WebGuy wrote:

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So, I see we're back around to this "Monday" thing again.

Football is winding down. It's a long, cold push until another holiday. This is always the most depressing time of year for me. I'm ready for Spring.

Keep on keep'n on.

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 Agreed.  Except for the football thing.

It seems Fuzzy's having the same issue as I am.  It appears to be one of those gremlin filled days.  One customer says they didn't get their order, but UPS says they delivered it.  One of my suppliers shipped our stuff to the wrong address, got it returned, and didn't tell us, and now that it's late, won't overnight it.  Our paid listing on the yellow pages website won't update.  Just a bunch of little annoying first world problems.

For now I am ignoring the $23.23. I started with it late Friday afternnon. I thought a fresh set of eyes this morning would be better. That didn't work out so well for me. I moved on to complete other reports, schedules and then sent emails to the boss with appropriate stuff. The one file I sent to him I left the note telling him "No, I still haven't been able to figure out what the $23.23 variance between the GL and the AR report is." He would have sent the file back with the question anyway so I just saved us both a step. But a $1 says he still has something to say about it. But my entire year's salary says he wouldn't even know where to begin to look for the problem.

Or the freezer?

Good luck with that! I've never found any money in there. Car keys, cell phones, homework, anything like that... sure. One time I even found a pair of Chris's boxer shorts. Happily they were clean. He "lost" them between leaving his bedroom and going into the bathroom to take his shower.

I was having a fine day just moving along doing my thing. Now I'm having a "that is not my job and just because I helped out once doesn't mean it is my job day". Three emails on the topic. The original once came froom the etch. The second came from her boss who usually ignores her emails. He actually thinks it is my responsibility and is putting it on me. The third email was her answering his questions. My email will be telling everyone that it is not my job, it is clearly hers, this is what you need to do and when you do it you better check with these other two people. Oh yeah, and I am copying my boss. I know it doesn't need to be done but that will keep her boss informed that this is now closed from our point of view. It will also remind my boss about stupid things that I waste time on.

MzHartz wrote:

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 Her response was that I'm a quick learner because I'm young, and that she used to be like that when she was young. 

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That's funny right there.

Good day, all. I think I am having a decent day anyway. Not a lot going on at the moment, so I'm enjoying my lunch. Today is the BFF's 50th birthday. Wish I was enjoying lunch with him, but he is at work in his "cave" so he probably hasn't been out to check his messages. Otherwise, I went to one meeting that I really am not sure why I'm being invited to, but hey... it killed an hour of this work day.

I thought I was going to watch the BCS Championship game last night between Notre Dame and 'Bama, but not so much. Most of the time I was on the phone with my sister. She was telling me about why she has been in a depressive funk for the last longest. I'm glad she finally decided to tell me what is going on with her. She has suffered bouts of depression since we were kids. Mostly she has been fine for the last several years, but certain aspects of her life have been overwhelming in this last year. When she gets to that place, her whole personality changes to a point where I can't deal with her. My only choice is to ride it out and wait for her to work it through. Yesterday she started telling me about her main source of anxiety. Turns out I have been dealing with a similar situation for many years now, but not nearly as intensively as she has been of late. I'm not sure, but I think it helped her somewhat to hear that I could pretty much relate to what she has been dealing with. I know I feel much better about my situation in retrospect. It seems it could really have been far worse for me. Anyhow, I told her she deserves a medal and a parade for not throat punching the people at the center of her problem. Around the time I finally got off the phone with her, I saw that 'Bama stomped all over ND.

Otherwise, not a lot going on for now. I'm just patiently waiting for quittin' time.

Hope everybody has a great day.

Mad Mema wrote:

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MzHartz wrote:

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WebGuy wrote:

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MzHartz wrote:

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 Her response was that I'm a quick learner because I'm young, and that she used to be like that when she was young. 

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That's funny right there.

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 I resisted the urge to say, "Wow, and how many concussions have you had since then?"

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 Maybe you could be all extra stealthy about the slap... give her a helmet for her next birthday.

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Or, "Man, you did a lot of drugs in the 70's, didn't you?" 

It is nice to be able to get someone else's perspective on things. I wish there was something I could do for my sister other than just comiserate, but sometimes family life is messy. I think she was happy to hear that I'm about the last person who is going to get judgemental with her about her family given that mine is far from perfection. I had to at her description of what she has been doing with her spare time as she had to get herself away from dealing with some of her people. "H#ll, with all my free time, I taught myself to f*ing knit. NO S#!T! With yarn. YARN for F*'s sake! I have a house full of it. Even the word yarn makes me ill." Yeah, probably not as funny to you... but we are talking about a woman who used to be a major party girl.

Although it didn't rain last night, I thnk I had a good sleep too. It was still cold this morning but I heard it is supposed to be in the low to mid 50s for the next few days. I probably should pay attention to the news or at least the weather once in a while.

So, as you all know, literally the last thing I did before I left the office for vacation was that I sent the boss an email stating my case for raise and promotion. I also think this is why he decided to call me twice while on vacation. Anyway, he sent me an email yesterday a few minutes after 5. All it said is that he read through it and plan on advocating for me. Of course, he has done that for me before when I have asked and present various options and it got me nowhere. He also said that he thinks it would be best handled face to face with our boss. While I do not doubt this, especially since I have mentioned it before, that now means playing the waiting game, again. As of now, I am not sure when he will be in the office. At this time of year it is usually around the end of March. Fine. If it will be that way, I am still not going to do all the extra work. I know it is extremely early in the year, but so far I have done well at leaving here when I should. Part of me wants the boss to call late wanting something or to talk so I can tell him I can't do it because I have somewhere to be. He didn't say anything else in his email so I have no idea what he actually thinks about it.

Good day, all. It has been a busy morning for me thus far, though I had not really planned on it being so. Yesterday before I left the office, I was copied on an e-mail chain from my customer to my routing database vendor requesting further assistance on why our latest problem child of a least cost routing provider is not taking traffic on our network. One of the last things I did before going on holiday vacation was to move heaven and earth trying to get this up and running. By that I mean to say that not only was I doing my job toward this effort, but I was also doing the work for 2 of the people on my customer side, including the person who copied me on the e-mail. So I go back through the whole thing again, and see that most of my efforts have been somehow undone. Took me a bit to find and fix a cosmetic issue in one database that somehow managed to undo my work in another... though the real problem had to be found and fixed by my routing database vendor. Hopefully this will be the final fix that gets this rabid monkey off my back.

Not sure what is on tap for most of the rest of the day. I think I have some database testing to hash through with Little Man on the same troublesome routing database I have been working with all morning. It seems they are going to do a code enhancement and want us to make sure they aren't messing things up. In otherwords, "Bend over! I have a code enhancement for you!".

Fuzzy... I'm going to agree with Mz. It sounds like a good sign. At least you didn't get the good ol' "Well, you see we will have to look at the budget to see what we can do. And we haven't been told what the merrit increase bucket is for this fiscal year yet, so I'm not sure there will be anything available to work with..."

Ah well. Supposed to be in the low 50's here today too, then rain later tonight and tomorrow. We'll see what comes of that. On the up side, almost all of the snow and ice have melted.

Hope everybody has a great day.

I have always had the support of my boss. It got me nowhere. And they budget raises every year but don't hand them out. Then it looks like they are under budget. No way they will ever retro it. I know because I tried that before when I pushed my way through this three or if not four years ago. I had already done the work for a year and a half. I wasn't even asking for a promotion, just a raise. It took me six months and I was given $3k raise. I have seen the changes made around here and I'll tell you that I feel most of it isn't fair. I realize that is generally the way it works. I can't believe that someof these people were more deserving than me. And I know part of it may be mny fault that I just kept getting the work done. But the big boss has ever heard from me. This is what will finally be different. I have to prepare myself for his odd questions. I have no problem defending what I have done in the past, proving that I don't get much cooperation from his precious other groups yet still have gone above and beyond my position. My problem may be whatthe answer to the question "What are you going to do now or next?" I have to enforce that I already do the work of three people for five months of the year. I need to organize my data and paperwork. I should do that now so I am all ready to go if this thing ever gets off the ground. The only way to speed this process up is to find another job. Why doesn't someone want me?

I had one of those reviews too, Mema. They said I "help people too much."

It took me a couple years after they quit paying me for the silly overtime hours to actually quit working them. Back in the day, my "normal" work week was about 60-80 hours over all 7 days of the week. Going on "vacation" simply meant not physically going into the office, and maybe just checking my e-mail a couple times per day, plus of course calling into conference bridges... even when I was out of town. Did that for about 5 or 6 years. During that time the only time I was "off limits" to my office was for about the 20 minutes while I getting married, and an hour or so here and there for family funerals... all of which was stipulated in e-mails to my team, and noted on my e-mail out of office message. Some of that, I will grant you, was my own choice. Got me out of doing a lot of things I didn't want to do in my personal life so I considered it a win/win situation.


I definitely hear you on the lame co-workers situation. I have a hard time with people who expect me to do their work for them, or who refuse to look through reference material I have provided to them. Especially if I give someone a "how to" document and they don't even try to follow it. This is why about half of our crew used to think I was really mean. Heck, they probably think that to this day... but are also no longer employed here.