i knows we is kin and all, but….
when i talk about work, i usually try to be as vague as possible for no other reason than to keep things as simple as possible. lately work has been stranger and stranger, but not without drama. remember when i got upset about that guy who sent out the ninja report before it should have been sent out? that same guy got to me again on tuesday. he basically told my manager that i was not helping him with some work he had to do for this Friday. problem is, he never told me he needed help or that there was a Friday meeting. he (from now on he’s White Shoes) had asked me if i was working on his part on Monday, but my priority had been for the past two weeks to work on something else that i had finished Tuesday. White Shoes knew this, i had told him multiple times, and he always seemed to be okay with it. it was not that i was ignoring his part, but that work had kind of been put on the backburner by people higher up than me, so it wasn’t like i was going off and doing my own work. anyway, so my manager calls me on Tuesday morning and tells me he’s been told i’m not helping WS with his work, and that he has a meeting on Friday he needs help getting information together. i told him i had no idea there was a Friday meeting, and what did WS need. my manager told me to go talk to WS (because he didn’t know either). i got off the phone not very happy, and walked over to WS’s desk to ask him what he needed. i think i woke him up, because he kind of roused and looked at me as if waking up from a desk slumber. his first reply to what he needed was as generic as going to a mall customer service desk and asking where the clothes were. i asked him more specifically what he would need for this Friday meeting. he couldn’t give me an answer! so i said they’re probably going to be looking for powerpoint charts, did he want that. he said that’d be fine.
i got back to my desk and told someone over IM that i was tired of him getting a free pass to be a dumbass. if he had a meeting Friday that he needed information from me for, that’s fine, but tell me instead of telling our manager that i’m not helping you. he totally sold me out for no apparent reason. it’s not as if we’re the same level and he needs to look better than me. he seems to have a Napoleonic complex where he wants to be in total control, so by holding back information from me, he kept control.
so today i was able to finish what WS was going to need, and then found out that the Friday meeting agenda was changed and he wouldn’t be talking his part. i did not find this out from him (OF COURSE) but by someone else. i went and confirmed it though and he didn’t even apologize for not keeping me in the loop. i don’t like working with him because of stuff like this. incidentally, the part i’m working on for him, i came up with pretty much everything. so not only do i have to work with him just to get my part of the story done, i’m also wanting to make sure he doesn’t screw up what i’ve already done.
and i’m not sure if this was because of the economy, but now 2 of the 8 total jobs i had applied for have been cancelled. i got an email about one of the Birmingham jobs i applied for that they are not going to fill the position. no other explanation than that. hopefully that won’t be happening with the other job apps i have left.








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