[OT] Away for a while and a rant

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:00:05 -0700, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

On 2005-01-13, mlbriggs penned:

Digging out one of my old sayings: "If you will -- you may". MLB

I'm dumb; explain please?

(I was going to ask for an explanation in smaller words, but, um ...)
That was as small as possible. Here it is with more words:

If you are willing to put up with the c*ap, they are willing to let you.





MLB

"Karen" wrote in message
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2005-01-13, jmcquown penned:

Good advice. Unfortunately, when I get very tense or angry if I try
to speak I start to cry.

When I'm really I angry, I also cry. Weird. Then I get angry at
myself for crying and looking weak when what I really want to do is
beat the snot out of the offender.

I know that feeling!

I've never had a boss who put me through the kinds of things you've
described.

Actually it was Catnipped's boss who was cussing at her, and I've only
had
that happen one time. Strangely, it was a former Army guy who was CFO of
a
(surprise!) now defunct company. He called me into his office one day
because an automated backup on one of the Unix systems had failed. Even
with the door closed it had to be apparent to everyone because he was
shouting at the top of his lungs "What the FU** happened?!" I took a
deep
breath, looked him in the eye and said, "Do you want me to quit? Because
I'll walk out of here right now. No one talks to me like this." He lost
his bluster and mumbled something like, "Go back to work."

It was the one time I was able to contain the tears and just spit it back
at
him. I only stayed there for 1 year - couldn't have taken much more of
that
assinine behavior.

Jill

Don't these people realize that in today's climate you could probably be
sued over verbally insulting an employee like this? I mean, really?

Actually, no they really can't be *successfully* sued. I talked to a lawyer
once when a supervisor told me that the only way I was going to move in the
company was "horizontally". You have to have witnesses (and very few
employees are going to risk their jobs testifying for another employee. You
have to have a proven "trend" that the company has been allowing this to go
on for a while. It's *EXTREMELY* hard to prove a case of sexual harrassment
(or any other type of harrassment) - the movies and TV make more of it than
what's reality.

Hugs,

CatNipped

"SUQKRT" wrote in message
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In article , "CatNipped"
wrote:


Posting a quickie just so you won't think I am (or Sammy is) being rude.

RL is kicking my @$$ right now. In fact, if you don't mind, a need to
rant
a bit...

rant

A year ago I lost my job as a web architect and since the bottom had
fallen
out of this job market, couldn't find another job doing this. After 4
months of unemployment, I decided to take a job as an Executive Assistant.
I had to take half the pay I was getting, but I figured, hey, at least
I
won't have the job stress associated with the higher salary.

Unfortunately, part of my job duties as an EI was to update their web
site.
Well, updating the web site quickly became extensively high-end
programming.
*BUT*, my salary is still half of what it was and I'm still required to
do
all of the EI duties (step and fetch it type stuff), PLUS they gave me
15
different vendors to handle, and just about everything else that the 20+
people they just laid off were doing. So now I'm:

- Going to get the mail and sorting and distributing it (a whole mail bin
every day)
- Doing personal chores for my CEO (paying his traffic tickets, filling
out
his kids' insurance forms, renewing his passport, running down to his car
to
fetch things for him, etc. - ad nauseum)
- All meeting presentations in PowerPoint
- All Excel spreadsheets with Visual Basic macros
- External and internal contact information
- All correspondence - email and snail mail
- All FedEx-ing, faxing, and scanning of documents
- All filing
- Answering the telephones
- Taking care of all repairs of all telephone, cellular, and computing
equipment
- Coding invoices for 15 different vendors for accounts payable processing
- Taking care of resolving invoice problems for 15 different vendors
- Creating all graphics, multi-media, interactive forms, and code for a
250+
page web site
- Filming and editing a safety orientation video for the company

I feel like I'm going to drop dead from exhaustion - I'm going crazy with
stress. For instance, they gave me the project of creating a Safety
program
on our web site that is about 25 pages of interactive forms using 10+
tables
in a SQL database, and editing about 700+ pages of Safety forms that need
to
be put on the web for downloading. When I worked for a web services
company
as a consultant, years ago, the web service company would have taken the
job
and put 4 people to work on it, given the client a 3 month time frame for
completion, and charged the client $100,000 for the job. I was given it
a
few days ago and told the roll-out date is February 1, 2005! I've been
working 16-hour days and this is the first time I've forced myself to take
a
break to come read the group a bit.

/rant

I promise to take some time this weekend to write a couple of "With Mommy"
stories.

Hugs,

CatNipped


It sounds like they are taking advantage of the high unemployment rate and
snapped up an overqualified person to take underpay and overwork. Purrs
that a
better job happens.
Suz
Macmoosette

Yep, you said it much better than I did, but that's exactly what I just said
in a little while ago in another post. I've been constantly looking for
another job since I started this one and there's just nothing in my field
out there.

Hugs,

CatNipped

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