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Mar. 17th, 2006 05:32 am5:30 AM the night after a club and I'm up so I can SOOT and prep for the interview.
Yesterday was a shit day. Our Assistant Administrator yelled at a room of people for work that I did, but the litigation team is not supporting based mostly on information we did not have access to at the time we were acting. The irony was that the guy was yelling (and in one case literally growling - no words) that we weren't taking the action of demoting a manager for yelling at and abusing his subordinates. After the meeting my favorite boss went to her office and cried. I couldn't take "Mr. Cufflink" seriously, and was very focused on the interview today. Still, I hate seeing tyrants that are allowed to act out.
It's one thing to want a mistake not to be repeated (and the real issue here isn't so much a mistake as disappointment by another branch that we can't fix the problem they created for them with no effort), but it's another to berate a bunch of professionals. He is big on negative reinforcement - a reward from him is typically in the form of his absence. His entire subordinate chain of command is now made up of meek white women.
The rest of the day was spent generating various reports to defend what we did. I was repeatedly accused of shoddy work, usually with accusations that were easily refuted by pointing to the work I did. "There were no dates." Well, that is not accurate. We have date ranges, but the events were not recent and it's standard to have date ranges when the exact date is not known but the events are well substantiated. "All of your comparison cases were mitigated from demotions to suspensions!" No, if you review the material I provided at the time, there were some removals that were mitigated to demotions, hence the penalty proposed of demotion. There was only one case that was mitigated from a termination to a suspension, but in that case the charge was not substantiated. If you look closer at that case, you'll see that it was included as a negative comparison AND giving a 3 prong test which outlined the violation that would have been sustained."
So if I seemed out of sorts, I was. When people asked how things were, I smiled and said crappy and meant it. When people said, "Oh, ok. So how is school?" the answer was also "Crappy." Speaking of it, so was the music and I didn't get to dance. It was a bad night to play synth pop. I even tried going from side to side - synth on both sides. Ick. Crappy.
I have a job interview today.
Yesterday was a shit day. Our Assistant Administrator yelled at a room of people for work that I did, but the litigation team is not supporting based mostly on information we did not have access to at the time we were acting. The irony was that the guy was yelling (and in one case literally growling - no words) that we weren't taking the action of demoting a manager for yelling at and abusing his subordinates. After the meeting my favorite boss went to her office and cried. I couldn't take "Mr. Cufflink" seriously, and was very focused on the interview today. Still, I hate seeing tyrants that are allowed to act out.
It's one thing to want a mistake not to be repeated (and the real issue here isn't so much a mistake as disappointment by another branch that we can't fix the problem they created for them with no effort), but it's another to berate a bunch of professionals. He is big on negative reinforcement - a reward from him is typically in the form of his absence. His entire subordinate chain of command is now made up of meek white women.
The rest of the day was spent generating various reports to defend what we did. I was repeatedly accused of shoddy work, usually with accusations that were easily refuted by pointing to the work I did. "There were no dates." Well, that is not accurate. We have date ranges, but the events were not recent and it's standard to have date ranges when the exact date is not known but the events are well substantiated. "All of your comparison cases were mitigated from demotions to suspensions!" No, if you review the material I provided at the time, there were some removals that were mitigated to demotions, hence the penalty proposed of demotion. There was only one case that was mitigated from a termination to a suspension, but in that case the charge was not substantiated. If you look closer at that case, you'll see that it was included as a negative comparison AND giving a 3 prong test which outlined the violation that would have been sustained."
So if I seemed out of sorts, I was. When people asked how things were, I smiled and said crappy and meant it. When people said, "Oh, ok. So how is school?" the answer was also "Crappy." Speaking of it, so was the music and I didn't get to dance. It was a bad night to play synth pop. I even tried going from side to side - synth on both sides. Ick. Crappy.
I have a job interview today.
