It is fucking hot. I only have one AC in this place and it's not in the room I'm in now.
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It is fucking hot. I only have one AC in this place and it's not in the room I'm in now.
Buy a fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
I feel for you, Finch. I have a package that customs in NYC has been holding hostage since the 12th.
I can't get out of bed. I left work 1 hour after showing up yesterday and I went home and haven't gotten out of bed other than to go to the bathroom. I don't even now how to quit my job properly. I feel if I go I'm just stealing money. I think 95% of my head is being consumed with this thing and I'm no good to anyone at 5%.
The boss tells me how great I am doing but that's all the feedback I get. I try to brainstorm things but there's just no back and forth, as if you're talking into a void. I don't see myself as the biggest self-starter in the world, but if it's something I really know I can own it myself. Hands-off management doesn't work if the employees don't know what they should be doing.
"Please test this."
"I think it's great."
"You haven't even looked at it."
"I did a little bit. We're really close now."
"To what?"
I give these people a test matrix and no one with any real knowledge will even bother to look at this stuff or listen to what my concerns are. About the only thing I ever hear is, "Wow, that's a tough one, I dunno". Like really?
I don't honestly even know if it's real or not. How much is in my head. They tell me that it isn't my fault, but I dunno. I want to be fired. "I can't fire you." I might be going a little bit crazy.
I just want a normal real person job where it doesn't feel as if everything is off kilter. I get my bearings and then we can tackle things.
You, uh... you sound depressed.
Go in, tell them you're unhappy with your current position and are leaving.
Then yell WU-TANG - and bark.
Or continue stealing money while doing something you truly love to do. You only win in this situation.
Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Thursdays.
Are you guys the HQ? If not the quickest way to either improve the situation or get fired is go higher up and tell them that people are not doing a good job around you, explain it to them and let them know specifically that your talents are being wasted. Or quit, take a dump on the bosses desk, or voice all your concerns and tell them "That's why I'm leaving."Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
If there was a higher up I would do that. But he's the owner. And he just isn't a good manager. But as this is a family business, he became the manager I guess. And I feel bad because he thinks everyone but me is stupid. And I try to tell him that maybe they need training, you know, because they don't have the required knowledge.
But I am the only one that has my job. I have to peruse catalogs to assign fully-intelligent (I will use that term as there is no serialized component to the number) numbers to products from other companies in the hopes to consolidate SKUs across multiple companies. First of all, warning bells should have blared out at about 120 dB at that point. That is one hell of a slippery slope. And depending on the scope and the item (and both) that ranges from trivial to not trivial to ridiculous. And if you don't now how things interface with each other, it is even more absurd. Then you create algorithms to automatically generate these numbers and descriptions and store attributes based on internal user input. So I have a billion tables and cross-product tables that border on absurdity.
Problem is, that is a nightmare. a) How many attributes identify uniqueness? b) Are these the appropriate attributes to identify said uniqueness? c) Is everything that will receive this SKU actually unique? and then there are other problems d through z but whatever. And if you blow the scope out to THE ENTIRE WORLD then you have a real issue where you really have to have a solid plan. I don't like the idea in the first place. And I don't know enough about some of these things to even figure out if I would be comfortable with it. And no one else here knows either. We don't actually make any of this stuff. So I call companies and sort of beat around the bush because if I told them what I was doing, they'd either a) laugh at me, or b) be pissed because some clown with no real knowledge is misrepresenting our parts. The questions are always, "What kind of material are you trying to work with?".."Well, I'm not working with any material, could you please me how these two almost indentical things are different"
And then I have to talk to a patent lawyer! Why, this is a unique idea and no one does this blah blah blah. What kind of paint do you have to huff? And so either I am a retard or not a good fit or this is messed up.
So I just see red. And somehow I became the project manager but there was no actual plan or resource allocation or critical thought about risks and contingency plans. So it's like, "Just do what you're told, you'll be good". No, it doesn't work that way.