More Work BS

I had my interview today. Guess who did the interview? No... not HR like I, personally, was expecting. Of course not. It was my own manager! Plus one other manager of another team in our department that is creepy in her own way.

So yes, I was interviewed by my own manager, for the job I already do.

As if that wasn't retarded enough, they were asking me questions like, have you ever felt you were treated unfairly in a position here, or, what is expected of you in your current position? What am I supposed to say? Yes, by that asshole sitting right there! Or, hey, ask him, he already knows what's expected of me in my current position?

I actually had to sit there, with a straight face, and take all that bullshit seriously.

Back at my desk, I start doing the work that was assigned to me. Our work is assigned to us in "batches" in the system that are already numbered. Our assignment person just gives us the numbers and locations of the batches we are to work. If we start a batch and leave it the wrong way, it locks that batch up and no one can work it unless they pull up each individual claim. I started my first batch, number 0009. I realize I did something wrong. I leave the batch and pull up just that claim to fix it. When I go back into my batch, it tells me that batch is already being worked.

I go to the batch list thinking that hey, maybe that was the last claim and I finished that batch without realizing it. Oh no, one of the other women on my team went into it, worked four or five claims, and then locked the batch. And she did the same thing with my next batch as well. WTF?

I did find out that our assignment lady had accidentally assigned her and I overlapping batches. She had assigned that woman 0001-0010 and assigned me 0009-0015. But the woman hadn't even finished batches 0001-0008 yet. She just went into every single one of her batches, worked 4 or 5 claims, and locked them, so that no one else could "steal" her work! Paranoid much? The only reason I had even started on "her" work was because it was assigned to me too! And instead of her saying, hey, we were both assigned these batches, why don't you do one and I'll do the other, she just locked me out. Then she'll take the extra time and pull each claim up individually, all so she could lay claim to all the claims, so to speak.

I know I've said this before, and I'll say it again. I feel like I'm in high school or something.

There's a girl sitting next to me now that I less-than-affectionately term "annoying blond girl". She just finished a training class for front-end claims, which is another team, but you have to know how to do those before you can do what my team does. It was obvious today from all the questions she kept asking that she doesn't know what the fuck she's doing! She just finished training class and she didn't even know how to pull up a batch to start working! Again with the frustrating...

I also found out there's not going to be a training class for the work my team does, it's all peer-to-peer. And she was told she was going to be trained. Just you watch, it'll be me that has to train her, and I will have to kill her and hide the body.

Keep in mind this is the annoying blond girl that I told not to talk to me. Today she goes, "Hey Allison, look what I did in training!" and proceeds to show me several doodles that she did on the computer and was using as her backgrounds. No wonder she doesn't know what the fuck she's doing.

Later in the day, my manager goes to Jeanne and basically forces her to apply for the job that I interviewed for, and that she went to great lengths to avoid applying for. The job had even been removed from the job search all together, and he had them reopen the job just for her to apply. Oh and, by him doing the job interviews for the position, that basically guarantees that he lied to me about not knowing anything about the open position.

My theory is, he and the other manager already know who they want from her team to move to our team, and they just sent out the email to those people. That's why it was hidden on the job search unless you knew the specific number to look up, not the job title. Which means, if my theory proves true, that I will not get the job, because they had already planned who they want in the position.

Work, Work...

So Monday I have an interview for my own job.

Okay, so it's not so much my own job as interviewing for a position that is for doing what I'm already doing.

Not much clearer, huh? Well, let's see if I can make a long story short. This has been going on for months and months now.

About a year ago, I was transferred from the department I was in to the department I am in now, but I was still going to be doing the same job function so my job title/salary range didn't change. And that was fine. The job didn't change, so why should my job title? I get it.

Then, starting in September or August, I went through training. Then I went through more training in November. Then I went through even more training. Now, I am currently doing what the other people on my team do, not what I was transferred up there to do. I do the same job they do, and with the additional training I went through, I do more than some of them are trained to do.

So I start asking my manager. As I am now doing the same thing as everyone on the team, I would like the recognition to go along with it. After several months of me pestering him, after he's already told me no you won't have to re-apply, he tells me, yes, you have to apply for an open position to get the job title/salary range change.

Okay, so, fast forward to now. I find out from someone on another team that there are two job opening on my team. My manager, knowing that I was interested in applying for the position, did not tell me that we had two job openings that I could apply for. The job openings were not coming up on our internal job search for local openings. I've been looking. When I asked him about it, he told me he didn't know anything about it. I told him I knew for a fact that another manager had informed her team about the job openings. He finally said he'd look into it, and eventually gave me the job posting number to pull it up on the job search. It would not come up on a job search without that number. Like they were keeping it a secret or something. Then I find out from the job search that the original post date of the job openings were over a month ago.

So basically, I'm pissed because the job openings have been there for a month, and my manager didn't tell me about it, and I wouldn't have even found out if someone else hadn't told me about it. Asshole.

Anyway, I applied for the job I'm already doing, and I have an interview Monday. Guess how pissed I'll be if I don't get the position. How could I be any better qualified? I'm already fucking doing it. I don't need training. I'm good at it. Better than some that have been doing it longer than me.

Yes, I am humble, aren't I?

Moving on. Still work, different subject.

Recently, my entire floor was re-stacked and my team moved to the opposite side of the building. I was over in our new area before we were scheduled to be moved to clean my new desk. Another person from my team that I talk to was over there doing the same. Then this annoying perky blond girl comes over. I haven't had to put up with her because she'd been in training for six weeks. Now she's sitting next to me.

She asks where she's sitting and I told her she was sitting at the desk next to me. At this point, she gets all perky and claps her hands and says "Oh goody, now I'll have people to talk to!"
Without missing a beat, without smiling, without a joking tone of voice, totally serious and totally meaning it I said, "Don't talk to me."

I don't think she believed me. She kind of half-laughed. The other woman says, "No, really, don't talk to her. Not before noon at the earliest, anyway."

Then yesterday, I'm sitting at my desk. I have my headphones on. I'm listening to an audio book. It's obvious I'm listening to something. I mean, the big fuck-off headphones are sort of a dead giveaway. What does annoying blond girl do? Starts talking to me, while I'm obviously not listening to anything going on around me, like she's expecting me to answer her. I completely ignored her. She in no way attempted to gain my attention before talking to me, and then expects me to hear her? So, yeah, I did hear her, but I have no clue what she said and I don't feel bad about ignoring her. I think it's rude to just start talking to someone with headphones on and then expect a response when you didn't like, tap them on the shoulder or stand where they can see you or something. I don't mind in the least being rude right back by ignoring her.

She'll learn.

Yeah, so sometimes I'm mean. I have this thing about not wanting to put up with stupid people. Weird, I know.

My Tax Dollars At Work...

So after much beating myself up about it and convincing myself that hey, I haven't had a new system in five or six years, and this one is getting to where it won't run shit... I'm working on a new system. Once I get it taken apart, get everything I've ordered, and put it back together again I'll be running a... hopefully decent system. Not top notch, but I be poor.

Intel Celeron D 356 processor at 3.33 ghz (upgrade on the ol' Pentium 2 1.8 ghz I had going on)
ATI Radeon X1300 Pro PCI Express 256mb DDR2 vid card (after having a GeForce 4 TI4200 156mb vid card for the past however many years)
2 gigs DDR2 PC-4200 RAM (upgrade to 1 gig SDRAM)
1 120 GB 7200 SATA HD and 1 250 GB HD

And a couple of lightscribe dvd burners. Not that I needed two of them, but I already had one and the system I bought had another one, so whatever... Easier pie-rating...

Anywho, I've already got Vanguard bought, I'm going to install it and do the downloads but I won't be even thinking about getting started for at least a week. I've only got 512 RAM til my new RAM gets here, and I can't put in the video card until my 550w power supply gets here.

Hooray for tax returns.

Who needs to put that extra money on a credit card bill anyway?