Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Ah… the wonders of DSL…
Ah... the wonders of DSL...It's here! It's finally here and I am finally surfing the net and talking on the phone at the SAME time! Who knew? I mean, really? Who knew? It's wonderful, it's wonderous, I'm so freakin excited!
That, and only one more month till my dental woes are over for awhile. Today I came one step closer to getting my crown. I am so excited, if only my mouth didn't hurt. Though I am thinking a stiff drink would help that issue, I am not sure I want to head in that direction right yet. Maybe in another 1/2 hour or so...
ohhh...I am so excited about this... I think I will surf the net some more!!!!
Monday, November 29, 2004
How Much Time….
How Much Time....How much time can you waste? Apparently I can waste almost an entire day. After taking a week off of work, traveling to CO and back... Apparently I don't feel the need to work anymore. It's pretty okay with me.
I bought a pedometer while I was in CO. Not sure why I HAD to buy one there, but I did. I didn't question the purchase either. But apparently my goal for today is putting on as many steps as I can. While I haven't gone on too many "long walks" I have walked 2 miles today. And that doesn't include the walk home. I am pretty excited about this whole pedometer thing. Now I just need to figure out how much I am supposed to be walking and make sure I live up to that.
Yeah!I'm not thrilled to be back at work. Could you tell? I have stuff to do and do you think I have worked on anything? Nope. Nadda. Nilch. I've been messing around, went to lunch, went to the bookstore, walked around the floor three or four times, chatted a BUNCH on IM, the only thing I haven't done is wasted my co-worker's time since, well, none of them are here. Except the really annoying lady that I try really hard to ignore at every chance. But even she is being quiet today.
Will wonders never cease... Perhaps I will get something done today regardless of my attempts otherwise.... maybe...
Friday, November 19, 2004
In case anyone was wondering about where I was last Friday night…
That would be me in front of the Rainier R - a Seattle Icon. The thing you can't see in this picture is how drunk I was at this point... after all it was my birthday...
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Wanna hear about my day?
Wanna hear about my day?This morning I spent 2 hours updating calendar stuff. I had to remove a couple of people and add a couple of people to the 2005 meeting schedule. I noticed, in doing so, that something is still or again screwy with a meeting I set up on the boss's behalf. That means next month, just like this month, she will have a cow about not being able to see some information. Yeah. And even though I have explained to her every month for the past three months what happened, I will get to explain it again. She doesn't remember, chooses not to remember, or somehow thinks I should be able to fix this issue. Even though it was all her fault since she decided one day to start screwing with her outlook. Which made my outlook go out for 3 days. Fun times. Anyway, about mid-December I will start getting emails regarding this issue. I will try to explain, via email, why the problem still exists. She will send me back semi-condescending emails about the issues and then make some smart add comments about TSG and technology. Though she is the one that caused the problem in the first place, somehow TSG is to blame.
Once I was done doing that, I had to create a separate document listing all the 2005 meetings for her. Please note that I already created a monthly calendar for all of the same meetings. But this time she no longer wanted the calendar view, she wanted everything in list form. Right. So even though I have put all of these meetings on her personal outlook calendar and created a month by month view, this morning I got to create yet another version of something with the same information. Oh, and by the way, it's all online as well, in a beautiful list on our collaboration sites. Yep.
After creating this document, I got to update her whiteboard with the same information. Cause having it in 4 other places wasn't enough.
Then I went to lunch.
When I got back there was a message from someone else's executive assistant with a new meeting day and time for one of the meetings. Yeah. Now I get to update all 5 places with this new and improved information that I didn't know about this morning when I did all this to begin with.
After that I surfed the web because I don't have anything to do and god forbid I actually get meaningful work... since I'm looking for a job I used this time to my advantage.
Then the new guy stopped by with a nice sized copy job for me to take care of. Yeah! It took me about 1/2 an hour to complete. Now that it's done, I am seriously thinking about just going home.
Evilness Abounds…
Evilness Abounds...I have mentioned a couple of things about my floor, the weird people, the strange occurrences (the vase & bowl of JoAnn's splitting in two for no apparent reason) but after hearing the following story I have decided that this floor is decidedly evil.
There is a woman who sits in my cube row. She's older, 55 or so, and is pretty harmless. Sometimes in conversations she gives too much information. You end up hearing things you don't really want to know about her, but it's nothing offensive. She's an outgoing person, load and spunky. All in all, she's not a bad person. I'm not always the best judge of character... but this lady doesn't seem to be the hurtful spiteful type. Also, she hasn't worked at this company her whole life. She's been here about a year, doesn't really like what she is doing, but tries to make the best of it regardless.
Yesterday she stopped by to "check in." She does this with me every now and then, to see how things are going and let me know that someone cares (I think she feels a little sorry for me since I don't have a lot of co-workers around.) A week or so ago she had stopped by to tell me about a new job she had just gotten. She was very excited to be making the change and I was happy for her. It sounded like something she really wanted to do, I am always happy for people who get what they really want in life. Good for them.
Anyway, her news this time around was not so happy. It seems that someone on our floor accused her of making racial slurs. The worst kind too. The slurs were "overheard" and not directly made at anyone. She was also told that the slurs were cooberated, meaning that two people had "overheard" them. She has been told that she cannot move to her new position for 90 days, that she is on probation and could lose her job, and she has been advised to seek legal council.
I've sat near this woman for 6 months now. Never have I heard a hateful word come out of her mouth. She gets irritated, as do we all, and sometimes bitches in general, but I have never heard racial slurs, or anything regarding race from her. I was totally floored when she told me this.
The hard part of it is, I am pretty sure I know who accused her. I know why that person would do such a thing and I just can't believe it. I don't think that person has any real clue what she has done. None at all. I think she thought it would be a good way to get back at the other woman for some petty slight. But the woman's working career could be over in a heartbeat from something like this. It's horrible. And it's happening near me.
I got to thinking. What would I do? I don't think of myself as racist, but I have made comments. Generalizations. But what would I do in a case like this? I would have to get a lawyer for sure. It's scary to think about, but very real. The workplace can be a dangerous place for a person's psyche.
And this is an evil, evil floor. There are way too many people here who are resentful, hurtful and just plain mean.
As you wake in the morning
What do you feel?
Does a rush of happiness
wash over you when,
Suddenly, you realize you are alive?
