Goals and Career
First thing that happens…Someone last night got bored and played with permissions on the share directory…They played with it so well that now everyone that needs permissions to Our folders doesn’t have it, and a lot of people who have absolutely no idea these folders exist do. Make sense? Oddly, around here, it makes plenty of sense. Thankfully it’s Saturday, or we’d have a bunch of annoyed customers calling, and we’d have no way of fixing the problems. All we can do is what we’re doing, changing what we can, and harassing the people who can.
The super comes in today, and asks my counterpart to for all intents and purposes, write his own award for being here. That makes sense, the guy can’t read instructions, or refuses to, so if he doesn’t know, of course he’s going to pawn it off and make it sound like its the Great Honor of the day. (No pun intended). I asked him, why are you asking so many questions of him, and not any of those from me. Now, going back last week, the Super told me he had a meeting with the Queen about yours truly. I asked what about? Naturally, since I know him and his ability to truly fuck me over, he said It’s nothing…Ahh, so I haven’t seen the Queen in two weeks, and I guess she just misses the ability to insult me daily. Anyways, talking about the awards today, and the Super says the Queen specifically says that I will not get an award. I asked why? He said, well, I’m going to try and get you an AAM. Ahh, so, on top of working my ass off, and putting up with you and the Queen, I get to get a bitch slap in the face. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t care one bit about getting any award out here, it’s not going to enhance my feelings of Self or let me score with bikini teams around the world, it’s yet another piece of equipment that I’ll have to buy and maintain. But the fact that my counterpart is being put in for an MSM by the sounds of it, I feel that I’m getting the last little fuck-over.
Here’s where the Super made his mistake, even though I warned him about this as he was doing it 6 months ago. 1st, let me go over the obvious. DA Form 2166-8-1, the NCO counseling checklist, is pretty much a written objective of what the boss expects of his peons over the next year, and counseled every 90 days on how well that minion is keeping within the objectives, needs to be improved, or if he’s doing too much work. The paper has the instructions, verbatim, on how to fill this form out, on the same side as where it is filled out. It’s so self explanatory, it redefines Obvious. On with the mistake…..I’m sure I’ve mentioned this back a few months back in other posts. My whole year in being rated here consists of Staying motivated, communicate, and maintain a positive attitude. The rest of what he wrote in that block tell the obvious, saying that I “display a vast plethora of IT Knowledge” (which I’m still trying to figure out if vast makes plethora even more plethora in some other dimension…) It also says that I have one down day a week (which by that time, I knew) and if I go to sick call, I need to inform him after I get back. He also penciled in, “Career Goals, Special Projects will be assigned.” I wonder how many hours my career is supposed to last…The one “Special Project” I’ve been assigned is fixing the propagation on an SQL server to another, one that he “worked” on for three weeks, by printing out a 10 page document full of terminology, and I fixed in 2 hours, and waited 30 hours for the propagation to finish. (It hadn’t been done in a while….)
I quite fondly remember telling him that maybe my job description needs to go in there, that a list of specific duties is supposed to go in there. He said, No it doesn’t, where do you get that? I pointed approximately 4 inches above his writing that state “Go over each part of the duty description with rated NCO”. I said, right there, in the instructions on how to fill this out. And since I had been counseled as an NCO before, and had to councel NCO’s with this very same form, I kinda got the gist of how this should work. He argued with his typical “Well, OJ got off with a good lawyer” type of incoherent argument, and I just gave up.
Well, reading this document, I’m being rated on my whole tour of duty here on specifically these objects…1. Stay Motivated. 2. Communicate. 3. Maintain a positive attitude (which relates directly with #1, so …) I’m being rated on 2 things, that have absolutely nothing to do with my job, nothing that I have done.
Mr. Supervisor, since I can do those two things by just breathing at regular intervals, I’ll do that. The 30-50 problems I fix every single day, the documents I produce for this shop and for users, and for other sections, the tools I make to make our lives easier, are now yours, sir. :) All yours.
For the Queen, I’d say you could suck a root, but then again, girls who like girls wouldn’t get that one, would they…
