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The Chaos Within

29.3.09

The 'Galtsiotis' Syndrome

There was this guy I worked for in the 'Ericsson Hellas' building in Paiania whose name was(and still is I imagine) Galtsiotis. His fastidious behavior was one that made such an impression on me that I had to name this syndrome after him. He was a short chubby creature with legs no longer than his belly, which extended like two beat up 'kankles.' This condition made him walk with a slight gimp, and he always completed each of his steps with a strut that exhibited his wont for attention.. He had a slight hunchback growing out of the back of his neck that made him stoop over like an overgrown cane. His face was round, so round actually that it resembled a circle, and he had these shiny gold glasses that were custom-sized to fit his head, and which tinted according to the brightness of light that was in whatever room he was present in. You could say that he was almost an exact representation of the Hunchback of Notredam; but he only lacked the green clothing and the heavily protruding forehead. Anyway now that you got an idea of his physical appearance, it's time to shed some light on what made him so unique and the topic of my discussion for this post.
He always came down in the morning to sniff his grounds and greet everyone with his elongated - 'hello, how are you?' And as he said it his teeth sort of gnashed together and one of his eyes started twitching as if to indicate he was holding back something. Since we were outsourcing their services for building maintenance I was the one responsible for coordinating my company's vendors to do whatever job it was in relation to the needs that arose in the Ericsson building. So, in a sense, we were the liaison between Ericsson and the many other companies that serviced the building. Mr. Galtsiotis worked as the maintenance supervisor of Ericsson and overlooked our job with close scrutiny to make sure we weren't abusing their budget in anyway. Mr. Milionis, who was his supervisor, wielded him like a puppet and had him at the forefront of his evil plans to replace us with a different company to do our work. Even though it was a direct breach of contract, he had his right hand man to do his dirty work. And the strange(yet funny) thing was that Mr. Galtsiotis had no idea he was being used as a scapegoat. He just followed his orders and planted traps on us to make it look as if we didn't do our jobs. Or, he told other employees false rumors to make it look as though we were the bad guys. He was so meticulous and scrupulous with getting his job done that his snake-like maneuvers always seemed one step ahead of our own when we wanted to catch him in the act of doing his mischief. He was also aided his puppet master who was also the person that kept our contract with Ericsson alive. So, whether we liked it or not, we had to follow our doomed fate which was to wait until they hatched their plan to replace us. My main role was to try and renew the contract so that 10 other people including my own would still have a job by the end of the year.
We were sequestered into our own little space in the building until it came time for us to withdraw. And, lo and behold, that's what ended up happening; yet, we did manage to get in our last few punches of justice in before we officially departed. It just amazes me how certain people can put on different masks of persona to disguise themselves from their true nature, and use their insidious charm to intentionally do harm(leaving people with families unemployed) onto others.

God Forbid: God forbid for those who took over where we left off and have to put up with Galtsioti's syndrome and the 'anal-I'm-looking-your-shoulder-and-following-orders-to-find-some-dirt-on-you' attitude. I wish to God that their surreptitious guile backfires and their shame reaches Ericsson headquarters in Sweden.

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