Need to include in my invoices when do you have to pay me, ok. Apparently your accountants are too bubble-headed to track it themselves.
Reminded you when I sent the last invoice that you were to pay me the first invoice yesterday.
There is nothing in my bank or in my inbox - when you pay expenses (which you do ASAP) I get an email. No email. No money. Very much a lot of pissed-off consultant.
You fuckers pay me NOW or you will NOT see my ass here next week. And don’t even try to talk about breach of contract, because it’s YOU who are breaking it and You Do Not Hit People In The Wallet is right up there with Thee Shall Not Piss Off The Healer.
You know, I need to make a new sign to replace my beloved velociraptor, and I think I might use this. “If you need me to fix something for you, please remember: Thou Shalt Not Piss Off The Healer.” I like that extra because there are only about half a dozen other gamers in the building, so basically nobody will get it.
Did you share a picture of the Velociraptor picture on mthruf.com? Or anywhere on the interweb?
Because a ‘Velociraptor free for 12 days’ sign showed up on my Facebook yesterday with a tag at the bottom saying mthruf and the 12 was written in pen on a sticky note.
My rant is.. I dunno. Mini but not, I’m not sure how much detail to give but basically there is a shit ton of infighting happening and we (boss and me) are being dragged into it. Between that and trying to stay on top of my own work while bouncing work back at the proper people when not leading them by the nose to the answer so maybe next time they won’t require me to do it when they are perfectly capable of doing it except for persistent stupidity (pretended or otherwise) I’m stressed out and tired and feeling done.
I bitched about it to Sweetie and he barely hears that sort of stuff from me!
I was also a lot more down on myself before having a conversation with my boss and then she told me today my former boss said he should have held on to me and she said his loss was her gain.
So feeling better about things but still pondering my options and how long can I deal with the high school shit. I dropped out for a reason, I don’t like being back in it.
My boss gave me a crappy performance evaluation even though by all objective measures I kicked ass this year and have received nothing but praise for my work. No criticisms, no pointing to areas in need of improvement. My mid-year review was full of atta girls. So I initiated a meeting with her yesterday and I asked her to explain how she derived my scores.
Her response was a pile of bullshit. It essentially amounted to “Yes you came up with the cure for cancer but you didn’t adequately give me a blow-by-blow account of how you were curing cancer, down to each minute while you were curing it. And it doesn’t matter than you wrote the Bible and the Gettysburg Address on top of that. I’m dinging you on communication skills because you didn’t do everything in your power to make sure I knew where you were on your milestones at any given moment.”
Which is a lie. Every week I email her a synopsis of all major movements on my projects. I also talk to her about my work during my weekly one-on-ones with her. Every month, I arrange a meeting in the division where work is discussed, and I’ve given updates on my projects multiple times in those sessions. Too bad my boss opts not to come to these meetings, but you know, the agenda goes out on email. If she had any unmet needs with respect to knowing more about my project progress, why can’t she walk the ten feet to my cubicle and ask me to fill her in? Why is it only now that she feels it necessary to tell me I was falling down in this area, after all my FY12 projects are completed and I’ve moved on to other things?
Now I’m worried that because I’ve dared to question her rating, she will go out of her way to make my life hell. Most of my work is self-initiated, which means that is she doesn’t give me the green light to do something, then I’ll have nothing to do and I’ll have no accomplishments to take credit for at the end of the year. She is not above stonewalling me just to keep me from shining too brightly, even if it means that she has less stuff to brag about in her accomplishment reports.
I think she has psychopathic tendencies. There, I said it. If I turn up missing, please forward this post to the authorities.
My client doesn’t understand that if you started the month with zero stock of semi-finished product, and you make 200 units of it, you cannot use 340 units, all on the same month.
Well, eventually he gets it - but what he’s just starting to get is that, because they’ve never tried to have the whole equation match, they often have errors along those lines. Nope, having errors that big would not be considered normal in most companies. IME, of course, maybe I’ve always worked in outliers :smack:
think of the piggy bank, think of the piggy bank…
ETA: or a boss who’s trying to avoid giving ywtf (or people in the department in general) any kind of raise.
