Work Vents

[mommyatty]

Vacation Edition here.

I have a blog post for a law blog that I “co-authored” with my boss. Meaning I wrote it, he noodled with a few sentences, and it’s supposed to be published tomorrow. We needed our Corp Communications group to sign off before it publishes, so I sent it last week. It’s under 1000 words, so it’s not exactly War and Peace. I heard nothing back, and my VP pointed out the blog owner might have edits. Blog editor sent it back in literally 20 minutes with a bunch of ticky-tack changes, moving adverbs from after the verb to before the verb, moving an intro like “in fact” from the beginning of the sentence to the end. Still I hadn’t heard from our communications folks, so I sent it again this morning (while on vacation), and they asked if I sent it to our executive VP. No. Sent it to him. He had a couple of big picture comments. I addressed them. Corp Comm came back finally with more ticky-tack shit, where I swear the moved some adverbs back where I had them to begin with. I sent to the blog owner, who now has sent more fucking “minor changes.” At this point, I don’t give a flying fuck what they publish. Just quit making me move fucking adverbs already!

I am never doing an “easy, quick” voluntary assignment like this again. And Jesus, who gives a shit where I put my goddamned adverbs?!? Both ways are perfectly acceptable. I know. I used to teach college grammar.

[divanerd]

Hugs! I dislike dumb stuff last minute and especially when it's volunteered!
Hope you get to relax more on Friday

I'm still on the mend but headed to the office Friday...

[mrspez07]

I only worked Mon and Fri this week and have three separate projects that were scheduled to be submitted to the various Cities next week. At least 1 consultant on each project has been out, slow to get us stuff (even before this week) or not getting us the right info. I am not going to make any of these deadlines and when everyone returns it’s going to be a fire drill. Not looking forward to what I can see coming but can’t do much about!

[waverly]

I’ve been gone only 4 working days and I’ve already gotten an email that my staff can’t figure things out. Really guys? You can’t fake it for 4 days until I get back? The topic is not hard. It was literally like someone put something on a different shelf? That is worthy of an email??? You know we have a skeleton crew, and I’ve asked the person who is out to instruct you. How the fuck hard is this?

[k3am]

Work invested in a new software that is supposed to be able to handle EVERYTHING we do, from CRM, to approvals, to financial analysis, to docs, etc vs using several different pieces of software to handle it. (ETA: actually, CRM and our financial analysis tool were the only software pieces. The rest were Office.)

I'm not sure who was in charge of the purchasing decision, but the actual users.. HATE IT. HATE, HATE, HATE.

Because my portfolio is so niche, we are only using it for the financial analysis, since they won't pay for financial analysis software just for me. I'm trying to get up and running on it, and it sucks. The manager in another division (who doesn't do financial analysis) said that "the reports not being pretty isn't a reason not to like it."

Well, reports that I used to be able to EASILY review and analyze that took 4 pages, vs 14 where I'm not even sure what I'm looking at IS a reason not to like it. The lack of functionality is a reason not to like it. I have heard in other divisions that they are now having to create excel spreadsheets to manage this stuff manually and I'm very.. baffled.

Anyways, I've known since August I had to redo all of my portfolio in the new software and the cutoff date was March. But now... its almost March and I still haven't started. Hold me.

TL;DR: I am basically doing the old person version of shaking my fist and telling the kids to get off my lawn.