19 posts tagged “work”

What keeps you up at night?

this month, work stress has been keeping me up at night. ive been working with a particular business unit in my company to get some content ready for their section of the site. i set deadlines, resources and a time line. they aimed at the 24th. not sure why, but thats what they wanted. anyway, they missed all their deadlines, they dont deliver the content i need to post and im basically holding their hands through their own project. its a real pain in the ass.

i gave them a deadline of this morning or else the 24th wont be reached. after they hand over the content, they call me up saying they want more changes to be done. the content is on rev9 now. how many times do you really need to write up a few pages of text? soooo disorganized. theres about nine writers in this project. the point of contact has changed around through 10 different people now. its stressing me out because i know my team will get yelled at if this doesnt work out. i dont understand how its our bad when these kids arent doing their hw, but thats how the breaks are out here. annoying as shit.

I can't wait to hit the slopes! This Friday will be the ski convention and hopefully, I can pick up a good pair of bindings for my board.

ARgh! I cANt WAit!!

I want a vacation. Get my mind off work. When we do go, I'm leaving all my work shit at home. No Blackberry, no laptop, no email, no phone. !!

ok. so whos going?

My desk is getting messier by the day. I used to have the cleanest desk on the team. I'm still ranked top 3, but I'm losing because of all the notes, work, and reports that pile up. Hopefully, I'll have some time next week to really clean up and organize the paperwork.

Anyone running into the same shit lately?

so tonite, i cant sleep. i come home after a night of hanging out with friends, i lay in my bed, and work comes into my mind as i close my eyes. an email i received is burned into my mind as im reading it over and over. i lay in bed getting annoyed and pissed at the same time. then another email string pulls in also and pisses me off even more.

the second string i mentioned has been pretty much an email that ive been resending for a few weeks now. i requested that IT set something up for me. they kinda did, but not really. ive been contacting the guy who did it for me and hes been brushing me off this whole time. the one time i got to talk to him, he wasn't even paying attention to me. i could tell he was off reading something while we were talking details since it would take him almost 10 seconds to say "yes" or "no." so this particular email string has been fueling the fire for quite some time now. this isnt the first time hes done this to me either.

the first email that i started this entry with is regarding an admin i haven't spoken to before. i give my usual intro - what dept i work in and what my purpose for the mail was. i needed approval from c-level management to get some paperwork done. it just so happens, our c-level manager is the COO of the company. I dont know why, but thats just how our little group is run.

i make the request, and ask to set up a meeting to get this shit handled. and the email she sent back is the reason why i cant sleep. it may be pretty innocent, but its pissing me the fuck off.

she emails me back reminding me who im asking for by telling me his role at our company. wtf? how can i not know? on top of that, she doesn't bother reading into the email fully. i told her what department i was in, but she replies telling me whos in charge of my dept like i dont work with them. i knew she thought i was part of IT because the VP of IT was cc'd on the email.

no tact. i couldnt help but feel embarrassed. i wanted to email back with wtfdumbshit and attach the email requesting c-level approval as proof to mega-pwn this dumbfuck. but i held my guns in their holsters and moved on. but now its bothering me again. i wanna email back saying what i originally conjured up, but who works at 2am?

it shouldnt really bother me. afterall, she was the dumbfuck who cc'd people i dont work with on the string and even though i told her what group im in, she still assumed i was part of another.

i guess whats really pissing me off is the way she wrote the email. i guess i wasn't clear about the COO being the COO, but i wrote it in respects to him being our dept's VP. and thats only because our dysfunctional little group doesn't have a c-level exec running the group. im not kidding here. we have a manager and then its the COO. wtf?

thats besides the point. my point is, the girl didn't write me back with any diplomacy and it makes us both look bad with dumb emails like that.

this also brings up another point that ill write about in the next entry...

as the seasons change, so does the weather. the mornings lately have been rather dismal and whenever i wake up, i feel like its still 6am. how is it this cold in the mornings? usually this is the month where the summer is the hottest. this weather has been strange these past years....

lately, things have been busy. work is picking up once again and everything outside of it has been one event after another.

last week, i attended a vendor conference in pismo beach. two days of learning about web stuff and tons of wining and dining. plush. they fed us, drank us, and even helped with our lodging. nice touch.

i got to see central cali and how beautiful it is. living in the city, i forget about things like this and i often don't appreciate this place. we stayed in hotels that were right off the ocean, so we got a great view of one of the best characteristics cali has to offer - the pacific ocean. i took my girl on a hike up bishop's peak in SLO and we also checked out hearst castle. the view, the size, the architecture - fabulous. (this is probably contrary to popular belief, but i do find fascination on great intricate architecture. i may not show it when surrounded by the spanish-styles, but that is due to living in it everyday.) on the way back home, we took the scenic route through highway 1 back home. what a view. i wish the car i rented was more nimble - it would have been alot funner to drive.

its funny to look back at this weekend. i did most of my drinking while at the conference. i was dry most of the weekend with my girl. i guess theres a time and place for everything - even if the time and place dont sensibly match.

havent been able to post much lately. i think of what to post, but then i get lazy.

work is pretty busy. my teams getting smaller and smaller by the month.

went on a road trip the other week. i really need to upload that shit. soo lazy.

thats all thats been going on so far. i should really grow my network in this blog. maybe ill start using tags.

I've been at my current for more than half a year now and I've been getting in the grove of things. My role has been almost completely defined, I've set a few goals, and I take on responsibilities as needed, or as necessary.

One of the first things I was told when I got here was, "It's very fast paced." Now, I took this on with open arms. The stress level at my last job was pretty rough at first. I got used to it. It's all about being organized and managing my time accordingly. I went from managing 2-3 campaigns to a week, to managing as high as 20 campaigns a week. I would end each day knowing I put a hard day in, whether it was the full 8 hours, or the occasional 10-12. In any case, I learned how to deal with stress and high workloads.

So when I was told about the face paced environment here, I thought "bring it on!" Now that its been 8 months, I've noticed that I haven't stressed much at all. No matter the load, I get all my work done in a timely manner. When I look at my team, the other person that I don't see stress out is the other web guy. Everyone else seems to run around like  a headless chicken when its crunch time.

What inspired me to write this post is hearing my friend stressing out at her job. All it took was one night. She came over for dinner and spoke nonstop about her job, complaining about everything she could think of. The type of stuff she had on her plate sounded pretty interesting and challenging. I figured, hey, she's only been there for 3 months, its gotta be just hype. Then again, I don't really know what's going on. I took alot of roles at my first job and I'd complain alot. But my complaints were focused mostly around my manager and how she'd treat me like her little bitch. So then I thought, maybe she just wants to brag about her job and what she does there, and this is the way she shares that.

I've seen quite a few people act like this in my short time as a yuppie. People grocery listing their tasks and action items in the form of woes and cries. Maybe its just a form of stress-management. When it happens here at my current job, I will admit, it gets contagious. I don't stress out, but I do feel the pressure when one person is going nuts.

So back to my point, maybe I'm over it, maybe I just manage myself well, or maybe, I'm just not at that work level to receive that level of stress yet. I guess if the latter is the case, I'll just have to wait and see. For now, I'd like to thank my last job at AD for teaching me how to handle this level of work with ease.

I spent the weekend at my parents home. Felt kinda weird to be hanging around the house again.

Both Friday night and Saturday night, I went to the SF with a bunch of friends for bar hopping and such. It's amazing how live SF is at night. I forgot what it was like, and when I did go out to SF for clubbing, it was always the usual spots, so I never really got to explore other places besides those.

Saturday night was pretty tough because of all the paintballing I did that day. Friday was killer, I got home at 2, the heat kept me awake till 4, and I had to head out to the paintball field at 8.30. Tried taking a nap afterwards, but the heat was annoying the shit out of me. Because of that, Saturday night was pretty rough. Still had fun tho. And WTF weather? It was so hot Friday/Saturday, and then Sunday was pretty cold. Stop fucking with us please?

This upcoming weekend, I'll be at a beach house in Santa Barbara. I'm looking forward to getting drunk and passing out on the beach. YAY!

i just got cold called. i feel like im a somebody now. i did get a few "cold call" emails when i started, but this was one on the phone. its kinda funny to be on the receiving end of it now. i used to cold call a lot at my first job - i hated it. now that im on the otherside, it makes me bellow with a boisterous guffaw! HAW HAW

the pitch and the reason she gave for the call didnt sound real. she threw out some info about my team that she heard about. i didnt hear about it. had to have been a bad rumor. oh well. w00t!

One of my fears of working at a 5000+ employee company was the fact that I'd have to dress up. I know a few people who have to dress up, wear slacks, skirts, collard shirts, etc. Hell no.

At A|D, I wore what I wanted. I was comfortable and I never had to iron anything. I just wore what i wore when I went to college. My intern job was a company with under 25 people and we had to dress up - even though many of the employees wore jeans and tennis shoes to work.

When coming to my new place, I was afraid that I'd have to dress up again. Thank fucking god I don't. Thank god for tech companies. Their idea of business casual is simply a collard shirt, if at all. I can still wear my jeans and wear t-shirts if I want. I see people wearing sweats and shit to work. Still, I feel that I should dress up a little, so I bought a bunch of sweaters and I deem that as business casual. No ironing, not clothing prep time. Just grab a white-tee, jeans, and a sweater and I'm ready for work. Thank god.