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Saturday, October 27th, 2001
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6:53a - Micromanagement: The shotgun blast for your corporate environment.
Ugh. This new schedule is gonna kill me. Gawddammit I hate mornings.
It doesn't help that I also have two gaming groups (one AD&D 3rd ed. and one GURPS) that both run their games from midnight to 4am.
So, at least they're "nice" enough to let me choose to come into work anytime between 6am and 9am, and leave roughly 8 hours later.
The main complaint I have about that is... this new position isn't one that really /requires/ being there for any specific time period. I could just as easily listen to recorded calls at 11pm as I can at 11am. Its not a big deal.
But because the phux0rs that run my new department are based in a certain office in a certain state that should have an earthquake and fall into the sea, they're so anally retentive that "they want to keep people on the same shift so that they don't have to worry about keeping track of everyone."
Yeah, how about instead of micro-managing those sort of insignificant details you actually focus on doing a high-quality job?
That's irksome detail #2 about the new position. Everyone in my new department has their heads planted squarely inside their rectums. ESPECIALLY the manager of the whole department. What a huge mindless fucking tool he is.
Don't give me that ISO9001 TQM bullshit. Making sure that every box is properly checked, every i dotted and every t crossed at exactly the right angle is not what the job is about. But of course this asshole can't see the forest for the fucking trees.
This department is so fucked up that, its now TWO WEEKS into having the position and I've STILL yet to actually DO any work. Why is this, you may ask? Well, its because apparently a WHOLE FUCKING MONTH isn't enough time to arrange for offices, phones, and workstations for the new employees of the new position. Hell, my coworker had to arrange for our offices and phones herself!
They tell me they've JUST shipped our workstations today. Great. So on Monday I'll be able to actually START the job I was hired for three weeks ago and was supposed to start back on the 15th.
Way to be organized.
Idiots.
I've had diarrhea that was more organized than these fucks.
So in the end, because of all this stupidity and because of my prior gaming commitments, I'll now be sleeping from about 4pm - 12am. Woo.
current mood:  annoyed
current music: Music for Hackers - Techno stream. (1 comment |comment on this)
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7:11a - Its crack I tell you! CRACK!
Oy. I've found a new addiction.
The MMORPG. That's Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game for the unenlightened.
Short form: Several thousand people all playing together in the same gameworld at the same time.
Well... I bought one about a week ago. See, it just came out and I thought to myself, "Its got an intriguing concept, I'll check it out."
Its impressive how I can start up this game and then turn around at the clock and it be magically several hours later. I'd swear that the process is instantaneous. I check the clock, double-click the icon, check the clock again. That second clock check reveals a distinct time discrepancy of several hours.
I'm equally impressed by the game's uptime. Usually these MMORPGs have huge chronic uptime problems. This particular one has been out a few weeks, has had pretty much ZERO downtime, and is already nearing the 100,000 user mark.
The guys that made this game really have their shit together. I'm thoroughly impressed.
So... if anytime you see me online and are wondering why I'm not responding to messages, but don't have an away message of some sort. This is the reason why. I'm probably having the life sucked out of me by this new addiciton.
Dark Ages of Camelot be its name. Capturing souls be its game.
current mood:  enthralled
current music: Music for Hackers - Techno stream. (2 comments |comment on this)
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