OT: Sigh

[Poli]

A good and bad day at the office for me today. I just thought I'd write my feelings down.

It's been discussed for about a month now at the base here about a major reorganization of the staff. My job right now is to be a contract supervisor for civilian contracts for civilians that work in the Apprentice Technical Training (ATT) schoolhouse. In addition, I work as a student coordinator and as a preliminary inquiry officer (basically, a legal stuff). When I first started here about 8-9 months ago, the job was incredibly easy and didn't require much out of me. For the past 4 months or so, though, it's been incredibly rough. I usually stay pretty darn busy during the day. I also usually leave "x" amount of stuff left undone until I can get to it at a later time, which means I come in early the next day to take care of it.

So, when a reorganization of the staff was discussed, I was pretty excited about it. The focus of our staff will now be in the barracks, and staff that's considered "non essential" will be moved to the barracks. My coworker and friend Will and I talked about the possibility of going to a barracks and working together there. It's really made my day manageable lately thinking that I would be leaving it soon.

About 30 minutes ago, I found out I'm staying. Will is leaving. I'm told my workload will decrease and that I'm staying because I'm a good leader that the students look up to.

I don't know if I buy it. The students like me. But I doubt my work load changes. I hope it does, but I doubt it. I'm really pissed off right now. I lose my best friend in the whole deal. I'm going to his house tonight to watch the Orange Bowl, and this has just ruined it to the point that we're going to be talking about this junk instead of the game.

I hate the friggin' Navy. Jeeber freaking D.

[Raven Hawk]

Stop working so hard.

No good deed goes unpunished.

[Qwikshot]

This is how I felt at my "unnamed" pharmaceutical company.

Worse we had an associate director who was horrible, she destroyed the department, and made it a place of fear and frustration.

And oh yeah, she hated me, enough to give me a poor review (and my frightened superior who had no experience doing what I was doing and never went out to see what I was doing) agreed with her.

So I pushed back...I wrote a 3 page rebuttal to her poor review stating that I had conducted over 40% of the work and had received awards of excellence for my "poor" quality.

She lasted about 6 months then fled to another company. My boss was "walked out" a few months later during cutbacks.

So now I have a new boss with no experience again, BUT he's willing to go out and learn what I do (He is more qualified than the other guy in that he was in charge of an entire division and has a PhD, and he /is/ going out and learning what we do).

Still...I've done the office space method of things...I don't worry about what gets done and what doesn't. I do what I physically can do, I make no promises, I meet deadlines which are capable of meeting, and if I cannot meet it, I inform my superior as soon as possible (the company withheld overtime, so I don't work it anymore, I just flextime).

I don't work overtime.
I don't stay late for more than one hour.
I leave work at work, work does not come home.
I don't care about coworker's evaluations of me, and I don't agree to do their work.
I stand firm on my views with regards to any techincal questions (as long as they coincide with the SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) that I use).
I don't endanger other people or myself.
I am helpful to the departments that I am responsible for, but I am firm in my demands (i.e. if they don't provide equipment I need, or access to areas, I don't go out of my way to get the job done--however, I prepare so I know if I need to make a request to these departments for special equipment or access)
If someone ticks me off at work, I stay professional, and I will speak my voice, but I will do the job (unless it poses a risk).
In the end, I don't worry so much about the job. The workload may get heavy but I do what I can in 7 hours (1 hour lunch).

Would you believe because of this, I worry less, I am more productive and I'm heavily relied on. Whether this is a figment of imagination or true only time will tell, but I do hate my job and I am looking for other positions, but most people view me as a hard worker, who tells it like it is, and my union techs find me very loyal and respectful.

I let other people worry about the problems when they agree to impossible deadlines. Like last week we didn't meet our commitment to getting a department up and running before New Years (but I did help with getting a majority of it done) STILL while that commitment wasn't completed, I singled handedly got three other production departments up and running with more realistic deadlines.

Good luck to you, I doubt any of this helps with your position, but it has helped for me.

[Poli]

Update:

My job as a student coordinator is finished. The position has been removed completely. I am now in the barracks, but my best friend Will has since transferred. I've been there two weeks, and so far it's been enjoyable.

[finketr]

i was so confused...

how can you watch the orange bowl in mid october.

[saintjo]

the original message was written last january

[vex]

i was so confused...

how can you watch the orange bowl in mid october.
Same here.