2351: Motion
At risk of jinxing, I dare to believe that Clueless is out of my hair FOREVAR! =D ...that is, he's still working at the Rio, but he's been demoted to Flow--which is just spiffy with me, fanx! I've been getting a headache over how bullheaded he was about doing the backroom however he felt like it without listening to a word any of the Team Leads said about, "We have to do it this way now/have always done it this way but never had the time or patience to deal with whipping you until you do it right each time."
I should note some of the other changes of the guard, while I'm at it:
Slowpoke Rodriguez has become full-fledged Overnight [instead of the "come in at 4a and claim Overnight pay status"] training as Team Lead for Flow. This is one of the more baffling moves, not because I think he's incompetent, but because he really doesn't have leader... volume. Really--think of the actual Slowpoke Rodriguez from all the Speedy Gonzales cartoons, then imagine that Slowpoke trying to command others. It's bizarre.
[Yes, I know Slowpoke has the ability to hypnotize Sylvester. Ignoring that, I mean.]
After Singer came back, he talked about "leaving" us again, but he's still working with us. Apparently, he's now the new Planogram Team Lead [or a commanding position within it, if not actually leading the team as far as Payroll's concerned], which struck me as odd since I don't believe he'd ever done a planogram before. Granted, it's not something I think is out of his capacity to pick up quickly.
Boat is gone, I've discovered. I don't think of it as a huge loss, but he was one of the TLs with Guilt-Inducing Volume. Kinda like Kareem, but Kareem is much more of a Mr. Nice Guy to actually guilt anybody... at least, not with volume.
I've been rewriting my MoD submissions with the intent of "If I don't finish them by the early deadline [this saturday], I won't submit them." That's kind of a severe stance, but if I've put off finishing up what would have taken me three days to do during Nano, putting off doing it until the final deadline won't help me any. Unfortunately, rewriting them on the computer seems to hinder me more than help, so I've been actually scratching stuff out in a notebook at work. It reads a little better now =/ though my esteem for the stories I've composed so far hasn't really improved.
I mean, face it. Only the authors who come up with something 1. Really Fantastic [in the Fantasy/Sci-Fi sense], 2. Universally-Resounding, or 3. Journalistic* will be timelessly popular. Most of the rest are either written by prolific authors [Clancy/Evanovich/Koontz], somebody famous [A Hand Guide to Me by Denzel Washington], or faddish [HP/SUE/Eragon**/whatever the latest diet craze is].
*When I stock books, the titles that really catch my eye are the ones about dealing with high school cliques, pressures from fraternities/sororities, live-changing traumatic events, or some other really emotionally-charged topic [kidnapped child looking for his parents]. Those are the kinds of books I'd like to write, but I really don't have convincing material ¬_¬;
**This is not to say I think that HP, Series, or Eragon are bad, as such, but certainly they have a more childish popularity, as the genre as a whole seems to suffer.
So, a lot of my self-consciousness in what I write prolly has to do with perception of how well my writing will be received. Then again, I can't be an accurate judge of that, because a lot of popular books I've read seemed like crap :'
Going to bed to see if I can finally sleep until I'm not tired on a work night for once X/
I should note some of the other changes of the guard, while I'm at it:
Slowpoke Rodriguez has become full-fledged Overnight [instead of the "come in at 4a and claim Overnight pay status"] training as Team Lead for Flow. This is one of the more baffling moves, not because I think he's incompetent, but because he really doesn't have leader... volume. Really--think of the actual Slowpoke Rodriguez from all the Speedy Gonzales cartoons, then imagine that Slowpoke trying to command others. It's bizarre.
[Yes, I know Slowpoke has the ability to hypnotize Sylvester. Ignoring that, I mean.]
After Singer came back, he talked about "leaving" us again, but he's still working with us. Apparently, he's now the new Planogram Team Lead [or a commanding position within it, if not actually leading the team as far as Payroll's concerned], which struck me as odd since I don't believe he'd ever done a planogram before. Granted, it's not something I think is out of his capacity to pick up quickly.
Boat is gone, I've discovered. I don't think of it as a huge loss, but he was one of the TLs with Guilt-Inducing Volume. Kinda like Kareem, but Kareem is much more of a Mr. Nice Guy to actually guilt anybody... at least, not with volume.
I've been rewriting my MoD submissions with the intent of "If I don't finish them by the early deadline [this saturday], I won't submit them." That's kind of a severe stance, but if I've put off finishing up what would have taken me three days to do during Nano, putting off doing it until the final deadline won't help me any. Unfortunately, rewriting them on the computer seems to hinder me more than help, so I've been actually scratching stuff out in a notebook at work. It reads a little better now =/ though my esteem for the stories I've composed so far hasn't really improved.
I mean, face it. Only the authors who come up with something 1. Really Fantastic [in the Fantasy/Sci-Fi sense], 2. Universally-Resounding, or 3. Journalistic* will be timelessly popular. Most of the rest are either written by prolific authors [Clancy/Evanovich/Koontz], somebody famous [A Hand Guide to Me by Denzel Washington], or faddish [HP/SUE/Eragon**/whatever the latest diet craze is].
*When I stock books, the titles that really catch my eye are the ones about dealing with high school cliques, pressures from fraternities/sororities, live-changing traumatic events, or some other really emotionally-charged topic [kidnapped child looking for his parents]. Those are the kinds of books I'd like to write, but I really don't have convincing material ¬_¬;
**This is not to say I think that HP, Series, or Eragon are bad, as such, but certainly they have a more childish popularity, as the genre as a whole seems to suffer.
So, a lot of my self-consciousness in what I write prolly has to do with perception of how well my writing will be received. Then again, I can't be an accurate judge of that, because a lot of popular books I've read seemed like crap :'
Going to bed to see if I can finally sleep until I'm not tired on a work night for once X/