Whooo Hooo!
Some dumb shit (who shall remain nameless but you'll know who I'm talking about) figured out today that if he rode with me to the airport that he would not have a way home come Monday! Duhhhhh! I've only been PMSing about this for a week now. No credit card = no plane ticket on Monday. Pretty simple to figure that out, but he only caught on this morning! Although today I just found out that DeJuan got our new paperwork and I should have my new card in 10-14 days. Hmmm...that means I should have it by the 13th? I plan (if it is okay) on coming back (being done with this TDY) near the end of May. Come back for a week or two to Rochester, and then come back here for a week or two? Uhh...riiiiggghhhtt. Of course I've heard a lot of the "locals" here would prefer that Shithead (my new name for the Dick that shall remain nameless in my blog - he lost his Mr title, so I'm a little pissed) go home rather then me. Wow, I'm glad they like me that much and recognize my customer talents. Well either that, or Shithead is no Mr personality. Of course Me staying ain't happening without someone coughing up some sort of incentive (i.e. bonus money, raise, etc.). The novelty done wore off this shit, I don't care how much everyone likes me.
Well I'm outer here! Might be another update today, maybe not. Gotta get home to the wife, get me some quality time! ;)
Friday, May 03, 2002
Thursday, May 02, 2002
Wednesday, May 01, 2002
Today we are going to talk about leadership. Those who are, those who want to be, and those that are not. We have several fine people leading us in our everyday life, in our jobs and in our private lifes. Let's focus on work today. See if you are designated a manager then you are expected to manage, but if there is no manager, sometimes you are expected to lead yourself, self direction is a good thing. Sometimes in this situation, you may be a group of people with a real manager or you may have a manager, but feel that this person is not your manager, because your manager is in another city. Often times, one of the members may take it upon themselves to become an impromptu manager. I have just personally experienced this. See, sometimes a good manager has to have experience, people must like him or at least respect him, and AGE does not necessarilly make you a manager. On the other hand sometimes people have a tendency do things without thinking, or they have thought about it and they are doing it on purpose to make you look bad or make themselves look better. Case in point:
See when we first started this assignment, we were here for a week (with no IDs for the ticket system) so we had a lot of time to observe the practices in use and ask questions (this is what I did). Now for awhile all us (TDY) were getting together at breakfast and talking. I made mention that I had drawn up quite the list of what I had done this week and sent it to the local manager we are reporting to. Needless to say, when I get settled in to work and I'm getting my message together, what pops into my mail box, but a letter from the SA I had been talking to about my idea, giving a status report for all of us for that week. Wow, what a fucking idea, wish I would have had it! Wait I DID! Well, not really, I was only going to report on myself since I don't want anyone to think I want to be a leader, because we don't need to have one for just 4 of us!
Now flash ahead to this week. I had told all the SAs we were working with that I would like to be the point of contact for this particular project that has had a lot of new machine being re-imaged and set-up (to me it made perfect sense - I mean why have 3 different people handling the machines - makes one person responsible - I thought it was a good idea). So I'm checking the tickets, and here is an order for 4 more machines but the SA in question has ignored my request and is doing them. I told him that I thought I was going to handle those tickets for that project and he proceeds to start getting "huffy" so I figure, I'll drop it after all I have to work with him rather closely for the next month or so. So last night I pick up one of the TDY guys from the train station, and we are talking about how much work we are NOT doing since it seems like we have caught them up. He tells me that he is telling the "higher-ups" that he will be done at the beginning of June. I agree with him, 2 months is a long time from your family and the contribution we are making now, seems very small, I mean we are closing tickets, that's it. I could be doing this back at the "X" rather then here.
Yesterday morning. So we come in and I'm having (what I think is a confidential talk) with the SA in question. He is nodding and agreeing and basically following right along agreeing with what I said. Day continues without incident until about 2 pm, when (according to him) his pager goes off and it's Mr. Bill. Him and Mr Bill are apparently really tight, apparently so tight that this FUCKING ASSHOLE proceeds to tell Mr Bill what I told him (in assumed confidence) WORD FOR FUCKING WORD! Was I evesdropping? No, my cube is right next to him and you would have to be deaf NOT to hear what he says to anyone. I'm shocked, mortified, astounded! Why? Well because, I got part of the information from someone else whom I'm sure did not think it would get "around" to the wrong people. But WAIT, it gets worse! How? Well after he gets off the phone with Mr Bill, I confront him about what he had said and he basically just blows me off. Okay, I deserved that, it's not the first time I've worked with him, and I know this guy is like a mule when it comes to trying to tell him something (won't admit guilt or change when he's wrong). So I go over to talk to Mr Tom (who's been great fun - he's the project manager here on TDY) and explain what just happen when out of the Mr. Steve's cube come ASSHOLE! He just told him! HOW DO I KNOW? Because he stops as I'm standing there talking to Mr. Tom and says to me that if we want to leave at the end of the month just to let Mr Steve know. WHAT? YOU FUCKING TOLD HIM TOO? DOES IT NEVER FUCKING STOP WITH YOU? DID I FUCK WITH YOU IN A PAST LIFE? JUST WHEN DID YOU THINK YOU BECAME MY FUCKING LEADER? WHO NOMINATED YOU TO BECOME THE HEAD OF THE GROUP?
Needless to say I was shocked. I was ready to blow, but I think at that moment my brain cut out and just left me hanging slack jawed in amazement. Mr Tom said I should have popped in the mouth. Oh believe me, I thought about ripping his head off and taking a shit in his skull just so I can say he truly is a shithead! Being the man of cruelty I am, this motherfucker will get his due at a later date. Because I'm going to dedicate some serious free time for some truly great payback. The worst thing is that Mr. Rudell warned me and I failed to heed his advice, now I've learned, the dark side lives in all of us.
-Art "Atomic Wedgie" Crego
See when we first started this assignment, we were here for a week (with no IDs for the ticket system) so we had a lot of time to observe the practices in use and ask questions (this is what I did). Now for awhile all us (TDY) were getting together at breakfast and talking. I made mention that I had drawn up quite the list of what I had done this week and sent it to the local manager we are reporting to. Needless to say, when I get settled in to work and I'm getting my message together, what pops into my mail box, but a letter from the SA I had been talking to about my idea, giving a status report for all of us for that week. Wow, what a fucking idea, wish I would have had it! Wait I DID! Well, not really, I was only going to report on myself since I don't want anyone to think I want to be a leader, because we don't need to have one for just 4 of us!
Now flash ahead to this week. I had told all the SAs we were working with that I would like to be the point of contact for this particular project that has had a lot of new machine being re-imaged and set-up (to me it made perfect sense - I mean why have 3 different people handling the machines - makes one person responsible - I thought it was a good idea). So I'm checking the tickets, and here is an order for 4 more machines but the SA in question has ignored my request and is doing them. I told him that I thought I was going to handle those tickets for that project and he proceeds to start getting "huffy" so I figure, I'll drop it after all I have to work with him rather closely for the next month or so. So last night I pick up one of the TDY guys from the train station, and we are talking about how much work we are NOT doing since it seems like we have caught them up. He tells me that he is telling the "higher-ups" that he will be done at the beginning of June. I agree with him, 2 months is a long time from your family and the contribution we are making now, seems very small, I mean we are closing tickets, that's it. I could be doing this back at the "X" rather then here.
Yesterday morning. So we come in and I'm having (what I think is a confidential talk) with the SA in question. He is nodding and agreeing and basically following right along agreeing with what I said. Day continues without incident until about 2 pm, when (according to him) his pager goes off and it's Mr. Bill. Him and Mr Bill are apparently really tight, apparently so tight that this FUCKING ASSHOLE proceeds to tell Mr Bill what I told him (in assumed confidence) WORD FOR FUCKING WORD! Was I evesdropping? No, my cube is right next to him and you would have to be deaf NOT to hear what he says to anyone. I'm shocked, mortified, astounded! Why? Well because, I got part of the information from someone else whom I'm sure did not think it would get "around" to the wrong people. But WAIT, it gets worse! How? Well after he gets off the phone with Mr Bill, I confront him about what he had said and he basically just blows me off. Okay, I deserved that, it's not the first time I've worked with him, and I know this guy is like a mule when it comes to trying to tell him something (won't admit guilt or change when he's wrong). So I go over to talk to Mr Tom (who's been great fun - he's the project manager here on TDY) and explain what just happen when out of the Mr. Steve's cube come ASSHOLE! He just told him! HOW DO I KNOW? Because he stops as I'm standing there talking to Mr. Tom and says to me that if we want to leave at the end of the month just to let Mr Steve know. WHAT? YOU FUCKING TOLD HIM TOO? DOES IT NEVER FUCKING STOP WITH YOU? DID I FUCK WITH YOU IN A PAST LIFE? JUST WHEN DID YOU THINK YOU BECAME MY FUCKING LEADER? WHO NOMINATED YOU TO BECOME THE HEAD OF THE GROUP?
Needless to say I was shocked. I was ready to blow, but I think at that moment my brain cut out and just left me hanging slack jawed in amazement. Mr Tom said I should have popped in the mouth. Oh believe me, I thought about ripping his head off and taking a shit in his skull just so I can say he truly is a shithead! Being the man of cruelty I am, this motherfucker will get his due at a later date. Because I'm going to dedicate some serious free time for some truly great payback. The worst thing is that Mr. Rudell warned me and I failed to heed his advice, now I've learned, the dark side lives in all of us.
-Art "Atomic Wedgie" Crego
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