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Since getting a job my life has become even more of a roller coaster of emotions. I have to keep reminding myself that yes, I am up to date on my medication. I know that once I develop a routine at work that the roller coaster will turn into a more manageable bumpy road. I can't let it affect me too much or I will have sanity issues that have nothing to do with my biology.
See, on Friday I was put through an unofficial sort of test. I was given an unclear task with a specific result. Unfortunately I didn't really understand what I was supposed to do until nearly 430pm. Then I spent the next hour on the phone with an idiot.
Seriously.
I didn't know it was possible for someone that stupid to be a project manager. Here's some advice to future business owners that deal in construction. Don't lien a project unless you're absolutely sure that they owe you money. Then, when the lowly coordinator calls you and wants to go through the account, know enough about it to talk intelligently about the project to her. And you absolutely must not treat her like an idiot because she is a lowly coordinator (or female).
I hate being called Hon.
Then don't proceed to spend another day insisting that you're owed money that will be covered by the excess remaining in the contract. Don't be a greedy bastard. Don't insinuate that the lowly coordinator's boss is dishonest. Don't threaten to hold your lien unless you talk to the project manager.
If you really want your money, know your numbers.
The upside of this story is that my supervisor (the project manager) thanked me for the work I did on Friday. I spent the weekend in a funk feeling like I failed him--which drives me absolutely bonkers. If it weren't for eillwony, who is probably the best pseudo-sister I'll ever have, and zantastic, who is definitely the best brother I'll ever have, I might have seriously considered quitting.
It is people like them and my religious faith that really hold my life together. They are the straps that hold me in place on this nasty rollar coaster I call life. Even though today was hard, I was able to shoulder it and I know that I'll be able to do the same tomorrow.
Of course, tomorrow should be easier--my supervisor is going to be out of the office.
See, on Friday I was put through an unofficial sort of test. I was given an unclear task with a specific result. Unfortunately I didn't really understand what I was supposed to do until nearly 430pm. Then I spent the next hour on the phone with an idiot.
Seriously.
I didn't know it was possible for someone that stupid to be a project manager. Here's some advice to future business owners that deal in construction. Don't lien a project unless you're absolutely sure that they owe you money. Then, when the lowly coordinator calls you and wants to go through the account, know enough about it to talk intelligently about the project to her. And you absolutely must not treat her like an idiot because she is a lowly coordinator (or female).
I hate being called Hon.
Then don't proceed to spend another day insisting that you're owed money that will be covered by the excess remaining in the contract. Don't be a greedy bastard. Don't insinuate that the lowly coordinator's boss is dishonest. Don't threaten to hold your lien unless you talk to the project manager.
If you really want your money, know your numbers.
The upside of this story is that my supervisor (the project manager) thanked me for the work I did on Friday. I spent the weekend in a funk feeling like I failed him--which drives me absolutely bonkers. If it weren't for eillwony, who is probably the best pseudo-sister I'll ever have, and zantastic, who is definitely the best brother I'll ever have, I might have seriously considered quitting.
It is people like them and my religious faith that really hold my life together. They are the straps that hold me in place on this nasty rollar coaster I call life. Even though today was hard, I was able to shoulder it and I know that I'll be able to do the same tomorrow.
Of course, tomorrow should be easier--my supervisor is going to be out of the office.