Office happenings
My love has no bounds.
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I’ve been pretty clear on the fact that I love coffee, right?
I walked into the office this morning to find no coffee made. In a bout of hysteria I found the coffee grounds and filters and got the coffee brewing.
The nerve of some employees walking up to me with work and trivial matters during a time of crisis! I sent them on their merry way… they will have to wait.
As the coffee brewed and dripped into the carafe the tension slowly faded. Pouring my first cup of coffee I suddenly realized there was no creamer…. no creamer of any kind.
In shock, I slowly made my way to my desk and I’m about to send out a company-wide email for an emergency meeting. This needs to be fixed right away, I don’t know if I can continue working here if it is not.
I don’t ask much… I just want my morning cup of coffee and I want it with a little creamer.
OK!?
I’m ready to go home.
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I keep thinking to myself “I’m ready to go home..” and then I realize I am home. That’s the one thing that sucks about working at home… your always at work. For the most part I love it and I’m sure I’ll miss it if I ever have to work at the office again…which may be soon. My company is moving into a new building and I think I have an office being setup later this month.
They say “office” but I’m sure they mean “cube”. Hrmph!
It’s another late night at the office. I’ve spent days trying to get billions of database entries ported over to a different server and combined with another database. It’s almost done….yay!   …and then I get to do it again on another server. doh!
All this data is giving me a headache. I’m ready to go home…
did anyone hear me scream?
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Work has been getting more and more stressful. I feel like I’m letting people down because I just can’t keep up lately. A million emails a day and projects on the side to get through and everything that gets passed to me is my new top priority. Even my vacation last weekend wasn’t much of a vacation, I ended up working whenever I had a second to sit down at a computer.
I need a break and I don’t see one coming any time soon…. or a really good present… or a good day or two of just ‘me’ time. I don’t know. Something has got to give soon before I snap. I’ve already been extremely irritable the past few days and it doesn’t take much to push my buttons lately either. And on top of it all I’m internalizing my stress, like I always do, and I think I ruptured another two rib joints last night.. and shoulders hurt.
Someone bring a massage table and work me over… oh and a few computer junkies to do my work for me.
was that a whip cracking?
2I know I haven’t written much lately. I’ve pretty much been working and sleeping. I’m sure you’ll agree that it is not very exciting to write about. I’ve always sneared at workaholics and lately I have been realizing I’m becoming one. Oy.
It seems like I keep getting yelled at lately. Not yelled as so much as hand slapped. I guess I’m not prioritizing my work properly at work and someone finally said something about it. Now there’s no blame, no anger, just a lack of communication in my work load. I’ve always believed I am the best person to prioritize my work and I still think that… I just don’t think they realize how much is being thrown at me sometimes.
Lately I can barely even get through the my day-to-day work let alone any projects or emails. I have a dozen people throwing work at me, being the only tech guy, and everyone’s stuff is top priority. Needless to say I’ve been working my butt off, stressing, and pulling some hair out. I’m only one person and I have to force myself not to stress over it.
This afternoon however my CEO asked me to come in tomorrow. This is probably nothing more than reviewing an upcoming project or getting status on existing work. A small voice in the back of my mind (Satan, is that you?) keeps whispering that I’ll get yelled at for something. I’ve been known in the past to duck my head into the office, ask if I’m about to get yelled at, and then run away if I am. I can’t stand confrontation… On the otherhand, I keep telling myself to push those thoughts away and hope that may it’s a job offer of some sort. I know I’m supposed to be hired next month.
Time will tell…. specifically 9 hours from now.
In other news, I’m on vacation this weekend. I’m meeting the family down in New Mexico. My parents are still thinking of moving there so they keep asking us all to meet them there for family vacations. I can’t wait for a few days off. I am still mulling over whether or not I’ll bring my laptop like I usually do so I can check in on work. I’ll get a general feel for what’s going on tomorrow and decide then.
work, spayed, glass, christmas
0I keep meaning to write about things happening, but then something always seems to come up and stop me. It turns out I will not be in the office full time. Evidently my “boss” (I have no idea what to call people sometimes) intervened and told headquarters that being in the office would be a big loss of productivity for me…. so now I’m just in the office on Mondays.
In other news, Monkey and Ms. Cleo were spayed two days ago. They are still hopped up on painkillers but are almost back to themselves now. They still are not jumping around too much, but it is a great improvement from KC having to help Monkey get each paw into the litter box. Ms. Cleo has really seemed to chill out, she really has not been demanding any attention and Monkey is even more lovey than before. I am happy that they do not hate me for taking them in. I was warned they could hold that against me for a while.
My glass project is nearing completion. I began foiling it last night and hope to have it done by Friday evening even if it kills me, heh. I was up till 3am last night working on it and didn’t get that far.
Last of all, KC and I exchanged gifts last night. We decided it would just be easier to do it now since weekend plans include driving to the coast and we did not want to drag it all down with us as we did last year. Besides, several gifts were too big. I’ll post more on this later!
the good, the bad, the in-between
4Today was filled with good, bad, a few in-betweens.
The good:
It started off normal until about lunch time when I received a call from the office alerting me to a lunch in half an hour. I quickly got ready and headed to the office where I schmoozed until the office crew left in mass to a local restaurant called Pogacha. The food was great and was cooked in an open bread oven. We were served tasty flatbread while we waited for our entrees. I had a flatbread pizza/pogacha with crumbled sausage, red peppers and goat cheese…MMMMmm. Conversation was lively and mixed with office topics. The restaurant turned out to be an important topic since it is where the company was founded. The CEO pointed out that the tables are topped with paper, which is where they scribbled all their ideas. His stories about our humble beginnings made the whole experience that much more interesting.
The in-between…
After the luncheon we headed back to the office. I stuck around to have an impromptu meeting on some key action items to be added to my workload. Afterwards I was asked to start coming into the office. It was these impromptu meetings that really helped everyone stay in communication with current issues and they wanted to make sure I was apart of them. It’s one more step to being a full employee but I’m still a bit on the fence as to whether or not this is a blessing or curse. I realize the potential benefits to having me in the office regularly, but at the same time I’m visualizing my productivity going down the toilet. I’m known for being extremely fast. A large part of that is because I’m home, alone, and no one is stopping me from concentrating on my tasks. Take that away and stick the only tech guy in the office and it may spell disaster. I can already imagine people stopping me every 3 minutes with a new issue. Normally they would just email me, and I get to it as soon as I finish my current task… now they’ll be able to just walk up to me. Oy.
The bad:
They’ll be setting up a desk for me this week so I’ll have a place to be on Monday. And for the time being I’ll be using my own laptop until I’m a full employee. That is, until I got home and realized my hard drive is slowly dying. I’ll have to price out a new one and get my system wiped out and ready for Monday this weekend.
Ugh, more bad..
I also tried buying KC a Christmas gift online. I know he’d like some more of his favorite jeans. I jumped on jcpenny.com, the only place that sells them, and found out they no longer make them. I called and let him know, he wasn’t thrilled about it either. I like these jeans too…and seeing as we wear the same sizes I always got to steal them, hehe. I’ll just have to take him shopping and have him try on some alternatives and hopefully find a new pair of favorite jeans.
Yay, more good:
My Christmas shopping is almost complete. I’ve already hit my budget, but there still may be another thing or two I’ll grab.
it’s a “snow day”
0One thing I enjoy about the times we live in is the days when the internet connection is down… It is like a snow day. Yesterday the internet connection at work headquarters went down and I received a few frantic calls asking if I had done something to our e-commerce site. After assuring them that the site is running perfectly (since it is hosted elsewhere) it suddenly became very quiet.
No more emails asking for emergency changes…
No more phone calls from HQ checking on the status of their requests…
And no more instant messages asking for either.
These days, when the internet connection is down, everyone suddenly becomes useless… at least at an e-commerce company they do. For the first time in the history of me working for this company I was told, “I got nothing for you right now,” when I called up and checked in first thing this morning.
It is a “snow day” for me… and there isn’t even anything falling from the sky. While I still have plenty to do, I am still in complete shock that I may actually get some work done on my own work projects for once.
*happy sigh*
no ferrari for me
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My boss just popped me up asking if i wanted an office/cube (or if i was still going to work from home) and what type of computer i’d like to have set up there for me….
Did I mention I love this place? No one ever asked what I wanted before. So I’m getting a hefty workstation with multiple monitors… and I can telecommute whenever I want.
He did tell me that a company ferrari wouldn’t fit into the budget 
“Maybe next year.” hrmph!
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