my new job
kind of blows. I mean, it's not like they are beating me or making me get coffee for everyone, but a LOT of my trust, privacy, etc., has been taken away with this position. No messenger on our computers. I get that this is supposed to make us more productive or whatever, but I was much happier when I could take breaks from my work and say hi to a friend or shoot a quick message to a coworker on the other side of the office. The computers are PC's, which was expected, but they are old crappy pc's running what looks like windows 2000. I hear we are updating to Windows 7 whenever that comes out, but the buzz around the office is that things take a long time to happen.
There is a girl that they flew down to Alaska to train me and Barbara (my 60-yr old "partner" assistant buyer - more about that later), and she is actually pretty nice, but we are basically replacing her and they are firing her. She has been training us well, but warns me that Bonnie, the buyer, can be a hard ass and pain to work for. yay. And the little bit of time I have spent with Bonnie confirms this. I sort of had a feeling this would happen - I knew that all the leniency my previous job gave was not likely to stick around, but what I really dislike is that everyone here seems bitter and pissed off at the company for this big merge they are going through. It's just not fun to get into a new office and have everyone cursing the company and talking about how crappy it is.
There are a few TINY high points; it seems I will definitely be traveling to Vegas & New York for shows. I will be going with Bonnie which takes quite a bit of the fun out of it, but still, I do like to travel. I have 2 and 1/2 people under me, to data entry girls to help with PO writing and item/sku creation, and Barbara. Old, grumpy, grandma Barbara. Barbara is the "2nd assistant" and I'm still not sure what that means, but I do know she originally applied for the data entry job, but because of her experience they put her here. She is obviously at the end of her career and not looking to move anywhere, much less up, and is no competition for me. She is not exactly a hoot to sit next to and work with, but doesn't put me under any kind of pressure to look good.
So, as I suspected, this place will be great for my career and add nothing to my social life. I guess I held out hope that it might work out that I got both, but oh well.
I am exhausted from all this new information input, and trying to adjust to the commute. In other news, I'm getting my marriage license tomorrow and almost everything is wrapped up for the wedding. Oh yes, and off to Vegas in 3 days. I keep forgetting, seriously.
There is a girl that they flew down to Alaska to train me and Barbara (my 60-yr old "partner" assistant buyer - more about that later), and she is actually pretty nice, but we are basically replacing her and they are firing her. She has been training us well, but warns me that Bonnie, the buyer, can be a hard ass and pain to work for. yay. And the little bit of time I have spent with Bonnie confirms this. I sort of had a feeling this would happen - I knew that all the leniency my previous job gave was not likely to stick around, but what I really dislike is that everyone here seems bitter and pissed off at the company for this big merge they are going through. It's just not fun to get into a new office and have everyone cursing the company and talking about how crappy it is.
There are a few TINY high points; it seems I will definitely be traveling to Vegas & New York for shows. I will be going with Bonnie which takes quite a bit of the fun out of it, but still, I do like to travel. I have 2 and 1/2 people under me, to data entry girls to help with PO writing and item/sku creation, and Barbara. Old, grumpy, grandma Barbara. Barbara is the "2nd assistant" and I'm still not sure what that means, but I do know she originally applied for the data entry job, but because of her experience they put her here. She is obviously at the end of her career and not looking to move anywhere, much less up, and is no competition for me. She is not exactly a hoot to sit next to and work with, but doesn't put me under any kind of pressure to look good.
So, as I suspected, this place will be great for my career and add nothing to my social life. I guess I held out hope that it might work out that I got both, but oh well.
I am exhausted from all this new information input, and trying to adjust to the commute. In other news, I'm getting my marriage license tomorrow and almost everything is wrapped up for the wedding. Oh yes, and off to Vegas in 3 days. I keep forgetting, seriously.