I still exist!
Wow - it's been a million years (or like 8 months more specifically =-/). Damn. Lameness, I know. We all know I am lazy and unmotivated, no surprise there ;-). I am also currently full. Too much yogurt and grapenuts.....it tasted so damned good I just kept going. Bah - FULL!!
Soooooooo....the last 8 months. Our boss got FIRED and we got put under someone else who inherited a GIANT, SINKING SHIP - so wouldn't want to be him! I do find it kind of humorous that poor, insecure Backstab Bitch had nuzzled her way into the good graces of our last UGH of a boss, and all that brown-nosery was for nothing =-). Hehe!! We did the next deployment location, and, as a total anomaly, there were no swing or graveyard shifts, so that was nice but it will probably never happen again =-/. Once we got the new boss we shouted from the rooftops over how desperately we needed more employees, and he did not listen to our plea's, so this deployment has been very challenging and draining. Tomorrow I will be working until almost 1 in the morning and soon I get to do graveyard. Woohoo - what fun =-[. Plus, not only do we have Saturday's scheduled, but we also have Sunday's. Tada! They pay us decently because our job sucks!
The good news is I am certainly better at my job than I was several months ago, even if I still don't like it. I just had my annual review today and I got good ratings =-). I would suggest that maybe the fact that I came in wearing my happy face ring swayed him, but he had it all typed up before he even saw the ring ;-). Although some people familiar with the new boss had advised me not to vocalize as many things as I have up to this point, he actually thanked me for my straight-shooting and commended me for it. Kapow baby! It was a calculated risk to be as honest and blunt as I have, but turns out homeboy likes that. I rock =-).
I did move into a new place and I love being the lone person on the lease! The move was at the end of June, and all these months later, of course, I still don't have everything situated and in place. But it is a groovy apartment, and nice and spacious. I hate not having washer/dryer hookup though and could do without the stupid key-entry building thing. I have an out-of-country visitor coming soon and would have no way for her to enter and leave without me there. Boo! And the key places yell at you if you try to get those "DO NOT DUPLICATE" keys copied. Bastards.
More reasons this place is good though is I so have spectacular friends nearby =-)! And I live close to the home office, so when I have to travel for work I get mileage reimbursement after only a few miles - whooppee! This is my first full year where I will only have one w-2 (or w-4 whatever they are) from a "real" job. And looking at my paycheck and trying to figure my taxes that way, it doesn't look like I will get back NEAR as much as I feel I deserve. Grrrrrr =-(. It seriously almost makes you want to spend time behind bars so you can feel like you are actually getting something in return for all those tax dollars! Bastards!!
So, one of the things I had told my boss (the new one) early on is that I am looking for a new job. A very slow, slow process because I don't really know what I want to do and I'm not going to jump ship for just anything. Anyways, I've recently had the opportunity to do a couple things that aren't in my normal job description and I actually, gasp, enjoyed them =-O. Good Lord - who knew? You mean there can actually be stuff at work that I don't hate?!?!?! Promising! So hopefully I will have a chance to seek and discover more things that don't make me dread work =-).
All in all, outside of work, I would say 2007 was a pretty damned good year for me. And work allowed me to meet more people and to move out to where I wanted to live, so it hasn't been all bad either. The last song I heard in 2007 was "Love Shack" and the first one in 2008 was "Let the Good Times Roll" by B.B. King. Neither of which is a bad thing =-).
So I am a happy and content Shababbler on many fronts, which is pretty damned awesome. My main goal is to get out of this 24/7 type of job, but then I'd be DAMN content, and that might be too strange to know what to do with ;-).
Soooooooo....the last 8 months. Our boss got FIRED and we got put under someone else who inherited a GIANT, SINKING SHIP - so wouldn't want to be him! I do find it kind of humorous that poor, insecure Backstab Bitch had nuzzled her way into the good graces of our last UGH of a boss, and all that brown-nosery was for nothing =-). Hehe!! We did the next deployment location, and, as a total anomaly, there were no swing or graveyard shifts, so that was nice but it will probably never happen again =-/. Once we got the new boss we shouted from the rooftops over how desperately we needed more employees, and he did not listen to our plea's, so this deployment has been very challenging and draining. Tomorrow I will be working until almost 1 in the morning and soon I get to do graveyard. Woohoo - what fun =-[. Plus, not only do we have Saturday's scheduled, but we also have Sunday's. Tada! They pay us decently because our job sucks!
The good news is I am certainly better at my job than I was several months ago, even if I still don't like it. I just had my annual review today and I got good ratings =-). I would suggest that maybe the fact that I came in wearing my happy face ring swayed him, but he had it all typed up before he even saw the ring ;-). Although some people familiar with the new boss had advised me not to vocalize as many things as I have up to this point, he actually thanked me for my straight-shooting and commended me for it. Kapow baby! It was a calculated risk to be as honest and blunt as I have, but turns out homeboy likes that. I rock =-).
I did move into a new place and I love being the lone person on the lease! The move was at the end of June, and all these months later, of course, I still don't have everything situated and in place. But it is a groovy apartment, and nice and spacious. I hate not having washer/dryer hookup though and could do without the stupid key-entry building thing. I have an out-of-country visitor coming soon and would have no way for her to enter and leave without me there. Boo! And the key places yell at you if you try to get those "DO NOT DUPLICATE" keys copied. Bastards.
More reasons this place is good though is I so have spectacular friends nearby =-)! And I live close to the home office, so when I have to travel for work I get mileage reimbursement after only a few miles - whooppee! This is my first full year where I will only have one w-2 (or w-4 whatever they are) from a "real" job. And looking at my paycheck and trying to figure my taxes that way, it doesn't look like I will get back NEAR as much as I feel I deserve. Grrrrrr =-(. It seriously almost makes you want to spend time behind bars so you can feel like you are actually getting something in return for all those tax dollars! Bastards!!
So, one of the things I had told my boss (the new one) early on is that I am looking for a new job. A very slow, slow process because I don't really know what I want to do and I'm not going to jump ship for just anything. Anyways, I've recently had the opportunity to do a couple things that aren't in my normal job description and I actually, gasp, enjoyed them =-O. Good Lord - who knew? You mean there can actually be stuff at work that I don't hate?!?!?! Promising! So hopefully I will have a chance to seek and discover more things that don't make me dread work =-).
All in all, outside of work, I would say 2007 was a pretty damned good year for me. And work allowed me to meet more people and to move out to where I wanted to live, so it hasn't been all bad either. The last song I heard in 2007 was "Love Shack" and the first one in 2008 was "Let the Good Times Roll" by B.B. King. Neither of which is a bad thing =-).
So I am a happy and content Shababbler on many fronts, which is pretty damned awesome. My main goal is to get out of this 24/7 type of job, but then I'd be DAMN content, and that might be too strange to know what to do with ;-).
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