this journal is changing direction starting today/tomorrow.
though my journal never really had a specific direction, i have decided to journalize the life & times of working with a certain one tom horan. it's kind of ridiculous i didn't start this sooner. no need to panic, i have all the emails & IMs to piece back through the last 9 months and 29 days of my "life". i used air quotes because while i was living in the sense of breathing more than an acceptable amount of my time & energy was RepayMe, a product of the Bensoft Incorporation.
to get started i am going to spit out the days that come to mind immediately.
04/17/08
today granted me three separate interactions two of which dealt with me directly. though this was the last work interaction of the day it's shortest and best place to start. i was told by another employee, tom had a discussion with him the previous week regarding a new employee. tom was explaining & drawing on a white board a hiearhy of system knowledge in the company starting with him knowing 100%, his first employee only knowing 50%, myself only knowing 25%, an employee hired before me only knowing 12%, & that he was not willing to see the new employee only knowing 6% so he was going to have a new hire (who is on materanity leave) below me train the even newest hire. i have no intention of discrediting the system knowledge Kris has. she was a customer for several years & has a strong working knowledge of the system as well as knowledge of flex administration of everyone on the team she has the least technology & software knowledge.
the next interaction was on going through out the entire day. i received an email from in which he forwarded a message from one of our vendors. the email from the vendor was to inform tom of a fax received by someone in our office that had a signature not matching any of tom's on file signatures. the message is sent to myself & maly (the off executive administrator) with the form Vice President & consultant to tom, jay copied. tom copies jay when he wants people to get in trouble. it's sort of a "see jay they are as bad as i say they are.". the email simply said "who forged my signature?" neither maly nor myself had signed the document so after a consultation we did not respond. a note to the fact that we discussed this before taking action, the office environment is much like a group of famished deprived people & the ultimate bully pushing & striking everyone. we discussed the fact that we both knew jay had signed the document & he should be the one to respond. i mentioned to maly at that point the long history of this document. it started a several weeks ago when tom forwarded me the email requesting this completed form & simply take care of this. from what i can tell the form is a statement of authorized users for this vendor's website. i start gathering the signatures, of the people i believe to need access to the site. i wouldn't think to ask tom as all i would get back is a snide comment not answering the question & telling me to leave him alone all in one sentence. being that kris is in irvine without a fax & still had no access to this system i signed the document on her behalf (i am certain this is going to bite me in the ass in the coming days), i then give to maly to complete the rest & send it in. she comes back and says i need to sign the document because i am an authorized agent/owner. she would of course rather deal with me than tom. i sign & the document is off my list as far as i am concerned. i get an email the next day from the vendor saying tom is the only person who can sign the form, i forward that to maly & ask her to take care of it & while we are dealing with it to get the newest employee tim added. this information makes it back to jay who is of course concerned with getting our employes the tools they need to work tells me he will sign the form on tom's behalf. probably about an hour later tom calls maly & barks "who forged my signature?" maly tells him it was jay, he then demands to know why. she spits out that i had told jay something needed to get done & asked him to sign. tom says something under his breath & hangs up. another email is sent to myself & jay that says "we need to talk about this." tom. he uses his name in emails when he gets mad to me it comes off as a reminder of who he is, like i should fear him.
i have to stop & sleep.
to get started i am going to spit out the days that come to mind immediately.
04/17/08
today granted me three separate interactions two of which dealt with me directly. though this was the last work interaction of the day it's shortest and best place to start. i was told by another employee, tom had a discussion with him the previous week regarding a new employee. tom was explaining & drawing on a white board a hiearhy of system knowledge in the company starting with him knowing 100%, his first employee only knowing 50%, myself only knowing 25%, an employee hired before me only knowing 12%, & that he was not willing to see the new employee only knowing 6% so he was going to have a new hire (who is on materanity leave) below me train the even newest hire. i have no intention of discrediting the system knowledge Kris has. she was a customer for several years & has a strong working knowledge of the system as well as knowledge of flex administration of everyone on the team she has the least technology & software knowledge.
the next interaction was on going through out the entire day. i received an email from in which he forwarded a message from one of our vendors. the email from the vendor was to inform tom of a fax received by someone in our office that had a signature not matching any of tom's on file signatures. the message is sent to myself & maly (the off executive administrator) with the form Vice President & consultant to tom, jay copied. tom copies jay when he wants people to get in trouble. it's sort of a "see jay they are as bad as i say they are.". the email simply said "who forged my signature?" neither maly nor myself had signed the document so after a consultation we did not respond. a note to the fact that we discussed this before taking action, the office environment is much like a group of famished deprived people & the ultimate bully pushing & striking everyone. we discussed the fact that we both knew jay had signed the document & he should be the one to respond. i mentioned to maly at that point the long history of this document. it started a several weeks ago when tom forwarded me the email requesting this completed form & simply take care of this. from what i can tell the form is a statement of authorized users for this vendor's website. i start gathering the signatures, of the people i believe to need access to the site. i wouldn't think to ask tom as all i would get back is a snide comment not answering the question & telling me to leave him alone all in one sentence. being that kris is in irvine without a fax & still had no access to this system i signed the document on her behalf (i am certain this is going to bite me in the ass in the coming days), i then give to maly to complete the rest & send it in. she comes back and says i need to sign the document because i am an authorized agent/owner. she would of course rather deal with me than tom. i sign & the document is off my list as far as i am concerned. i get an email the next day from the vendor saying tom is the only person who can sign the form, i forward that to maly & ask her to take care of it & while we are dealing with it to get the newest employee tim added. this information makes it back to jay who is of course concerned with getting our employes the tools they need to work tells me he will sign the form on tom's behalf. probably about an hour later tom calls maly & barks "who forged my signature?" maly tells him it was jay, he then demands to know why. she spits out that i had told jay something needed to get done & asked him to sign. tom says something under his breath & hangs up. another email is sent to myself & jay that says "we need to talk about this." tom. he uses his name in emails when he gets mad to me it comes off as a reminder of who he is, like i should fear him.
i have to stop & sleep.