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Unsolved Mystery
Jul. 27th, 2007 06:51 pm
I'm still trying to figure out why my piano teacher gave me a Cecilia Bartolli album instead of a piano music one that last year I was with him (he didn't know I was quitting yet).
Jul. 27th, 2007
Real Work - National PMS Day
Jul. 27th, 2007 11:29 pm
Cow-orker (the young'un): "You walk home, right?"
Me: "Yah"
Cow-orker: "Do you want a ride?"
Me: "No thanks, I like my... uh ... daily stroll."
Sorry, I still don't trust you ;)
(not to mention it's only a 7-minute walk anyway)
Sheesh, everyone was so grumpy today, despite my managers ordering pizza and popsicles for everyone. The tilers got frustrated at the shoddy old tile work and ditched us (again); someone bumped the piping on the new freezer in the warehouse and it started leaking; the rack layout on the blueprints was impossible to execute in practice, and everyone was just getting fed up with everyone else in general.
Me: "Yah"
Cow-orker: "Do you want a ride?"
Me: "No thanks, I like my... uh ... daily stroll."
Sorry, I still don't trust you ;)
(not to mention it's only a 7-minute walk anyway)
Sheesh, everyone was so grumpy today, despite my managers ordering pizza and popsicles for everyone. The tilers got frustrated at the shoddy old tile work and ditched us (again); someone bumped the piping on the new freezer in the warehouse and it started leaking; the rack layout on the blueprints was impossible to execute in practice, and everyone was just getting fed up with everyone else in general.
[11:59:37 PM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: *sigh*
[11:59:45 PM] Mekkanik: s'up?
[11:59:56 PM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: even the coworkers
i thought i'd be able to get along with i find too bitchy and whine
about everything
[12:00:24 AM] Mekkanik: ugh.
[12:00:31 AM] Mekkanik: you get them everywhere
[12:00:50 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: and none of them
i really want to 'bond' with and know better
[12:01:09 AM] Mekkanik: that hurts...
[12:01:35 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: it's funny the odd
stuff they bitch about
[12:01:47 AM] Mekkanik: heh.
[12:01:59 AM] Mekkanik: humans are rarely a content lot.
[12:02:06 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: we remove shelves
from places and we sorta stack them elsewhere in a fashion that
we hope will make them easy to retrieve and put them back in the
right places, right
[12:02:21 AM] Mekkanik: yeah..
[12:02:21 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: now, when someone
moves those around and messes up their order while we're out
and we come back to them
[12:02:38 AM] Mekkanik: ugh
[12:02:45 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i'm the only one
who actually *knows* what my set of shelves look like and
where everything actually goes on them
[12:02:56 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: everyone else is
freaking out because the shelves weren't where they left
them
[12:03:11 AM] Mekkanik: yoicks
[12:03:14 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i just pick out
what they look like by recognizing the price labels for
the products that were on them
[12:03:27 AM] Mekkanik: sounds like a regular circus to me
[12:03:37 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: like, why didn't
they even think of capturing a mental image of what the
labels looked like?
[12:03:54 AM] Mekkanik: or failing that, use a clipboard maybe...
[12:03:55 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: so i'm done finding
and putting my shelves back in in moments
[12:04:41 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: and when they're
done putting shelves in they start to put the stuff back
on them and none of them blinks an eye and notices that a
couple of them they got in reverse positions because of
the pattern of the products on them
[12:05:13 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: and no one
acknowledged me when i said that 'after you're done with that
i'll fix those for you' (which i did)
[12:05:48 AM] Mekkanik: urgh...
[12:06:24 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: and one of them
just keeps whining about 'not doing anything twice'
[12:06:44 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: WELL HELLO PEOPLE
MAKE MISTAKES SOMETIMES and it's YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY
TO FIX IT IF YOU MAKE ONE
[12:07:07 AM] Mekkanik: yeah...
[12:07:17 AM] Mekkanik: that's perfectly true...
[12:07:34 AM] Mekkanik: if you dont wanna do it twice, dont make a mistake
in the first place
[12:07:47 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: so she's always
trying to make sure she has all the directions right before
she does anything but yet doesn't listen to any conflicting
but possibly better opinions
[12:08:06 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: just comes up with
her own way of doing it and then does it, then it's not
the most efficient, and she won't change it
[12:08:19 AM] Mekkanik: ah well...
[12:08:23 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: >_<
[12:08:26 AM] Mekkanik: want a piece of advise?
[12:08:30 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: *sigh*
[12:08:38 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i guess i just see
patterns where other people might miss them
[12:08:39 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: :(
[12:08:45 AM] Mekkanik: tell em once, twice. if they dont see your point,
then leave it.
[12:08:52 AM] Mekkanik: no sense flogging a dead horse.
[12:08:57 AM] Mekkanik: aint it?
[12:09:29 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i don't like having
to make the day managers mad at stuff *we* did wrong
when we could have done it right
[12:09:55 AM] Mekkanik: mmm...
[12:10:43 AM] Mekkanik: is there anything to say who worked on which lot?
[12:11:05 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: nope
[12:11:11 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: it's not a warehouse
job
[12:11:16 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: we don't have to
initial anything
[12:11:18 AM] Mekkanik: oh...
[12:11:51 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i only have two
modes of operation: uber-sloppy or extra-meticulous
[12:11:53 AM] Mekkanik: wass your manager say to this?
[12:11:58 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: nothing
[12:12:05 AM] Mekkanik: sounds like me.
[12:12:08 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: she doesn't watch
our every move or anything anyway
[12:12:19 AM] Mekkanik: mostly they dont...
[12:12:27 AM] Mekkanik: but this is what you could do...
[12:12:27 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: of course :P
[12:12:57 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: it's not that i'm
trying to show off and be all cocky and think i'm right
all the time or anything
[12:12:58 AM] Mekkanik: bring it to her notice as well.. saying it doen't
look good on your team for someone to be sloppy
[12:13:29 AM] Mekkanik: and then simply let it slide.
[12:14:01 AM] Mekkanik: s'not worth getting an ulcer over... ;)
[12:14:03 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: they're not really
sloppy per se, they're just okay with a half-assed job
(that is, not leaving the place *exactly* as it was
before we showed up on the scene)
[12:14:06 AM] Mekkanik: dig?
[12:14:57 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: so yeah i'm not
trying to be cocky, but i have ideas for efficient ways
to do things and no one's hearing them and all just wanna
do it the old tried and true way (which, as i've already
told you, isn't always... true, i guess)
[12:15:03 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: (or reliable)
[12:15:12 AM] Mekkanik: could be...
[12:15:28 AM] Mekkanik: s'hard to make your voice heard when you are
new on teh job...
[12:15:33 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i don't wanna
play my 'engineer' card but this is what engineering *should*
come down to - it's what engineering is about
[12:15:38 AM] Mekkanik: and in a non managerial kinda position.
[12:15:53 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: just stubborn people, mostly
[12:15:56 AM] Mekkanik: 'sides, this is not gonna be your career right?
[12:15:59 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: my manager's quite nice
[12:16:20 AM] Mekkanik: that's good in a way
[12:16:40 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i don't really
feel like a member of the group, i guess
[12:17:05 AM] Mekkanik: loosen up a bit... :) I know it gets on your
nerves...
[12:17:19 AM] Mekkanik: but given that...
[12:17:27 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i find myself
wandering around trying to find something i can do alone
[12:17:28 AM] Mekkanik: a) you aint gonna be here the rest of your life...
[12:17:55 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: i guess you can
say i don't feel like a *valuable* member of the group
and that bugs me
[12:18:08 AM] Mekkanik: mmmm
[12:18:21 AM] Mekkanik: you dont have to fit in everywhere...
[12:18:30 AM] Mekkanik: stop pushing yourself that hard... and be what
you are.
[12:18:32 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: well i don't fit
in anywhere :(
[12:18:48 AM] Tuuli Mustasydän ='( - Je maintiendrai: and where i think
i belong people don't want me