This is a work rant at myself.

I fucked up something at work. Now, I can't tell yet if this is a really big fuck up or a really small, insignificant one - I recounted it to a friend, and she doesn't think it's a problem. But I'm a perfectionist, with a new boss, and it is looming HUGE in my mind. I hate, hate, hate getting anything wrong - and I could have avoided this with a little more effort.

But my mind wasn't on the job. I'm the only one to blame here, and I have fucked up.

*worries*

*hugs*

Thanks, Maeve.

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Originally posted by remote:
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working new job. today is one of those days where there is lots of brain storming and hair pulling and name calling. and its swinging from ultra-stress to absurdist humour. and i'm on the verge of becoming incapacitated. argh.

~hugs~
I hope you did n't get hit by the dead hand of Sam Beckett in the end?
~hugs for Hive too~

*hugs*

but tell your boss, a problem can become bigger if avoided, but may be tiny if fixed now. and you'll not rest whilst it is playing on your mind.

that's what i tell my staff and i've learnt that from experience

*nods*

goodluck!

Thanks, Smaug - I've already done what I can to fix it.

good!

then ~~vibes~~ it turns out to be the minor type of mistake./

And *hugs*
Your boss knows you're not perfect and all he probably wants is for you to solve it as well as possible.

See it like this: at least if you make a mistake I assume only a handful of people see it, if I make one, a potential 40.000 people see it (and complain to my boss)

Thanks, Babylon.

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Originally posted by Babylon the Bride:
See it like this: at least if you make a mistake I assume only a handful of people see it, if I make one, a potential 40.000 people see it (and complain to my boss)

Alas, if I really did seriously fuck up at work, it's possible that it would be in front of an audience of some of the most senior people in the country! (I'm a peon, I hasten to add, in a very odd kind of service job.) This may be the reason why I am (usually) an obsessive checker and double-checker and triple-checker of things.

This isn't (touch wood) that kind of fuck up, but I still may have pissed off someone very senior. It's too early to tell!

It could be worse. Someone I know who does a job very similar to mine managed to seriously piss off Gorbachev! The sad thing was that we could all see it, and he still doesn't get it - he thinks he did a good job. At least I have some self-awareness...

It is not my responsibility if the secretary has decided to leave for the day. Nor is it my responsibility to ask for the name of the person whose package I have to deliver if there is no receptionist there.

Nor does that give you the right to talk to me with that disgusted tone that indicates that you think I am an idiot or a two year old. The fact is, you should be thankful I walked out in the heat right after my break to even try to deliver this. I got it on the desk. I should have just left it at that, but I wanted to be thorough just in case.

I don't think I have to say more, because I know my duties. And my rights.

Boss-lady was over an hour late today.
no explanation given.

and I'm the one who got no sleep at all last night.

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Originally posted by Hive-mind:


It could be worse. Someone I know who does a job very similar to mine managed to seriously piss off Gorbachev! The sad thing was that we could all see it, and he still doesn't get it - he thinks he did a good job. At least I have some self-awareness...

Wow! A job where you get to piss off Gorbachev is an awesome job!

to my boss:

we, your employees, already have 3 current research collections projects on the go. along with numerous research analysis tasks generated by previous projects. and your tender for one of the biggest projects we've done to date was successful.

you are not interested in this project. you've made that clear by sending myself and my colleague to a meeting that you, as company owner and new-business co-ordinator should have attended.

we have never attended new business meetings before. we did what you said and didn't agree to anything. the budget is small and their timings unrealistic, even without the other work we have on. we were diplomatic - we didn't point this out to them. but we stalled for time, expecting you to back us fully on this when we returned to the office.

and now, in light of your response to our report on that meeting, i would like to say this:

if you seriously think you can do this work in a week, go and do it in a sodding week.

yours disgruntled (still)

me

Dear Genius Programmer, if you think I can key 450,000 cells of data each month you are crazy. Just because some folks have data entry errors doesn't mean we all do. My work is always right and on time, but now you have taken away:

- my ability to utilize cut & paste
- my ability to manipulate the data for all of the other reports I use the info for

Now I have no time saving measures and I am unable to complete my other reporting duties! Plus, I now have alternating hot and cold tingling in my hands and wrist and I keep on dropping my keys and pens. You have reduced me to a data entry position without taking away any of my responsibilities to do analysis. You are breaking me!

WHY WON'T ANYONE LISTEN TO ME?!?!?!

-elbell-, get workman's comp for the carpal tunnel syndrome they've given you. they'll pay attention to that.

*glares at everyone's bosses*

*sings*

Workin' in a coal mine.

Goin' down, down, down.

Workin' in a coal mine.

Woop! About to slip down.

*hugs*

Dear silly corporate chefs (front office, not mine) and sales office-

So once again you send out a new catering guide to clients without letting us see it first to prepare. New items, new recipes and the first time we find out about them is when somebody orders the item.

SURPRISE!

We have to know ahead of time, because we need to order some of the ingredients in. Unlike the Tardis, our coolers and storerooms are -not- bigger on the inside than the outside. We don't keep unlimited quantities of random ingredients on hand. Thanks to you, someone always has to leave work and go to the grocery store.

Also, when we DO finally access the Official Recipes, it would be nice if what's in them matched what it says in the catering guide. That's what the customer expects, it's what the customer is ordering and it sure as hell should be what they get. They don't like

SURPRISES!

This happening once or even twice I could maybe understand. It's a lot to coordinate, but it's EVERY FUCKING TIME!

We are having days with $25- $30,000 in sales and no one has the time to dick around with this stuff. We are all working our butts off just to get done what we need to do.

Oh yeah, and that nifty new cookie? The one that after a week still has no specs and no recipe?

You did mean for me to make it up as I went along, didn't you?

Because I did

i bet it was a very good cookie

Yeah, unfortunately it was