bad attitude, continued
Nov. 4th, 2003 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I've been working on a project for about a month now.
I've been having tremendous difficulty because I simply didn't understand it.
I asked everyone involved and no-one knew more than me.
My supervisor has been annoyed because she's overworked and wants to delegate to me, but the boss is adamant I work on this project.
I have no idea where this project is going.
TODAY, my boss gave me the specs for the project. So that I could write the help system. "Telling people the obvious things about the program won't help them much in actually using it," he said grouchily.
I actually answered "Didn't help me much in actually WRITING it," but he had walked away already because he's not interested in what I think. He's also apparently not interested in what I put out, because he wrote this document several weeks ago.
The more annoying thing is that he gave it to my supervisor two weeks ago and she never told me about it until I mentioned that the boss kept asking me about these things he'd sent me that he'd never sent to me. "Oh," she said, "he sent that to me. I have to look at it."
...
So I never saw these. I've just completed the help system, but will have to start over.
I've also completed over 100 forms to go into the program, and I'll probably have to redo those as well.
So, telling me these things a month ago would have been tremendously beneficial, but as everyone else had better things to do, so did I. I'm writing a novel. Because I have an absolutely terrible attitude. I've got it open on my desktop now-- Microsoft Word, nearly illegibly small, in a narrow window at the side, unobtrusive. I look like I'm doing work. Because my attitude is terrible.
And I feel the need to protest that I really freaking tried with this job, but you-all don't care about that so I'm not going to go into it. This is just a grim chronicle...
I've been having tremendous difficulty because I simply didn't understand it.
I asked everyone involved and no-one knew more than me.
My supervisor has been annoyed because she's overworked and wants to delegate to me, but the boss is adamant I work on this project.
I have no idea where this project is going.
TODAY, my boss gave me the specs for the project. So that I could write the help system. "Telling people the obvious things about the program won't help them much in actually using it," he said grouchily.
I actually answered "Didn't help me much in actually WRITING it," but he had walked away already because he's not interested in what I think. He's also apparently not interested in what I put out, because he wrote this document several weeks ago.
The more annoying thing is that he gave it to my supervisor two weeks ago and she never told me about it until I mentioned that the boss kept asking me about these things he'd sent me that he'd never sent to me. "Oh," she said, "he sent that to me. I have to look at it."
...
So I never saw these. I've just completed the help system, but will have to start over.
I've also completed over 100 forms to go into the program, and I'll probably have to redo those as well.
So, telling me these things a month ago would have been tremendously beneficial, but as everyone else had better things to do, so did I. I'm writing a novel. Because I have an absolutely terrible attitude. I've got it open on my desktop now-- Microsoft Word, nearly illegibly small, in a narrow window at the side, unobtrusive. I look like I'm doing work. Because my attitude is terrible.
And I feel the need to protest that I really freaking tried with this job, but you-all don't care about that so I'm not going to go into it. This is just a grim chronicle...
