Work: A month in review.
The biggest hurdle over the past month during work has been commonplace and absoloutly nothing new.� It’s not that I don’t like what I do and it’s not that I don’t like the people… in general.� It’s the whole attitude of the place.� Seriously it’s annoying.� The people in the office, except for me, are always right.� And the people in the production area, plus me, are always wrong.� Multipled many times because no matter how right we can make things, the fact is it’s wrong.� I don’t like being negative but thats how it runs, and it’s frustrating to only hear the bad and never the good.
It was “fun and exciting” (/sarcasm) that all of a sudden it’s March Break in grade school so both my boss and my coworker leave for the week.� Leaving me to basically fend for myself to “run the show” so-to-speak.� Which is an alright challenge I suppose, last year during the end of summer my coworker had gone for a week on vacation while my boss would come in at random for short peroids of time a day to help out.� This time I had their nanny to answer phones, and an intermittent boss who I haven’t seen in months does nothing but answer my legitimate questions with more questions and defensive remarks.� In my opinion everything went as well as it could have gone.� No clients were pissed off at what was ordered, everything was quoted within a 24-48hr peroid, and jobs were ordered and done, last but not least, the place didn’t blow up.
Problem being now that some of the quotes I had done have been turned into orders, we’re starting to find problems.� Personally, I expected it.� Why wouldn’t I? I was by myself, quoting jobs when I haven’t so done so in a *VERY* long time, and overall feeling very overwhelmed.� What doesn’t help is that I’m told five different ways of quoting something from three different people.� Seriously, that’s not fun.� And when there’s no one to tell me I’m wrong, I’m going to assume I’m right.� And when it’s my first time doing something and there’s some secret that I didn’t know about, I very well expect to be wrong, and so should everyone else.
I think the thing I dislike the most about work is just the idea that everyone is very condesending.� It’s not enough to tell me I did something wrong, and that I should fix it, and explain calmly and rationally why it’s wrong and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.� It’s a whole lot of “you should have known” and “it’s common sense” and “well duh” kind of attitudes that get to me.� Especally when I didn’t know, it’s only common sense if you’ve seen it before and I haven’t.� Coupled with a lot of “you always mess up” and “remember the last job you buggered?” type of responses that go back months and months ago, lead to a very unhappy worker.
Being that I’m in a completely different work enviornment from the press operators, I always find it amusing that I can relate to them more.� Because we’re all on the same side.� Sure it’s the wrong side.� But at least it’s a side.
