job griping
Sep. 14th, 2006 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
2eclipseso 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.
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.
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:31 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: 2006-09-15 09:34 pm (UTC)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