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Thursday, January 06, 2005

It's been too quiet 

I generally don't feel the need to start posts, but I like to comment. Since no one is posting, I have nothing to do. Here's my useless post, let's get this started.

First, tell me if you think I'll get fired or promoted:
The project manager is an idiot. He is always talking about safety, the company motto is "safety sets the pace," and he's known far and wide for overfocus on safety. He tests tech's level of safety by asking what the safety topic that came with this week's paycheck was. I often question what knowing that has to do with being safe. You could always memorize those few words, be great in his mind, then drive to work eating and talking on a mobile and looking for a CD in the passenger footwell while going 83mph in the breakdown lane with your lights off in a snow squall in the dark in a truck you haven't maintained or inspected in five months, but you knew the topic! You must be safe! (fyi, most topics don't apply to this project)

So Mr. Safety wants to hold a quality meeting because we're generating absolute crap in terms of data. He annouces it on Tuesday for 8am Thursday, and notes the weather may call it off. I get up 6am this morning, check 3 forecasts and it looks like while we're in the 2 hour meeting, it is supposed to change from snow to freezing rain. I leave the manager a message saying I could easily make it to the meeting but am not comfortable with what may happen while we're there. He leaves me a message saying that's my call, but everyone else was there, we live in CT - this happens all the time, the world doesn't stop for snow, he went early enough to the meeting place to call it off if the conditions were bad, and the meeting was important. Nevermind that none of that addressed my one concern; does knowing the safety topic supercede holding a random meeting the morning of a named winter storm that is expected to worsen? Anyway, I've already butted heads with him and got a similar I-don't-understand-your-point-but-you're-wrong response, but I've also had a safety suggestion email passed on up to the VP and made into immediate policy. So does the project manager sack me because I'm a troublemaker, I say what I think, and don't care to respect his dumb ass? If so, does his supervisor (who is smarter) reinstate me? Make me (someone with 1/2 a clue about leadership) the project manager? Probably not, nothing happens, but the manager gets a little more mad at me. Which is cool, because I want to demote myself soon since the tech's just got a big raise and make more than we do, but don't have to put up with this nonsense. So far all I know about the roads today is the one tech who left me a message about where he was working couldn't make it up a hill, got stuck, got pulled out by a plow truck, and went home.

Also, great deal on wifi I'm ordering as I write this:
Netgear 54g Cable/DSL router with firewall and PC card free after rebate

Giants looking to improve, and that last play was magic; rookie QB audibles, veteran RB scores the game winning TD and wraps up a team record all in a mere 9 feet.

2 comments

although san diego gets our first pick, that one play droped us as many as 10 spots in the draft. i guess the disapointment can be off set by knowing that eli is still god and reinstiling confidence in everyone who was starting to turn on him for not winning right away. and fuck warner, he knew what he was getting into.

By Blogger Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, January 07, 2005 12:20:00 PM  

damon, isnt it time you stop these "tech" positions and get a job that requires you to use that fine penn st. education? just kiddin, you should have told your boss that you civic had sweet rims on it and you didnt want to come in because the salt might damage them.

By Blogger ron, at Friday, January 07, 2005 11:02:00 PM  

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