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Prudence · 08-10-2009, 09:41 PM

30 clerkship applications finalized and four more in draft form - waiting for the light of day for me to re-check and make sure I didn't make some horrifying verbal blunder. It will all likely amount to nothing, but it feels good to be working on a way out. I have a back-up plan for this if it doesn't succeed - that's also a little remote on the possibility front - and after that I have several exceedingly likely-to-succeed ideas that aren't my first choice but aren't bad choices.

It's all better than where I am. So much wrong with the place I could write a book. It just boggles. What do you do when you're assigned tasks that make no sense? We're writing up our processes and procedures. Here's the process for filling out this report. Here's the process for completing that spreadsheet. All well and good. Then: write the process for the database. What? You mean the one that we use to fill out several reports? That we reference all the specifics on in those process sheets? I'm not describing it well, but it's like telling someone to write up the procedure sheet for Excel, rather than for the specific spreadsheet.

Then - instructions to write up how we prepare for a certain type of meeting to which folks at our level are not invited. We don't prepare; we're not invited. Oh, but what if we WERE invited! Then what's the process? How should we know? We've never been to that meeting and we haven't the foggiest notion what they discuss or what we might need to prepare.

Or: write the procedures for this task that someone in a completely different area with completely different responsibilities does. But we don't do it. Write up what you do do with it. But that's nothing. Look, I need you to write up how you complete these tasks so that we all know what each other does. It's like asking the receptionist to write up how to update desktop security settings. It's someone else's job.

And we can't seem to convey the "this isn't my job" in a way that doesn't make management think we're just being belligerent. It's not my job. I don't know how to do it. You might as well ask me to write up the procedure for disassembling a rifle for cleaning. It isn't part of the scope of my work and I don't know how to do it.

Snowflake · 08-11-2009, 08:48 AM

Pru, you keep on keeping on!

Speaking of keeping on....

card.jpg

another one bites the dust........

Snowflake · 08-11-2009, 10:28 AM

MOON.JPG

Self explanatory, I only wish I'd had this closer to the Apollo Anniversary.

SzczerbiakManiac · 08-11-2009, 10:44 AM

How's this for recycling?

Snowflake · 08-11-2009, 11:20 AM

only cost is to the health of your arteries, 2 free Jack in the Box deep fried tacos.

Coupon here if you must

wolfy999 · 08-11-2009, 11:36 AM

I am guilty of printing the coupon, for some reason I actually get cravings for these things. Thanks Snowflake!

Snowflake · 08-11-2009, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolfy999

I am guilty of printing the coupon, for some reason I actually get cravings for these things. Thanks Snowflake!

No guilt is allowed. Enjoy!

wolfy999 · 08-11-2009, 12:28 PM

Eating them now....thanks again!

blueerica · 08-11-2009, 12:41 PM

Love their tacos!

Gemini Cricket · 08-11-2009, 01:54 PM

Not sure if I posted this here before or not but...
I work with a guy who makes a humming noise with his mouth that sounds like my phone going off on vibrate. It's annoying. lol! He doesn't realize he's doing it and often it drives me bonkers.

08-10-2009, 09:41 PM	#3941
Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	30 clerkship applications finalized and four more in draft form - waiting for the light of day for me to re-check and make sure I didn't make some horrifying verbal blunder. It will all likely amount to nothing, but it feels good to be working on a way out. I have a back-up plan for this if it doesn't succeed - that's also a little remote on the possibility front - and after that I have several exceedingly likely-to-succeed ideas that aren't my first choice but aren't bad choices. It's all better than where I am. So much wrong with the place I could write a book. It just boggles. What do you do when you're assigned tasks that make no sense? We're writing up our processes and procedures. Here's the process for filling out this report. Here's the process for completing that spreadsheet. All well and good. Then: write the process for the database. What? You mean the one that we use to fill out several reports? That we reference all the specifics on in those process sheets? I'm not describing it well, but it's like telling someone to write up the procedure sheet for Excel, rather than for the specific spreadsheet. Then - instructions to write up how we prepare for a certain type of meeting to which folks at our level are not invited. We don't prepare; we're not invited. Oh, but what if we WERE invited! Then what's the process? How should we know? We've never been to that meeting and we haven't the foggiest notion what they discuss or what we might need to prepare. Or: write the procedures for this task that someone in a completely different area with completely different responsibilities does. But we don't do it. Write up what you do do with it. But that's nothing. Look, I need you to write up how you complete these tasks so that we all know what each other does. It's like asking the receptionist to write up how to update desktop security settings. It's someone else's job. And we can't seem to convey the "this isn't my job" in a way that doesn't make management think we're just being belligerent. It's not my job. I don't know how to do it. You might as well ask me to write up the procedure for disassembling a rifle for cleaning. It isn't part of the scope of my work and I don't know how to do it. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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08-11-2009, 08:48 AM	#3942
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	Pru, you keep on keeping on! Speaking of keeping on.... card.jpg another one bites the dust........
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08-11-2009, 10:28 AM	#3943
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	MOON.JPG Self explanatory, I only wish I'd had this closer to the Apollo Anniversary.
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08-11-2009, 10:44 AM	#3944
SzczerbiakManiac "ZER-bee-ak" Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,409	How's this for recycling? __________________
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08-11-2009, 11:20 AM	#3945
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	August 11th Jack in the Box freebie only cost is to the health of your arteries, 2 free Jack in the Box deep fried tacos. Coupon here if you must
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08-11-2009, 11:36 AM	#3946
wolfy999 Eyes like Sapphires! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: 2.4 miles from Disneyland Posts: 1,523	I am guilty of printing the coupon, for some reason I actually get cravings for these things. Thanks Snowflake! __________________ Diane "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." - George Carlin 1937-2008 DISNEY IS FINALLY PAYING ME BACK......STILL OWES ME ABOUT (oh, wait....way too much)!
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08-11-2009, 12:28 PM	#3948
wolfy999 Eyes like Sapphires! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: 2.4 miles from Disneyland Posts: 1,523	Eating them now....thanks again! __________________ Diane "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." - George Carlin 1937-2008 DISNEY IS FINALLY PAYING ME BACK......STILL OWES ME ABOUT (oh, wait....way too much)!
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08-11-2009, 12:41 PM	#3949
blueerica Nueve Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,497	Love their tacos! __________________ Tomorrow is the day for you and me
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08-11-2009, 01:54 PM	#3950
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	Not sure if I posted this here before or not but... I work with a guy who makes a humming noise with his mouth that sounds like my phone going off on vibrate. It's annoying. lol! He doesn't realize he's doing it and often it drives me bonkers.
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