:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Friday, August 13, 2004 ::

whew
That was three days worth of blogging there... I've had most of those news reports saved in my Favorites for like days. ^^;; However, I really wanted to talk about them and point them out... especially the technology ones.

Either way, I had the time. I stayed home from work today. I've just been feeling so crappy lately. I know it's not PMS, so let's not go there, okay? But things just basically suck.

Jeff hasn't been back since he fell again at work. The database troubles have spread from my site to LJ's ID photo database. She can't upload the new pictures. I took a look at it, but I couldn't find the problem. Ray tried to get Jeff on the Nextel, but that didn't happen. So, I went back to the office, scanned a few more documents, uploaded some pictures for future postings, and that was that. After talking with Cecil about things, I finally went home when we discovered there was really nothing we could do at this point.

I did tell Cecil to consider talking to LJ to see if maybe he could find the source of the problem where I couldn't.

As for work... it's been a combination of things. The conflicts on which work study works for who have started. Then again, they started a while ago... even right in the beginning when I first walked in as a work study. However, they were quickly squashed and were easy to keep squashed because we were in different areas.

We're not in different areas anymore. Unfortunately, this makes hiding me a lot more difficult. It also makes it a lot more difficult for Barbara to keep her work studies doing what she needs them to do. Work studies are the gophers of the school. We're like paid interns without the college credit. We get the mail, we stuff envelopes, we run scantrons, we make copies, we file reports. Most of us are underemployed. Barbara knows my experience with computers and knows what I can make them do. I can get reports to print out in ways she doesn't quite yet understand, and she likes that. She likes that I can show her things and fix things for her.

However... it seems that I'm being roped into doing things for Marilyn more and more. I don't mind all that much, but she's piling her work onto Barbara and Katherine, and taking away the work studies that usually would be helping them. It hasn't been very easy. You can't exactly tell the Dean of Student Services you won't do something... especially when you're just a work study in said department.

Le sigh...

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