Workplace woes
I do not normally like to blog about my workplace for a variety of reasons. Chief among those reasons is that this blog is primarily about my personal life and my personal beliefs. For the most part, I like to keep my personal life and my professional life separate, therefore my antics at work seldom make it on to this blog. There have been rare exceptions, of course, but those were usually extreme circumstances.
This entry is about a series of such circumstances.
Recently, my office has decreed that all the employees will be required to get a CCNA. I had no problems with this, as I had been looking forward to the opportunity, and I was willing to make the effort to get the certification.
At the last minute, upper management decided to test us on our knowledge of Cisco hardware. This was a small concern for me as I have had no prior experience with Cisco. Now the rationale is that, since I did not have any experience with Cisco, they are not going to provide me the opportunity to gain any experience with Cisco.
Yet the department idiot, who also has no experience with Cisco, who has demonstrated a near-complete inability to learn, and who is unable to tell the difference between a USB port and an ethernet port, is getting the chance to take the CCNA course that he will inevitably fail, thus wasting thousands of dollars of company money.
Meanwhile, those of us who are not being allowed to take the course are being given an ultimatum. We are being told to find another department in which to work, or risk being laid off.
Things are not so cut and dried for me. My manager is trying to squeeze me into the course because of my demonstrated learning capacity, and because I was next in line to be promoted to a supervisory position. Being the raging cynic I am, though, I am not optimistic regarding my chances that upper management will concede the issue and let me take the CCNA course.
As I write this, I am hanging in Limbo, unsure of what my future with this company holds.
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