yah!

i was having a meeting with some cunts from our regional office who expressed concern that the project was running too slowly. being a non manager level executive, i sat there and quietly judged them idiots and the rubbish that flowed from their mouths. one of them, i think, has a speech problem, she had to add 'yah' at the end of every sentence. wtf! that is not cute at all, coming from a 40 yr old something with grey teeth. i felt sorry for her special needs teachers, must be tough dealing with kids like these day in day out.

it was a cati project and as jan/emman would know, interviewers are paid via completes not hourly.

project was so horribly difficult (criteria hard, length atrociously long) that folks are dropping out like dead flies. so the question asked was: what the fuck happened?

of cos those 2 dint phase it that way but u can tell when they spilled crap like 'i dun understnad cos other countries seem to be achieving...'

i tried to stifle my yawn cos it was so predictable, then later as i listened more, i became annoyed.

to me, to move a project has only 1 solution: (assuming quotas cannot be loosened)

when the money is right, everything else is just noise.

but yet those cunts missed this out totally, they failed to see why ppl wanna quit the project cos they believe the price paid was reasonable.

if they had asked me for an opinion, i would have them how they would feel if they come in for days to call and not getting a single complete ie not earning a single cent.

answer that question n i will tell u why this project is so fucked to this very present day.

i once worked in cati, back in 04 when my life changed after i met jan. bless those 3-4 months, it was surreal being surrounded by 2 of the most charming and unique ladies i ever met. one threatened to stab withb her bloody pilot v5 while the other couldnt stop talking abt her fictitious child whose fav act is chewing toilet paper rolls.

at that time we were paid hourly, $10 to be exact, and in those few months i managed to save quite a fair bit but when i left, i vowed never to work as a surveyer again. its hard work n i knew had i been paid by per complete, i would have drunk bleach to end the misery.

thus i always find the way researchers talk to fw ppl very condescending, so i would like to add, til u yourself have worked as a surveyor, dun keep pointing fingers. and who the hell designed this questionnaires? i believe no one in the right frame of mind would wanna spend 30 minutes on the phone with u, and what do they get in the end, nothing!

come mon, im not v smart but i know that anything after 15 mins is not statistically reliable, ppl will just rush to end the call but the clients would not think so way. they figured out since they forked out so much money, they might as well pump in more questions. and the dumb ass researchers would sprout nonsense like we did the pilot and it was doable, under 30 mins.

pilots should never be done internally, u asses.