As I sit here emptying my mind of thoughts for the am while listening to dance department. I wonder what God has in store fore me today. By the way, I'm sitting here typing this with my head laid back on the back of my office chair, with my eyes closed. I'm sure if some branch chief were to walk by again, she would say I’m sleeping, again.
Anyway, on with the thoughts of the day.
I got an email last night while in class from the VP and Founder of my lil tech company founded by and for women and minorities ( love the concept). Things must be bad if its had to go this far or is this how much they care, I'm going with care given there track record with me and the other employee's (Anthony's Dad), there Cool. So I get to sit or chat with him about what’s going on with me and my inter actions with my current position. There have been reports of my conduct being some what lacking. Well that’s always the case no matter where I go, just my life. But least someone took the time to actually ask me and I get to say: WTF is this shizzlay. I was told one thing when I was offered this job, I probably had my expectations ramped and really to high, but frak man, this is some BS.
For what it really is, its a government job truly dedicated to keeping track of the on going battle and saga of the faction to the north and how there fighting a loosing battle to keep there identity. My Senior who has been dealing with this insanity since OCT of 2008 is awesome at this sort of thing, I guess that’s just how he is and how he's been crafted to deal with this, me on the other hand, not quite so, I'm apple like in my thinking and interactions. I'm glad I have an iMac to work on (YIPPY, he he he, ha ha), I live eat, breath and sleep the KISS principle, its like my life.
The KISS principle is an old military acronym for Keep It Simple Soldier. We could go on to break it down a lil farther, but I'd rather keep is simple. It just means what ever you do, just keep it simple, for when u over complicate it, things just go badly. Example, taking out the trash, simple, I just takes out the trash, its just one step. Women in general are our over thinkers on many things and would have trouble keeping things simple. I always stand by the belief that everything is simple and it’s only us that complicates it.
I think I was talking about my on coming talk with the Founder here; I love how I can get off track with things. So what I'm going to say:
I was told this job was going to be exciting and something new and interesting was going to happen every day.
Interaction with angry people would happen on a day to day basis.
I would have to let go of actually putting my hands on the problem machine.
This isn't a tech intensive job
There was more to this, but that’s the general Idea. You know how they hype up, or over generalize a job advertisement. The job didn't turn out to be any of that, it turned out to be . . . let try this for a general idea:
I spent my first two months really not doing anything. I went to meetings, met people, got set up, which was about it. My daily schedule in all honesty was, get here, read email that had nothing to do with me, and sleep for half the day till work out time. Yes I do work out; the small gym here is great. There is one hot somewhat ghetto chick, Red Sonya and kettle bells (I love kettle Bells). After the afternoon killing of myself I would find food in my stash, which most of the time constitutes me eating noodles in a microwave I kind of burnt down. (story for another time) After lunch its normaly 2ish, so I have 2 hours left in the day since I get here at 7 am every morning, give or take 10 min. 4pm rolls around and its finally, time to go home, but first a fight with 695.
95 south is no problem, its always free flowing, 80 mph the whole way, but once you hit 695, uggggggg. When you get to 83 south, its smooth sailing. I swear ( I don't really swear) if it wasn't for 695, I would save so much gas. In general thats my daily routine.
In the 2 months I've had this job, I've helped maybe 3 people, which is inline to what the other parts of my official job description, I've gotten 2 real phone calls that I can remember of people actually calling me for help, one of which as it turns out didn't need to happen. I go to meetings that are 90% useless, cause they involve us (jesse & Sean) but they really don't. All Jesse really does once again is keeps track of screw ups, bad behavior of the faction to the north. Then answers emails and calls all day, the man needs a raise, a vacation and sleep. You know what makes it so bad and I can't remember the name of the word or phrase for it, is that he has all the info I need in his head, and when I ask him, he gives me an hour long answer to a simple yes or no question. When I try to help someone on my own, I have to go back to him to get the question answered thus making it pointless to try and help when he’s just going to answer it in the first place. I would love to help out more if something was put in writing or there was some sort of training to this job, wait, does that make me a trained monkey, hope not.
Lets also add in Windows Vista issues, if you know me you know I hate vista and everything that has to work with it. We have this ticket system that is really a POShizzlay. What ever happend to SQL and ODBC so we can make our own reports and queries with eaze. OMG Government tech almost sucks, notice I said almost.
Wish there was more info written down in a place easily findable so I could find it, reference it, use it to answer more questions. All information learned here is by word of mouth, and we know how that goes.
If I'm to stay in this job, I need the training and info sources to do so, and more to do to keep me awake and thinking.
If I'm to leave, I'm going back to actually laying hands on computers, it suits me.
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