Discrimination

There is a bit of discrimination at this job. It's not the normal discrimination based on sex or race or religion, but something wholly created within the company itself. Everyone is given a security badge for different clearances. It doesn't stop there though, they are color coded to delineate your status.

Green is for contractors. Yellow is for union (that's a guess). Red is for hourly employees. Blue is for regular employees. After blue, there are stripes on badges to show that you're a director and above.

Green are the lowest of low. No benefits of any kind. No free tickets into the theme park. Nothing. Underneath our picture is an expiration date, an exact date as to when our affiliation with the organization ends.

The yellow guys are possibly union people. I have to go track one of them down to find out for sure.

Red are hourly and some are paid interns. They can be full time works and still be on the clock. Not sure how that works.

Blue people are fully recognized employees of the company. They get all the benefits.

On the main campus, there are even parking spaces sectioned off for each colored employee.

There is no equality.

It's not easy being green.

Play Now

I worry about my job security at this place. After all, I am a contractor. You know what though? It would be tough for them to find someone with so little time left before the deadline. I've basically locked myself in, just like Costanza. I guess it was when he was working at Play Now. I only vaguely remember that episode, but my friend mentioned it to me.

The job is challenging, but staring at a document that was created so many years ago as a collaboration with many people smarter than myself with the idea that I can parse out relevant sections, edit them, and tailor it to my project is going to make my head explode. I've been staring at the document and rewriting parts and decided that there's no easy way to do it. I started on one aspect, sent it off to the experts, and got a bunch of redlines through it. He basically said that it's not feasible and that I was probably going about it all wrong.

Lo and behold, there's an initiative to rewrite the thing and make it more user friendly. Good thing I didn't delete it.