Yes it seems we are now being called Graphic Analysts, not Designers; although Masters was an option - I sort of like that option more, it's so zen sounding.
Anyways, I have finally cracked and have started talking back to my manager, use the word manager lightly, he can't manage effectively. This is the manager that makes sure I have plenty to keep me busy then turns around and prints 200 pages for his airplane newsletter. The same manager that has to drive to Atlanta for 2 days just to see if a warehouse is big enough, yes; the same manager that has trouble taking one line of type and tilting it in a program; yet he had the audacity to ask me why something was taking me as long as it was to fix - I just said "what do you mean why is it taking me so long", I honestly can't handle him anymore; which is bad - this is the first time that I've liked my job but not my manager; usually it's the other way around.
Last week my children were sick so I was out for 2 1/2 days - not 2 1/2 days of woo hoo having fun; 2 1/2 days of fevers and mama, mama, and throwing up and he said if my kids were going to keep being sick he just didn't know what he was going to do - well what the hell does that mean.....wanna fire me because my kids are sick, how dare my kids get sick, bad little sick kids - I just want to slap him sometimes.
I don't know what to say about him, he's creepy, annoying and clueless. Monday August 4th, we are a new bigger and better company - I was hoping that he wouldn't be necessary anymore but so far it appears that he's still going to be the manager - sad but true.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Monday, November 26, 2007
The Karma Payment Plan
well well well. been awhile huh? TPTB have seen fit to block us from accessing blog sites and we have been unable to post for awhile so please forgive us! ... but for some reason today we can surf the net and goof off without getting the dreaded "Big Red Hand of Death" on our monitors. so i better post this while the getting is good!
so my boss tells us last week that he is driving to Atlanta on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving for a meeting to plan for an upcoming trade show. He then feels the need (can you say guilt?) to inform me that he is driving back to Memphis on Wed and then driving him and his wife to South Carolina for Thanksgiving... really???? i am supposed to believe that he is driving to Atlanta and back and then on the South Carolina the next day???? Memphis to Atlanta round trip is appox... 780 miles!
c'mon, why not be honest and just say that I am driving to South Carolina with my wife??? Is it THAT hard to just tell the truth??? Oh, maybe it's because if you say you are going to a meeting in Atlanta then you don't have to use up your vacation time... hmmmm.... and maybe because you can get reimbursed for 780 miles worth of mileage huh??? Is THAT the reason for the dishonesty???
well, you know us... we placed a call tuesday to the office in Atlanta where our boss was supposedly meeting... you know, just coincidentally and we coincidentally asked if the boss had stopped by yet and guess what? well, i am sure you can guess the answer to that...
well, Karma is a bitch because it seems that my boss had a car accident in good ol' South Carolina and is stuck there until he gets it repaired.... woohoo! and now his employees are "working hard" in his absence!
so my boss tells us last week that he is driving to Atlanta on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving for a meeting to plan for an upcoming trade show. He then feels the need (can you say guilt?) to inform me that he is driving back to Memphis on Wed and then driving him and his wife to South Carolina for Thanksgiving... really???? i am supposed to believe that he is driving to Atlanta and back and then on the South Carolina the next day???? Memphis to Atlanta round trip is appox... 780 miles!
c'mon, why not be honest and just say that I am driving to South Carolina with my wife??? Is it THAT hard to just tell the truth??? Oh, maybe it's because if you say you are going to a meeting in Atlanta then you don't have to use up your vacation time... hmmmm.... and maybe because you can get reimbursed for 780 miles worth of mileage huh??? Is THAT the reason for the dishonesty???
well, you know us... we placed a call tuesday to the office in Atlanta where our boss was supposedly meeting... you know, just coincidentally and we coincidentally asked if the boss had stopped by yet and guess what? well, i am sure you can guess the answer to that...
well, Karma is a bitch because it seems that my boss had a car accident in good ol' South Carolina and is stuck there until he gets it repaired.... woohoo! and now his employees are "working hard" in his absence!
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
an apology to my boss
i know that i am guilty of trashing my boss on occasion so i thought that it would be appropriate to take a second and note some of his good traits...
although he does pretty much tune out a lot of the work that needs to be done in our office there is one particular task that he really pours his heart into and does a great job at.
every month he produces a newsletter by himself that involves at least 20-30 hours of solid work on per week. he often stays late and comes in on the weekends to get it done on time. he even takes one to two business trips every month to do support a feature story. this newsletter also recaps meetings and events that have happened in the past thirty days. all in all it is pretty impressive that he pulls it off given his lack of attention to detail in other areas at work.
he prints multiple copies of this newsletter on our new 11x17 color copier, masterfully producing a two-sided full color newsletter complete with insightful stories, quotes from meetings, a calendar of events and professional quality photographs. i even have to give him props for producing a digital PDF version of the newsletter and posting it on the internet... this was unthinkable a few years ago when he could barely hit print much less navigate an Adobe software program without assistance.
indeed, the boss man does have some skills and i think it's time that we give him his due.
oh, did i mention that this newsletter was for his model airplane hobby society?
you actually didn't think it was for WORK did you??
although he does pretty much tune out a lot of the work that needs to be done in our office there is one particular task that he really pours his heart into and does a great job at.
every month he produces a newsletter by himself that involves at least 20-30 hours of solid work on per week. he often stays late and comes in on the weekends to get it done on time. he even takes one to two business trips every month to do support a feature story. this newsletter also recaps meetings and events that have happened in the past thirty days. all in all it is pretty impressive that he pulls it off given his lack of attention to detail in other areas at work.
he prints multiple copies of this newsletter on our new 11x17 color copier, masterfully producing a two-sided full color newsletter complete with insightful stories, quotes from meetings, a calendar of events and professional quality photographs. i even have to give him props for producing a digital PDF version of the newsletter and posting it on the internet... this was unthinkable a few years ago when he could barely hit print much less navigate an Adobe software program without assistance.
indeed, the boss man does have some skills and i think it's time that we give him his due.
oh, did i mention that this newsletter was for his model airplane hobby society?
you actually didn't think it was for WORK did you??
Thursday, October 4, 2007
the untouchable one & the liar
here's how it went down as best i can tell...
boss accuses my coworker of "something."
coworker has written documentation of the facts otherwise.
coworker writes boss email stating said facts.
HR gets involved and asks coworker if anyone can collaborate her facts.
I can and volunteer to get interviewed by HR and I collaborate the facts and then some.
HR ponders case.
(time passes, it's a big f'ing company and cannot do anything quickly)
HR writes up my coworker and demands that the person apologize sincerely to boss in person.
I guess that makes me a liar and my boss untouchable huh?
boss accuses my coworker of "something."
coworker has written documentation of the facts otherwise.
coworker writes boss email stating said facts.
HR gets involved and asks coworker if anyone can collaborate her facts.
I can and volunteer to get interviewed by HR and I collaborate the facts and then some.
HR ponders case.
(time passes, it's a big f'ing company and cannot do anything quickly)
HR writes up my coworker and demands that the person apologize sincerely to boss in person.
I guess that makes me a liar and my boss untouchable huh?
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Working 8:20 to Five, what a way to make a living...
Every morning as I pull into the parking lot at work I say my 'Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy!' mantra and prepare for the same routine to start over again.... yes, I am talking about the dreaded 8am phone call that I get almost every morn from my boss. The conversation usually goes something like this...
"Hello?" (pause....... long extended disgusted sigh....) "Well, I am stuck here on Germantown Road, behind a sea of cars." (pause....... long extended sigh begging for me to be empathetic of his valiant efforts to get to work on time....) "I'll be there as soon as traffic allows but I wanted to call and talk about what we will need to deal with today..." and then (if I let him) he'll proceed to talk and drone on for his entire 20 minute commute, hang up in the parking lot, walk in and then have the audacity to call me into his office and repeat the entire stinking conversation all over again! Of course, over the years I've learned to screen this call and then erase his 3 minute plus voice mail that he'll leave me but that's beside the point.
I guess what it amounts to is that he thinks that by leaving his house at 8am sharp and then by getting on the phone with me, then it constitutes "working" and therefore he isn't "really" late for work almost every day huh?! It's ironic that his commute is exactly 20 minutes long and that he gets here at 8:20 almost every morning, guess he thinks that we will never notice that coincidence I suppose!
Hmmm, I get overtime pay so I wonder if I leave work everyday at 5pm, call my boss as I drive home and talk about all the crap we need to do tomorrow, does that mean I get paid for that???
"Hello?" (pause....... long extended disgusted sigh....) "Well, I am stuck here on Germantown Road, behind a sea of cars." (pause....... long extended sigh begging for me to be empathetic of his valiant efforts to get to work on time....) "I'll be there as soon as traffic allows but I wanted to call and talk about what we will need to deal with today..." and then (if I let him) he'll proceed to talk and drone on for his entire 20 minute commute, hang up in the parking lot, walk in and then have the audacity to call me into his office and repeat the entire stinking conversation all over again! Of course, over the years I've learned to screen this call and then erase his 3 minute plus voice mail that he'll leave me but that's beside the point.
I guess what it amounts to is that he thinks that by leaving his house at 8am sharp and then by getting on the phone with me, then it constitutes "working" and therefore he isn't "really" late for work almost every day huh?! It's ironic that his commute is exactly 20 minutes long and that he gets here at 8:20 almost every morning, guess he thinks that we will never notice that coincidence I suppose!
Hmmm, I get overtime pay so I wonder if I leave work everyday at 5pm, call my boss as I drive home and talk about all the crap we need to do tomorrow, does that mean I get paid for that???
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Divine Design
One of the joys of working for a large corporation is spending a good deal of the workday going to annual Ethics training, Diversity Training (8hrs!), taking Global Employee Engagement Surveys, filling out your Career Objectives online, doing One on Ones with your boss, and last but not least - filling out (my personal fave) your CDW, or Career Development Worksheet.
The CDW is a form in which you briefly summarize your skills, willingness to relocate, education, etc... kinda like a baseball card for worker bees. This evil worksheet is, in my humble opinion, just a way for large corporations to save time when laying off massive amounts of employees. See, imagine you have a workforce of 50,000 plus... how easy would these forms make it to sort through all of them like so many cattle going to slaughter?
Well, guess what? We get to put a picture of ourselves on the form so I present to you my 2007 CDW image in all of it's ahem, Glory!
Monday, September 10, 2007
Tis' The Season
OK, this has got to be the all time best excuse for why someone has to leave work early....to cut their holly bushes. Yes, you heard me correctly, I also can't stop laughing about it. Our manager must leave work early one day this week because his holly bushes need to be cut. I could be wrong, but that sounds like something that is usually done on the weekend, that's when the rest of us do our house chores. I've been mulling it over in my head and would like to leave early to do something but I just can't beat that. I give it a 10 for originality. He never ceases to amaze me.
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