I find that only works with workplaces with a reasonable to high amount of turnover.
Like how a show gets boring if the status quo stays for too long, so does workplace drama when nothing changes for years.
My wife's workplace seems to be completely unable to fire anyone, so it's just the same damn "cast" doing the same annoying shit forever. Names have been changed, but these are some "plot points" that have been going on at my wife's work for nearly a decade.
Oh, Larry still hasn't been fired? He was caught using the work machines to pirate shit to sell to other workers when his dumb ass got the network virus'd to shit seven years ago. And nothing fucking happened. Then he got caught trying but failing to do it again three years ago. Then he was caught selling shit he pirated at home a year and a half ago. How many times has he been on his "final warning"? Oh, he's forgotton how to do another one of his core job responsibilities and is trying to make it your problem again? And you've talked to your boss about it again right? Still no clue what blackmail he's got that's kept him employed?
Samantha is still refusing to train you and the rest of the team on the latest process your boss told her to get everyone up to speed on, so she can desperately cling to relevance by continuing to hoard knowledge? Guess she needed to find something new to hoard after you documented out that last process only she knew on your own while she was on vaction and a deadline was about to hit. You've talked to your boss about it again right?
Brandon still thinks he's a full fledged web developer because he changed the text and images on the intranet wordpress site again? It's a shame he hasn't managed to get anyone but your boss to believe that so his dead-weight ass could leave. (Seriously this guy doesn't even handle plugin updates, just copy and pastes what he's told to out of emails and into the site)
Dontrell is still trying to treat you like the department secretary, trying to direct all incoming stuff he doesn't want to do to you? You're still deflecting, pointing him to the team process documents, and CCing your boss for "clarification of team duties"? Guess nothing is changing there.
Review time. So you've got the logs from the two work tracking systems to show that you've handled more shit this year than the rest of your team combined, despite having more responsibilities directly assigned to you right? Just like the last four years? Your boss isn't trusting Brandon to "collect and summarize" those numbers any more right? No, that stopped after you got access and showed her how easy it was for her to check for herself.
You're still on a first name basis with the entire C-Suite, including the CEO that doesn't speak with anyone the few times a year he shows his face? But he made a point of trying to make (stilted) small talk with you this year twice, so that's new!
The CFO and COO got you a sweetheart deal with raise and bonus this year again, so despite how much it all sucks, you are getting recognized. I just wish there was any change at all in the rest of your work situation. And that the sweetheart deal wasn't "you get to barely outpace inflation".
Did the rest of your team try to have a collective meeting with your boss about things and intentionally exclude you this year? No? Well that's a happy change.
All in all, like three whole new things have occurred in the last three years. Blegh.
You start getting the popcorn out and willingly pay for episodes when it turns into a murder mystery
I find that only works with workplaces with a reasonable to high amount of turnover.
Like how a show gets boring if the status quo stays for too long, so does workplace drama when nothing changes for years.
My wife's workplace seems to be completely unable to fire anyone, so it's just the same damn "cast" doing the same annoying shit forever. Names have been changed, but these are some "plot points" that have been going on at my wife's work for nearly a decade.
Oh, Larry still hasn't been fired? He was caught using the work machines to pirate shit to sell to other workers when his dumb ass got the network virus'd to shit seven years ago. And nothing fucking happened. Then he got caught trying but failing to do it again three years ago. Then he was caught selling shit he pirated at home a year and a half ago. How many times has he been on his "final warning"? Oh, he's forgotton how to do another one of his core job responsibilities and is trying to make it your problem again? And you've talked to your boss about it again right? Still no clue what blackmail he's got that's kept him employed?
Samantha is still refusing to train you and the rest of the team on the latest process your boss told her to get everyone up to speed on, so she can desperately cling to relevance by continuing to hoard knowledge? Guess she needed to find something new to hoard after you documented out that last process only she knew on your own while she was on vaction and a deadline was about to hit. You've talked to your boss about it again right?
Brandon still thinks he's a full fledged web developer because he changed the text and images on the intranet wordpress site again? It's a shame he hasn't managed to get anyone but your boss to believe that so his dead-weight ass could leave. (Seriously this guy doesn't even handle plugin updates, just copy and pastes what he's told to out of emails and into the site)
Dontrell is still trying to treat you like the department secretary, trying to direct all incoming stuff he doesn't want to do to you? You're still deflecting, pointing him to the team process documents, and CCing your boss for "clarification of team duties"? Guess nothing is changing there.
Review time. So you've got the logs from the two work tracking systems to show that you've handled more shit this year than the rest of your team combined, despite having more responsibilities directly assigned to you right? Just like the last four years? Your boss isn't trusting Brandon to "collect and summarize" those numbers any more right? No, that stopped after you got access and showed her how easy it was for her to check for herself.
You're still on a first name basis with the entire C-Suite, including the CEO that doesn't speak with anyone the few times a year he shows his face? But he made a point of trying to make (stilted) small talk with you this year twice, so that's new!
The CFO and COO got you a sweetheart deal with raise and bonus this year again, so despite how much it all sucks, you are getting recognized. I just wish there was any change at all in the rest of your work situation. And that the sweetheart deal wasn't "you get to barely outpace inflation".
Did the rest of your team try to have a collective meeting with your boss about things and intentionally exclude you this year? No? Well that's a happy change.
All in all, like three whole new things have occurred in the last three years. Blegh.