Work

Ahh, work.  You know, this may take more than one post.  Then again, maybe one post is enough.  I know many people who go on and on about work thinking others really care about what they say when actually, quite the opposite is true.  I think the things I'll bitch about here are really generic through everyone's life in corporate employment.  Think of them more as rants, I suppose, than whining about how things don't go my way.

Example, is it me, or does it seem to becoming more prevalent that bosses, supervisors, managers (whatever you choose to call them) are willing to tell you what you want to hear just to shut you up.  It seems the number one thing I hear now isn't even so much of a catch phrase but just a simple "we're working on that" with no follow on the progress of what it is they're working on.  Then, as fate would have it, months later, nothing's changed, action items are complete, and when confronted, the catch phrases come out.  It's a "dynamic document", "it's a work in progress", "we're benchmarking others".  Just tell me you don't want to do it, can't do it, you just hate me and want to make my life miserable.  Tell me how it is, I couldn't give a shit about corporate mumbo jumbo.  I'm just here to do a job and I'm asking you for the things to do my job better.  I can understand I can't get everything I "want" but when it comes to things I need all you see are dollar signs and ask me to be innovative in solutions.

Case in point: (this is something specific to my job and some of you may not know what I'm talking about) There are certain measuring instruments used where I work.  The electronics used in these instruments use vacuum tubes (did I lose anybody here).  The replacements for these instruments are also obsolete by about 15 years.  So, not only is the stuff we got outdated, the replacements are no longer available and outdated.  Should we update the entire system?  No.  Instead of calibrating it every 18 months as is required, we'll do it every 90 days to make sure it's working (because these have a tendency to fail quite often).

Wow, didn't want to go on that long.  Like I said, this post many will probably find boring and many people tend to get specific about their bitches of work.  Seems I fell in that trap.  I seem to be getting wrapped up in more of the "red tape" at work.  That's not what I get paid for.  My job is spelled out and very specific.  Don't ask me to do your problem solving.  And if I do, don't give me the runaround.

Well, I'm a little off track about what I wanted this blog to be about, but, then again, I never defined what  I wanted it to be about.  It's all in my head.  And, yes, I took the day off work to post this.