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thebratqueenSo the meeting went off pretty well. There was insanity and last minute-ness and OMG yummy food for lunch (including these brownie/cakey/puddingy things for dessert that I ended up having 5 of). And! And? My boss thanked me for all the hard work I did to help get the meeting ready. *basks happily in the joy of being recognized*
And I did go home early and then NAPPED.
About the only real downside was this one guy at work who treats me like it's my job to do the shitwork. Granted in my job description it does include helping this guy (and the whole dept) if they need it, so the concept of him asking is not totally out of the realm of acceptability. But I swear every time he gives me something it's with this 'tude of "This is a shit job nobody would want to do, so let's have TBQ do it."
Which just goes to show how management style is everything, because some of the stuff he asks is similiar to stuff others in the dept have asked for, but when others ask it's with a sense of "Here's a project that needs to be done, this is a task that's a part of that project, it'd be great if you could help me with it." So even if the job itself is the most god-awful thing, you don't feel bad about being asked to do it.
(And the great part is that very often these jobs that most people would hate to do are either things that I actually enjoy doing and/or things that I don't hate to do because I know ways to do it better/faster than the people asking me. I've lost count now of how many times I've been given assignments that the assigner anticipated would take a week and I got it done in a day, tops.)
But with this guy it's more like "This is a shit job, so by definition TBQ should do it." So you can see how there's a world of difference in the methods here.
Anyhoo, bringing this to today, one of the big projects I've been helping with over the past month involves these HUGE databases in spreadsheet form. I'll spare you the boring details, but suffice it to say that even with me being speedy McSpeederson this was about a solid month of work for me and one of my co-workers, and the home stretch was this week with the slightly less glamorous job of printing and binding 10 copies of the end result so that it could be distributed at today's meeting. And the printing/binding ended up needing to be done by me in house because someonecoughmybosscough kept making so many last minute changes that there was no time to send it over to Kinko's to have them do it.
And on top of THAT was about 33 other binders that needed updating (and see above re: why Kinko's couldn't do it), and packets of handouts that needed printing and sorting, and a powerpoint presentation that needed to be created, and oh yeah one of the printers broke yesterday and the color copier is always persnickety, and long story short you can see why yesterday I earned a "Wow" when my boss saw how much I got done yesterday, and why him taking the time today to say he really appreciated all that I did to put the meeting together was so huge.
Contrast that with ShitJob guy, whose only comment to me after the meeting was to hand one of the binders back to me and say that he wanted two more copies. No thanks. No comment on a good job having been done. No indication of understanding how much work had been put into this. Just letting me know that I'd fallen short in meeting his expectations as my role of copy girl.
Eye. ROLL.
As I write this, you know what he reminds me of? Old Boss. The one who, when he would see me doing the monthly recalls early, would never say anything about it except "So billing's not done yet?" One comment that took me from being the great employee who was ahead of the game to the shit employee who was now late. That's what this guy is like.
Anyway, not a HUGE problem. Certainly still better than dealing with Old Boss. And thankfully my Immediate Boss is pretty much made of awesome. It's just eyerolly. So here I am, eyerolling.
And that's about it.
And I did go home early and then NAPPED.
About the only real downside was this one guy at work who treats me like it's my job to do the shitwork. Granted in my job description it does include helping this guy (and the whole dept) if they need it, so the concept of him asking is not totally out of the realm of acceptability. But I swear every time he gives me something it's with this 'tude of "This is a shit job nobody would want to do, so let's have TBQ do it."
Which just goes to show how management style is everything, because some of the stuff he asks is similiar to stuff others in the dept have asked for, but when others ask it's with a sense of "Here's a project that needs to be done, this is a task that's a part of that project, it'd be great if you could help me with it." So even if the job itself is the most god-awful thing, you don't feel bad about being asked to do it.
(And the great part is that very often these jobs that most people would hate to do are either things that I actually enjoy doing and/or things that I don't hate to do because I know ways to do it better/faster than the people asking me. I've lost count now of how many times I've been given assignments that the assigner anticipated would take a week and I got it done in a day, tops.)
But with this guy it's more like "This is a shit job, so by definition TBQ should do it." So you can see how there's a world of difference in the methods here.
Anyhoo, bringing this to today, one of the big projects I've been helping with over the past month involves these HUGE databases in spreadsheet form. I'll spare you the boring details, but suffice it to say that even with me being speedy McSpeederson this was about a solid month of work for me and one of my co-workers, and the home stretch was this week with the slightly less glamorous job of printing and binding 10 copies of the end result so that it could be distributed at today's meeting. And the printing/binding ended up needing to be done by me in house because someone
And on top of THAT was about 33 other binders that needed updating (and see above re: why Kinko's couldn't do it), and packets of handouts that needed printing and sorting, and a powerpoint presentation that needed to be created, and oh yeah one of the printers broke yesterday and the color copier is always persnickety, and long story short you can see why yesterday I earned a "Wow" when my boss saw how much I got done yesterday, and why him taking the time today to say he really appreciated all that I did to put the meeting together was so huge.
Contrast that with ShitJob guy, whose only comment to me after the meeting was to hand one of the binders back to me and say that he wanted two more copies. No thanks. No comment on a good job having been done. No indication of understanding how much work had been put into this. Just letting me know that I'd fallen short in meeting his expectations as my role of copy girl.
Eye. ROLL.
As I write this, you know what he reminds me of? Old Boss. The one who, when he would see me doing the monthly recalls early, would never say anything about it except "So billing's not done yet?" One comment that took me from being the great employee who was ahead of the game to the shit employee who was now late. That's what this guy is like.
Anyway, not a HUGE problem. Certainly still better than dealing with Old Boss. And thankfully my Immediate Boss is pretty much made of awesome. It's just eyerolly. So here I am, eyerolling.
And that's about it.
