Like A Herd of Cows

"Thats a great idea. When I started here I wondered how that worked - is there some hierarchy of authority or all we all just like....cattle in a field?"

This was me voicing my opinion about the new scheme they are trying to implement at my job, although I had not yet recognized it as a scheme. Career track. Graduation of authority. Supervisory plan. Bullshit. Whatever you choose to call it.

Actually, I'm all for it to tell the truth, but I am no longer under the impression it will make much difference. The deal is you have the team, then you have the team lead, then the assistant supervisor, and then the supervisor. Its good that they finally added titles to these positions because they had previously existed without being recognized.

The con is, they may not actually involve much of a pay raise. Or at least thats what everyone has been saying. One rather notorious coworker of mine explained it to me.

"Oh its complete bullshit. There isn't goona be any more money. I even asked, I said ' so these positions involve more money' and The Director says, 'I didn't say that,' and so I ask, 'so they're NOT going to involve more money and he says, 'I didn't say that.' Everyone was laughing. Yea - what a joke. You can't fucking fool me I've been doing this shit too long and I have had EVERY one of those positions. It doesn't mean shit."

Management; its all about TRICKS. Maybe we really are just cattle.