Monday, March 8. 2010
Every Never
First day working for New Boss went fine. I mean, I've been doing the job for six months now and I've got a rhythm down so it's not like I didn't know what it was going to be like. I started giving crap to some of the guys about they had to be nice to me because I'm the new guy. Again, same group of people and same job for the last six months - but today I'm the new guy.
I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I'm the fourth person Old Boss has lost in the last month (maybe month-and-a-half, I'm not certain). The first guy split to move to Arizona because he has family back that way. The second guy left because he'd been working with one of the "highly technical, academic-based, not-for-production" groups and he really liked it (technically I think his last day is this week or next, but he turned in his papers some time ago). The third person hasn't been happy on that group for some time (still at entry level after six years and is one of the best people in the company at her job). I was the fourth. I heard today that there's some buzz that Old Boss has some serious issues in his group. When you have a "mass exodus" like that, it tends to get people to asking questions about what the problem is. People like all the other bosses in the area and his boss. I'm wondering if there will be some other "interviews" for me down the road.
How about something ... well, kinda funny? A bunch of very painful animated GIFs. People falling, crashing into things, a dude hitting a landmine (or something) with a sledgehammer. Don't worry - no blood, just a crapload of embarrassment.
Apparently I was a little pissy Saturday night. I was bombing around on the laptop and Sue was watching TV. She was flipping around during a commercial and stopped on Animal Planet. Being in a pissy mood for unknown reasons I said "Can we not watch Animal Planet? I hate every fucking show on there." Sue said "Okaaaaaaaaaaaay." I asked what that was about. She said "Well, you have never said you didn't like Animal Planet and the words just kind of shocked me." I said "... Well, OK. Yeah, I don't know why but Animal Planet pisses me off every time I've ever seen anything on there. Also, I'm apparently pissy tonight." After that, I decided to take my frustration / pissiness out on the cable company.
I went to their website and wrote a bitchy email about commercials. See, on our HD channels are quieter than our normal channels - but the commercials are twice as loud. So you turn the volume up to actually hear the show and then the commercials come on and it blasts you out. I said something about "Can you people not balance your audio feed?" and "Why should I have to choose between hearing the show I'm actually paying for versus having my ears bleed because the commercials are rattling the windows?" I got a reply back today where some cable minion said they're not allowed to meddle with whatever they get in on the feed and it all meets federal guidelines. I'm thinking I'll start a dialog with him over how he should fix their problems - 'cause I'm sure he's the exact right guy to get the job done and certainly not some random dude who got the shit job of responding to the website complaints.
I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I'm the fourth person Old Boss has lost in the last month (maybe month-and-a-half, I'm not certain). The first guy split to move to Arizona because he has family back that way. The second guy left because he'd been working with one of the "highly technical, academic-based, not-for-production" groups and he really liked it (technically I think his last day is this week or next, but he turned in his papers some time ago). The third person hasn't been happy on that group for some time (still at entry level after six years and is one of the best people in the company at her job). I was the fourth. I heard today that there's some buzz that Old Boss has some serious issues in his group. When you have a "mass exodus" like that, it tends to get people to asking questions about what the problem is. People like all the other bosses in the area and his boss. I'm wondering if there will be some other "interviews" for me down the road.
How about something ... well, kinda funny? A bunch of very painful animated GIFs. People falling, crashing into things, a dude hitting a landmine (or something) with a sledgehammer. Don't worry - no blood, just a crapload of embarrassment.
Apparently I was a little pissy Saturday night. I was bombing around on the laptop and Sue was watching TV. She was flipping around during a commercial and stopped on Animal Planet. Being in a pissy mood for unknown reasons I said "Can we not watch Animal Planet? I hate every fucking show on there." Sue said "Okaaaaaaaaaaaay." I asked what that was about. She said "Well, you have never said you didn't like Animal Planet and the words just kind of shocked me." I said "... Well, OK. Yeah, I don't know why but Animal Planet pisses me off every time I've ever seen anything on there. Also, I'm apparently pissy tonight." After that, I decided to take my frustration / pissiness out on the cable company.
I went to their website and wrote a bitchy email about commercials. See, on our HD channels are quieter than our normal channels - but the commercials are twice as loud. So you turn the volume up to actually hear the show and then the commercials come on and it blasts you out. I said something about "Can you people not balance your audio feed?" and "Why should I have to choose between hearing the show I'm actually paying for versus having my ears bleed because the commercials are rattling the windows?" I got a reply back today where some cable minion said they're not allowed to meddle with whatever they get in on the feed and it all meets federal guidelines. I'm thinking I'll start a dialog with him over how he should fix their problems - 'cause I'm sure he's the exact right guy to get the job done and certainly not some random dude who got the shit job of responding to the website complaints.
