Oh dear, Maria. Well, good luck. I encourage you to make some time for curling up and crying when you can, because this legit sucks.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Jul 01, 2015 9:58:55 am PDT #113 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
-t - Jul 01, 2015 10:00:12 am PDT #114 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I haven't even turned over my calendars to July yet. Stupid day of busyness.
SuziQ - Jul 01, 2015 11:11:25 am PDT #115 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Maria - it seems they know you are valuable if they have a back-up plan. At least that is my rose-colored glasses read on it. Plus, they would be idiots to push you out.
Work is trying its hardest to drive me crazy. One of the programs I need to use keeps kicking me out. I've done all my tricks and it keeps doing it. I've checked with others who use the program and so far no one else is having the issue. Yes, I've rebooted. I wish I could just put this off, but it needs to be done today.
-t - Jul 01, 2015 11:14:34 am PDT #116 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Garage says battery was just out of juice, like I had left something on. I can't imagine what, unless a door was ajar and the dome light was on? Whatever, they aren't charging me and my coworker is giving me a ride to pick up my car, so yay!
-t - Jul 01, 2015 11:57:35 am PDT #117 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, weird. We can wear "business appropriate shorts" to the office tomorrow. I don't think I have any of those...
-t - Jul 01, 2015 12:00:14 pm PDT #118 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Finally flipped my calendar and now i see that it's Canada Day. Happy Day, Canadians!
Maria - Jul 01, 2015 12:04:42 pm PDT #119 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
it seems they know you are valuable if they have a back-up plan. At least that is my rose-colored glasses read on it. Plus, they would be idiots to push you out.
It still doesn't make me feel any less of a failure. No matter what the reason for lack of production.
-t - Jul 01, 2015 12:10:16 pm PDT #120 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I understand that, but from out here it is obviously not your fault.
Strix - Jul 01, 2015 12:44:33 pm PDT #121 of 30003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ah, Maria. They want you to do the nearly impossible -- unless you start building a couple of cars a night, just for grins -- and then if you don't meet goal, it's YOUR fault. Even though you don't have control of the the whole process. @@ Passing the beck, and you ARE competent and good at what you set your mind to.
I don't blame the fetal-position urge.
Steph L. - Jul 01, 2015 12:48:35 pm PDT #122 of 30003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I've been getting a steady stream of negative feedback on everything I've edited for the past 2 weeks, and I genuinely can't tell if I've suddenly lost the ability to edit or if my boss has suddenly gotten a lot pickier. I think it's probably both, because I definitely missed some things, but then she also keeps giving me feedback like "cut back on the jargon!" and as an example says I should have changed "times of testing" to "testing times."
And, I have to say, I am ALWAYS going to miss things like that, because they read as completely normal to me. I think of jargon as language like you hear in an episode of ER: "The patient required a blood draw for STAT labs." But, really, "times of testing" is jargon?
I know that my boss gets feedback from the managers above her, so if THEY have started getting pickier, it makes sense. But I still feel like this is something I'm going to fail at, because my brain doesn't parse these tiny distinctions very well.
I had been getting more or less consistently good feedback for a while now -- not on every article, but I'd say in the range of 65%-75% of the articles I edited. And I feel like all of a sudden I don't know how to do this any more, even though I *thought* I did.
I'm just really frustrated and disheartened.