September 03, 2004

Shhhhh

Ok guys, act casual. See, I have this new officemate. She just joined the team, but I have worked with her before so I knew her before she just showed up and moved into my office, which is nice. She’s sitting right behind me now. No! Don’t all look at once! God people, I said to act casual.

Anyway, like I said I know her from before and I like her and have a lot of respect for her. She’s a manager, and her team does a lot of the stuff that I used to do before I got stuck looking up bullshit data and sticking it on fucking spreadsheets all damn day long! Whew, sorry. I’m a little bitter about that. So, she has a team that does a lot of what I do – the things that I’m good at, the things that I enjoy. I think that maybe she would not mind so much if I worked for her instead of for my current, useless, so-called manager. I think that because she recommended it. Working for her would Not Suck. I know that’s not really a ringing endorsement, but considering that everything else lately is some degree of The Suck, having a job that did Not Suck would be huge. Major. Might even get me to lower my shoulders to somewhere around my chin instead of the ear level position they have occupied for the last few weeks.

Now yes, this may never happen because there is nobody to do the crap I’m doing now if I don’t do it and also it would be a political disaster because my so-called manager is a grabby little bitch who would try to keep me from moving even if she hated me just on principle. But then I think that maybe if I let my senior manager know that I hate my job and that I am not going to keep doing it no matter what he might decide to move me to keep me in his group. Or else he would tell me not to let the door hit me in the ass on the way out. Could go either way.

My rather late-in-coming point is that the person I want to convince to hire me now shares a room with me 8 to 10 hours a day and I need to look impressive and capable and, you know, not like all I do all day is blog. This has really cut down on the time I can spend visiting all you wonderful people, and I’m very sorry about that. So if I haven’t stopped by your place please don’t take it personally, just remember that I am busy brown-nosing like my life depended on it.

Posted by Beth at September 3, 2004 01:32 PM
Comments

Wow, good luck with the brown-nosing. If I had a chance at a job that would Not Suck, I'd totally quit reading blogs as well.

Posted by: Kerry at September 3, 2004 01:37 PM

um, your choosing a job/income/stability over blogging and people you never even met? where are your priorities woman?

Posted by: laura at September 3, 2004 01:55 PM

I love your blog. Good luck on the job thing. Since we have to spend 8 - 10 hrs a day working we may as well be doing something that doesn't suck. Also -- hope the rest of your personal stuff is getting resolved.

Posted by: Kelly at September 3, 2004 02:12 PM

ok fine...whatever...but i think you should make sure you have pants on.

GOOD LUCK! ;)

Posted by: Pamalamadingdong at September 3, 2004 02:20 PM

Damn, but brown-nose away! Your ticket out of spreadsheet land is sitting right behind you! About damn time, yo.

Posted by: Dawnie at September 3, 2004 02:37 PM

I would say that now is not the time to practice your annoying cubicle noises!

Posted by: Jeff A at September 3, 2004 02:39 PM

Ah Ha!...so you do still love me :)....I'm such a goober

Posted by: Casey at September 3, 2004 03:19 PM

good luck with everything.

Posted by: sparrow at September 3, 2004 03:50 PM

a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do

Posted by: chlamygirl at September 3, 2004 04:06 PM

Well I guess you're going to have to start matching your browns and blacks then, huh? (At least remember that you'll have a brown nose and dress accordingly.)

Posted by: bmh at September 3, 2004 04:47 PM

Good luck on getting those shoulders out of your ears. That can be uncomfortable.

Posted by: Debbie at September 3, 2004 05:47 PM

Oooh - brown nosing. I'm sure you won't have to do a lot of that especially if you've worked with this person in the past.

Posted by: Irene at September 3, 2004 10:53 PM

"current, useless, so-called manager" we share the same manager!!!

Posted by: Sweety at September 4, 2004 02:43 PM

Good luck! Having a job you don't wake up dreading is marvelous! Hopefully she gets all of my subliminal "Hire Beth" vibes and you get a new job.

Posted by: myllissa at September 4, 2004 11:07 PM

*shakes head understandingly*

Have Word or Notepad open though, so if you suddenly have this idea for a post, you can type it down without being sprung...

Posted by: Fi at September 5, 2004 08:09 PM