Man, this job...
Nov. 14th, 2003 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I'm bored out of my mind. I pointed out to Support Guy how heavily I was being ignored and he was astonished.
T needed to FTP something. I said I had FTP software on my computer and could do it easily. She actually turned away from me and called over the partition for Support Guy to come and help her. He fired up the command-line and tried but there were problems-- password was rejected. I fired up the software on my computer and tried the username and password I'd overheard, and also had trouble ("530 not logged in", my software said helpfully). They phoned the person and verified the username and password. Support Guy suggested it might be a firewall issue. I ftp'd to Westnet and said no, I can FTP to other places outside our network so it's not our problem. Tried the first one again, and it worked. Support Guy still couldn't get it to work from the command-line, and suggested it was probably a problem on their side with too many users connecting or somesuch.
They wouldn't have been able to solve that problem without me, but i had to actively butt in in order to do so. Was I thanked? No, I was resented for butting in. Support Guy didn't notice, but was horrified when I pointed it out to him.
He told me to Wally for all I was worth, because it was their own damn fault (despite how much he likes T personally) if they want to overload themselves instead of giving me something to do.
I've proven myself-- when given a fair chance and sufficient information, I'll complete a task efficiently and quickly. I'm no blazing wonder, but I can do my job, and am more than willing to.
The Boss came by and showed me the major changes that have been made to FreeForm since I wrote the help system. T insisted I give her the help system to edit, even though I told her it wasn't going to be final, as I'd done all I could but the program was slated for changes. She insisted, and I gave it to her even though she hasn't time to look at it. The reason I was reluctant is that she's got a different version of the program than me, a more recent version, so if she's opened the project even once, I can no longer open it on my computer. So I've had to make the changes by copying the bloody thing into Word and highlighting the altered lines, because she was so insistent three days ago. Whatever; it kills some time for me. I've nearly nothing to do because they won't give me anything because they've decided i'm incompetent, and thinking back they pretty much always have done. At first I was "being trained", and so couldn't do anything on my own; now I'm just not up to snuff and can't do anything on my own. So they wonder why I never do anything on my own? The website wasn't even left up to me, except for the parts that nobody else understood, and only the parts of those that nobody could get at at all. Which is what drove me nuts then.
Ah well. I'm getting set up as quite an expert in a field at which I excell, so I'm enjoying that. Lots of people think I'm smart, so the fact that my current employers don't really shouldn't be allowed to bother me much.
So, I've stopped letting it.
T needed to FTP something. I said I had FTP software on my computer and could do it easily. She actually turned away from me and called over the partition for Support Guy to come and help her. He fired up the command-line and tried but there were problems-- password was rejected. I fired up the software on my computer and tried the username and password I'd overheard, and also had trouble ("530 not logged in", my software said helpfully). They phoned the person and verified the username and password. Support Guy suggested it might be a firewall issue. I ftp'd to Westnet and said no, I can FTP to other places outside our network so it's not our problem. Tried the first one again, and it worked. Support Guy still couldn't get it to work from the command-line, and suggested it was probably a problem on their side with too many users connecting or somesuch.
They wouldn't have been able to solve that problem without me, but i had to actively butt in in order to do so. Was I thanked? No, I was resented for butting in. Support Guy didn't notice, but was horrified when I pointed it out to him.
He told me to Wally for all I was worth, because it was their own damn fault (despite how much he likes T personally) if they want to overload themselves instead of giving me something to do.
I've proven myself-- when given a fair chance and sufficient information, I'll complete a task efficiently and quickly. I'm no blazing wonder, but I can do my job, and am more than willing to.
The Boss came by and showed me the major changes that have been made to FreeForm since I wrote the help system. T insisted I give her the help system to edit, even though I told her it wasn't going to be final, as I'd done all I could but the program was slated for changes. She insisted, and I gave it to her even though she hasn't time to look at it. The reason I was reluctant is that she's got a different version of the program than me, a more recent version, so if she's opened the project even once, I can no longer open it on my computer. So I've had to make the changes by copying the bloody thing into Word and highlighting the altered lines, because she was so insistent three days ago. Whatever; it kills some time for me. I've nearly nothing to do because they won't give me anything because they've decided i'm incompetent, and thinking back they pretty much always have done. At first I was "being trained", and so couldn't do anything on my own; now I'm just not up to snuff and can't do anything on my own. So they wonder why I never do anything on my own? The website wasn't even left up to me, except for the parts that nobody else understood, and only the parts of those that nobody could get at at all. Which is what drove me nuts then.
Ah well. I'm getting set up as quite an expert in a field at which I excell, so I'm enjoying that. Lots of people think I'm smart, so the fact that my current employers don't really shouldn't be allowed to bother me much.
So, I've stopped letting it.
