Occasionally, I will tell Mr. Man about something happening at work and he will become furious. I think it's a sympathetic furious, but it's usually rather alarming. He rants on and on so quickly that I can't really make out what he's saying, other than the occasional, "inefficient!" and "unprofessional!" and "This would never happen where I work!"
Indeed.
And so I present a list of ways that working for a church is different that working for a law firm:
1. At a law firm, if room gets double-booked, someone fires the secretary. At a church, when a room gets double booked, someone apologizes to the secretary.
2. At a law firm, if the partner asks someone to do something, they do it. At a church, when the pastor asks someone to do something, they briefly consider it.
3. At a law firm you get your own secretary. At a church, you are your own secretary.
4. At a law firm, when you are asked to "pencil something in," you do. At a church, when you ask someone "to pencil something in," you need to call them 15 times to remind them.
5. At a law firm you work nights and weekends, but are compensated accordingly. At a church you work nights and weekends, but are compensated diddley.
Word. Truer words were never spoken.
Posted by: Mo Mo | May 10, 2007 at 09:36 AM