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Sep. 13th, 2005 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzIn utterly boring but very good work news, my ability to access network drives from two departments just scored me major points. I stopped by the Dir's office just to bug him and ask what we should wear for the out-of-office meeting tomorrow. Oops - barged in on a meeting of all the bosses, but he said to check back because he needed something (needless to say I didn't pose the question). I caught up with him later, and he was really hoping to find an ethics PowerPoint presentation he once used. He was about to give up and redo the thing on his time tonight. He sat over my shoulder while I accessed where he thought it was, then I accessed where it should have been - except the ethics person, the one who I had the problems with earlier when I applied to the position, had deleted/moved/hidden the files in question. I quietly noted he didn't contact her directly. I found him something that would cover a lot of the information and sent it to him, he left grateful. After he left, I did a more generalized search and found exactly the file he wanted. I interrupted him again, and he came to look at the file while still talking to someone he thought might have it on his blueberry (I was just asking if I could email the file as it was large). He came over to look at it, and it turns out I found the file in question, saving him many hours of life tonight. Just a quick unsolicited effort on my part, something any clerk could do, yet I just scored major whew points.
I've had literally no work for two days now as the network crashes with viri (viruses?) and the conversion to a new letter-tracking system has been a disaster. I am one happy nothing-to-do camper. Sure I got bored of the internet, but I've almost finished part of next week's homework.
I hate when people say that things happen for a reason. Still, I was wondering if for all my whining that I don't want to practice law, that having the job turn shitty might yield me some opportunities I had previously not explored. With the value of a gov job diminishing somewhat, private law doesn't look so horrible. On the other hand, while this letter writing and FOIA crap looks dull as something not very entertaining at all, this is a very nice group. I'm watching their reaction to the work grinding to a halt, and they are failing to do the shitty things I'm used to seeing in other groups - from creating work, loaning people out to keep them busy, degrading people and otherwise trying to keep them in fear...this group is just apologizing for the lack of work and noting they are working on it. Neat. I'm making sure I foster an approachable and humble, yet motivated and hard-working reputation with this group in case I wind up in a position of authority here.
If I don't get more to do, I think I'll start writing about fucking or something offensive. That's much more fun, and I fear my reputation needs more tarnishing. Does this look infected to you?
I've had literally no work for two days now as the network crashes with viri (viruses?) and the conversion to a new letter-tracking system has been a disaster. I am one happy nothing-to-do camper. Sure I got bored of the internet, but I've almost finished part of next week's homework.
I hate when people say that things happen for a reason. Still, I was wondering if for all my whining that I don't want to practice law, that having the job turn shitty might yield me some opportunities I had previously not explored. With the value of a gov job diminishing somewhat, private law doesn't look so horrible. On the other hand, while this letter writing and FOIA crap looks dull as something not very entertaining at all, this is a very nice group. I'm watching their reaction to the work grinding to a halt, and they are failing to do the shitty things I'm used to seeing in other groups - from creating work, loaning people out to keep them busy, degrading people and otherwise trying to keep them in fear...this group is just apologizing for the lack of work and noting they are working on it. Neat. I'm making sure I foster an approachable and humble, yet motivated and hard-working reputation with this group in case I wind up in a position of authority here.
If I don't get more to do, I think I'll start writing about fucking or something offensive. That's much more fun, and I fear my reputation needs more tarnishing. Does this look infected to you?
