job griping

[2eclipse]

so i've been temping at this job for about a month.
a month is a long time. i've made friends with my coworkers, have learned to navigate JDEdwards well enough to do my job and harass my boss, and i'm almost treated like i belong there.
that was downfall.

my boss, bill, tells me i'm 80% trained. he tells me that these projects we work on together are good training for me, as though i'm a real employee there. the IT guy has a crush on me and is trying to get me hired as his IT administrative assistant. but getting jobs from people with a crush on me has been a negative thing in my experience. they never give up wanting in your pants.
i went to talk to randy today about hiring me and found that he was much less enthusiastic than i thought he would be. even though i'm mostly trained already. he said he'd consider me along with the other applicants.....and i don't believe him at all....because tawnya(the temp lady) told him i'm not long for this career going off in my own direction....which is true, but not hers to decide. i need to have a job right now.
okay, so i don't really want to work there.
the money is good, the people are good...but the commute is bloody awful, they only give you a week of vacation and grudge you any time off you take over that PLUS they hold a physical inventory between xmas and new year.....which for everyone else means no travel during that time. have i mentioned that i absolutely WILL NOT work for a place that won't let me visit my folks for xmas? this is not even going into the random drug testing and their claim of the right to search your car and your person (which is just a bit unconstitutional).

the truth is that i have been, so-far, completely unable to find a job in my field. i was just catching my wind again. and i need something stable so that i can breathe deeply enough and be myself enough to impress the people in the field i actually care about.

Comments

[eltanin.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes.. the "breaking your teeth" jobs. Those suck. But - you can one day tell your grandchildren (or grand-friends-children, as it were) that you used to know the part numbers of tractor grease (I -think- that's what Ross said you did). It's nuts how much bizzare information you accumulate after a bunch of odd jobs are under your belt!

Anyway, I understand your refusal to work for a place with such rediculous standards. Work shouldn't trump the joys in life - if you show up most of the year doing 110%, why should you be punished by not being able to take the time to visit your out-of-state family? Sometimes I think corporations don't account for people with family in other states. When my uncle passed away, I didn't even get a freebie day for the funeral, much less time off to travel (to RI) to the funeral. I went anyway. They didn't fire me. It all worked out in the end and I got the closure I needed. Had they fired me, I would have known then that I wasn't cut out to work in that kind of environment.

Anyway, rambling. Must get back to work (yes, work - spent most of the day helping Chrysto get floors ready for refinishing, and now there's not enough work down there for me so I figured I should get hours in up here. Rambling again!

*HUGS*
T.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your support.
it's nice to hear someone understands.

i purchase bearings, belts and rubber seals all day long. seals like washers, not like cute marine mammals.
there is a part of me that feels they should be grateful to have me and not so picky about how long i'll stay - particularly since i'm mostly trained and their policies are awful. no wonder they need a union.

[xerotic.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't take this as creepy or some such... but your userpic is really great. I stared at it for a while, and was extremely amused and impressed. I noticed the background jerked just a bit, however, and I'm a touch OCD... so if you have any interest, I stopped that from happening. If you're not too offended, feel free to have this as a token of my appreciation for the pic itself.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i'm not offended in the slightest. i would love it if you would fix it. i would love it even more if you would teach me how to make things move!

[zankoku-zen.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

While not working in your field, you should at least have a job that you don't hate going into.

Which, quite quickly, is what this job may become.

i miss you.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

as always you get right to the heart of the matter.
i miss you too.

[xerotic.livejournal.com]

One piece of advice that I will always give those I care about - never work in a place you can't stand. It's not worth it, no matter what the pay. While you can't always do exactly what you want for a career, you do NOT have to stay at a place that it terrible for you.

Imagine this: If you're friend was upset by someone or something that had hurt them, would you not do anything you could to protect them from it in some fashion?

Protect yourself, then, from this working environment. It may not be easy, but find yourself something that's a little less stressful, and a little more "you". Love doll, we really need to talk sometime soon - I miss my Heather...

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

we definately need to talk. and i need to get off my ass and visit. my weekends seem to get planned before i can breathe.
will you be at the tremere event by any chance? or midwinter?

i don't HATE my job. ijust know that i will given enough time. i think it is probaby the case with anything that is not somehow saving the world single-handed....sigh.
i will get out. it is a matter of when. i would rather be an admin in human rights work than something cool anywhere else no matter what the pay.....now if i can just get hired