It’s exhibition season (apparently) and I need to vent my frustration at the unfairness of it.
So I work hard in the office, I pull my weight and I am more than profitable to the company. If, to choose a random example, I were to compare how valuable I am to the office in comparison to the office work experience girl, I am of course far more useful. However, it seems that my efficiency is my undoing in this case!
There is a big trade exhibition coming up in a couple of months. Things are well underway in the run up to make sure that everything is organised and that all boxes are ticketed. The exhibition is really important for us as a company. We only attend the main one that runs every four years, and so far we have always managed to score some really big clients every time, some of which have made this company what it is today. So there is quite a big budget to make it all happen.
The scale of the preparations are quite big. Guests are invited by us as a company, flights are booked, hotels for guests and workers alike. In terms of the actual exhibition preparation itself, exhibition graphics need to be sorted out right from scratch. This involved some people actually going up to Manchester to a brainstorming centre where they could work out exactly which banner standsthey wanted, and whether or not they wanted to super size the whole set up.
I, of course didn’t get to go on this trip. That was acceptable, it made sense to me. However, I was really looking forward to a few days out the office at the exhibition… (you know what’s coming now)
I don’t get to go! Why? Because I’m too valuable in the office apparently, I’m ‘needed’ here. Who does get to go though? You guessed it, the work experience girl! I mean yes, she is cheap, but the cost of actually taking her up there and putting her up in a hotel etc is not cheap at all! It just really sucks. I feel like getting one of those gigantic
roller banners you can buy, wrapping around the building opposite the hotel they are staying in with the words “you suck” on it. I’ve been a valuable employee here for years, I work hard, and I get penalised for it. I mean, great way to not motivate your staff.
The worst thing is, normally I get anything I need to out of my system whilst over at the coffee machine with my mates, but in this case I really can’t. See the work experience girl is really nice, and it’s not her fault at all, I just think that I would come across as a real… well as not very nice I talked about it. I just feel like I’m 12 years old again – it’s not fair!!!
AArrgghh!!!!