Work and mayhem.

[sobrique]

Well, every day there's someone else I need to add to my list of people who piss me off. It seems that people who spend more than 5 years working for a company fall into two categories.

Those that are laid back but know what they're doing.
Those that are incompetent wankers. (Incidentally, on a completely unrelated note, UK IT directors are unproductive workaholics)

The depths of these two traits are in direct proportion to contiguous employment.

I guess it's because one set can't be arsed to move, and the other set just can't.

Ok, ok, so I'm grumpy. Don't quite know why, but I suspect it's because I've had 'more contact that I'd like' with the wanker subset of my workplace recently.

Oh and a work queue that keeps increasing, because we're basically short staffed, a few people who seem to generate work rather than do it, and no inflation pay rise this year.

That'll be it. I'm feeling skint this week, because I've wiped out my money with various expenses, have had the rather unpleasant experience of a short turn out at SINergy, discovered that there's a bug in a script I wrote a few month ago, so we've been overcharging for stuff, and have to get a server installed (which is fine) rack mounted and cabled (which is a pain) and configured in a veritas cluster (which I've never done before, and really have only the vaguest idea how to do.). This will take days, of work, when what I really need to be doing is preparing for this weekend, when I'm doing a server migration on sunday (yes, it does suck).
Oh, yeah. And because of Alstom's pay freeze, there was no 'inflation' raise this year, and I'm noticing that my 'just stuff' expenses are gradually increasing.

I figure that the work overloading thing is just temporary - it always seems to work this way - budgets april, flurry of stuff, settles down again. But the pay thing I'm not amazingly happy with, and so I figure Alstom have until about September before I start considering my options again.

Fuckit, where's my beer.

Comments

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

the worse thing about the 5 ear thing is when you get there yourself and look at what your doing and you can't decide if your the "laidbackknow what their doing" type or the "incompetant wanker "type or the Laid back posing as an incompitant wanker now because well basically your bored in a job that goes nowhere and does nothing....

sorry i'm to warm and just wandering i guess

[jorune.livejournal.com]

Now that was a rant and a half. How much sinergy cost in the end? Two or three figure sum? If you think cars are a money pit then owning a house is much worse. It is astonishing to find out just how many well paid families struggle from month to month with their cash flow.

Considering that this is a Given, a good workplace where you do interesting stuff with useful people becomes worth at least £10-15k a year. Does this still hold?

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Oh a good workplace is worth a lot. But there's still opportunities out there that are worth my considering...