Hi peeps.
Having a down day.
Sitting in my messy and chaotic apartment but with no will to do anything. (I'm trying to talk myself into it.)
Job search is not going well.
Went to see a prospective apartment (room-mate situation). I would have to get rid of so much stuff and she seems really uncertain about the whole thing. She also has lots of stuff and has been doing the rent rooms to grad students for 2-3 years since 2001. I'm not sure she hasn't been talked into doing something different by our shared counselor.
Sorry sumi. This is where I tell you to sell everything and come live in my spare room for 2-3 years and figure stuff out in no rush.
Well ... my boss just asked me to take on the responsibility of doing expense reports for a staff person (higher than me, lower than the boss) who seemingly is incapable of doing them himself. He has a company credit card but doesn't see any need to keep receipts, so boss has to go over pages and pages of the credit card statement and work on it.
I am extremely reluctant to take this on. Not only is this someone I have had periodic run-ins with, but the other person in the department at my level is also acting as his personal assistant in a number of ways (making calls for him, checking on details, pulling information, making copies, etc.). BUT ... the job may depend on it ....
Oh jeez, Toddson. Hopefully you can figure out a way to wiggle out. That will bring nothing but grief.
Timelies all!
I am the third or fourth oldest person in my lab.(The head of the lab and one senior scientist are definitely older than me, and one person working in the blood core has a granddaughter so she might be older than me) Most of the people in the lab are post-bacs, so they are in their early-to-mid 20s.
With luck my gormless youthful postings are lost to the mists of internet history.(First place I started posting was GEnie, if anyone except Theodosia remembers it)
Oh, ugh, Toddson, that sounds like a terrible situation! I hope you can get out of that.
I hate jobs! why do we need them so badly?
Mine sucks, but I need it to survive. It's a Very Large Corporation, TM. And they keep coming up with ridiculous NEW IDEAS with UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS!
Today my manager almost gave me a heart attack by telling me I was in serious danger due to the NEW ATTENDANCE POLICY that means having 6 unplanned absences in 1 year is a VERBAL WARNING situation and that I couldn't be sick again until October.
Luckily, the more she tried to explain it to me the more unfair she realized it was and appealed it to her manager and knocked me out of the danger zone...and no cracks about Kenny Loggins or ARCHER!
But, it's typical of this very unwieldy company that everything they do seems very poorly planned and guaranteed to fail. It's exhausting!
Yikes, quester. That's such corporate bullshit.
And the best part is every year just before the holidays, they let us know how badly things are going and how they will have to trim the budget and we get to guess who's job will disappear next! Happy Holidays!
They suck, but I'm 61 and not exactly living in a hot bed of industry now.
