August 10, 2005
Work related... by Tris
I don't often blog about work, one very good reason; it's dull. Today I'll make an exception, primarily because it is really dull and nothing else is floating in my mind.
A couple months ago everything was going alright/great. I was finally getting some exposure to other programming languages but the training was a load of bollocks. After a big department reshuffle, my team was destroyed and I'm now back using the same languages I was before the Mickey-mouse training, with the promise of better training in the near/not so distant future.
Bollocks.
Back to stage 1, back to the boring and the mundane, but it is even worse than that, it was having my career aspirations finally taking shape and then being quashed again. So many people tried so hard to give me that opportunity and now it has been taken away. It was a reward for a lot of fucking hard work, work well done, and now it has been brutally taken away and I've been left here, just sitting on the floor with fuck all to show for it.
The work I've got on my plate at the moment is beyond boring. My desire to come into work is non-existent. Perhaps I would not have minded being put back on the old systems if they had given me something decent to work on, but they haven't, it's shite work, stuff that I am completely over-qualified for.
It may sound arrogant, but this is work that I not only could do in my sleep, I could also do it with one hand, half an eye and someone prodding me in the ribs with a hot poker - it's piss, it's boring and there isn't much of it.
At the moment I'm waiting. I'm waiting for a fucking boring query to finish running, I'm waiting for someone to send on a spreadsheet which I need for the rest of the work and I'm waiting for someone to find non-existent bugs in my really simple program. I've got nothing to do. I've asked for more, there isn't any. Last week I did 2 weeks worth of work in 3.5 days and had to hunt for more, this week I can't be bothered to hunt - I've told them I'm out now I'll sit here and wait.
Ahh, nice release there, that feels better :-)
Comments
Man, that sucks! You can come and help me do some programming here if you want, I hate it!
Posted by: Hannabella at August 10, 2005 03:41 PM
