Octocrook
04-28-2004, 07:30 AM
Tomorrow will be my first weekday off from my job in the 3 months I've worked there. One of my longtime friends that lives in Phoenix will be comin over, and he, his family and I will be going to a Padres game in the new Petco ballpark. That place is supposed to be totally awesome, so I can't wait. My only problem will be keeping my eyes off his sister...every time I see her, she's more beautiful! Urgh.
I'm more just glad to have a day off from work to be honest. It's chaotic there to say the least. Soon as we hire another person (which will hopefully happen later this week), we'll finally have 6 people in our department again for the first time in about a month. For a while, we had only 3 and a newbie!
The only thing I'm the least bit happy about there is that I switched cubicles, and am now in one where I'm cut off from my coworkers and can kinda see down the hall in the rest of the company. No offense to my coworkers, but I'm not really fond of any of them. The only coworker I ever liked, Dave, was the first in our department to quit and get another job. I'd follow suit, but as this is my first full time job and frankly my first REAL job, I don't want to leave too early. Besides, I have a minor chance of getting promoted to team leader, if it wasn't for Patrick the asshole.
Patrick used to be in my department (placing) but switched to order entry, the department that gets the orders and gets them ready for us to place. Ironic for someone that complained about ME trying to lead when our supervisor had left for the day one time, he has been collaborating with Jen (used to be my supervisor's boss, but now is our boss directly tentatively) to control who gets what orders to place. I wouldn't have much of a problem with this, but it appears to me like he's trying to fit the role of team leader for our department, but from another department. Also, I have no freakin idea if he has any rhyme or reason to how he splits the orders. It's like the Patriot Act of order placement...I have no idea if he's genuinely doing this to try to get the orders placed in time order (though slower because we aren't allowed to organize the orders by client) or if he's using this authority to give me a bunch of shitty orders because I already know he doesn't like me. I mean it doesn't matter TOO much...even if I got mostly shitty orders and everyone else got mostly easy orders, I would STILL place 45-50 a day while they'd be stuck at 30-35.
That's what's so funny about this...I get the feeling that Jen will continue to disregard everything I have done and am still doing for our department and Patrick will somehow eek his way into leadership of our department despite his horrible placing skills (he was almost always lowest in placed orders each day, one day placing only 12!). I, meanwhile, take reassignments, special rush assignments, middle-of-nowhere assignments from about 8 different departments...I pretty much take anything that comes our way other besides order entry (which is EXACTLY what my old supervisor was doing, so I'm fitting the role), and on top of all that, am STILL placing more of the order entry orders than everyone else.
The only recognition I get are from the people in those other departments giving me those special assignments, and a lot of times, I'm just the bitch in the department that takes whatever crappy ass assignments laid on us. I know Jen has way too little time on her hands to continue supervising us directly (I use supervising loosely...she's not actually there, we walk to her office to get approvals/questions answered). I know she would like to promote someone to that position rather than hire someone who doesn't know shit about what we do. She hasn't even hinted at anything though, which irks me because she talks to Patrick a lot more regarding our department than she does any of us. I'm probably not in good shape to take that position anyways, as I bet Desirea would threaten to leave since she and Patrick are best of friends and she dislikes me more than he does, and who knows how the new guys would take me being leader.
Bob, the token old guy in our department, is like my only savior and makes up most of my possibility of getting this position. He's asking me questions left and right, was having me train him on all the different clients, and was overly worried about me being off tomorrow and how well the department would do without me (as he should be, cause as they are, they can place maybe 100-120 orders, and we get 150-230 a day, and there's only so many non-busy people in the company that can help us place orders). I think in his eyes, I'm already the leader in the department, which is frankly pretty accurate as I am doing about 80% of the tasks that our old supervisor was doing, Jen doing about 15%, Patrick via splitting orders about 5%, lol. I'm not complaining though. I'm choosing the "speak softly and carry a big stick" path, the big stick being what they would lose if I wasn't working there anymore if they don't respect all that I'm doing. I haven't said anything to that degree, but I'm sure that somewhere deep in the back of Jen's mind, she might be realizing that I'm by far the best worker in the department and they would suffer a hell of a lot without me at this point. I'll see, I guess.
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I'm more just glad to have a day off from work to be honest. It's chaotic there to say the least. Soon as we hire another person (which will hopefully happen later this week), we'll finally have 6 people in our department again for the first time in about a month. For a while, we had only 3 and a newbie!
The only thing I'm the least bit happy about there is that I switched cubicles, and am now in one where I'm cut off from my coworkers and can kinda see down the hall in the rest of the company. No offense to my coworkers, but I'm not really fond of any of them. The only coworker I ever liked, Dave, was the first in our department to quit and get another job. I'd follow suit, but as this is my first full time job and frankly my first REAL job, I don't want to leave too early. Besides, I have a minor chance of getting promoted to team leader, if it wasn't for Patrick the asshole.
Patrick used to be in my department (placing) but switched to order entry, the department that gets the orders and gets them ready for us to place. Ironic for someone that complained about ME trying to lead when our supervisor had left for the day one time, he has been collaborating with Jen (used to be my supervisor's boss, but now is our boss directly tentatively) to control who gets what orders to place. I wouldn't have much of a problem with this, but it appears to me like he's trying to fit the role of team leader for our department, but from another department. Also, I have no freakin idea if he has any rhyme or reason to how he splits the orders. It's like the Patriot Act of order placement...I have no idea if he's genuinely doing this to try to get the orders placed in time order (though slower because we aren't allowed to organize the orders by client) or if he's using this authority to give me a bunch of shitty orders because I already know he doesn't like me. I mean it doesn't matter TOO much...even if I got mostly shitty orders and everyone else got mostly easy orders, I would STILL place 45-50 a day while they'd be stuck at 30-35.
That's what's so funny about this...I get the feeling that Jen will continue to disregard everything I have done and am still doing for our department and Patrick will somehow eek his way into leadership of our department despite his horrible placing skills (he was almost always lowest in placed orders each day, one day placing only 12!). I, meanwhile, take reassignments, special rush assignments, middle-of-nowhere assignments from about 8 different departments...I pretty much take anything that comes our way other besides order entry (which is EXACTLY what my old supervisor was doing, so I'm fitting the role), and on top of all that, am STILL placing more of the order entry orders than everyone else.
The only recognition I get are from the people in those other departments giving me those special assignments, and a lot of times, I'm just the bitch in the department that takes whatever crappy ass assignments laid on us. I know Jen has way too little time on her hands to continue supervising us directly (I use supervising loosely...she's not actually there, we walk to her office to get approvals/questions answered). I know she would like to promote someone to that position rather than hire someone who doesn't know shit about what we do. She hasn't even hinted at anything though, which irks me because she talks to Patrick a lot more regarding our department than she does any of us. I'm probably not in good shape to take that position anyways, as I bet Desirea would threaten to leave since she and Patrick are best of friends and she dislikes me more than he does, and who knows how the new guys would take me being leader.
Bob, the token old guy in our department, is like my only savior and makes up most of my possibility of getting this position. He's asking me questions left and right, was having me train him on all the different clients, and was overly worried about me being off tomorrow and how well the department would do without me (as he should be, cause as they are, they can place maybe 100-120 orders, and we get 150-230 a day, and there's only so many non-busy people in the company that can help us place orders). I think in his eyes, I'm already the leader in the department, which is frankly pretty accurate as I am doing about 80% of the tasks that our old supervisor was doing, Jen doing about 15%, Patrick via splitting orders about 5%, lol. I'm not complaining though. I'm choosing the "speak softly and carry a big stick" path, the big stick being what they would lose if I wasn't working there anymore if they don't respect all that I'm doing. I haven't said anything to that degree, but I'm sure that somewhere deep in the back of Jen's mind, she might be realizing that I'm by far the best worker in the department and they would suffer a hell of a lot without me at this point. I'll see, I guess.
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