9) Morie
Morie is the supervisor of the work group. She's in charge of this band of morons. I don't envy her, but I know that she's battled the same frustration that I have, but obviously, in a much different way. I can walk away from any of these people and otherwise avoid them whenever I need to. Morie has no choice but to deal with these folks head-on and tolerate all of their nonsense.
I've known Morie for many years and when she first joined the work group in 2015, she came in as the lead worker at the time. About three or four years ago, Morie promoted and became the supervisor of the work group. I have always gotten along with her, dating back to when we were in different work groups, though we never actually worked together in any capacity. We were more social contacts than anything else. Maybe we were friends in that we spoke with each other every now and then and we never fought or clashed? We were just always cool, I guess. When she joined my work group, I saw it as a positive thing and I had no problem with her coming in when she did. I didn't envision that we would work as well or as closely with each other as we did, but we made it work and we never had any problems. There was a stretch of nearly two years when Morie and I were the only two people in the work group after a sudden exodus and she and I were doing the jobs of at least six other people. A full work group consists of eight people. For those two years, those other six people were non-existent. As Morie and I were clearly inundated and doing the work of eight people, not once did anyone ever hear us complain. Not a single fucking time. In fact, I don't think we complained to each other. We just came in every day (like me, Morie is not sickly or prone to illness), went about our business, and did as much as we could, when we could. We did what we needed to do and we did it without a single ounce of bitching or whining like today's crop of workers tend to do. That's just how we did things back then. You do the job and you don't complain about it. We never complained and this was, I think in large part, because Morie and I never had the mindset that there was ever such a thing as workload equity, nor any kind of implied fairness in our workplace. Eventually, Morie and I would see our work group grow from just the two of us to a fully functional work group of eight people. We enjoyed working with the majority of the other six people who joined us. Sure, some of them were weird and quirky, but for the most part, we all worked well together. At the very least, and I can say this with the utmost sincerity and confidence. The dissension that exists today NEVER existed back then. I guess you could say that the "old school" knew how to get the job without the bitching and complaining that the "new school" currently does. When those six people all gradually left (and we hated to see five of the six leave), though not all at the same time, it again left Morie and I as the only two mainstays in the work group. Indeed, she and I consider ourselves "lifers".
Morie has dealt with the current work group and their problems quite gracefully and I will give her credit for it. She's proven to be a much stronger person than I am, though I will admit that it is because of the potential to have to deal with people like those in the current work group that I refuse to ever promote to supervisor. My first inclination is to avoid people I despise and otherwise can't stand. As a supervisor, I would lose that ability to flee and I'd have to deal with personnel problems head-on. I'd be forced to engage with people I do not like. I'd also likely be very miserable if I had to deal with the bullshit and headaches that Gurney, Kyra, and Gorgon frequently bring with them. I omitted Vonda from that cluster because for reasons that I will never comprehend, Morie likes her. Morie also likes Chortle and Fannie and Morie works well with both Gloria and Nessa. If you ask me, Morie tolerates Gurney and Kyra.
I still remain Morie's right hand man and I am content with still maintaining this role. I like to think that I'm mostly reliable, though I have my flaws and shortcomings as well. I will always own that. I'm not the greatest worker in the department, but I'm definitely not the worst.
Morie does her job without complaining and she does her job well. Even before she promoted to supervisor, she did her job well. She knows what she's doing and she doesn't take shit from anyone. I know that she wishes that some people in the work group would improve or at least change some of their ways, but I also believe that she is not holding her breath either.
She knows that certain people suck, but because of her position as a supervisor, she just can't say it or what she really feels.
Thankfully, I can.
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