brain dump
Everyone and their dog has a cover of this song by now and this one was posted a month ago, but I just came across it on my Spotify discover playlist for the week.
I'd listen to it without watching the video, once again, and ignore the way she pronounces Tucson. It's weird. You guys don't pronounce it that way, right? Like, I enjoy saying words wrong like "jalapeno" and "mojito" and shit like that to be stupid/funny but not in such an official capacity...
ANYWAY, I digress.
Work continues on, fine and dandy. I still don't feel fully settled in, which is weird, but I guess it's because I don't feel that I've gotten to the meat of what I'm going to be doing. Right now it's a lot of things like updating the entire website (which is a great way to learn the products) and making sure all social media sites and search engine contact pages are up to date. You haven't known excitement until you've wrestled with the Yellow Pages site back end or submitted a request for page verification from Bing (remember them?!).
I've learned a lot about the manufacturing processes, though, and I find that stuff so fascinating. They have a machine at the main workshop that shaves off all the melted plastic and debris once the pvc pieces get welded together by a different machine. It's all so computerized so all you have to do is input the specs and the machines cut it all to proper sizes and even keeps records of the discarded bits in case it can use them in another job. I think that's pretty damn cool! And last week I got to watch one of the guys from the other shop stain a few doors in my office's workshop because he needed extra space. It's crazy how much like wood fibreglass looks!
O's last day at the paper is Wednesday and I know she's freaking out a little (this is/was her first job, after all) but she knows it's for the best. The new/assoc. pub approached her last week and asked what it would take to get her to stay. But they could only offer her $0.60/hr extra due to the union pay grid and a swing desk/sales rep-ish position where she'd be the sales rep for all unassigned accounts but she'd still have to cover other sales reps when they were away. It was all a bunch of bullshit and I told her not to even consider it.
My old department has exactly one person who knows what she's doing there and she's only been around for a couple years. The manager of the department has been away from it for so long she was going to relearn everything but then was appointed manager and all my shit was dumped on her so she hasn't had time. The other new person has only been there a month (two days more than I've been gone) and apparently she needs her hand held through anything that isn't just picking up the phone and selling an ad. So everything else.
Tomorrow evening we're having our gift exchange, all of us former/current department employees. Out of the eight of us going to C's house for a potluck dinner/Cards Against Humanity night only three others still work there (four if you count O but it's her last day the next morning, so...). I don't know if it'll be a little weird because the majority of us will be like, "Yeah, fuck that place!" and the others will be defensive/miserable or what. One of the three is nearing retirement and just riding things out until she's done so she kind of has a choice/kind of doesn't. One just bought a house so she's sticking around and the last one I THINK is also looking for a different job but idk for sure.
I've been throwing myself into fandom a lot the past couple of weeks and avoiding a lot of twitter and news stuff without trying to declare to myself that I am. But yeah. It's gone past being able to find words for everything happening. I feel like everything has become a 24/7 horror movie I'm watching from between my fingers, when I can work up the courage to actually open my eyes. I can't even begin to imagine how you guys in the States are feeling. It's beyond trying to find a silver lining or making a joke to possibly make it better at this point and in those cases I simply don't know what to say.
Mm'kay.
I'd listen to it without watching the video, once again, and ignore the way she pronounces Tucson. It's weird. You guys don't pronounce it that way, right? Like, I enjoy saying words wrong like "jalapeno" and "mojito" and shit like that to be stupid/funny but not in such an official capacity...
ANYWAY, I digress.
Click to viewWork continues on, fine and dandy. I still don't feel fully settled in, which is weird, but I guess it's because I don't feel that I've gotten to the meat of what I'm going to be doing. Right now it's a lot of things like updating the entire website (which is a great way to learn the products) and making sure all social media sites and search engine contact pages are up to date. You haven't known excitement until you've wrestled with the Yellow Pages site back end or submitted a request for page verification from Bing (remember them?!).
I've learned a lot about the manufacturing processes, though, and I find that stuff so fascinating. They have a machine at the main workshop that shaves off all the melted plastic and debris once the pvc pieces get welded together by a different machine. It's all so computerized so all you have to do is input the specs and the machines cut it all to proper sizes and even keeps records of the discarded bits in case it can use them in another job. I think that's pretty damn cool! And last week I got to watch one of the guys from the other shop stain a few doors in my office's workshop because he needed extra space. It's crazy how much like wood fibreglass looks!
O's last day at the paper is Wednesday and I know she's freaking out a little (this is/was her first job, after all) but she knows it's for the best. The new/assoc. pub approached her last week and asked what it would take to get her to stay. But they could only offer her $0.60/hr extra due to the union pay grid and a swing desk/sales rep-ish position where she'd be the sales rep for all unassigned accounts but she'd still have to cover other sales reps when they were away. It was all a bunch of bullshit and I told her not to even consider it.
My old department has exactly one person who knows what she's doing there and she's only been around for a couple years. The manager of the department has been away from it for so long she was going to relearn everything but then was appointed manager and all my shit was dumped on her so she hasn't had time. The other new person has only been there a month (two days more than I've been gone) and apparently she needs her hand held through anything that isn't just picking up the phone and selling an ad. So everything else.
Tomorrow evening we're having our gift exchange, all of us former/current department employees. Out of the eight of us going to C's house for a potluck dinner/Cards Against Humanity night only three others still work there (four if you count O but it's her last day the next morning, so...). I don't know if it'll be a little weird because the majority of us will be like, "Yeah, fuck that place!" and the others will be defensive/miserable or what. One of the three is nearing retirement and just riding things out until she's done so she kind of has a choice/kind of doesn't. One just bought a house so she's sticking around and the last one I THINK is also looking for a different job but idk for sure.
I've been throwing myself into fandom a lot the past couple of weeks and avoiding a lot of twitter and news stuff without trying to declare to myself that I am. But yeah. It's gone past being able to find words for everything happening. I feel like everything has become a 24/7 horror movie I'm watching from between my fingers, when I can work up the courage to actually open my eyes. I can't even begin to imagine how you guys in the States are feeling. It's beyond trying to find a silver lining or making a joke to possibly make it better at this point and in those cases I simply don't know what to say.
Mm'kay.