Thursday, June 01, 2006
Corporate Loyalty
This guy I know works crazy long hours. He took over the position from another guy who also worked those crazy long hours until he burned out. As you can imagine this isn't an hourly position, but it's salaried. Any way, this guy usually comes in early and leaves late only to take his business with him home. The wonders of the internet allow him to do almost as much work from home as from work. I've gotten emails from him dated at 2 or even 3 in the morning and they can come seven days a week.
So where's the loyalty catch in all this? Not his. His supervisor let him take a couple of days vacation in conjunction with the almost here weekend. One of the higher-up muckity-mucks came by and when this guy wasn't at his desk was quite upset over. There was a new feature that was ramrodded and successfully launced by the long-worker. It seems he should have stayed around just in case something went wrong regardless of his supervisor's views on the matter. Sometimes I think that in some companies you could work 365 days a year and the company would be pissed that you missed the six extra hours that add up for leap year.
