The Church of Dan

Well, I’ve successfully made it to work EARLY for a change, normally I’m used to being here right at 9:30 and starting my work right away. Today I’m here about 15 minutes early and figured I had a few minutes to kill and thought I would write here.

I’ll hopefully be talking to Maks today about the song that is in the works right now (www.myspace.com/maksk) titled “Not enough”.

Something isn’t sitting well with me right now though, and that’s writers rights. On the page it’s listed that he’s the author, but the lyrics are mine. I’ve also made sure to leave a ‘papertrail’ behind indicating that I wrote the words. So worst case scenario is covered.. I just hate having distrust instilled in my mind. It’s a blessing and a curse to have every one of my friends and family that have heard it to say “Make sure you get whats yours, and don’t trust people too much”

Bleh. Off to work.

This isn’t about Warhammer, but the title fit.

I’m going to war at work with my manager, and most likely the team of management in the Administration department (the VP of the department is included in this).

I have a shitty job (it’s a job, it pays bills, but it’s shitty) delivering mail for an insurance company. Woohoo. For months and months and about a year my timelines for completing schedualed mail-runs have not been as good as management wants them to be. Over the course of the last year, they have added about 90 minutes of work to my day. Anyone with half a brain can understand that “If something is running late, adding to this will make it even more late” However management seems to be aloof of this concept.

So I went with it, doing my best, taking the stairs 95% of my day to avoid waiting for elevators (we’ve had 2 working since September) for the sake of these so called time-lines. I’m told today that I need to move even faster (When I’ve already increased overall speed by 20 minutes). So I’m going to take a passive-agressive approach that is SURE to piss people off, and there isn’t a damn thing they can do.

Elevator, elevator, elevator! I’m going to take the elevator for each and every floor, regardless of the fact that I can take the stairs and save myself about 3-5 minutes per floor waiting for them. With 8 floors, that’s 24-40 minutes of ‘idle’ time. I can’t be forced to take the stairs, and am going to use the resources provided to me to get things done. It’s not my fault the elevators are being renovated, so why should I change anything? At the same time, I’ll be writing up how much time is spent on each floor, with a highlight of elevator idle time, and slam it on my managers desk each and every afternoon. They’ll see how retarded their expectations are, and I’ll have a blast doing it.

This is coupled with the fact that I got a poor review due to time-management, which at this point I’m writing up a massive formal essay to refute much of the review and counter most of their statements. My favourite one so far is along the lines of “his deliveries have a great impact on workflow of the company” I agree with this, but what they left out is “The mail room is responsible for ensuring that the mail cart is ready to go at designated times” if its not ready, I can’t go, which makes everything late. The morning is when the mail room is responsible for my cart, the morning is when I lose time and fall behind, anyone see a connection? If you do based on just this blog you should probably contact my employer and call them douchebags.

I’m debating becoming a hermit for 3 weeks and just studying my brokerage books. The sooner I get my license, the sooner I can tell this department to fuck off and just move into insurance sales/service. Of course management can opt to not allow me to apply, in which case I tell them to fuck off and walk off the job. I have nothing to lose at that point, I’ll have my license, and any insurance company will hire someone with their license (it saves them 1 month of paid training for the course)

Winning this war is in my hands, well my brain, and discipline, to get this shit done.

I feel a bit better. Yay blogging <3 Jess

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