This Video Sums Up My Work

Simply said, I run each and every time my servers do something like this. My employees DO throw things when things go down. Change this man into a woman and it's me!

&*&*#&!*(#()$#) (Insert Swear Words Here)

Some days it isn’t even worth it. Some of the most basic things that need to be answered, can’t be answered. And when I have a hundred and one things that need to be done, the damn freaking ass boss just starts this crap “I don’t know what to tell you” and “I don’t know” and “I don’t have an answer”. Well, it’s simple – do you want to spend the money or do you not want to spend the money? Do you want me to just patch things together as we always do or do you want to do it the right way? Do you want me to work here forever and ever and ever like a freaking ass slave, or do you want me to be like a human being and actually work a regularly scheduled week?

 

How can I continue to support technology that I have no say in and no control over? It’s insane. I need things and I need things approve. I need decisions – not non-committals. This is ridiculous. We have a $20 million + budget and I can’t even get a $4,000 server approved. But yet wave a freaking new blackberry in his face and suddenly it is a must have!

 

What happened to what the real needs are? What happened to listening to what is right? What happened to TELLING your staff what you want and not letting things just hang in the air forever and forever and forever.

 

This is bullsh$t. There is no freaking way someone can work like this month after month after month. There is no way that someone can expect to be nice and kind with month after month of this sh!t.

 

And now, I get a freaking book that I’m supposed to read and do “homework” assignments because I’m a supervisor. Well, I don’t supervise anyone and I can’t make any decisions, why should I have to do homework? Do I really want to read Stephen Covey’s 8^th Habit book – NO! I don’t have time. I want to have time to get certified. I want to have technical letters after my name that mean something – that say I know what I’m doing. I want to be able to tell stupid technicians that they don’t have to talk down to me because I know what the hell they are saying. Now that means something. That means more than reading a book and doing homework in it. Like I have time for homework?

Maybe I should do the homework over doing the 7 freaking videos that have to be done by October 24^th with freaking pop-up boxes on one of them no less – that the same boss that can’t make a decision can’t seem to write!

Notes from a Holiday Weekend

First, thanks to geeka for sending me this wonderful article. I know that the PG won't ever read it or ever listen to it - but it is so my situation at the office each and every day! http://www.lifeclever.com/jason-fried-working-closely-together-aint-productive/

Now, a couple notes about the weekend:

1. I completed the Steelers/Gatorade 5K in record time ever. I walked mostly (but jogged a good bit) and finished in less than 45 minutes. The time was somewhere near 44:36, but I won't know until offical chip times are in.

2. My sister and her preacher-wanna-be-husband (PWBH) just visit to play wii anymore.

3. My sister has to be bigger than me by now. She is wearing clothes that I stopped wearing and they look awful on her.

4. How long after a wedding are you required to look at wedding things like it is important? My sister brought another "scrapbook" on Sunday and made me and my mom look at it. Plus, the next time we are supposed to see "the wedding video". I thought this would be over by now.

5. I'm sick of hearing the phrase "son of a motherless goose". PWBH just says that way too often and I'm really sick of it. It's a stupid phrase and it totally takes way too long to say it. PWBH thinks it's funny, but it's not - it's annoying.

6. Totals for the prayer - 2 Oh Lords, 4 Oh Gods, 1 Bless your children who are straying (that's me!), and 6 Almighties. Yes, prayer is now a game between me and my mom.

7. I had 5 emails Sunday night to remind me about the phone system at work needing to be changed over. Needless to say, I hardly slept at all on Sunday and I had crazy dreams all related to the damn phones. Thanks to the PG and Stinky to ruin my extra day off.

8. My scanner doesn't work with the Mac! Boo-hoo! More work to do at work. Groan!