[7/17/2002 1:50:23 PM | Andy Kovacs]
I used to work for a mortgage company who paid their processors a base salary and gave them the opportunity to make an "incentive" over and above their base. The problem was that the incentive pay was based on customer evaluations, or what the customer thought of your level of service. One or two bad evals could, literally, destroy your chance of getting a $3,000 incentive at the end of the month.

The processors would nearly kill themselves to make this incentive money; heck, I worked my fair share of shifts that stretched from 8:30am till anywhere from 8pm to 1:30am (the latter being my longest shift ever and a major contributing factor to the reason that I no longer work there. well, that and the feeling of being unappreciated, overworked, deceived, etc).

Is it any wonder that Evals spelled backwards is Slave???

Hmmm...


[7/17/2002 11:44:53 AM | Andy Kovacs]
the lizard

I fell asleep and had a
dream:

I was a lizard lying on a rock
in the hot dessert sun.
the sun's heat warmed the rock
which made me warm in turn.

I woke up as my coworkers
pulled me off the grill.


[7/17/2002 10:30:36 AM | Andy Kovacs]
"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben


[7/17/2002 12:08:40 PM | Andy Kovacs]
I hate Rush Hour traffic!
It's a good thing I don't experience any.