It's good to be me

I work in a corporate mountain. Every day I get up and go work in the dark. I enter my little tunnel and start digging. I've been told we're building a rocket ship, or maybe a tower, but as I work in Middle Earth it's hard to see what it is, or how far we've got.

Today however is special. This week our employee representative (non-union) gets to meet on the Advisory Council. A puppet body of people assembled to show the company cares; we talk, they file their nails or something. I however get to tell my representative what I think, and what I'd like discussed. What follows is the end of the email I submitted:

... then again I'd also like to know why the purchasing system sucks and we cycle through freezing different cost-codes. I'm quite dumbfounded how a company can get so tied up on consumables like paper when it's consumed at a fraction of the per-hour-rate of a single engineer.

I have grave concerns for a company whose immediate answer to business success is to cut off its arms in order to save weight or has processes that are so inefficient they waste people's time and corporate money.

But meh, I'm not known for speaking my mind and can't think of anything noteworthy.

Sometimes life hands you lemons and you just have to make lemonade.