Working for the man
14 Jun
My friend and I weathered the storm of the most bug-filled release of software ever. (Okay, not really. But when you’ve got 1,000 people calling you needing their fix immediately because they’re on a deadline, it sure feels like it!) Unfortunately we had to do so with literally: only a couple hours of help from anyone else. It was downright shitty. But we did it.
In the middle of that we were still trying to find my replacement, and I was unhappy with having taken the tech support position. I was overwhelmed in general, and unfortunately my feelings about being tech support suffered the consequences. In the thick of a buggy release was an awful time to start someone new, and everyone knew that already.
Witnessing my dissatisfaction, it was decided unbeknownst to me at the time, that I would be the next accounts person. Half of it was a job I created as Admin Assistant anyway, but that no one expected an incoming person to be able to handle. (I tend to kick ass when I apply myself.) But little did we know how hard it’d be to find my replacement, so I could start the new job!
I mean, what does it freaking say about the American work force, that in times as desperate as these and everyone looking for work, that it should be so hard to find someone competent to just answer phones?!? It’s insanity, people.
But at long last, we did finally find someone. She started this past week, and is now trained. (Will probably still need help this coming week, but I’m calling it done.) Now I’m free to move on. YAY!
Of course, what I’m moving on to is in question. Now with the tech support position open, I’ll still be needing to fill in there. And unfortunately, the “pay scale” for the “newly-created position” has not been determined. So now I get to figure out how to refuse moving into the new position quite yet, until that is worked out and agreed upon lest I fall into not getting anything more at all. And I don’t expect the party on the other side of the table to be especially generous.
I’ve never been good at this politics and chess-playing, we’ll see how I fare.
Two things are for sure:
- I need to get started on a degree.
- I need to be more faithful to myself, investing an hour a day into development of my own ventures.
