Work rant #1

[reymonkey]

Just got off work. It occurrs to me that unless I sit on my hands a lot, there will probably be quite a few rants about work in here. For the sake of the welfare of mankind in general, I'll try to restrict them to cuts.


I'm looking for a new job. I went to the therapist with Ginny once (I can't *stand* therapists anymore, too many of them as a kid), and I told her a little about the job situation. I've been looking for a new job for a while now. Part of the problem is I can't seem to get a damn interview. I do really well in interviews, hell, I've been in sales. I didn't like it, but I was there for two years, so I know how to put up a good front. The other issue she pulled out was that I'm blocking myself because I'm afraid of betrayal. I have that issue with this job you see, for good reason I think. I was hired as a receptionist/AP/AR in a nice little office with AC, desks, lots of filing space, and two computers. I was interviewed there, and given one of the computers to work on, and I got to sit down (first real job I've had were I did). I liked it reasonably well. I was left alone for several hours right from day one, which I rightly took as kind of a bad sign, but I was learning Quickbooks by myself and cleaning up the train wreck their last person left, and I was enjoying it a hell of a lot more than my previous jobs. I really have no problem working alone, provided I kow what the hell I'm doing and am left with the resources to do it.
Two or three months into the job, he sold the building my office was in.
He didn't do the kind thing and fire me, but instead moved my 'office'. This is a dry cleaning plant, and my office became an old desk shoved into a corner next to a steam vent. I have one two-drawer filing cabinet. I have tried snagging boxes for additional storage, but the only spaces I have to put them tends to get them wet after a while from steam/pipe drips. The heat has pretty much killed the scanner part of the printer/fax/copier, so that it now takes a dozen tries to send a fax or photocopy anything. The boss won't believe me about why it doesn't work.
He took most of the Payable stuff away and has his wife do it from home, which would be fine, except that it doesn't *get* done. Do the collectors call his home? Of course not, they call me, and I can't do a damn thing but take messages about it because I don't even have a record of the unpaid invoices anymore. And why did he take them away? Not becase I was doing badly at it, because I actually had us almost up-to-date before he took them away, and that took work. He took it away because he needs me to spend as much time as possible tagging shirts, bagging orders, and running the counter. He did tell me my position would change "slightly" when the office got moved, but he never told me that I would have to fight him every day for every five minutes of time to do office work. And I do, and when I give up on it, he asks me how come various paperwork bits aren't done.
I could write a novel on how annoying my boss is. And yet, I have worked for him for over one year now. Maybe I am a masochist...

At any rate, Ginny's therapist points out 1)that I have betrayal issues, and 2) asks me if I can think of another time in my life I've felt betrayed.

1) No $*%^ing shit.

2) From about 1st grade on through college.

And I'm still looking for another job.

Comments

[justdbear.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Have you ever tried a law office? With office skills they hire people on a part time basis (the bigger ones especially) to cover for people when they are sick and or type of documents and such for them and such and they pay well. I wish you could get into comic freelance. I have contacts in big companies and the country music world but none in comicbook land. :( I can spread the word when get you published though and I can buy many copies! ^_^