Friday, November 14, 2003

 

I Know How You Hate

to hear about my dreams.

But I dreamed I discovered that Bet lived in my apartment building. It was awesome. We ordered out from the Teriyaki place across the street together.

How cool would that be?

posted by Krizzer 4:26 PM

 

Double Damn

Well, I checked in to all of the schools in Washington State that offer a Dental Hygiene program, (there's only about 5-6) and I'm not going to be able to get THEIR requirements done in time either. That's the thing, I was taking my classes in preparation for Shoreline, other schools have other requirements.

Initially, I looked at the the list of classes and said to myself "well, this will take me a year and a half to complete, since I have to work." And that was that. Ok, I wish it was sooner, but that's how it is. THEN I was looking over the pre-requisites and I realized that you didn't have to take all of them you just needed 3 advanced sciences and 4 general requirements. Most of the general reqs I already have from my degree at Western, and I could get the advanced sciences done by the end of spring quarter. So I emailed the college and they said YES the classes you take in spring quarter still count. But I wasn't counting that you had to have microbiology by the end of Winter.

So, it's back to the 2-year plan. POOOOOOOP!

But I am still looking for a new job. As I have been for the last four years since I started working in this hell-hole. I don't think I can stand another 2 years here.

As a matter of fact, Wednesday I was about to:

Take This Job and Shove It!

Part 1

Several weeks ago I had an assignment thrown on my desk at the last minute. "We want to put an ad in the NameWithheld Magazine. The deadline is 3pm, why don't you throw something together"

Now, I won't bore you with the details of my job. But I am NOT a graphic designer. I am NOT in avertisining. I'm NOT even slightly qualified to do those things, nor does that have anything to do with my job, nor do I get paid anything close to what those people get paid. But hey, what can I do? I guess, just the best I can. Now, don't get me wrong, I LIKE doing stuff like that. But I don't have any of the right tools, nor experience, nor did I have any TIME to do it in. And when I went to my boss (#1) for feedback (I think I simply asked if he wanted color or black and white) he YELLED at me! He was stressing about something else and totally snapped at me "I don't know! You just TAKE CARE OF IT and let me know what you come up with!!!!" I got PISSED. I responded "well, then, I'll take care of it by throwing it in the garbage, how about that?" But I said it under my breath, sort of, and he was walking away.

So, I have like 3 hours to put this ad together. I have to MAKE a logo since the ad isn't for our normal company, it's for a specific job we did with our joint venture, and we don't have a logo or letterhead or anything. I have to make it in paintbrush cause that's all I have. I get the project manager to email 4-5 pictures from the jobsite. There were some really cool pictures of an excavator in front of this enormous burn pile (that's what we did there, cleared a whole bunch of brush and fallen trees and stuff and put them in a huge pile and burned them. Then we leveled the site) so I gave the magazine guy the pictures and the logo and drew up a rough draft of what I wanted. He said "don't stress out, I put them together and make them look nice."

So, I was super-pissed about the whole thing, mostly about being yelled at when I asked for help, but it was going to turn out fine. And if it didn't, well my bosses can go to hell. They get what they get and they're lucky to get it.

End of Part 1

Part 2

I'm sitting at my desk on Wednesday and I hear someone in the next room say "Hey, is this our ad in the NameWithheld Magazine?" and my boss (#2) and an employee are looking at the ad. I hadn't seen it yet, so I went in to check it out. When I get there they are saying "Ew! What's that logo? Ew! What are these pictures! It looks like we're burning down the jobsite!" I walked up and said "Hey guys, I did that ad, so take it easy." I figured they didn't know it was me that put the ad together and I'd give them a chance to be nice, I mean I was standing right there. The employee took the hint and sat down and shut up. But my boss (#2) kept on making fun of the ad "Well, what kind of pictures are these? What's with all the smoke?" I said "Well, that's what we DID there!" and he said "Well, it looks terrible, would YOU want this company doing work for you?" and at that point I got mad, after all, considering the circumstances, I did damn well! It looks good! and I said "Well, then you can do it yourself next time." And I walked away, fuming.

So, he calls me into his office a few minutes later and tells me to shut the door. Don't you love that?
And he says "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. That's what just happened, right?" I said yes, that IS what happened. He says, but you've got to understand that there has to be an evaluation process in the work that you do, right? You have to be able to take criticism, and when you start saying "do it yourself", well then we don't need you anymore.

That's where I really lost it. I told him "That's not my job! People get paid a lot of money to do that. If you ask me to do something that's not my job, how can you criticize me if you don't like the results!?" He said, well I was here to do the work they gave me. Which is BS, just cause I work here does not make me their dogsbody. I'm here to do a particular job, if they told me to go outside and hammer shingles to the roof, would I have to do that? I described the circumstances of the assignment, including getting yelled at when I asked for guidance, and said I think I did a damn good job. I asked him how he would like it if I was his boss and said to him "I need you to choreograph this ballet by tonight." and you do it, cause I'm your boss, but you don't know anything about ballet or have any experience, but you do the best you can. Then when I go see the ballet I make fun of your work and tell you it stinks. How would he like that? Would I even have a right to complain? I shouldn't have asked him to do it in the first place, if I wanted a professional job, I should have hired a professional, instead of cheaping out and getting him to do it.

Anyway, of course we didn't see eye to eye. But I was so pissed about it I had a hard time sleeping that night. I'm STILL pissed about it. It's times like these I really really wish I didn't NEED my job. Or that I could find something else where I didn't have to work for assholes.

End Part 2

posted by Krizzer 10:09 AM

Thursday, November 13, 2003

 

Oh Crap

I just found out that I will NOT be elligible to apply to Shoreline to the Dental Hygiene program this year. Stupid Microbiology! I can't take it until Spring Quarter this year because of my STUPID JOB and it has to be done by the end of Winter Quarter.

So, now I'm doing some checking around, to schools that are maybe farther away. I guess I was going to have to move anyway, I may just be moving farther away. I already looked into the other school that is somewhat close, in Kirkland, and it costs $5,000 more and I'd need to have all my prereqs done already. So that's out.

CRAP! I really hate my job, and I HATE the thought that I'm going to have to be here for another 2 years! Thinking "hang in there, you just gotta make it through summer" has really helped me not go crazy! Now it's pushed back another year!!!!

So, I'm not feeling so victorious anymore.

posted by Krizzer 3:23 PM

 

Because I Rock, and So Do They

JBean asked in my comments, why is my iMood "Victorious." Well I'll tell you.

Monday I took Exam #2 out of 3 for my Anthropology class. Now, on the first test I only got a 93%, which pissed me off because it's an A-, not an A. And really pissed me off because the question I got marked down for I SWEAR was not covered in the material. I mean, I studied. It's not like I said "Oh, shoot, I just can't remember the answer to that one!" It was a case of "Huh? I've never even SEEN that before." So, it pissed me off. I went back after the test and STILL didn't find that information in our Study Guide or Video Programs (it being a telecourse, there's no lecture, and he told us we didn't need to buy the book). So the A- on the test pissed me off, but I got 100% on all 11 papers I wrote (in fact, my prof told me he photocopied my essays to use as examples in the future...woo-hoo!) so I'm still at a very comfortable A.

ANYWAYS! I took test #2 on monday and I ROCKED IT! I knew the answer to every question. And I wrote some very good "short answer" essays. If I didn't ACE that test I'm shocked. So I'm victorious.

Also, the Sonics are off to a great start this season, and that makes me really happy. We just one 2 nail-biters in a row. I'm exhausted from it, I don't know how the players can handle it! So they're victorious.

They rock, I rock. So that's that.

posted by Krizzer 3:04 PM

Monday, November 10, 2003

 

Monday Manners

All right all you slackers! Suck that belly in! Straighten that line! Get your beard out of your mouth!

Let's get some manners around here!

From the chapter "At Table"

Don't eat onions or garlic, unless you are dining alone, and intend to remain alone some hours thereafter. One should not wish to carry with him unpleasant evidences of what he has been eating or drinking.

What if your host serves roasted garlic with onion sauce? Should you be rude and pass? After all, we already know we're not allowed a second helping of soup, do we just go hungry?

posted by Krizzer 12:27 PM