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okay, so now it's friday

June 3rd, 2005 at 06:45 pm

My fuse is short today. I'm trying to cool off a bit and see some logic in current office events, but its too late. I've already blown my gasket for the day.

I really like the work I do and I like my immediate supervisor. My future here is looking very good from my current perspective. However, empire building at a level way above my income bracket has me frothing at the mouth and grinding my teeth this morning. For the most part, I really dont care what people do with their careers as long as I can go about my job and get things done. But when they start stepping on my toes and undermining my work and reputation, I get angry. I'm not really sure how to handle this one. I'll talk it over at lunch with a trusted friend and see if I cant regain my sanity before charging into the boss's office, sounding like a five year old with "they said bad things about me" as the crux of my arguement.

Spending:
Italian dinner last night: $14.21 (have a heap of pasta left today for lunch)
At work, cofee and packaged doughnuts with fake chocolate frosting: $7 (and two Reese's)

Side note on spending: Because I am paying more attention when I sign credit card slips these days, I can recall the numbers without looking at the slip again.

Could really go for a Coke and ice, but the caffeine would probably enhance my charging bull tendancies at this point.

Today is one of those days where I yearn for financial independance, daydreaming about jumping off the treadmill and unplugging from tick tock. Oh how my stress levels would go wayyy down. Breath....and curse like a mad woman (*&#$%)*(&%@*()&#$@%&)*&*&)@#%&)*

3 Responses to “okay, so now it's friday”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    1117830992

    ohhhh....man....I hope your weekend allows you to escape from work and breathe some fresh, clean, non-coworker polluted air.

  2. Anonymous Says:
    1117836058

    Thanks. I am actually able to chuckle a little about it now...at 4:00ish in the afternoon with an hour to go in the work day. Essentially, a person in a high ranking position (questionably attained) wants to bring her people onto the scene. I would then report to one of them, something I am finding out the hard way. The problem is that the new person cowers when I try working with her. She has few technical skills, which she will admit to herself. Hence, she has no idea what I do, but I would have to clear my work through her rather than going straight to the top, as I did when I first got the position.

    I do not see leadership or even collaboration on that horizon. On several occassions I have had to hunt down information while these two women are holding meetings to discuss things that impact the work I do. It just bothers me to see again that it's who you know. I'm a big girl and know that this happens in life. Its just so frustrating to see it developing right before your eyes all the while knowing that in the heirarchy you dont have the positional power to change it.

    I prefer working in a male dominated field because they are pretty good about focusing on work. You get some grand standers here and there, but you move out of the way and let them get out of Dodge. These two women and their wicked ways are something we can all do without. I already see a lot of disharmony and non-communication; and a bad feeling it wont improve until she has all of her pretties lined up.

    Yes, the weekend is a welcome change. I am going straight to the library to check out another stack on investing and early retirement. I'm also going to research and consolidate IRA/401K/403b stuff from other jobs and get that organized. Gone of the days of not knowing where it stands and how much farther to go.

  3. Anonymous Says:
    1117853010

    Ick - sounds like another layer of supervision and status is being created right above yours.
    For comfort from things like that, I named my ING account the "kiss my ass fund". It makes me (and kashi, when she heard about it) laugh whenever I access my ING account.

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