them looks familiar but hey, as a temp, everyone seems familiar. Two hours later finished the digital file. Ann comes back and still has not printed out these lists I need to start working. I am a happy ray of sunshine in most gloomy places, for some that is a nice respite for others it is a threat. When the lists finally came to me (late Tuesday) I knocked them out in one hour! I then had to wait again for Ann to enter information on her part before I could move to the next task. Meanwhile, all of the filing was done (alpha'd, date ordered with labels and placed in the drawers!!!).

Thursday, more people from my past realize I am there and stop by my cubicle to say hi. Once again completed all tasks assigned. Ann's boss was in the office chatting with her when I stopped in to let her know I completed the task. Her boss asks her, not in these exact words - what do you do all day? Ann's response: I tweet! I tweet Lance Armstrong. Her boss - an extremely intelligent woman gives her a puzzled look in which Ann took as confusion as to what tweeting is, so she proceeded to explain to her twitter. All the while, I and another worker were standing there waiting for her to do her job.

Outcome: I was fired for being too social. I am still laughing at that.