Firstly let me apologise that I am writing yet again about work! Today my boss came in and told me my presence in required at a meeting next Tuesday at 10am...why you may ask? Well seemingly I am contributing to a negative attitude in the office. Yes it's true that over the last week I have been quiet at work....for a number of reasons. to mention a couple :- one/ my partner mum is here at the moment and although I am enjoying time with her, it's nice to be at work and have my own tho...

So once again I find myself whining quietly, pushing down the questions I need to ask. Like some sort of Herculean task I shove and shove against the raging tide of anger. I feel the anger pushing like bile against my blocking throat. Why am I so bloody angry? Work, of course. I am another in a long line of idiots who sacrifice their time and energy to the IT Tech support gods in the vain hopes of hard work, excellence and personal responsibility being rewarded by others. It seems like for...

You're really not going to believe this story. I can hardly believe it myself, and I was sitting there. Now to be sure, my co-worker and I have a very fundamental personality conflict to begin with ('cause he's an ass) so I'm not likely to cut him alot of slack. But judge for yourselves. Here we are, staying at a military base for three weeks, working on a contract. It's overseas, so we get to stay at the (rather nice) on-base hotel. So we're down in the bar one evening last week, and two ...

And up walk our four n00bs, all recent graduates from the Arabic program at DLI and AIT. It suddenly dawned on me that I had more time in service than any three of them put together. I quickly moved away, screaming obscenities at them. (Actual event occurred 13APR05.)

This morning, after checking how my stable performed last night on Martial Combat... er, researched vital mission essential information, I checked my AKO (Army Knowledge Online) email (the official email of the USArmy) on a lark. Well, no. On a computer. But, anyway... I received an email, this morning, at ~0600. The email was from the personnel office letting me know that the report date for my PCS (Permanent Change of Station) (the date that I would show up to my gaining unit), had c...

*Disclaimer* Blog contains language. Reader discretion is advised. I've been called many things in my life, but I've never let the word "nerd" or "geek" get under my skin until know. I was always proud of my "geek-ness", up until it gets to the point where I actually have to act like an adult, then I feel awkward. Most of the time, this pertains to having conversations with the opposite sex that I have an interest in. So for the past couple of weeks at work, I've been hanging around th...

Here are some no-no's for job searching on the low... I really like this one: Don't wear your interview suit to your biz casual office. Nothing sets off a red flag like wearing a suit to your dressed-down office. So how should you handle the wardrobe dilemma? For both men and women, suit bottoms (i.e. pants, skirts) are always passable for business casual.... And don't forget this one! Using your office email for job search applications: Be smart about e-mail. Play it safe, sa...

I tried taken my advice, getting out more and doing things. I didn't really do much except, instead of using my free time on the computer, I would go for long car drives. I Would wald but the weather is really crappy right now. But back to the subject at hand, I've been talking to a couple of girls at work. I seemed like things were progressing nicely. Well, it's kinda a back story to all this actually. Before I started talking to her, she was talking to another guy at work and they actual...

I never thought of making a matrix as to why I would want a job or except a job offer, but here is one. It has anything from Culture, compensation, fun, location, and positive lifestyle. Take a look. I am glad I did.

Anybody moving to a new city? Well if you are, starting a new support network can be difficult if you don't know anybody. So what do you do when you are all alone in a new city; just moved? Start networking again! Found this to be interesting: Start with organizations to which you're already connected. Join your college alumni club, appropriate professional organization if there's a chapter in your new city, and get involved in a religious organization. Jeffrey Doinoff, the dire...

Today at work I had one of the stupid order pullers smarted off to me. One of the other lift driversand myself were trying to figure out what to do with a pallet of books that had to be let down from the top racks so the order pullers could get the books. I was pissed cause it was a whole pallet of books and since the beginning of the week, seems like I have been pulling down hundreds of units for which could be avoided by putting the books in the bottom shelves. Here's how it works. The ...

One of my co-workers brought it to my attention that one of the (former) employees had past around rumors that me and her were romantically involved. The one who told me about this, kept trying to get information from me and just kept asking questions like, "How long have you guys been together?", and, "When did you guys first get together?". Unaware of this crap, I told her that we weren't even friends and we only talked when we were at work. Aw no, she wasn't buying that. She told me tha...

I't been three months since I started my job and I have yet to make any new friends. I keep telling myself, "You didn't come here to make friends, you come here to work. That's what you should do since your in all kinds of debt before your 25th birthday." I'm having this combination of wanting to be around some of my co-workers, but not. Half of them are stupid anyway. One of them busted his eardrum buy cleaning his ear with a pencil. A FUCKING PENCIL . Not with the blunt end either. He t...

Well just when everything in my life was going well, I was thrown a curveball. The family that I nanny for Grandma is moving to the same city and is willing to watch them for free. Which leaves me with such reduced hours(10/week), that I have to start looking for a job. I was crushed, I am really attached to the little girl and searching for employment is no fun. I'm having a rough time with it as it seems to come right out of left field. The family assures me it is nothing I have done, t...

So, I knew the joy of my new job wouldn’t last forever, I didn’t however expect the ‘new car smell’ to disappear so quickly. The people I work with are really lovely, (we work with disadvantaged kids, placing them with volunteers to let them get out and about with adults who are supportive and listen to them) as I said everyone’s heart is in the right place in respect to the kids and helping them out. However when it comes to a working knowledge and understanding of a) office procedures...