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Jul. 29th, 2011 06:05 amGlad ejlay is back, glad they continue to press for free expression even when the insane remnants of the Russian gov't attack them.
Another lesson I've learned 20 years later than everyone else is that nothing is forever. Friends aren't forever, circles of friends break apart, things I loved that didn't have to end the way they did would have ended anyway...it sounds so obvious but I have a terrible time with lessons I can't feel. It's why learning puppy or kitten love isn't really love is such a terrible lesson.
More unilateral decision making and dick-moves in the office are making me have to reevaluate the value of my job. We are moving to a new location, and I've whined that since I have to tell my cases of my new address that it's very distracting not to have our new mailing address and phone number. Turns out the (top) was hiding the information because in an inexplicable move, to assign seating. No entertaining who wants to sit where. I've been in the government for over 16 years and never heard of anyone ignoring seniority like that. He's also bleeding a parallel branch's duties into ours because they keep making mistakes - they have two GS14s which are justified by the duties now to be dumped on us.
I still have a secure job and I love the work, but it's hard to see the unilateral decision making as petty. Perhaps it is and I am petty, but I've been around long enough that I can use my clout to work somewhere that isn't so dickish and disrespectful. On the other hand, how much does that matter? I work at home around 3 days a week, with long lunches to go to the gym that I can make up later on the day at whim/will.
I might decline the "opportunity" to serve as a temporary branch chief though. I have to think about that. Then again, we just learned a very-high-up, my best connection, is leaving our Agency. On the one hand, it's likely a great time to climb the ladder. On the other hand, I really hate a bunch of these creeps and for hundreds of dollars a month I'd have to swallow my feelings daily.
This is why I like beer more than work. 3 beers and a unique archon staff later I wasn't thinking about it as much.
Another lesson I've learned 20 years later than everyone else is that nothing is forever. Friends aren't forever, circles of friends break apart, things I loved that didn't have to end the way they did would have ended anyway...it sounds so obvious but I have a terrible time with lessons I can't feel. It's why learning puppy or kitten love isn't really love is such a terrible lesson.
More unilateral decision making and dick-moves in the office are making me have to reevaluate the value of my job. We are moving to a new location, and I've whined that since I have to tell my cases of my new address that it's very distracting not to have our new mailing address and phone number. Turns out the (top) was hiding the information because in an inexplicable move, to assign seating. No entertaining who wants to sit where. I've been in the government for over 16 years and never heard of anyone ignoring seniority like that. He's also bleeding a parallel branch's duties into ours because they keep making mistakes - they have two GS14s which are justified by the duties now to be dumped on us.
I still have a secure job and I love the work, but it's hard to see the unilateral decision making as petty. Perhaps it is and I am petty, but I've been around long enough that I can use my clout to work somewhere that isn't so dickish and disrespectful. On the other hand, how much does that matter? I work at home around 3 days a week, with long lunches to go to the gym that I can make up later on the day at whim/will.
I might decline the "opportunity" to serve as a temporary branch chief though. I have to think about that. Then again, we just learned a very-high-up, my best connection, is leaving our Agency. On the one hand, it's likely a great time to climb the ladder. On the other hand, I really hate a bunch of these creeps and for hundreds of dollars a month I'd have to swallow my feelings daily.
This is why I like beer more than work. 3 beers and a unique archon staff later I wasn't thinking about it as much.
