Ass Kissing; Brains Missing

so here's a big fat recap on yesterday's jolly holiday at the mall of america. me and 70 co-workers piled into an off-duty comedy club. the even planners were pretending that we were in school, so we had classes and a pep rally. that sounds fun but the "classes" were listening to different supervisors talk about business iniatives. the "pep rally" was an awards ceremony for... oh, god i'll get to that very soon. it's horrid.

the large group thing ended at 2 and then until 4 we were doing team building with our smaller groups. so our training team got broken into teams of five and pitted against each other as well as teams from quality. the event? a big fat scavenger hunt. the mall of america actually has a group that plans these things for groups over 20. so instead of a nice relaxing afternoon drinking coffee, my boss set down money for this ugliness.

and it was ugly. i hate scavenger hunts. they're horrid. i love planning the suckers and have managed to escape participation by creating them instead. this time that option was ripped away from me. i was placed on a team with four other trainers, one of which was big d.

this guy delights in pretending that he's a good guy. he's everybody's friend. he's a professional and he's knows what he's doing. truly, it's all bullshit. let's just say that if the answer if abc he will tell his class the following:

so we see that the answer is ADT, here me again - A D T

that's not a tying error, that's pure idiocy on parade.

this same idiocy won our friend big d an award yesterday. oh, yes. the manager of the client he and i both work for nominated him for this damn award. the manager has been overwhelmed lately by big d schmoozing him. there's two reasons this works: the manager is absolutely clueless as to what his business does AND he loves butt-kissing.

i refuse to kiss his ass. or anyone else's for that matter. so that keeps me out of the limelight and it stinks. one co-worker ran over to me after the award and very professionally said "i'm amazed. doesn't everyone know that he's a huge fuck up?"

guess not, campers. i'm spending the next two days doing retraining for his team members so that they don't lose their jobs. due to mistakes during his training they are all on final warnings. in the meantime big d gets an award and a $25 gift card.

someone please tell me when this guy will have his bad karma kick in??? it had better be soon, any minute now my head is going to implode. seriously.