The Workermonkey

Monday, February 22, 2010

fuck yeah, jury duty! 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/22/2010 06:38:00 PM

sweet, i have to show up! i'm excited, maybe its just because i've never done it before but i can't wait. i really hope i get picked for something. i was a little disappointed to see that the Hartford hit and run case was settled today, was hoping that it could have been something high profile like that. maybe i could get book deal out of it : )

PS: anyone use twitter? i added twitter and facebook gadgets to my igoogle page so now i'm tempted to post more. yeah i know, i've ranted many times that twitter is useless, and i still think that, but its one of those cases where everyone does use it and it can't be avoided forever. so yes, if everyone jumps off a bridge i'll at least go up to the edge and see whats going on.

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I have twitter, but i think it's useless

By  wyldshaman, at Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:45:00 PM  

i still think it's useless, i signed up to read peter gammons, but it turns out he's a crazy old man on twitter. i started following some other baseball writers buts now there is just too much info to keep up on. those guys tweet every fucking thing that comes across thier phone, plus all the personal crap no ones cares about.

Twitter = pointless

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, March 06, 2010 2:21:00 AM  

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Breaking news: eyewitness reports from spring training 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/21/2010 10:53:00 AM

according to my sources on the scene, joba looks sucky, edwar Ramirez looks great and no sign of Andy pettite yet. my mom and sister are down in Florida for a few days taking a vacation while Amanda is on spring break from school. their first stop is the Yankees spring training complex. its just pitchers and catchers so far but they are all out throwing some balls and just hanging around. spring training for baseball is cool and i would certainly recommend it for anyone who likes the game before they die. theres nothing exciting going on but its a lot of fun and its hard not ot get giddy trying to sneak a peak at someone like jeter or a-rod. i'd compare it to a minor league game as all the stadiums are used for minor league teams later in the year. its easy to get front row tickets for like 10$, and you're sitting at the end of the dugout. i caught one game a few years ago when randy Johnson was pitching, we had seat right next to the dugout and when he walked in i couldn't believe how big he really is. TV doesn't do him justice. thats also how i got to meet peter gammons, he was just hanging out around the dug out.

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as soon as i posted this, i got an other hysterical call from my mom,they got Joba's autograph! see, even 50 something women get excited for autographs from a 24 year old guy.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:09:00 AM  

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

tim, jesse, you know this is our future 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/17/2010 10:13:00 PM

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/10/hands-on-dd-on-the-microsoft-surface/

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CIV 5 CIV 5 CIV 5
Go Look, im not joking.

By  T, at Friday, February 19, 2010 6:55:00 PM  

i saw it too, i think i need to start preping now for 6 months of not sleeping when it hits.

just ONE more turn!

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:07:00 AM  

U didn't hear? My life is OVER!

By  Wyldshaman, at Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:49:00 PM  

civ5? civ5 civ 5 civ5 5 civ 5 civ civ 5? malkovich? hexagons!

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:30:00 PM  

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on the other hand... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/17/2010 09:08:00 PM

am i better for working through this? is it a bigger slap in the face if they dont' have an excuse to fire me and i don't walk out? staying in spite of them? denying them the sweet freedom from matt barone they desire? maybe i'm going about this the wrong way, winning is being able to stay. denying the desired? whats a bigger fuck you, denying them my services or forcing them to deal with me? i think i accidentally solved this by asking to report to someone else and be put in charge of new projects. new products have always been treated as a pain in the ass by the plant while I've wildly succeeded at them, a big reason i have such a good reputation with the higher ups. its something i'm going to present to the person i'd rather report to tomorrow. hummm......

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Monday, February 15, 2010

oh yeah, baseball starts this week 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/15/2010 09:42:00 PM

pitchers and catchers report for spring training this week. fuck yeah. i don't thinks the yanks did that much during the off season, and i think they will really miss melky. i love granderson in the outfield but winn/thames/vasquezs and nick the stick aren't exactly upgrades over what they could have had. i think these are all time buyers until montero is ready and next years' free agent market hits. i like what the red sox did , lackey, was a good signing and cameron, scutaro and beltre are great short term fixes. they are going to be tough to beat this year. plus the rays are going to improve again so the division is going to be a mad house. only two of them can make the playoffs.

go get 'em kevin smith. funny story. give them hell you fat bastard!

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i want to hold onto victor martinez for a long long time.

also, the kevin smith story is hilarious.

By  josh, at Monday, February 15, 2010 10:25:00 PM  

hold on to victor, but not for a long time, wait until mauer signs somewhere. the yanks and sox are going to hand him a blank check if he doesn't sign with Minnesota who would be retarded not to give him one, thats a franchise changing decision. take a look at carl crawford this year too, he's in a contract year and he's really good anyway. if the rays get off to a slow start him and pena are going to get shipped out of town to a contender. the yanks will be on that list once the winn/gardener and no cabrerea situation blows up. they are going to mis melky like crazy as he becomes a perennial all star in the NL.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:39:00 PM  

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so, whats the rest of the country like? 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/15/2010 09:26:00 PM

do i really want to stay in CT for my next job? i could go be some kind of rock star in the south, a guru in the west, possibly an international sensation overseas. i'm still relatively young, i think i'm smart, single, no attachments, i'm not tied into a mortgage, kids, or anything yet. what else is out there? i like sports, video games, comics, smoking and drinking, there must be some kind of career doing all those things. how do i get people to pay me to smoke, drink and play civ all day? would that be called a professional? i'd like to keep doing some engineering but i think i'm good at a lot more than just that. whats happened at my job is that the people around me have slowly been replaced , i no longer have people that i can learn from, but people twice my age i now have to teach. who are all my bosses. not going to happen. how's cali this time of year? SD would be nice to settle down in, the green is almost legal and i could go to comicon every year.

maybe i should be living in the woods and learning from the Indians. or saving the whales, or curing cancer. maybe replanting the rain forests, or burning them down. i really start to question what's right and that bothers me.

the HR guy asked me the other day if i was taking any medication. first of all its none of his fucking business, second, i shouldn't have to take medication to make bad decisions seem good. of course, i guess i tend to self medicate so what do i know. anyone out there actually on meds for this stuff? do i need them? i hate the fact that i start questioning myself when things get bad. if i need to step back from the situation and take a look at it, then there is no way the +/- lists look like i'm doing something wrong. what i'm doing wrong is listening to these retards and giving them the time of day. of course maybe i'm just an arrogant prick.

ugh...

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it's funny because we've been thinking about this exact same stuff lately. dominique's looking at med schools, and this is my pipe dream: http://www.golfacademy.edu/

i fell ass backwards into my current job, and while it might not be the worst industry ever there's limited room for advancement right now. but that's true of most stuff now. my thinking is i could work a shitty job for low pay or i could find one i enjoy (or enjoy more) for the same low pay. factoring in possibilities for advancement, development, free time, location, family, etc etc is the difficult part.

as far as other places, san diego's too expensive, and green is basically legal in MA anyway. i know you, and that's much closer to your parents/sister and i think you value easy trips up to see them (i know i do for my own parents). you can get some of the san diego feel in places like phoenix or vegas (though i think vegas real estate is likely pricey as well). phoenix is much cheaper though, and is gorgeous this time of year. plus it'd probably be a long drive instead of flight to comicon.

By  josh, at Monday, February 15, 2010 10:34:00 PM  

I don't know about being a rockstar in the south...you would more likely be hunted down and burned at a stake by baptists. Ha ha. No really. Although I'm all the advocate for getting out of Connecticut for a while. I think its healthy (and healing) to switch things up. You're right too- there is nothing tying you down. That is a huge privilege that many do not have. Do different things, meet new people, work a different job. It can be a really good thing. Of course, try to move somewhere somewhat nice.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, February 15, 2010 11:02:00 PM  

unfortunately josh is right on just about all points, i'm a northeast guy til death. maybe i should just move over the border to MA, its just a slap on the wrist right? its like a 150$ fine now. but that doesn't help pass a drug test... humm.. thats always been a sticking point with me, what happens if i go to amsterdam, do something legal there, then come back to hte states and fail a drug test two weeks later for doing something that was legal at the time?

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:08:00 PM  

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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

i love the internet 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/09/2010 02:22:00 AM

every day is a new adventure on the internet. i love it. under the technical term i have an addiction to it. but i also have one for alcohol and the green if you follow addiction to the letter, as well as video games, picking my nose, taking a poop, showers, brushing my teeth, eating food, breathing, growing my hair, and looking up while walking and chewing gum.

i was suspended from work for tomorrow (tuesday) for asking my new boss why he was telling me to do something. he asked me to put a PO in for him and i said i was an engineer and not a secretary. that led to a one day suspension. i asked if could be thursday, they wondered why. i have two interviews on Thursday already and i didn't want to get farther behind on the project i'm working on by taking two days off this week. doing my job has nothing to do with this. it also the only reason i still have it. i'm awesome at it and i succeed in spite of the people around me. i recently found out i was 100K under budget on a 120K project. the board of directors noticed that one much sooner than i did, but that doesn't stop the people at the plant level from firring me for making them look bad.

one thing i can hold over the new peopel i'm working with is that the plant i just went to in spain had its top people walked out two weeks after i left, i get along with te board of directors great because i make them money. the people at my plant level hate me for making htem look bad. which do i listen to? the poeople around me are about to get walked out, how much pandering should i do to them befor ethey go? can i hold on before htey are walked out? my new boss is obviously frightened by my previous experiencees, how do i win this one?

searching for "i hate my boss" doesn't give me the results i was looking for. i think its an opportunity for a very successful web site for one of us. we all need to get better at the web.

i want to win this. i want to be the evil genius who takes down his boss. so far, i don't have a good enough plan. speaking dollars and cents doesn't seem to get the job done fast enough. he hasn't touched me inappropriately yet so that's not an option. so right now i have:

A) he touched me (5% chance of success)

B) he's losing you money (30% CS)

C) wait (25 % CS over the next year)

D) do something awesome (0% CS since i don't know what that is yet)

i need help on this one. PLEASE GIVE ME SOME IDEAS!!!! i want this. so far losing money is the best one i've got. all i want in the comments is ideas and suggestions: GO!

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PS: i drank an entire 750ml bottle of chivas regal tonight. the drinking associated with the lack of green is getting too expensive, especially if i'm going to get shit canned.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:45:00 AM  

PS: in all seriousness, why are you not allowed to talk to your boss like a normal person? ia there some kind of law in america that says you can't? i'd believe that, it sounds like america. we're crazy, and our bosses suck. what bothers me the most is hte last of communication. leave me in the dark and feed me shit, just like a mushroom.

i'm constantly at odds with my current boss because he was hired instead of me. even if i did like him, how would i prove that? or am i just fucked either way? is there really no way common ground can be reached? is this just one of those eternal struggles for power? son of a bitch, i'm too honest for that...

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:35:00 AM  

as far as suggestions go, who said you need to just use 1 of your ideas? why not up the % by showing he's losing money AND he touched you? there's also plenty of other sabotage-like and/or illegal things you could do that i would never recommend (on the record).

in my experiences, the best thing to do is to get close to or prove yourself to the least senior reasonable person. someone who has direct contact and control over the people who are incompetent and pissing you off.

it's funny because your work situation reminds me of parts of mine, only the boss hierarchy is slightly different. our direct bosses are awesome and fight for us. they have a new boss and the adjustment has been a bit abrasive. but then his boss is someone who has been in our office for a while and is again awesome. but then his bosses are regional higher-ups in the company who spew the bullshit that sounds like it should be good but is flawed when put into practice (though that also depends from which side you are looking at things).

By  josh, at Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:19:00 PM  

Dude, I don't know. I think you have a problem with authority or something. I mean, I have know doubt that you are a great employee as far as getting shit done-wise. In fact, I know that you are a god damn robot of productivity (my dad still says you were the best employee he ever had). But the workplace is more than productivity- its politics and communication and cooperation. You got to learn to play all the positions in the game. If you keep getting fired like this and leaving burning wrecks behind you sooner or later its going to catch up with you.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:46:00 AM  

one of the things that drives me nuts is everyone of these conversation starts with telling me how great i am at getting things done, how good i am technically, how valued i am, its all bullshit. if any of it was true they'd put me to good use running the place or doing more. if the people above me are really that bad or insecure at what they do, then get them out of the way.

i've had to spend a lot of time talking ot he HR guy about all this and something that keeps coming up is that people in the shop aren't coming to him with the same complaints. the best example i can use is look whats happening to me for doing it. they are afraid to do the same thing and should have good reason to be so. i'm constantly hearing fro mthe guys on te floor how bad things are and being asked to do something as they knwo they have no outlet or chance to fix them. i'm seen as a member of management who gets things done so they come to me with problems. those problems get addressed and i get told to fuck off and watch myself do addressing them. i see it as a gigantic problem that people can't act like normal human beings at work because of dumbass boss who spreads fear. no one should have to work like that i i refuse to. i wound't have such a problem with authority if it wasn't so bad. its insulting to see them only act when they are yelled at by their boss while the people below them are begging for the same thing.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, February 15, 2010 9:24:00 PM  

i kind of know how you feel. our company has "corporate" sending emails and even division heads to different branches talking about eliminating micromanagement, however at the branch level micromanagement is actually increasing. it's like they preach what we want to hear but the immediate people who have their hands in everything just ignore it and tell us that it's the overall goal but to achieve it we have to do a, b, and c, all of which are heavily micromanaged.

also, i'm getting pretty sick of being told what a good job i'm doing only to get a minimal raise and/or have no opportunities for advancement.

By  josh, at Monday, February 15, 2010 10:22:00 PM  

We are all most likely going to be the bosses of something someday. And I bet our employees will be saying the same things. I don't think it's so simple. You would have think they would have figured it out by now if it was. Someone is always going to complain.

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, February 15, 2010 11:07:00 PM  

am i the only one who thinks "someday" isn't soon enough?

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:01:00 PM  

i can't wait for someday

By  josh, at Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:49:00 AM  

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

branci may have been right 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 2/03/2010 10:53:00 PM

you said April recently, that wasn't far from the truth. in the next two weeks i'll find out if that was really just a drunken rant after a good night of drinking with the VP or it was total BS. i have to admit i'm a little surprised by the responses my resume has already gotten. i have two interviews lined up for next week already and another one possible. i'm having trouble coming up with enough excuses to leave work. there's only so many doctors appointments i can have before someone notices. i had one of the most insulting meetings of my life two days ago and there is no way i'm going to let it go unnoticed. if i get shit canned from this one i'm taking people with me. this is actually a case of me playing the good boy and doing as i'm told and it still working out poorly. i'm not unaware of my past or the fact that this isn't the first time I've pissed off the people above me. this is simply the largest company I've done it in. if i'm going to be a casualty, i won't go down alone. i was surprised by the impression i'd made with the higher ups, i'm having trouble with people at the plant level. in two weeks the board of directors in my company is coming to have their yearly board meeting. they happen to pick my plant this year. the people i'm having trouble with think its a random occurrence that we got picked. the people above me, have told me other wise.

April 4th would mark three years to the day for me at this company. that was always the goal. 3 years. 3 only because that is what HR/recruiters/hiring people like to see. not 2, not 4, but 3 years. i've now made it to the next level where i'm being looked at for 7 to 10 year stints. i'd like to think i';m ready for that but i have no clue. it'd be nice to have a company make/show some kind of commitment for me to agree to 7 years.

J, i could use your opinion here about how much i can legally say on the internet about a company i work for. at what point does this go from a drunken rant to cross the line about company secrets?

PS: I've stopped with the greenery already. i'm serious this time. it sucks. its not so much the not smoking, its the crazy ass dreams i have when i stop for more than a day or two. if i ever end up in a situation where i'm telling you to get off or stay off a bus after walking through a field, please listen. I've had that one too many times to ignore it.

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"not unaware" = double negative.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, February 04, 2010 6:06:00 PM  

nicely done, B.

By  T, at Thursday, February 04, 2010 6:24:00 PM  

haha yeah give me a call and we can talk. i wanna talk to you soon anyway.

By  josh, at Thursday, February 04, 2010 6:45:00 PM  

i'm not "unaware" is totally legit. j, i'll be calling tomorrow, find me a professional lawyer, i have a good case, and if i don't i'll make one.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:43:00 AM  

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