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Feeling a little frustrated with my job.
Not the rage inducing, "I'm going to quit if one other thing goes wrong" kinda thing I was experiencing a couple years ago.
Just annoyed with a lot of little things that just don't make any sense to me.
I get lectured on wasting paper for having to print a single page multiple times (you ask me to fix one thing, I fix that one thing, and reprint it. If you don't tell me that there are six other things you want me to fix, until I've fixed it and reprinted it six times, who's fault is it, really?), and yet the company will print several hundred page documents, automatically and daily, that have no use until the annual audit. And I get lectured on/accused of paper waste?
Its frustrating.
Its also frustrating when I interpret instructions a certain way, and my supervisor disagrees with me.
Remember the last time this happened? I called into the source, and politely showed everyone up, and reinforced that I do in fact know what the hell I'm doing?
I guess I'm going to have to do it again if this keeps up.
I'm tired of pretending that I am less intelligent than actually I am, just for the sole purpose of avoiding inter-office conflict.
And speaking of brazilla... She's the department supervisor.
But when we need her supervision, she's already left for the day. Sure, she gets here at friggin' 6 AM, but you know what? You can't be a supervisor if you aren't present to supervise.
...Remind me again why I *choose* to be the last one to leave more often than not?
I guess I'm trying to prove that I am, in fact, supervisor material.
Seems that my attempts to do this with my actions have gone unnoticed, as no promotions have been offered to me.
The thing that's frustrating me the most at the moment, is that we have two systems that record transactions. One system records the transactions based on how they are processed by the branch tellers, and then the second system pulls that information and accumulates it by type of transaction.
Now, depending on how a teller processes a transaction, one or both of these systems may fail to record the transaction.
So that's what's frustrating me. We're supposed to be as accurate with possible, but the systems we use to base that accuracy upon are faulty, so it results in if you do the processing in one system, you'll get a different result/total of transactions than the other. So instead of using one or the other, you have to check BOTH.
So, majority of the stuff is duplicate (read: big waste of time), but we have to do it in order to catch the stuff that falls through the cracks in one system or the other.
I just can't for the life of me figure out why the company is buying more banks to force this crappy system on instead of stopping and taking the time to invest in a system that actually works 100%, and has a good ratio of idiot-proofing.
Probably wishful thinking for this workplace, but a man can dream, right? lol.
I don't know why, but I got singled out twice today.
Once right after I got in, from a guy that works in facilities (the people that acquire and maintain the buildings the company does business out of). He mentioned to me that there was an opening in the branch. I know he was just joking around, but it still irked me that he was suggesting I move DOWN in the corporate food chain.
Then later in the morning, my boss came to remind the group that day light savings time was this weekend, and then singled me out, saying not to forget to me directly. Quick-witted, I replied "well, that's what cell-phone alarms are for. They update automatically." He kinda stuttered over himself after that.
I honestly think we've got a case of insensitive medical discrimination here (I have a doctor's note on file regarding several medical conditions that can affect my work performance. One of these conditions is insomnia.
So day-light savings (losing an hour) + insomnia = me wanting to time travel into the past, and punch Benjamin Franklin and that other british guy in their faces for coming up with Daylight savings. You have time to spare to get up that early to enjoy the sunlight, you get your own ass out of bed and smell the daisies. I'll happily stay in bed and get that extra hour of sleep before I need to get myself to work, thank you very much.
On the plus side, I did get a nice raise a few months ago. It enabled me to buy the 2010 Honda Insight I'm currently driving (or at least put me in a position to pay-back the loan for the car), so that's a definite plus, and it most certainly isn't ALL bad.
Work is steady and stable, and prospects are good its going to keep that way. We're getting ready to get busier, as the newer banks purchased are getting ready to convert over to the main system we use, and my department will be in charge of monitoring their accounts, so no shortage of work.
Also, making myself more valuable by exercising both my creative side as well as my knowledge of several documents that my department processes. I wrote up a how-to for the upgraded forms that our branches will be using. I find this activity much more enjoyable than what I have been doing, but that may just because its something that keeps me busy, and breaks up the usual monotony of what I do day-to-day. I'm also now responsible for creating examples and scenarios for how to fill out these forms based on situations that arise often, that are fairly complicated.
I can honestly say that I am proud to be in charge of this task, and it also re-inforces that I am intelligent, I know what I'm doing when it comes to this documentation, and that my creative side hasn't shriveled up and died in spite of all the analytical work that we do here.
In life news, I'm volunteering to work the registration booths for Everfree Northwest, the local pony con.
First booth, I might be running by myself for four days at the end of this month, selling admission for Everfree in July during Sakura Con. Benefit is I get into Sakura Con for free, but I'm going to be busy for the majority of the time, and I don't have money to be spending on anime/manga and the like, but I do enjoy window shopping, and might find something that's worth opening my wallet for.
No news on the romance front. I haven't seen Heather at the bus stop lately, but I think that's because she's either catching an earlier bus than I do, or perhaps a later one. I'm not stalking her, so I don't know what her schedule is like. Still, keeping an eye out, though I've been out of the dating game for so long, I honestly don't know the right way to approach someone without the possibility of making them uncomfortable if they're not mutually interested.
Silent Nebula
Last night, I finally caved, and found that I could work on sprites/pixel art while having a conversation with my brony pals over Skype, since we do that a couple times a week, and last couple times we didn't occupy ourselves with videogame distraction, so I figured, perfect time to do something that my dyslexia will actually allow me to do.
Churned out a partially updated (Work In Progress) sprite for my Fox space marine, Cody Veles. I can't link to it since I'm at work, but I replaced my old user icons for my FA and DA galleries with the newer sprite. Its not animated, but I'm happy with how its looking so far. If you feel like checking it out, the user is kliefox for both galleries.
Current plan is to give Cody's pants a Desert MARPAT digitial camoflage pattern. I started doing the pattern pixel-by pixel last night, but didn't get a pattern down that I was happy with yet.
I know its going to be a bitch to animate later, but if I do it right, it'll look sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet, so I'm pretty excited about what I can do next with it.
Mood: Tired, but good.
Music: Mookie - Deus Ex unato ethereal mix
Not the rage inducing, "I'm going to quit if one other thing goes wrong" kinda thing I was experiencing a couple years ago.
Just annoyed with a lot of little things that just don't make any sense to me.
I get lectured on wasting paper for having to print a single page multiple times (you ask me to fix one thing, I fix that one thing, and reprint it. If you don't tell me that there are six other things you want me to fix, until I've fixed it and reprinted it six times, who's fault is it, really?), and yet the company will print several hundred page documents, automatically and daily, that have no use until the annual audit. And I get lectured on/accused of paper waste?
Its frustrating.
Its also frustrating when I interpret instructions a certain way, and my supervisor disagrees with me.
Remember the last time this happened? I called into the source, and politely showed everyone up, and reinforced that I do in fact know what the hell I'm doing?
I guess I'm going to have to do it again if this keeps up.
I'm tired of pretending that I am less intelligent than actually I am, just for the sole purpose of avoiding inter-office conflict.
And speaking of brazilla... She's the department supervisor.
But when we need her supervision, she's already left for the day. Sure, she gets here at friggin' 6 AM, but you know what? You can't be a supervisor if you aren't present to supervise.
...Remind me again why I *choose* to be the last one to leave more often than not?
I guess I'm trying to prove that I am, in fact, supervisor material.
Seems that my attempts to do this with my actions have gone unnoticed, as no promotions have been offered to me.
The thing that's frustrating me the most at the moment, is that we have two systems that record transactions. One system records the transactions based on how they are processed by the branch tellers, and then the second system pulls that information and accumulates it by type of transaction.
Now, depending on how a teller processes a transaction, one or both of these systems may fail to record the transaction.
So that's what's frustrating me. We're supposed to be as accurate with possible, but the systems we use to base that accuracy upon are faulty, so it results in if you do the processing in one system, you'll get a different result/total of transactions than the other. So instead of using one or the other, you have to check BOTH.
So, majority of the stuff is duplicate (read: big waste of time), but we have to do it in order to catch the stuff that falls through the cracks in one system or the other.
I just can't for the life of me figure out why the company is buying more banks to force this crappy system on instead of stopping and taking the time to invest in a system that actually works 100%, and has a good ratio of idiot-proofing.
Probably wishful thinking for this workplace, but a man can dream, right? lol.
I don't know why, but I got singled out twice today.
Once right after I got in, from a guy that works in facilities (the people that acquire and maintain the buildings the company does business out of). He mentioned to me that there was an opening in the branch. I know he was just joking around, but it still irked me that he was suggesting I move DOWN in the corporate food chain.
Then later in the morning, my boss came to remind the group that day light savings time was this weekend, and then singled me out, saying not to forget to me directly. Quick-witted, I replied "well, that's what cell-phone alarms are for. They update automatically." He kinda stuttered over himself after that.
I honestly think we've got a case of insensitive medical discrimination here (I have a doctor's note on file regarding several medical conditions that can affect my work performance. One of these conditions is insomnia.
So day-light savings (losing an hour) + insomnia = me wanting to time travel into the past, and punch Benjamin Franklin and that other british guy in their faces for coming up with Daylight savings. You have time to spare to get up that early to enjoy the sunlight, you get your own ass out of bed and smell the daisies. I'll happily stay in bed and get that extra hour of sleep before I need to get myself to work, thank you very much.
On the plus side, I did get a nice raise a few months ago. It enabled me to buy the 2010 Honda Insight I'm currently driving (or at least put me in a position to pay-back the loan for the car), so that's a definite plus, and it most certainly isn't ALL bad.
Work is steady and stable, and prospects are good its going to keep that way. We're getting ready to get busier, as the newer banks purchased are getting ready to convert over to the main system we use, and my department will be in charge of monitoring their accounts, so no shortage of work.
Also, making myself more valuable by exercising both my creative side as well as my knowledge of several documents that my department processes. I wrote up a how-to for the upgraded forms that our branches will be using. I find this activity much more enjoyable than what I have been doing, but that may just because its something that keeps me busy, and breaks up the usual monotony of what I do day-to-day. I'm also now responsible for creating examples and scenarios for how to fill out these forms based on situations that arise often, that are fairly complicated.
I can honestly say that I am proud to be in charge of this task, and it also re-inforces that I am intelligent, I know what I'm doing when it comes to this documentation, and that my creative side hasn't shriveled up and died in spite of all the analytical work that we do here.
In life news, I'm volunteering to work the registration booths for Everfree Northwest, the local pony con.
First booth, I might be running by myself for four days at the end of this month, selling admission for Everfree in July during Sakura Con. Benefit is I get into Sakura Con for free, but I'm going to be busy for the majority of the time, and I don't have money to be spending on anime/manga and the like, but I do enjoy window shopping, and might find something that's worth opening my wallet for.
No news on the romance front. I haven't seen Heather at the bus stop lately, but I think that's because she's either catching an earlier bus than I do, or perhaps a later one. I'm not stalking her, so I don't know what her schedule is like. Still, keeping an eye out, though I've been out of the dating game for so long, I honestly don't know the right way to approach someone without the possibility of making them uncomfortable if they're not mutually interested.
Silent Nebula
Last night, I finally caved, and found that I could work on sprites/pixel art while having a conversation with my brony pals over Skype, since we do that a couple times a week, and last couple times we didn't occupy ourselves with videogame distraction, so I figured, perfect time to do something that my dyslexia will actually allow me to do.
Churned out a partially updated (Work In Progress) sprite for my Fox space marine, Cody Veles. I can't link to it since I'm at work, but I replaced my old user icons for my FA and DA galleries with the newer sprite. Its not animated, but I'm happy with how its looking so far. If you feel like checking it out, the user is kliefox for both galleries.
Current plan is to give Cody's pants a Desert MARPAT digitial camoflage pattern. I started doing the pattern pixel-by pixel last night, but didn't get a pattern down that I was happy with yet.
I know its going to be a bitch to animate later, but if I do it right, it'll look sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet, so I'm pretty excited about what I can do next with it.
Mood: Tired, but good.
Music: Mookie - Deus Ex unato ethereal mix