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Living Testament
Jan. 19th, 2006 11:49 pmHappy Birthday to the Meaty One, Dave (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meatybear)!
Sure, you can sign up for all sorts of services online, Cable, Electricity, etc, but trying to turn them off? Impossible.
So work's coming to its inevitable, crashing end. I get more and more worried looks as my current boss isn't picking up what I'm trying to teach him. I'm trying not to be troubled by this, but i know by the weekend I'll be more worried about getting crap boxed up, and getting to my new job on time Monday that I will if my old employer falls into a gravity well of suckitude, (but please, after my last check has come in, thank you).
As it's been much of this week, I continue to get flattering messages that make me question my leaving, these are generally coming from peers and those under me. Those above seem to be unconcerned. I'm not surprised, I've seen many other people go and the same blasé attitude expressed by higher ups. It seems that there was a mention of me in a recent meeting, and the meeting notes said that they would talk about what to do with my position "at a later date."
Here's an example of the praise I've received:
From: Buckley, Marvin D.
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:28 PM
To: Edwards, Michael
Subject: Damn!!!!!!
Mike,
I probably won’t be able to bid you fond adieu and farewell this Friday….
So, DAMN!!!!, your going away to Dallas and I will miss you. It has been a true pleasure and privilege to have worked with you. I will always remember you as a “grace under pressure” kind of a guy with great taste in music and a killer sense of humor.
Keep in touch.
Good luck and God bless..
Marvin
See? Great, and very gratifying. Friday is referring to the happy hour that people leaving always seem to get, and I'm not exception. Screaming Amy sent out the invite a couple of days ago, and it featured the user icon used with this post - except that my head was cut out and floating in a sea of white space. Somewhat creepy.
Of course on the flip side, there's a definite reason to not work here anymore. This is an actual email from an Senior Vice President:
From: Charpentier, Joseph H
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:30 AM
To: Gutierrez, Laura A. - Denver; Koscinski, Celina P; *GBL- AIS Operations TLs+
Subject: RE: Saturday Workflow Update
Hi folks.
Client Services (Linda Warriner) tells me all the time that they can take more callouts for us. Let’s not forget them in this process. If we can use them, let me know.
I know that this has been cause for concern in the past but let’s take a fresh look at everything and ask a lot of questions. Like:
Can we categorize callouts in a way that makes it easier for the rep doing the call?
After they make Styrofoam, what do they ship it in?
Can we set up “buddies” in CS?
Are female moths called myths?
Can we do callouts on Saturday?
Are there unguided missiles?
Are we calling out on things that we should just reject?
Did Noah keep his bees in archives?
Are there people on our team that like to do callouts?
What happens if you get scared half to death….twice?
Do we need to train more people to do callouts? J
You get the idea….we need ideas and I am ready to consider anything you can come up with.
Thanks,
Joe
So, that's just disturbing and somewhat inappropriate, no? It's scary that this guy is running our division, and as I've said before, there's no vision, no ideas.
Lastly, here's a little thing that was hidden away in the document that I was writing a few years back. It's from the user's guide for the web access portal we provide at work. It's sort of my crowning achievement there. One part is about importing spreadsheet information for processing, and now that option has been eliminated, so my little joke has been removed from the document and the company website. In two places in the document I was able to put in the name of a few of my friends. It was there for two years.
Now I'm not smart enough to get the actual table to import - that's advance LJ mojo, but click on this link:Names, and you'll see the names I included. As you might notice, I scrambled the first names to not actually put a full name out there, and that I thought Crystal Bride was funny.
If you're really bored, the full document, as it was, can be downloaded here. It's the User Guide.
Oh well, that's the fun for tonight. I need to go to bed and get ready for my last day.
meatybear)!Sure, you can sign up for all sorts of services online, Cable, Electricity, etc, but trying to turn them off? Impossible.
So work's coming to its inevitable, crashing end. I get more and more worried looks as my current boss isn't picking up what I'm trying to teach him. I'm trying not to be troubled by this, but i know by the weekend I'll be more worried about getting crap boxed up, and getting to my new job on time Monday that I will if my old employer falls into a gravity well of suckitude, (but please, after my last check has come in, thank you).
As it's been much of this week, I continue to get flattering messages that make me question my leaving, these are generally coming from peers and those under me. Those above seem to be unconcerned. I'm not surprised, I've seen many other people go and the same blasé attitude expressed by higher ups. It seems that there was a mention of me in a recent meeting, and the meeting notes said that they would talk about what to do with my position "at a later date."
Here's an example of the praise I've received:
From: Buckley, Marvin D.
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:28 PM
To: Edwards, Michael
Subject: Damn!!!!!!
Mike,
I probably won’t be able to bid you fond adieu and farewell this Friday….
So, DAMN!!!!, your going away to Dallas and I will miss you. It has been a true pleasure and privilege to have worked with you. I will always remember you as a “grace under pressure” kind of a guy with great taste in music and a killer sense of humor.
Keep in touch.
Good luck and God bless..
Marvin
See? Great, and very gratifying. Friday is referring to the happy hour that people leaving always seem to get, and I'm not exception. Screaming Amy sent out the invite a couple of days ago, and it featured the user icon used with this post - except that my head was cut out and floating in a sea of white space. Somewhat creepy.
Of course on the flip side, there's a definite reason to not work here anymore. This is an actual email from an Senior Vice President:
From: Charpentier, Joseph H
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:30 AM
To: Gutierrez, Laura A. - Denver; Koscinski, Celina P; *GBL- AIS Operations TLs+
Subject: RE: Saturday Workflow Update
Hi folks.
Client Services (Linda Warriner) tells me all the time that they can take more callouts for us. Let’s not forget them in this process. If we can use them, let me know.
I know that this has been cause for concern in the past but let’s take a fresh look at everything and ask a lot of questions. Like:
Can we categorize callouts in a way that makes it easier for the rep doing the call?
After they make Styrofoam, what do they ship it in?
Can we set up “buddies” in CS?
Are female moths called myths?
Can we do callouts on Saturday?
Are there unguided missiles?
Are we calling out on things that we should just reject?
Did Noah keep his bees in archives?
Are there people on our team that like to do callouts?
What happens if you get scared half to death….twice?
Do we need to train more people to do callouts? J
You get the idea….we need ideas and I am ready to consider anything you can come up with.
Thanks,
Joe
So, that's just disturbing and somewhat inappropriate, no? It's scary that this guy is running our division, and as I've said before, there's no vision, no ideas.
Lastly, here's a little thing that was hidden away in the document that I was writing a few years back. It's from the user's guide for the web access portal we provide at work. It's sort of my crowning achievement there. One part is about importing spreadsheet information for processing, and now that option has been eliminated, so my little joke has been removed from the document and the company website. In two places in the document I was able to put in the name of a few of my friends. It was there for two years.
Now I'm not smart enough to get the actual table to import - that's advance LJ mojo, but click on this link:Names, and you'll see the names I included. As you might notice, I scrambled the first names to not actually put a full name out there, and that I thought Crystal Bride was funny.
If you're really bored, the full document, as it was, can be downloaded here. It's the User Guide.
Oh well, that's the fun for tonight. I need to go to bed and get ready for my last day.
