Saturday niiiiiight
Dec. 17th, 2006 03:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quidditchgrrlToday was the last nail in the coffin. I spent the evening applying for any job that pays near what I'm making right now, regardless of what it is.
I am even willing to work as an administrative assistant, if that's what it takes to get out of here. (Note: nothing against AAs, but I am not a sit-down-job kind of person.)
I spent about an hour crying this morning, and things are at an end point when I'm crying over something that a) has to do with work, and b) shouldn't be an issue c) has never been an issue until now. I hardly ever (EVER!) cry over real-life stuff, especially not work stuff.
My boss sent me a nasty-gram about today's desk schedule. One of the Assistants asked to be taken off the returns desk because she'd planned to have a cyst in her wrist drained. This SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM, EVER. Because things like this come up, work flow changes, people call out sick, etc. Well. It seems I should never make any accommodation for a staff member without the express, written permission of my boss. Even though today was MY shift, and I've been doing this for, oh, SEVEN and A HALF YEARS. And the email was copied to the Library Manager.
I can't believe I was given 4s and 5s on my evaluation last month, I've been a huge part of turning this department around 180*, but now I can't be trusted with a simple staffing change.
This isn't a plea for sympathy - the fact of the matter is that I've accomplished what was set before me when I was hired, and it's high time that I moved on. I'm about a year overdue, I think. So it's my fault that I haven't been more aggressive about finding something new. And too bad I didn't get that #3 job downtown; I would have really enjoyed the challenge.
When the Library Manager gets back, I'm going to tell her to forget customer service training. She can find someone else to do that. I'm being used because they know that it'll get done if I have to run myself into the ground, and they'll be able to save a ton of money if the training is done in-house. If I can't have the respect I've earned for my accomplishments, they can't have my expertise.
Sigh. I hope getting that out makes me feel better. That stupid Jason Mraz song is on and being annoyingly catchy, too.
I am even willing to work as an administrative assistant, if that's what it takes to get out of here. (Note: nothing against AAs, but I am not a sit-down-job kind of person.)
I spent about an hour crying this morning, and things are at an end point when I'm crying over something that a) has to do with work, and b) shouldn't be an issue c) has never been an issue until now. I hardly ever (EVER!) cry over real-life stuff, especially not work stuff.
My boss sent me a nasty-gram about today's desk schedule. One of the Assistants asked to be taken off the returns desk because she'd planned to have a cyst in her wrist drained. This SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM, EVER. Because things like this come up, work flow changes, people call out sick, etc. Well. It seems I should never make any accommodation for a staff member without the express, written permission of my boss. Even though today was MY shift, and I've been doing this for, oh, SEVEN and A HALF YEARS. And the email was copied to the Library Manager.
I can't believe I was given 4s and 5s on my evaluation last month, I've been a huge part of turning this department around 180*, but now I can't be trusted with a simple staffing change.
This isn't a plea for sympathy - the fact of the matter is that I've accomplished what was set before me when I was hired, and it's high time that I moved on. I'm about a year overdue, I think. So it's my fault that I haven't been more aggressive about finding something new. And too bad I didn't get that #3 job downtown; I would have really enjoyed the challenge.
When the Library Manager gets back, I'm going to tell her to forget customer service training. She can find someone else to do that. I'm being used because they know that it'll get done if I have to run myself into the ground, and they'll be able to save a ton of money if the training is done in-house. If I can't have the respect I've earned for my accomplishments, they can't have my expertise.
Sigh. I hope getting that out makes me feel better. That stupid Jason Mraz song is on and being annoyingly catchy, too.
Surfing Fark provides all the amusement one needs on a Saturday night.
Well, all the amusement a person not able to drink can have.
First, Ten verses never preached on. If only the Sunday school teacher had mentioned these, I might have been a believer. Or not.
Second, The top 15 strangest coincidences. As someone who experiences a lot of deja vu and coincidence, this is kind of cool. I believe in the attraction of people and fate.
Anyone else think that Time's Person of the Year is super-lame? Way to cop out, Time-Warner. We all know it should have been Stephen Colbert! But he just mattered.
Today I got a Holiday card from someone I am most CERTAINLY not friends with, nor will I ever be friendly with again. It was like looking at a scar - you see the mark, but it doesn't feel like it happened to you, really.
Here are the Top 50 Singles of 2006. I'd say 99% of them are puke-worthy. Though I do dig Gnarls Barkley and I love me some JT. Shut up.
Ahahaha! That Laffy Taffy song is on the list! Can anyone tell me what the hell they mean by that? I love misogynistic rap music as much as the next 'ho (as my addiction for David Banner's "Play" shows), but even I couldn't make that out.
I had a massage Friday - painful! Even my facial muscles were sore; how is that possible?! But I'm not sore at all today. I could get used to that.
I'm tired.
Hope you're having a good weekend!
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Date: 2006-12-23 12:57 pm (UTC)