EEP! DOUBLE EEP! GRRR?

*BEGIN RANT*

So, without much success in hearing from Purdue much if at all for the past 6 friggen weeks, I get a reply e-mail from the boss a few days later after I check in office re-opening day. The ominous message was, “we need to talk before I can place you again. please call me Monday afternoon.” EEP! So I looked around at my past blogs, thinking it might not have been such a great idea to self-entertain daily frustrations, because what if someone actually found this on the web and reported it to someone on campus? DOUBLE EEP! I shall deal with the consequences if that is the case.

*MORE RANTING*

Otherwise, let’s see here, this is a classic example that has happened to a few people I know. You don’t hear about the shit you do wrong until something like this happens. This being, getting fired, getting laid off, getting a work review, getting sent home at lunch time without warning etc etc etc. Iffin the underpaid monkey is screwin’ up by flinging too much poo, perhaps the monkey be needin’ to know these things first rather than pulling bullshit and not saying anything at all.

First of all, this is aimed at the supervisor types out there… Whether you have a BS, MS, or PhD degree, it doesn’t give anyone the right to treat others like gooey gum on the bottom of their shoe in the summer time heat. I observed one of my supervisors talking to someone on the phone for 45 minutes straight like an old buddy or something. It certainly sounded like an overtly friendly old pal conversation to everyone in the office. As soon as he hung up, he was going off about how that person was calling to inquire about the job opening in that office and wanted to come back like she never was a psycho lazy ass. Plus the explanation went on with how he would never bring her back there even if she was the only qualified candidate. Then listing the behavior problems and more reasons why he wouldn’t bring her back in. :( That’s not cool. She was obviously clueless or refused to acknowledge being a twit in the past. My beef is, would he do the same to me in my review once I left? Rather than address a problem behavior with me? Would he chicken out and just throw something in the review and send it off to my supervisor? *grumble*

The Mac office… I can think of a few things that would lead me to believe it was my fault. Knitting at my desk because I had nothing else to do, BAD IDEA. I realize that now and should have thought of that then, before the boss in charge of me came into the office. That was a strange office. Department head was one of those soft spoken, non-emotive types, appeared disinterested, yet she was the observant calculating type. The kind of person, that no matter what her mood, she had the same look on her face, like you were the village idiot. It made me feel nervous every time she came in and stood behind me. Oh and she had this “escape hatch” on her end of the office. She never really came in the front door; it was always through her door. Carpeted office floor, so she could and would sneak up behind me like she was trying to catch me at something I wasn’t supposed to be doing. Eh? That’s just creepy!

Mac office vs. office number two (#2) we would walk to McDonald’s on our morning 15 minute break for coffee or something. It’s an easy jaunt there and back and maybe a minute to spare, especially on a quiet morning. Cha-CHING! So I have knitting = bad. I have walking to McD’s on my break =BAD. I should deduct that from my lunch hour according to Mac Boss. Eh? Noooo, that’s not what I have been told in the past two offices I worked for this semester. Office 1# with crazy lady and the cranky PhD, crazy lady walked out of the building for her 15 religiously. Office #2 RULES: You get an hour lunch and two 15 minute breaks. You CANNOT save your 15s to leave early at the end of the day, if you don’t use them, you lose them… No problem. *grumble*

So that’s all I can think of as being a problem, other than finding creative things to do because they didn’t have shit for me to do after the first week there. I mean there was the open house thing they were doing when I first got there and there was a Saturday that I worked for that reason… I busted ass to do that with them and then after that, there was nothing to do but odds and ends that the student workers used to do before I got there. Ugh. I guess I should mention too, I was the only one there first thing in the morning, no one else showed up until after 9am and even then that was iffy. If someone took a day off, I never heard about it until the day after they came back. Gotta love the Mac office.

Meanwhile, I sit in the dark about what’s really going on, I can only speculate about it and hypothesize as to why this actually happened. Did they really not have anything for me to do in the last 6 weeks? It could just be the cumulative reviews from the past offices I have worked on campus and the fact that I was tossed at the last moment by the Mac Office. Or was it prompted by the fact that I filed for unemployment? Maybe… Maybe not… I won’t know until Monday when I talk to my supervisor. Ugh.

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Now I better get my happy ass back to work here. One can of ravioli and coca-cola later, I am done venting aloud. ;) Have a nice day! Buh-bye. Buh-bye now. Buh-bye.

Tammolly ~ Mildy freakin’ out.

...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin...