Corporate Boredporate Schmoeporate
I'm not sure if writing still has a therapeutic effect on me, but I have a huge pain in the back of my neck so it's worth a shot. Work felt like such bullshit for the most part this week. I didn't feel this way during my first period audit, so maybe I didn't communicate as well in my e-mails this time around. There was a lot of back-and-forth, and a lot of "I'm going to do this" from the other side that doesn't actually happen. Plus, the whole communication takes a time span of a week, where I'm sitting at my desk for 6-7 hours waiting for a response. Most of the managers I'm auditing this time doesn't pick up their phones. I think the worst part is that I'm about done, and I see that it didn't matter that I did a buttload of work.
Why? Because last period I audited 700 less sales contracts than I did this period, and found 22 discrepancies. This period, I'm only grabbing at like 20 TOPS. The discrepancy rate will be 7% vs 2% this period. It sucks because the impact is tens of thousands of dollars, but sometimes I have to contact a manager a lot about something to the point where I'm annoyed at myself, only to later calculate that the impact of what I was chasing was $2. TWO BUCKS. lol
It would be so awesome to work from home. Then all this waiting around doesn't matter, because I don't have to be sitting at my desk. The desk is so boring and too uncomfortable to do anything personal on the computer. I don't really understand how salary works. You're hire to do a certain job and offered a certain pay to do that job, right? If you can get the job done in 3 hours, do you still have to stay around for another 5 hours? Think about it, if you were at work for 8 hours and didn't get the job done, then you would have to stay around for another hour, or 2, or 3, until you got the job done, right? So why isn't it applied the other way around?
If you can get the job done in 3 hours, then they'll say, "since you finished that so fast, I will find you other things to do." More like invent things for you to do. Now, wait a minute. If you're not getting paid by the hour, is that fair? How much idle time does a salary cover? I wish these things were written in a job offer. Something along the lines of, "If idle time occurs, you are expected to hang out and be on call for 3 hours or until 4:15pm, whichever comes sooner." Dude, that's genius.
I don't like the corporate world anymore. I think it's stupid. I feel weird feeling this way, because I love structure. However, for some reason I think the corporate life is stupid because it is overly structured. I like being able to expect working from 9-5, but I don't want to do it for 5 out of my 7 days a week. I want 3 days a week from 8:30 to 4pm, 1 day remote work, and 1 day off because I can. I think asking for Wednesday as a work from home day would be a good goal to negotiate for. I will call in sick on a Wednesday, or be stuck home due to snow, work from home that day, be super productive, then not so much the next day, then propose that we give this remote day a try!
Tomorrow makes 9 weeks. I guess I'm still getting adjusted to work because the subject of work still plagues my thoughts. I don't think I don't dislike work, I just feel like 5 days is a lot. It's a lot of days to be at a desk, doing the same type of thing. It's not like school where your mind is exercising different subjects and how it's sort of a place to socialize. There's barely much that happens within my 9-5 that I want to chat about, because there's no incidents or topics from there that would entertain or enrich someone's life. Furthermore, being in the office for 8 hours just sucks 80% of your daily energy out of you. How are you going to have a second life without falling ill? 'Cause all I did was go to the gym yesterday night, and I feel sick right now. Maybe someone sneezed on the treadmill handles and I touched it and rubbed my eye...
Why? Because last period I audited 700 less sales contracts than I did this period, and found 22 discrepancies. This period, I'm only grabbing at like 20 TOPS. The discrepancy rate will be 7% vs 2% this period. It sucks because the impact is tens of thousands of dollars, but sometimes I have to contact a manager a lot about something to the point where I'm annoyed at myself, only to later calculate that the impact of what I was chasing was $2. TWO BUCKS. lol
It would be so awesome to work from home. Then all this waiting around doesn't matter, because I don't have to be sitting at my desk. The desk is so boring and too uncomfortable to do anything personal on the computer. I don't really understand how salary works. You're hire to do a certain job and offered a certain pay to do that job, right? If you can get the job done in 3 hours, do you still have to stay around for another 5 hours? Think about it, if you were at work for 8 hours and didn't get the job done, then you would have to stay around for another hour, or 2, or 3, until you got the job done, right? So why isn't it applied the other way around?
If you can get the job done in 3 hours, then they'll say, "since you finished that so fast, I will find you other things to do." More like invent things for you to do. Now, wait a minute. If you're not getting paid by the hour, is that fair? How much idle time does a salary cover? I wish these things were written in a job offer. Something along the lines of, "If idle time occurs, you are expected to hang out and be on call for 3 hours or until 4:15pm, whichever comes sooner." Dude, that's genius.
I don't like the corporate world anymore. I think it's stupid. I feel weird feeling this way, because I love structure. However, for some reason I think the corporate life is stupid because it is overly structured. I like being able to expect working from 9-5, but I don't want to do it for 5 out of my 7 days a week. I want 3 days a week from 8:30 to 4pm, 1 day remote work, and 1 day off because I can. I think asking for Wednesday as a work from home day would be a good goal to negotiate for. I will call in sick on a Wednesday, or be stuck home due to snow, work from home that day, be super productive, then not so much the next day, then propose that we give this remote day a try!
Tomorrow makes 9 weeks. I guess I'm still getting adjusted to work because the subject of work still plagues my thoughts. I don't think I don't dislike work, I just feel like 5 days is a lot. It's a lot of days to be at a desk, doing the same type of thing. It's not like school where your mind is exercising different subjects and how it's sort of a place to socialize. There's barely much that happens within my 9-5 that I want to chat about, because there's no incidents or topics from there that would entertain or enrich someone's life. Furthermore, being in the office for 8 hours just sucks 80% of your daily energy out of you. How are you going to have a second life without falling ill? 'Cause all I did was go to the gym yesterday night, and I feel sick right now. Maybe someone sneezed on the treadmill handles and I touched it and rubbed my eye...