27 posts tagged “work”

I'm bored, but I don't want to work :( I'm wired from all the sugar & caffeine I've had so early and I have no where to expel that energy other than at work which is boring.

I'm dreading a 4 hour meeting I have this afternoon - watching it loom closer and closer. The only reason we need four hours is because we're trying to do the run-through of the training for the project I'm working on and they keep interrupting me. I can't even get through an entire section of my outline before I'm stopped and our trains of thoughts collide and somehow we end up talking about topics completely unrelated to work. It seems to worry them that I'm not working off of a script - and I'm worried they're going to be interrupting me so much during the live training that no one will learn anything. Have they no faith?!

I'm getting my hair done tonight. Its been approximately four weeks and you can see my roots but not too badly. I mainly would just like the color to be as dark as it once was. I'm tempted to ask her to go a shade darker this time, but my sister says that the light color looks wonderful. It might be darker this time no matter what I do considering it's a darker shade to begin with. I'm also going to get my hair cut - but by a different person on a different day as I can't afford to color and cut at this salon with their prices. I like the length - but when I put curlers in, the longer bits in the back do nothing and simple silently rebel against my best efforts.

Last night I went to Ikea with my sister and her friend. We got lost going there even though I've been there a million times. With the gas prices as terrible as they are, I was cringing to see the miles traveled climb as we had to backtrack. I bought this wall rod and four of these hanging cups - though I'm not really sure where I'm going to put them. I'd like to use them in the kitchen but we don't have any free wall space that wide. I think I might put glue magnets to the wall connectors and put it on the side of the refrigerator instead. Pretty good idea, eh?!

Thank God its Friday.

Yesterday was pretty rotten at work - so far as it was very stressful and we had to back pedal and give into silly demands and I'm not happy about it all. The worst part is that I took that out on a co-worker of mine and I felt really bad about it. The good thing is that I apologized and she accepted and we're on good terms again. I'm hoping that today is going to be better!

I'm finding that I'm really not using Twitter that much and may cancel my account. The updates page is too overwhelming in the fact that it's just random thoughts with next to no explanation - and a ton of them. My thoughts are hardly ever one sentence thoughts - which I think Twitter is intended for. Plus no one seems interested in what I'm doing so...

Last night my sister and I finally finished watching the Battlestar mini-series (I'd seen it before numerous times, my sister has never been able to finish it though) and she loved it :) I'm happy because I really like the show and I love to share stuff like that with my sister. I lent her the first season and also season 2.0 - because I remember what a cliffhanger the end if the first season was and I know she'd go crazy! Watching the mini-series has really rekindled my passion to finish the 3rd season which we'd almost done before we went to Scotland.

Today is Thursday and I'm frakin' glad. If only it were Friday!
 

I slept terribly last night. I think it had to do with the fact that I gorged on pizza and drank two Smirnoff Ice Triple Blacks - when I usually never drink. It took me forever to fall asleep, I couldn't stay asleep, and I had strange dreams all night. I also felt very uncomfortable and Paul was crowding me (<--- I usually don't mind this, but then I'm usually comfortable). I'm dreading my monthly staff meeting this afternoon - I'll have to knock back a lot of bitter coffee to make it through.

We're closing in on the finishing line in regards to the Intranet I'm working on at work - so I have 2 hour meeting blocks all week in preparation of training the page admins. I'm not complaining - not in the least! In fact I'm happy because it gives me something to look forward to each day. I love having a scheduled event in my usually non-scheduled work day.

Can anyone tell me how I'm supposed to tame my hair when its curly? I know that I'm supposed to "finger it" - but when I do that it doesn't really work that well and then I have frizzy bits mixed in with clumps of curls which proves to be very unattractive. Whenever I try and get it into some semblance of order it always ends up a big nest of fuzz. This morning that happened and I'm now restricted to a braid in order to not look like a freak who doesn't know how to groom herself properly.

I've just spent three days (luckily not a full three days, just an hour here and there) creating a template default page for our new intranet only to find out that the application can be cloned - not the page properties. Frak. What a way to fail at understanding a small distinction.

Oh well, I learned a lot creating the page so I guess all my hard work wasn't without some reward. Another plus side is since I volunteered my time they've decided to make me God in the world of our intranet and that makes me feel pretty good inside. I admit, happily, that I like being that "go to" person. I also like having all the control... hehehe :)

Devilish Grin

I went to bed at 8:30pm last night, and that was me trying to keep my eyes open. Luckily, when I woke up at 4:30am this morning, I felt refreshed and counted eight hours of sleep so I just stayed up and used the extra hour to take my time getting ready and also getting to work early in order to catch up before the calls started to pour in.

Work, not surprisingly, held up fine without me. However, there was a bit of drama in the form of a co-worker of mine getting fired on the spot! No one knows all the details, but apparently it had something to do with "theft". All the interesting stuff happens when I'm gone. I do feel welcomed back though, and that's very nice :) Oh! And while I was gone Jane got a temp job at my work! So starting next Tuesday she'll be here for at least six months! I'm hoping that having a friend here will help me with this "changing" I have to do.

Yesterday Paul & I went on the hunt for this fresh produce store I'd heard about and ended up getting lost on the way there and on the way back. The good news is that the store is exactly what I was looking for! The bad news is that it's not that close and so we can't go there often enough to take advantage of it. Most of the food is organic and doesn't have preservatives - so its only good for a day or two. Plus, they don't have a lot of stuff we usually get - so we'd have to visit two stores. I'm tempted though, very tempted. The produce was just so fresh and the best price - I was shocked and so happy. The other good news? They're apparently opening a store across the street from us in 2009! We'll see how it all pans out.

Yesterday we also went and saw Iron Man, which I really enjoyed! I've never read the comic, so I can't say anything in relation - but the movie was great. I was worried that the whole thing would be CGI, but it was tastefully done. I'm hoping that the sequel will be released soon. If you haven't seen it, if you do see it - stay until after the credits. Paul also says that Tony Stark is supposed to be having a cameo in the new The Hulk flick staring Edward Norton - so that'll be interesting.

I'm feeling better today - so far as my mood and my outlook. Though I'm having some problems at my job right now, I'm going to go on vacation and come back with a clean slate and just keep working and trying my best as I was before. I'm not going to let one incident - that was blown completely out of proportion to the actual situation - ruin this job for me right now. However, I'm still determined to look for other jobs or perhaps become Paul's person job hunter. But that's all for another post.

My knee is feeling better. I'm not free from pain all the time - but most of the time I am and that's the important thing. I'm still taking ibuprofen in the mornings though, as it seems to be after I wake up that it hurts the most. I'm just glad that the terrible pain went away as I really didn't want it to ruin our Scotland trip.

I went to JoAnns on Monday night and bought some straps and small buckles to put inside of my carry-on bag for Linnet. Last night I put one strap in but it took me awhile and I wasn't able to get the other two in. I'm hoping that tonight I can work on it some more if not Thursday. She fits well in the bag - however I find that I have to remove her wig so that it doesn't get muffled. I'm sure if it was a normal synthetic wig it wouldn't be so bad but the mohair gets teased and tangled so easily. However, I'm still very much in love with the wig and am considering buying a second one so have as a back up for when this one falls to pieces from my constant attention :)

I joined two group orders recently - both for Dollmore - and I'm frustrated by how slow they've progressed compared to my very first one. The first of the two, the organizer said that she wouldn't take any money orders unless they were sent three days before the order closed - but she didn't keep up on the orders coming in and so the order closed long before she realized we'd reached our max. Therefore people who were sending money orders sent them long after we'd closed the order and so she didn't place the order for a good week after it closed. Very frustrating considering I'd joined the group in order to bypass the fraking money order wait. To top it off, by the time she made the order a bunch of stuff was sold out - luckily I wasn't effected - but I feel bad for the others who were. The second of the two was much quicker and more efficient in regards to the organizer, but then Dollmore didn't respond to our order for two weeks! I was hoping to have the order before I left - but that's not going to happen as Dollmore is sending it out tomorrow and it can take three days to get it from them and then three days to get it from the organizer. The money I save using a group order is wonderful - however the process is frustrating more often than not. Once I get back - I'm doing my own group order so that I don't have to wait on others and I get the store credit!

Anyhow - this was just a bunch of little stuff that would have been pointless to put in their own post :)

Yesterday flew by, I was at my desk for less than an hour at a time. I came in at 7, was pulled away at half past until 8, realized how much my knee hurt and made a doctor's appointment for 11 then went into a meeting from 9 until 10:30. Left for the doctors at 10:30 and left there at noon (he said that it was likely just sprained, and to take ibuprofen three times a day for a week and then call him if the pain didn't go away) had lunch with Paul and got back into work at 1. Went into a meeting at 2 until 3:30 and then left at 4. Being so busy was nice, plus the two meetings I had were good! I know its silly to say that I like work related meetings - but I do. The only meetings I've really grown to dislike is our monthly departmental meetings because I feel like I don't really get much out of them.

I'm in a bit of a sour mood today, work wise.

Early this morning an internal customer called, a customer I generally do not care for to begin with, and it's been shit on my shoe ever since. This customer is one of those people who knows nothing about computers - which I have no problem with generally - but refuses to try and help themselves in the least. I've dealt with people like this before, who need that "hands on approach" at all times - but generally they're nicer about the whole thing. They're not as demanding. Its as though they see my job as a "service" job - and I do not - and so our ideas of helping are different. I'm here to "help" - not to do it for you. If you can do it for yourself, you should. Since I've begun helping this person - the job is not even finished yet - I've heard them tell me at least four times, "I don't know anything about computers."

Fine. I don't care that you don't know anything about computers. What I do care is that you flat out refuse to learn anything. Your job may not be "computer specialist" but it certainly isn't "dumb ass" either. What worse is that I know this person isn't an idiot (and God I hope I'm right - because they've got a high-responsibility based job) - they're just pretending to be one so that I am forced not just to hold their hand - but to in fact wipe their ass. I work for the Help Desk. Not the Service Desk. Learn some professional courtesy and at least try to care.

To make matters worse, while trying to help this person I apparently didn't help them in the way they were looking and so they complained to my boss. I'm so sick of people complaining to my boss. I know that you can't make everyone happy when it comes to customer service fields of any kind - but I'm so tired of being the first one to get complained against.

I wish I could take the number of calls of the people I help and average them against the number of people I don't help (or more so, just don't like how I help them) - and remember which number is bigger and hold on to that so I don't get discouraged. I love helping people - I really do. I love that feeling of knowing I've adverted a "crisis" and became someone's hero if only for a minute or so. If only I wasn't the enemy to some as well...

I'm stuck at someones desk doing virus removal - so, so, so, so, so, SO boring. To make matters worse I've got one of the many LocoRoco songs stuck in my head. They have a soundtrack - I should get it :P

My Souldoll order is in Customs in LA, my bag (I ended up getting the green one for my doll) has been shipped and should be here on Monday, I have no idea where Linnet's head is as tracking still has not updated from "Electronic Information Received", and I haven't heard back from the eBay seller about my boots. I've got a lot of things floating out there.

I've gotten a bit into The Sweet Far Thing, yesterday while at work, but accidentally left my book at work and so was unable to read last night. I know I won't be able to read it tonight since my sister is coming over and I need to spend the time before cleaning. I'm still optimistic though about finishing it before Tuesday. I have two medical appointments on Monday and waiting rooms are the best for reading.

Anyhow... I'm bored.

Today has been surprisingly busy. Its good, I suppose. I like to be busy. I just don't like pulled-in-a-hundred-directions-at-one-time kind of busy. That's what today has been like. I was supposed to go offsite to install a wireless headset onto a phone, but we're short staffed so I've cancelled*. I figure I'll just install it when she's not there. Probably for the best as I don't do well with people "watching" me work.

I've been thinking a lot about work and my "progress" as an employee. Paul & I had a good talk the other night and I've realized that I really need to make a goal sheet for myself. For one thing, I need to take the certification test that I trained for. For another, I really need to start moving towards improving my hardware knowledge as that is going to get me to the next step in my job. I was talking to Paul though, kind of just saying everything I was thinking, and I realized that while I want to improve as an employee I'm not too concerned with advancing in my position yet. In my old position, once I got to the next level that was it. I could go no higher and my pay couldn't either. I thought to myself, if I want to be in this position (which I love) for as long as I can, feeling fulfilled and satisfied, then I want to have something to work towards. Why run, if its not a race? I don't want to be like this lady I used to work with - ten years in the same position with nothing to look forward to so far as pay other than a raise at the end of the year - and not even a dependable one at that. Does that all seem crazy? That I'm happy not being at the top? Paul made a good point though. He said that they hired me seeing my potential, and they want me to achieve that potential. I want to. I want to for them. They gave me such a great opportunity!

Anyhow, any thoughts from my 'hood would be nice :)

*Does this look misspelled? MS Word says no and yet FireFox says yes. I'm more inclined to believe MS Word because FireFox doesn't know how to spell dialogue :(