a whoop de doo
I've been feeling mighty indignant lately, people, work, how people I know and respect aren't being treated well at work.
Today I had a very concentrated case of, This Is HOW It's Going To BE!
I was doing ridiculous amounts of multi-tasking. While I'm editing videos in Premiere, I'm generating graphics in Illustrator, a database is run in the background to send out spammy email and I've got various browsers open uploading videos for dissemination and researching file formats, another program open to convert files and burn discs. Things are going hell-freeze slow and I am moving the windows back and forth trying to see the images underneath on a tiny monitor, while a new computer had arrived some weeks before that was specifically bought to make my job easier, to handle my line of heavy software use but was not under my fingertips. It's brand new with a wide screen, buttloads of RAM, and this other woman had absconded with it to write keywords in Excel sheets. First day she changed the wallpaper to a picture of herself and her newly married husband. Finally I tell her I am really going to have to make the switch to the better system, and she's reluctant in the annoying talkative way: maybe you can try it during my lunch break or time using it when I'm away (she's been taking a lot of vacation days even thought we all started at the same time)... mumble grumble
I get my supervisor to come out and comment on my work, which is basically awesome by company standards, and say, bt-dub what about this new system we're supposed to get going? Things are getting very crowded and slow on my PC, can I at least switch in the larger monitor until we get software set up on the other computer?
Yeah sure, if you think it would work better.
The woman says, but I need to see across the long spreadsheets.
The guy, assuagingly, I think for that the other one will be okay.
Damned straight! He happened be doing a similar job and understands my design/editing woes, and I was not going to take her ____blocking and went around and over to serve the man.
Thing is, the work and wages aren't worthy of us, 4 new people in a 7 person office space upstairs, paid to update blogs and networking sites of wealthy clients, 2 new hires to come submit videos and keywords into a feed for 8 hours a day. The woman of discussion is very well-educated in computer science but she's Indian and relatively new to the States, the economy's slow, and our company has only just started the whole social media marketing so that she's stuck reconfiguring various optimized search engine key phrases until they can make use of her http skills. She's in her thirties, been at this for 4 weeks, which was not well detailed to be her task at the interview or orientation. It IS ridiculous. She is definitely not getting the opportunity to match her capabilities and I'm just a young punk acting like I should have equal if not better sway. I try not to give in to her sour puss.
I have no doubt that business resources should be better distributed--technology to suit my operations and a job to suit her skills. It's just for this one incident my discrepancy was immediately fixable. Hers wasn't.
My salary was just barely raised above the 20k mark, but I have no benefits, many basics that were neglected and now need paying for; I feel very dead-ended. I'm not in a position to pursue much outside of this, to think about taking less hours and less pay for something slightly closer to what I purportedly want to do, until I've accumulated some appreciable equipment. Not while I have yet to support myself. and how my houselords let me know my disadvantage
Another coworker and I were also just shot down for our initiative, when so few other people care to even suggest improvement. There's little reward when you can't be appreciated for good work.
It would be well enough if I could work part-time at a cultural institution and part-time here--I've actually learned some elucidating things about marketing--vary the monotony, hone transferable skills. I could easily pass a year in those conditions.
I want us all to have better.
.
.
I bought two domain names. The coming Dreamweaver class should be something, I will crash it! my schedule doesn't allow Dance though
by the by, I will be following okapicrux dotwordpress dotcom. hopefully in a year my actual domain will be self-sufficient, but y'kno, it's hush hush on trying to keep it anonymous
Today I had a very concentrated case of, This Is HOW It's Going To BE!
I was doing ridiculous amounts of multi-tasking. While I'm editing videos in Premiere, I'm generating graphics in Illustrator, a database is run in the background to send out spammy email and I've got various browsers open uploading videos for dissemination and researching file formats, another program open to convert files and burn discs. Things are going hell-freeze slow and I am moving the windows back and forth trying to see the images underneath on a tiny monitor, while a new computer had arrived some weeks before that was specifically bought to make my job easier, to handle my line of heavy software use but was not under my fingertips. It's brand new with a wide screen, buttloads of RAM, and this other woman had absconded with it to write keywords in Excel sheets. First day she changed the wallpaper to a picture of herself and her newly married husband. Finally I tell her I am really going to have to make the switch to the better system, and she's reluctant in the annoying talkative way: maybe you can try it during my lunch break or time using it when I'm away (she's been taking a lot of vacation days even thought we all started at the same time)... mumble grumble
I get my supervisor to come out and comment on my work, which is basically awesome by company standards, and say, bt-dub what about this new system we're supposed to get going? Things are getting very crowded and slow on my PC, can I at least switch in the larger monitor until we get software set up on the other computer?
Yeah sure, if you think it would work better.
The woman says, but I need to see across the long spreadsheets.
The guy, assuagingly, I think for that the other one will be okay.
Damned straight! He happened be doing a similar job and understands my design/editing woes, and I was not going to take her ____blocking and went around and over to serve the man.
Thing is, the work and wages aren't worthy of us, 4 new people in a 7 person office space upstairs, paid to update blogs and networking sites of wealthy clients, 2 new hires to come submit videos and keywords into a feed for 8 hours a day. The woman of discussion is very well-educated in computer science but she's Indian and relatively new to the States, the economy's slow, and our company has only just started the whole social media marketing so that she's stuck reconfiguring various optimized search engine key phrases until they can make use of her http skills. She's in her thirties, been at this for 4 weeks, which was not well detailed to be her task at the interview or orientation. It IS ridiculous. She is definitely not getting the opportunity to match her capabilities and I'm just a young punk acting like I should have equal if not better sway. I try not to give in to her sour puss.
I have no doubt that business resources should be better distributed--technology to suit my operations and a job to suit her skills. It's just for this one incident my discrepancy was immediately fixable. Hers wasn't.
My salary was just barely raised above the 20k mark, but I have no benefits, many basics that were neglected and now need paying for; I feel very dead-ended. I'm not in a position to pursue much outside of this, to think about taking less hours and less pay for something slightly closer to what I purportedly want to do, until I've accumulated some appreciable equipment. Not while I have yet to support myself. and how my houselords let me know my disadvantage
Another coworker and I were also just shot down for our initiative, when so few other people care to even suggest improvement. There's little reward when you can't be appreciated for good work.
It would be well enough if I could work part-time at a cultural institution and part-time here--I've actually learned some elucidating things about marketing--vary the monotony, hone transferable skills. I could easily pass a year in those conditions.
I want us all to have better.
.
.
I bought two domain names. The coming Dreamweaver class should be something, I will crash it! my schedule doesn't allow Dance though
by the by, I will be following okapicrux dotwordpress dotcom. hopefully in a year my actual domain will be self-sufficient, but y'kno, it's hush hush on trying to keep it anonymous