The Origin of the Intellectual Anti-Darwinism Rant
A little bit of background information is
required on this one. I was working for
a company that went through accounting staff the way that McDonald’s goes
through customer service representatives.
It’s not exactly a good way to run a railroad, but some reason, the
powers that be decided that stressing their accounting staff to the breaking
point and causing burnout was a GOOD idea.
Take it from me, ladies and gentlemen, it’s
not…
But I digress…
There was a person with whom I worked for a
(thankfully) brief period. Her name was
unimportant, but let’s call her Josie.
She was dumb. The kind of woman
that couldn’t find her ass with both hands and a roadmap-type dumb. And somehow – God knows how – she had
convinced the powers that be that she was one of the best accountants in the
world. She wasn’t. She was horrible, and she caused more work
than she did.
On this particular day, however, things had
come to a head. We were in the middle
of a BIG project – one of those “one-try” projects where if it gets messed up,
you lose the company’s status as a publicly traded entity. Well, the boss had asked us all to do a
certain job, but forgot that of the dozen or so people he asked to do it, I was
the only one that knew how. (I didn’t
realize it at the time, either.) So
after the first two people came to me to ask me how to do it, I was getting
annoyed. Josie happened to be the
second. After the fifth
person, I decided to run a crash course.
I invited Josie into the boardroom to partake
in the training. She was pissed off
because I didn’t just do her work for her, which was what she had asked me for
in the first place. So she didn’t
partake in the training. Refused. Denied.
Told everyone that I was obviously an asshole who didn’t want to help
anyone. Which was odd, because I was
attempting to invite her into the crash course I was running.
To say the least I was confused… [Sort of like how I’m confused that the
explanation of the origin of the Intellectual Anti-Darwinism Rant is longer
than the actual Rant.]
Afterward she would be requesting my boss to
fire me. Which was also funny, because
he had confided in me that she was going to be let go for her attitude in this
situation. But I digress…
I was so mad that I just HAD to write it out
and post it anonymously on the in-house BBS, for all to read. It has since become one of those “unofficial
official” pieces of literature in that company, and get referred to
occasionally by frustrated workers…
So there you have it.
-J