Y2/D344...Winter Doldrums...
Feb. 23rd, 2022 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI honestly think I need to find a place on the planet where it is April Through June, and possibly October, year round?
Weather is wonky here. It got up to 68 today in some sections of the city, and tonight it will go down to the 20s, and be about 28 degrees tomorrow morning, with a wintry mix. I'm wearing my waterproof boots, jeans, a sweater, and heavy jacket. I wish I could work remotely - but on the other hand, it is easier revising and editing a contract at work.
Work is not helping with the doldrums. If anything it is sending me head-first into them.
Today?
Me: Can you provide a scope of work, I can't find it?
Project Manager: See, this is it - but the amounts are wrong - since the firm changed them.
Me: That's not a scope of work, that's an estimate of the amounts being reallocated. They aren't the same thing.
Project Manager: Yes it is. It's a scope for a reallocation.
Me: It's not technical work - there's no description of the actual work here. It's estimated amounts - a financial statement.
Project Manager: Still a scope -
Me: Look, years from now, or even a few years, say you're elsewhere, maybe dead from COVID -
Project Manager: Heaven forbid.
Me: No one is going to know what the work was for, just the amounts. And you refer to additional work ...
PRoject Manager: I get it.
Me: That's the scope of work...
PRoject Manager: no it's not..
Me: a scope of work involves "technical" items.
Project Manager: Agree to disagree.
ME: (Growls).
The rest of the day - I'd tell you about - but I'd have to kill you. It being confidential and all that. I spent two hours in an ethics training course required of all policy makers with the state government, or who make above a certain amount annually. I honestly don't consider myself much of a policy maker - I don't make the decisions, other folks do. But whatever, I do now meet the threshold.
My manager's are upset with me because I can't figure out how to make their schedule work - I can't unless they get rid of some things, and condense the amount of time it takes every idiot down the line to review stuff. See here's the problem with micro-managing - it takes a lot of time. Micro-managers make additional work for themselves. Trusting folks - such as your employees is what you should do.
Also taking forever to review something, then rushing someone else to get it out the door - leads to mistakes. It's inefficient use of time, and unnecessary stress. Also leads to a hostile work environment.
Virtual Ethics Training had a ten minute break - so I darted to the bathroom, only to realize on the way back that I forgot my mask. I covered my face with my hands, and my coworkers laughed at me.
AA: No worries. It happens to all of us every once and a while.
I wear the dang thing so often now that half the time, I forget when its on.
***
The train was late getting into the station, so I missed my subway connection and had to wait 15 minutes for the next train - extending the commute to a full hour and a half. I left the office at about 4:05, and got home at 5:36.
There were delays on the G line due to a passenger being disruptive at one of the stations north of me. The Mayor is putting in place a program that increases police presence on the trains, at the same time removing the homeless and prohibiting alcohol on the trains.
***
Anyhow was feeling down in the dumps when I talked to mother, who had a jolly visit with her cousins. Feeling bad for me - she asked my brother to send the photos niece sent him from Barcelona. So he did, with the caption, "well, at least one of us got to go out".
Wales also texted - and made me feel slightly better for it. She asked if I wanted to visit the Cat Cafe when it got warmer (I do), and if I had plans for my birthday. (My only plan right now is to try to take the frigging day off - but my crazy company may not let me.)
It was almost as if the Universe was patting me on the shoulder and saying there there - hang in there. It's fine. All is not lost. I got your back And it can always be worse.
When I snagged chocolate from L, he told me a lot of other folks were doing the same thing today. It must be one of those days.
***
Some decent television shows/films are popping up in March...
* Bridgerton S2
* West Side Story on HBO Max and Disney Plus
* Spiderman - No Way Home - hopefully on VOD or available for purchase.
* Nightmare Alley is already available on streaming, but I can't remember which one. I think it's HBO, but it might be Amazon. I know it's not Netflix, Disney Plus, or Apple TV.
Enuf.
Here's a picture from Barcelona...
Weather is wonky here. It got up to 68 today in some sections of the city, and tonight it will go down to the 20s, and be about 28 degrees tomorrow morning, with a wintry mix. I'm wearing my waterproof boots, jeans, a sweater, and heavy jacket. I wish I could work remotely - but on the other hand, it is easier revising and editing a contract at work.
Work is not helping with the doldrums. If anything it is sending me head-first into them.
Today?
Me: Can you provide a scope of work, I can't find it?
Project Manager: See, this is it - but the amounts are wrong - since the firm changed them.
Me: That's not a scope of work, that's an estimate of the amounts being reallocated. They aren't the same thing.
Project Manager: Yes it is. It's a scope for a reallocation.
Me: It's not technical work - there's no description of the actual work here. It's estimated amounts - a financial statement.
Project Manager: Still a scope -
Me: Look, years from now, or even a few years, say you're elsewhere, maybe dead from COVID -
Project Manager: Heaven forbid.
Me: No one is going to know what the work was for, just the amounts. And you refer to additional work ...
PRoject Manager: I get it.
Me: That's the scope of work...
PRoject Manager: no it's not..
Me: a scope of work involves "technical" items.
Project Manager: Agree to disagree.
ME: (Growls).
The rest of the day - I'd tell you about - but I'd have to kill you. It being confidential and all that. I spent two hours in an ethics training course required of all policy makers with the state government, or who make above a certain amount annually. I honestly don't consider myself much of a policy maker - I don't make the decisions, other folks do. But whatever, I do now meet the threshold.
My manager's are upset with me because I can't figure out how to make their schedule work - I can't unless they get rid of some things, and condense the amount of time it takes every idiot down the line to review stuff. See here's the problem with micro-managing - it takes a lot of time. Micro-managers make additional work for themselves. Trusting folks - such as your employees is what you should do.
Also taking forever to review something, then rushing someone else to get it out the door - leads to mistakes. It's inefficient use of time, and unnecessary stress. Also leads to a hostile work environment.
Virtual Ethics Training had a ten minute break - so I darted to the bathroom, only to realize on the way back that I forgot my mask. I covered my face with my hands, and my coworkers laughed at me.
AA: No worries. It happens to all of us every once and a while.
I wear the dang thing so often now that half the time, I forget when its on.
***
The train was late getting into the station, so I missed my subway connection and had to wait 15 minutes for the next train - extending the commute to a full hour and a half. I left the office at about 4:05, and got home at 5:36.
There were delays on the G line due to a passenger being disruptive at one of the stations north of me. The Mayor is putting in place a program that increases police presence on the trains, at the same time removing the homeless and prohibiting alcohol on the trains.
***
Anyhow was feeling down in the dumps when I talked to mother, who had a jolly visit with her cousins. Feeling bad for me - she asked my brother to send the photos niece sent him from Barcelona. So he did, with the caption, "well, at least one of us got to go out".
Wales also texted - and made me feel slightly better for it. She asked if I wanted to visit the Cat Cafe when it got warmer (I do), and if I had plans for my birthday. (My only plan right now is to try to take the frigging day off - but my crazy company may not let me.)
It was almost as if the Universe was patting me on the shoulder and saying there there - hang in there. It's fine. All is not lost. I got your back And it can always be worse.
When I snagged chocolate from L, he told me a lot of other folks were doing the same thing today. It must be one of those days.
***
Some decent television shows/films are popping up in March...
* Bridgerton S2
* West Side Story on HBO Max and Disney Plus
* Spiderman - No Way Home - hopefully on VOD or available for purchase.
* Nightmare Alley is already available on streaming, but I can't remember which one. I think it's HBO, but it might be Amazon. I know it's not Netflix, Disney Plus, or Apple TV.
Enuf.
Here's a picture from Barcelona...
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Date: 2022-02-24 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-05 04:49 am (UTC)Oh, West Side Story is now on Disney + and HBO Max.
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Date: 2022-03-05 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-05 04:48 am (UTC)The more I think about that one - the more I laugh. That sounds like a highly convoluted method of defrauding the government.
Thank you for that. I needed a chuckle.
[We didn't get any stories. They need to work on their presentation. I think they are afraid of using certain current examples...like the Governor of NY shouldn't write a book and use his staff members to conduct research and collect the data for said book, which is for his own financial gain. ]
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Date: 2022-03-05 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-06 02:07 am (UTC)In short he's an idiot.