i have a heart like the sea

[cannedtomatos]

extra points for the winner of "name the musical she stole her subject line from"

i have too much free time at work. no really. a couple of weeks ago i discovered that i could crank out about a thousand words a day on any given topic. i keep a word doc open on my desk top and pick some topic in the morning and throughout the day, i'll click on my

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[plumettycat]

Miss Saigon.

Ask the boss about big picture questions... purpose, mission statement, etc. and see what you can glean from that. Then you can relate it to the larger picture. What I do supports the people who do the stuff that makes with the youknowwhat. Without what I do, they wouldn't be able to do what they do.

With Love,
The Engineer

[cannedtomatos]

oh, i get the big picture. i'm cool with the big picture. but i don;t know what to do when i sit at my desk all day. talking to me boss would be fine except for two things
1. he's never in the office. he's in norway or egypt or at one of our depots somewhere. rarely is he in the office.
2. he doesn't know what my job is either. each careerist path is pretty clearly outlined, but there's usually only one of me in each office. and since my boss has never been me, he doesn't know what to tell me.

the only thing i did today that was actually part of my job, was to fill out one form. a one page form at that. it was pretty exciting. but there are vast tracks of time in between these forms, and i don't know how to fill that time.

[cannedtomatos]

also, you get two points for naming the musical.

[aztecknight]

I get hung up on wanting to know all of that as well. I think you can find out by asking, but doing, and showing yourself to be interested and involved. It will come. Give it time.

[cannedtomatos]

seriously? eat me.

i've been at this job for five months. how much time do i give it?

[aztecknight]

Five months?

sigh

[cannedtomatos]

Thank you! i expected this the first month or two, but five? sheesh.

[mistressarafina]

I second what plumettycat says. Ask questions. Tell them how you feel and you might be surprised. I think most people don't want to know the big picture, just how to get through the day, so giving out the big pic info doesn't become routine.

Hope that makes sense.

[cannedtomatos]

i second my comments to plumettycat. quite truthfully, i wrote this little ditty with the intention of giving it to my boss. assuming i can nail him down for five minutes.

[mairegirl]

Look for the Storytellers at work, Some times Bosses are not the best(especially if you don't see them) but there is sure to be someone or someones with lots of institutional memory who loves to tell the work stores and you can piece together the bigger picture that way.