How is work today?
It sucks.
Last minute preparations for a six-month deployment which begins tomorrow. Commander Naval Air Forces Atlantic Fleet is aboard right now.
At 1000, I’m expecting channels 3, 10, 13 the Cable Local News, two radio stations, a handful of local newspapers, Navy Times and Navy/Marine Corps News.
Needless to say, I’m jumping through hoops created by the incompetence of junior officers.
I hope to get to see GBS one last time tonight too.
For excessive smiley useage:
“Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and orphans! No more merciful beheadings!! And cancel Christmas!!!”
I have a friend who has promised to let me not work if his plan for world domination works. So I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
In the meantime, a coworker left sick today without preparing her materials for a class I now have to run for her. FEH.
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth
Searching diligently for a new job 'cause boss is a screaming nut.
Working on mind-numbing mailers (lots of labels and double sided tape) but at least I can sit and gossip while I do it with my manager who is also looking for a job.
The usual crap of today’s publishing business, sunny, thanks for asking. Sales are still slumping, as books go more and more the way of vaudeville.
Hey, guys! Do me a favor…turn off the computer right now, go out and buy a book, okay? Something literate would be nice…some poems, maybe, or a biography or a non-bestselling novel.
We leave the book-consuming to the dumb people, soon enough the corporate marketers will only let us editors buy book-projects for the dumb people.
Uke
It’s starting to suck.
My boss - the best boss I ever had, the boss who could quote Monty Python, the boss who backed me up when customers got verbally abusive, the boss who would keep us on an even keel while the upper management did a Mexican hat dance on corporate policies every two weeks - turned in his notice last Friday and was promptly escorted from the building.
The techs senior to me are all fleeing like rats from a sinking ship, the techs at my level and just below are all starting to make plans to be elsewhere, and the new techs - who have no idea how good it used to be - are complete nitwits when it comes to troubleshooting.
The last three days, we’ve had more server and router problems than the last six months, and the new management is going to be much more number oriented as opposed to customer oriented.
I can see the very thing that made this company so wonderful to work for start to crumble away. It’s pretty depressing.
But, hey, I’m out of here at the end of May anyways, so I’m going to try to treat it as an exercise in observation.
Thanks for letting me whine.
Last night was the pits.
I had a rush job to print for a new customer ( a car lube chain that is just starting up with a dot com name,can you belive it? ) and the customer wanted to come by and see it being printed.
The form I was producing was designed incorectly and was very difficullt to print clearly without the ink smudging and tracking.
The customer did not understand the problem and ended up wasting over $2000 of press time on a $200 job because when I got the color dark enough for his approval the ink tracked into the nonprinted area of his logo.
In the end the job was pulled off the press to be redesigned.
Hopefuly tonight will be better.
Peace
t lion
32 Bit Operating System
02 Bit Operator
The LION: Last night was the pits.
I had a rush job to print…
You sound like you’re in the same line of work as my wife. She works as a project manager at a print firm. She is always telling me horror stories about customers:[ul]
[li]changing colors midstream[/li][li]OKing proofs then noticing misspellings after the job has run and expecting a free reprint[/li][li]sending some English-illiterate person to OK proofs, then complaining about misspellings[/li][li]Expecting 500 copies of a 500-page document to be ready at 9:00 AM the next day when they brought it in at 4:00 PM.[/li][li](classic) A Navy officer ordered business cards but never picked them up. Six months later, he orders a set with completely different info. When he comes to pick them up, his bill includes the last set. He complains that he got promoted & transferred a couple of days after that order, so he shouldn’t have to pay for the old ones.[/li][/ul]
The word is no. I am therefore going anyway.
Well, not too bad, actually.
The several different clients that were supposed to be swarming all over the office tomorrow have all backed out since we’re supposed to get whacked with some bad weather. Leaving us without much to do. Perhaps we’ll all go play in the snow.
Work is… good?
I just got switched to the 11a-8p shift. I now come in right as the busiest time is wearing down, and by the end of my shift, I can take long naps between calls. Or study… yes, I suppose I could do that. And I just passed my CNA exam (The novell kind, not the medical kind), so I should be moving into a much beter position within the next month or so. The MCP in the next week or two should help as well.
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Clerks - Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you.
Ha! I’m in college…I don’t need to work at all. All I do is lie around, and maybe go to class every once in a while. Just thought I’d share that with all of you.
::runs away, very very fast::
Just you wait, Junior. Your day is coming! Mwahahahahahahaha!
Work is pretty lousy around here. We’re in the middle of one of our biennal legislative sessions, so the town is full of (ugh)politicians with massive egos and puny intellects. I’m so busy writing and re-writing statutes and reviewing bills that I can’t even begin to keep up with my regular prodigous workload. Other than that, things are good.
I think I need to spend more time on the board.
Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars.
I can’t match Chief Scott for pure suckiness, but it’s still not great. I’m sicker than hell with the flu, but the work never ends. Don’t want to infect the staff with this, so I spent most of the day sending budget stuff back and forth from home inbetween bouts of heaving.
And we’re expecting a foot of snow tonight, so there’s the fun stuff with “close or not” to face. Oh man, not even TheraFlu can help this one.
A whiny, pathetic mess,
Veb
Work has been interesting of late. I finished a major project that was causing me great stress almost two weeks early and got approval wooohooo, so now I can relax (uh huh) and hit the mountain of work that has been left to sit while I did that.
The boss has been great, pretty playful and full of kudos lately. He put me in for a promotion which we are waiting to hear on. The money would sure be a nice treat, along with the recognition that I’m really not a slug. Other than the music at the Valentines Dance the other day drove me wild, things are just peachy 
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
Uke: We buy so many books that it made sense to get a Borders credit card. I think the books stores are still doing OK, don’t know about the publishers.
Well, our company lost it’s cash cow contract by being seriously low-balled by a small-time competitor, and the first thing out of their mouths was “Pay Reductions”, followed closely by “Downsizing”.
Corporate has multi-tasked our already understaffed team to the point that we’re not getting anything done, and jumping up and down on our nuts about that.
In fact, our conference call today went like this:
Whiny Yuppy Lower-Management Shithead: “No wonder we lost the contract! You people aren’t putting out!”
My Boss: “Sir, we’re 9 days ahead of schedule. We only had one Tech Team here today, as the other two were tasked out to remote sites with 4-hour round-trip travel times. We’re lucky we’re this far ahead of schedule. If we can’t consolidate our scheduling to keep our personnel focused on limited objectives, we’re going to lose this lead and fall behind schedule!”
Whiny Yuppy Fucker: “Quit making excuses for your incompetence!”
Because of our personnel shortage, we’re all feeling like rubber bands being stretched every direction at once.
And our project (taking slightly outdated communication equipment from the regular Army, and issuing/installing it for the Army reserves and National Guard) has it’s own problems; I was testing 12 radios today after lunch, and the first four were bad.
I carefully, oh so carefully set down the clipboard, walked away from the test set, and hid behind a Hummer and smoked 3 or 4 cigarettes while curled up in a fetal state.
This comes after having to re-install two vehicles (and they’re serious bitch-kitties!)
because our boss whipped out new guidelines after the fact!
The only upshot of this is that the S.C. Nat’l Guard is taking tomorrow off, so I get a four day weekend, I have the want ads for Dallas in front of me, and a friend is recommending me to his boss as a LAN/WAN QA/QC Technical Inspector.
<FONT COLOR=“GREEN”>ExTank</FONT>
“Thank God for Irish Whiskey and Marlboros.”
Got the news today that the entire HR department is being eliminated. Our work is being assigned to various line managers.
Funny. If it weren’t for the line managers’ screw-ups and inattention to little things like state and federal law and our working agreement with the union, the company probably wouldn’t have needed an HR department anyway.
We’re not losing our jobs (yet) – but I’m gonna be the highest paid file clerk in the whole state of Iowa pretty soon.
Job title: Band Tutor
Actual job, glorified teacher’s assistant. The band program I work with is full of teenagers who are so busy trying to be cool that they couldn’t give a bleeding shit what the band sounds like. I do my best, but it gets awfully frustrating at times. What’s worse, the job is so time consuming that my own musicianship is going downhill. No time to practice.
Of course, if I cut down on my MB time I could probably fit it in…
When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown. But it takes only 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.
I finally finished the manuals, job aids, overheads and curriculum for the new class thay want me to deliver. Then they tell me to forget that; there’s a new system coming, so go and learn it so you can teach it. I went to Chicago and learned it. Then they say, “Never mind; that won’t happen for a couple of months. Teach the new class instead.” I say, OK, and ask, “When will I be able to get the people off the phones and into the class?” The answer: “We’re too busy now. Maybe in a couple of months when business slacks off.”
So I read the SDMB for the rest of the day.
Ike, I’ll help keep you in business. I could drop $100 on books and not blink an eye, but it makes me cringe to spend that much on anything else!
I LOVE BOOKS!