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6 years ago
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Not sure how to begin on this, so I guess I will just throw myself into it.
Lately I've been thinking of quitting my current day job. Things have been rough around there, and the office manager has a knack for making us feel like we are only screwing up and never do anything right. I say we because my other coworker feels the same way and we have both expressed this sentiment.
His communication is garbage, and sometimes i think it's on purpose. He will ask me "what's going on with this"- keep in mind I will not know what "this" is and have to ask him at least twice to clarify what he is talking about. For example
Him: What's going on with this?
Me: With what?
Him: This! *gestures at an order on his screen, however the company category is usually not visible so I can't tell which order it is by just the numbers*
Me: Which order is that/which company is that for?
Him: *numbers*
Me: Whose order? Which company???
Him: *company name*
Me: *looks it up in my system, can't see anything immediately wrong, checks tracking and can't see anything immediately wrong* Uh, what seems to be the problem?
Him: You tell me.
Shit like that is pretty common. It makes me feel like I am being interrogated, and does not help me fix any of the problems- in fact my coworker and I have been making more mistakes as we are perpetually on edge about what we might mess up. This is not effective management.
Plus he constantly interrupts me when I'm in the middle of doing something- one time I was interrupted 5 times while putting in a SINGLE order.
Also I just don't feel like the amount of stuff I do is appreciated. No one else knows how to write HTML templates, so I am the one making all the custom email templates for the clients. I rewrote our manual because 1)the original is too wordy and terrible is you are trying to find that one set of instruction on how to do that one thing 2) it's outdated anyways. Never acknowledged. I don't expect to be praised and put on a pedestal, but I would appreciate a "thank you" when I have to go out of my way to fix technical problems and do extra work of my own accord.
I was admonished for using an exclamation point in my email...
I could go on, but I think you get the gist that this is less than ideal.
Aside from looking for another job (ugh, I hate starting over again), I have been commissioned to illustrate 3 more book covers from the same publisher I did the last one for. YAY!
So many challenges as I am not a painter by practice, but I get to paint dragons so that's always a plus. I will post more information as soon as I am able to.
At least it gives me something to be excited about.
Lately I've been thinking of quitting my current day job. Things have been rough around there, and the office manager has a knack for making us feel like we are only screwing up and never do anything right. I say we because my other coworker feels the same way and we have both expressed this sentiment.
His communication is garbage, and sometimes i think it's on purpose. He will ask me "what's going on with this"- keep in mind I will not know what "this" is and have to ask him at least twice to clarify what he is talking about. For example
Him: What's going on with this?
Me: With what?
Him: This! *gestures at an order on his screen, however the company category is usually not visible so I can't tell which order it is by just the numbers*
Me: Which order is that/which company is that for?
Him: *numbers*
Me: Whose order? Which company???
Him: *company name*
Me: *looks it up in my system, can't see anything immediately wrong, checks tracking and can't see anything immediately wrong* Uh, what seems to be the problem?
Him: You tell me.
Shit like that is pretty common. It makes me feel like I am being interrogated, and does not help me fix any of the problems- in fact my coworker and I have been making more mistakes as we are perpetually on edge about what we might mess up. This is not effective management.
Plus he constantly interrupts me when I'm in the middle of doing something- one time I was interrupted 5 times while putting in a SINGLE order.
Also I just don't feel like the amount of stuff I do is appreciated. No one else knows how to write HTML templates, so I am the one making all the custom email templates for the clients. I rewrote our manual because 1)the original is too wordy and terrible is you are trying to find that one set of instruction on how to do that one thing 2) it's outdated anyways. Never acknowledged. I don't expect to be praised and put on a pedestal, but I would appreciate a "thank you" when I have to go out of my way to fix technical problems and do extra work of my own accord.
I was admonished for using an exclamation point in my email...
I could go on, but I think you get the gist that this is less than ideal.
Aside from looking for another job (ugh, I hate starting over again), I have been commissioned to illustrate 3 more book covers from the same publisher I did the last one for. YAY!
So many challenges as I am not a painter by practice, but I get to paint dragons so that's always a plus. I will post more information as soon as I am able to.
At least it gives me something to be excited about.
I am super excited and nervous about painting these covers. It's going to be a lot of challenges, and hopefully a lot of learning experiences.