Hey, Rant Woman … it’s been a while, have things finally improved at your office? Perhaps LBM was out on management courses … ?
*snickers* nope, he was just saving up for a good one.
LBM is calling people in the other divisions and making stupid and lazy requests. Information he has access too but “he’s the boss” so he’ll just call up the minions and make them do it. How do I know this? Because they’re all coming bytching to me … I know, welcome to my world. So … clue one … he’s NOT in a good mood.
He hauls me and PCW (poor coworker) into his office. He proceeds to REAM me out for not knowing information that he didn’t tell me … DAMN my complete lack of mind reading abilities … it’s SO going to get me fired one day. Within the space of 40 minutes he manages to call PCW and I “Stupid”, “Lazy” and lets us know our jobs are at risk. Ahhhhhh he’s on a roll.
After he’s done venting, he notices the time and says “looks like you missed lunch”. *sigh* …
That’s bad right? Oh wait … it gets better.
4:50pm (work day ends at 5:00 … or as I learned today, it doesn’t he just stops paying us then) …. He calls me and tells me he wants “ALL” the documentation that we’ve delivered to client XYZ … Great, I'm so happy he motivated me to work so hard. Yes, I stayed until it was all done.
Ya, I got out late, and now I’m going to have to stop on the way in to get additional information, for work, but you KNOW I’m going to be docked for it.
*sigh*
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Toothpicks in my eyes
Well I bet your thinking ... hey Rant Woman, your week started well, you didn't blog about work ... that's cuz I was too busy WORKING.
Typically I don't see this hour of night unless I'm drinking and dancing, but here I sit, on the sofa developing THOUSAND of pricing variables that I'm certain will NOT be looked at but were ORDERED by LBM. I've just spent the past 5 hours of MY TIME doing spreadsheet after spreadsheet over what I'm pretty certain was an error.
LBM "I want you to do the client forms with the revised numbers based on the 42 metric".
Me "ummm the clients form were based off constants, therefore, the variable we've been working with isn't relevant".
LBM "oh .. umm ... we'll I'll need to review the options"
Me *sigh* "which of the multipliers on the 42 factor?"
LMB "All of them".
Quick math - 3 finishes, by 4 delivered variables, by 35 items, by various metrics ... even I've lost count of how many I've done.
This was at 4:30 this afternoon. He doesn't really "need" this information for the meeting tomorrow, but he wants it. So here I sit, almost 2 hours after my bedtime finishing up the "waste of time" spreadsheets.
Before leaving a coworker asks "are you working late tonight?"
Me "yep, but I'm going to take the laptop home and do it there. I either don't get paid and stay late here and do it, or don't get paid and go home and drink wine and do it". I'm pretty sure there's an HR policy somewhere that wouldn't enable me to sit at my desk in the office drinking wine and wearing my jammies.
*cheers*
Typically I don't see this hour of night unless I'm drinking and dancing, but here I sit, on the sofa developing THOUSAND of pricing variables that I'm certain will NOT be looked at but were ORDERED by LBM. I've just spent the past 5 hours of MY TIME doing spreadsheet after spreadsheet over what I'm pretty certain was an error.
LBM "I want you to do the client forms with the revised numbers based on the 42 metric".
Me "ummm the clients form were based off constants, therefore, the variable we've been working with isn't relevant".
LBM "oh .. umm ... we'll I'll need to review the options"
Me *sigh* "which of the multipliers on the 42 factor?"
LMB "All of them".
Quick math - 3 finishes, by 4 delivered variables, by 35 items, by various metrics ... even I've lost count of how many I've done.
This was at 4:30 this afternoon. He doesn't really "need" this information for the meeting tomorrow, but he wants it. So here I sit, almost 2 hours after my bedtime finishing up the "waste of time" spreadsheets.
Before leaving a coworker asks "are you working late tonight?"
Me "yep, but I'm going to take the laptop home and do it there. I either don't get paid and stay late here and do it, or don't get paid and go home and drink wine and do it". I'm pretty sure there's an HR policy somewhere that wouldn't enable me to sit at my desk in the office drinking wine and wearing my jammies.
*cheers*
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