the whiners are back in force
OK, we won an Emmy. Wooo Hoooo!
A project lots of us worked on resulted in an emmy. TourCast, which is hole by hole presentation software you can get to through the web (but I think it costs money) won the emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Enhancement of Original Television Content. Now there's a mouthful, and not exactly a category that'll be highlighted on the television broadcast, but still, we all rocked...which is pretty cool.
The whine....why aren't we all in New York accepting the award? The big wigs are there taking all the credit. One project manager who had a little to do with it got to go. Why didn't we get to go?
Sorry folks, but that's not how it works. The deal you agreed to when you went to work here goes, you do work. We pay you money. It doesn't say anything about, you get to fly to New York on a boondoggle. You didn't come up with the concept. You didn't think about what it would take to make it happen. You were given a piece of work to do which someone had the foresight to think you could handle. Yes, you did a really good job, but so did about 30 other people. No, the company isn't paying for all of us to make that trip. Yes, the choice of who did get to go could be questioned, but that's their choice to make, not ours. They said thank you, paid us what we agreed to work for in a wage, and recognized that we all did a great job, but that's where it ends. Maybe it's a topic come bonus time. Shut up and do what you get paid to do.
I get tired of having to listen to people whining about what everyone else gets to do, or doesn't have to do, or whatever. Your life is what it is, regardless of everyone elses. If there's a better deal for you out there, feel free to go after it. Maybe part of it is I have no great desire to go to New York, but even if I did, it wasn't part of what I signed up for either. Yeah, it would have been very cool to be part of that whole award thing, but I know what I did, and that's enough for me.
A project lots of us worked on resulted in an emmy. TourCast, which is hole by hole presentation software you can get to through the web (but I think it costs money) won the emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Enhancement of Original Television Content. Now there's a mouthful, and not exactly a category that'll be highlighted on the television broadcast, but still, we all rocked...which is pretty cool.
The whine....why aren't we all in New York accepting the award? The big wigs are there taking all the credit. One project manager who had a little to do with it got to go. Why didn't we get to go?
Sorry folks, but that's not how it works. The deal you agreed to when you went to work here goes, you do work. We pay you money. It doesn't say anything about, you get to fly to New York on a boondoggle. You didn't come up with the concept. You didn't think about what it would take to make it happen. You were given a piece of work to do which someone had the foresight to think you could handle. Yes, you did a really good job, but so did about 30 other people. No, the company isn't paying for all of us to make that trip. Yes, the choice of who did get to go could be questioned, but that's their choice to make, not ours. They said thank you, paid us what we agreed to work for in a wage, and recognized that we all did a great job, but that's where it ends. Maybe it's a topic come bonus time. Shut up and do what you get paid to do.
I get tired of having to listen to people whining about what everyone else gets to do, or doesn't have to do, or whatever. Your life is what it is, regardless of everyone elses. If there's a better deal for you out there, feel free to go after it. Maybe part of it is I have no great desire to go to New York, but even if I did, it wasn't part of what I signed up for either. Yeah, it would have been very cool to be part of that whole award thing, but I know what I did, and that's enough for me.
John put this out here at 8:20 AM
3 Comments:
Congrats J.
I'm proud of you. :)
Well done, John.
Doesn't matter if you don't get to NY, as long you know that people who know you are proud of what you have done. And now at least you'll have one more thing to add to your resume.
You did a good job and you deserve some credit for it, even if it's just a mention in your blog. Maybe there will be another time in your life that you can go to New York and accept an award. :)
Good luck in things to come!
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