Work :: discipline required ?!?!

The reason why I didn't write about my job lately was an 'official complaint' and 'invitation to the disciplinar commission'. Today it was D-Day. What happened. People who read this blog know that I work for one of the biggest e-business-suppliers worldwide as an outsourced 'sysadmin'. I am allowed to surf on the servers of a major Credit Card company with 'infamous' black cards, but don't expect me anymore to mention their name.

One of my colleagues had made an official complaint about my working attitude and what I all say/how I behave during day & write online. Yes my blog got discovered !

So this morning at 10.00am -I love it, a disciplinar meeting at that time of the day, puts me in a perfect mood for it- I took my notebook, cup of extra-strong coffee and went over there. Off course I had read the complaint and was 'well-prepared', my defense was 8 pages long. First my older, and very conservative colleague was allowed to cry out his heart. Basically it was nothing special, he was just moaning about me daily missing the morning meeting, not caring to much bout the evening meeting either, playing loud and aggressive music, me having written here that all (most of) my colleagues snort cocaine, aso... *yawns* At the same time I was surfing a little online reading blogs -yes, that was one of his remarks as well- and preparing the switch to firefox we plan to make next week. And then, suddenly :: WHAMMM !!!

I got woken up out of my concentration -yes my javacolorpicker doesn't work under firefox 1.5 and that really pisses me off- when he made his final statement :: 'And above all, he (=me) is a 'mason'.
Ouch ! that was a tough one. That really woke me up and made me looking at him. How could this guy possibly know if a was member of the 'Free Masons' or not. Well to make it short, I am not -well not properly-, but it seemed quite hard to find reasonable arguments and deny this point. In the U.K. nowadays the Freemasonry-club is quite hated.
To be honest, my father is a 'mason' -I think so, since he never really spoke about-, what makes me a 'Lewes' -shoot me if I spelled that wrong-, but I never went to a meeting. If now you look for me in google, you will see my father's name showing up on the first page. Reading some of his stuff -he has no homepage, but is a very respected person in Belgium- it is very easy to make a link with the 'Masons Lodge', but I still never went to any meeting or something like that, I just don't like belonging to any club, no matter how big their influence is. That's what it is, isn't it? I guess being 'mason' makes a lot of people feel more important as they really are. But I don't care about it. I am just 'madbull', an arrogant computer freak who always says what he thinks, doesn't care about not being shaved for three days and going to work in jeans -all of my colleagues always wear 'designer-suits'-. An attitude that seemed totally unacceptable for some of my colleagues. I can imagine last one, especially if your office is next to mine and you fear that i might start looking at your position.
It took me some seconds to recover from the 'Masonry' and I was finally allowed to defend myself. I was quite confuzed and lost track with my 'preparation'. I had carefully made a mix between my working 'references and achievements' for the company and for the case needed some personal assault as well. Off course I knew what he was going to attack, but 'masonry'. FUCK !!!
I still can't belive it, how could he know if I were an active one. It is a 'secret convention' you Cunt.

Luckily I found my calm very fast again and decided only to stick to the 'work competence' part of my defence. I am not going into any further details about it, since one of the decisions taken by the 'board' was that I am not allowed anymore to blog about my 'employer'. As if...

The 'meeting' took a lot longer as expected but after almost 4 hours we reached a verdict. By that time I was working my 'colorpicker' again and still didn't have it running. We had been debating quite a lot, especially since the complaint looked like :: 'I am gonna kick you out of the company' and I was available to 'hit back'. Some people used to call me a sniper and he woke up my 'best caracterics'. But actually he is a really professional person as well and it would definitely be a loss for the company. And above all I already 'resigned' some weeks ago, not wanting to deal with all those 'who's the best among us'-fights anymore. So I was really surprised -let me be arrogant :: actually not at all- about the outcome. Except for two points, his complaint got rejected and everything turned into my favour. Open (lost) points were my cocaine-posting here and my blogsurfing. Anyway last one they already took me away last week, when I got 'promoted/punished' to work at our security department. But it all became even more intresting :: he got fired and has till next week wednesday. Reason was officially his complaint. Damn, shit happens.

I think there must have been some 'masons' amongs the jury and I feel pleased about the new and bigger office I will get next week thursday. And tomorrow I am gonna have lunch with the jury members and watch carefully how they shake hands.


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