Don’t know why I bother
Work is pissing me off.
I went to a ‘kick-off’ meeting for a project I have been told I need to get involved. Apparently my involvement was an after-thought.
I came out of the meeting aware that roughly 75% of the work on the project is going to fall to me. And my boss, who was also at the meeting, still expects me to do all the other crap I do as well. Already I have spent over 2 days completing a pre-project questionnaire. And still I got asked at 4.30 about a paper I have to write, and can I have a meeting with Z tomorrow to go over the figures.
I feel for ONB - we had a one to one today, and I told him that I will try and stop some of the things, but that a lot of crap is going to head his way because of this project. I am also going to be involved in another project, which is even bigger, and will take even more of my time.
Then this afternoon, Z comes over and is talking to Boss lady, and P over something. I am not really listening until I hear Z say in a loud voice, “Well maybe that will please our little socialist, what do you say, Ann?”
I turn around, open mouthed. P says, “Don’t rise to it, don’t rise to it.”
“What are you talking about?” I ask.
They are talking about some new thing he wants introduced, and he is so incredibly inflexible - once someone is bad, they are always bad. He was taking great delight in calling me the “little socialist” who objects to what he wants to do. “I don’t object to what you are doing, I object to there being no chance of reparation.” I also pointed them in the direction of a new initiative emailed about the company today, about how the new buzz word involves treating all customers with respect.
As Z walked off I called out to him. “Oh, by the way, Z, calling me a socialist is a compliment.” I smiled sweetly, and turned back to my screen. His face was priceless!
About 5 minutes later Boss lady shouts over, “Oh, by the way, Ann, that intranet thing, did you bother to read the bit in the blue circle? That means we can do what we want if a customer does this, this, this or this.” I just looked at her open mouthed. “Let me make this clear, I have never said we shouldn’t do any of these, I just want to make sure customers get treated fairly always, and are not dismissed like so much rubbish. And do you want me to go through it and find bits to quote back at you?”
I turned away before I could respond.
Bitch!