anyways its only in the last few months that my blissful ignorance has been tempered and i have started seeing some politics and personalities come through.
my boss is in a bad mood today. he has these occasionally. i don't think it was helped by me doing some work last week that he wasn't aware of and that didn't follow all the procedures. jeez, i had some senior manager at my desk who looked under pressure and he asked me to do so something as it was holding up his team and other teams around europe. i could have said "have you raised a call and done all the paperwork for it", but i didn't and just started to work on it. when my boss came back to his desk i could see he was not happy.
i also had one of the networks guys get a bit pissed off because i didn't do some hardware upgrade for him. he asked me what the delay was. i looked into it and it turns out that the delay was him holding up the decommissioning of another server which i had told him i was going to get the parts out of, for his server. why bitch about something not being done, but at the same time hold up work that is reliant on that work being done.
be in no doubt that i can be slack about stuff. employee of the month is something i will never get, but people who shout about stuff should also get their facts straight. network guy has gone strangely quiet now that i have refreshed his memory and traced the cause of his delay.
ah well... such is life. most of the time things are fine here but occasionally you get some shit.
thats all jobs i guess, and hopefully i will find a new contract in the new year and once again be blissfully unaware of any politics or prickly personalities. i can recall 2 years ago to the day that i was sitting next to the biggest chump in the world at the japanese bank i was working for at the time. that was painful every minute of every hour of the day having to listen to his nuggets of wisdom, which were in fact nuggets of horse shit. this is a stroll in the summer sunshine by comparison.
speaking of sunshine, there has been a little but there has also been some showers and its getting cold as well. to be expected in november. am glad i still have the memory of californian sun in my mind and my soul.
today i have watched a clip of the office. it brings back memories of where i used to work and reviews and appraisals with my bosses.
there is none of that for me now, although like this clip, i was looked down upon by a lot of the guys at that bank with the chump, because i had gone to university. who would have thought studying would be something other people would discourage, but they do. i think i would have fitted in more had i spent my evenings getting drunk, watching big brother, lost or 24 on sky plus (tivo), and playing golf on weekends and reading tabloid newspapers everyday. er, no thanks.
anyways i have booked my exam and its in 2 weeks time. revision has been coming along ok and i figure that in a couple of weeks i will be ready......or i might not be ready and i will get 7% and be laughed out of the exam center whilst people though rotten eggs at me and call me names.
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