And I wanted to do this?
Alright... Well I don't know if I have announced it here, but I have been progressing on that great big thing called a corporate ladder. I was made manager about three weeks ago. Now the perks to this little promotion have not outweighed the disadvantages to this point.
I have been working crazy hours lately. It's the first time my review is impacted by the performance of others. I'm really starting to realize why it's so critical to have people who go the extra mile to get things done.
When I got the promotion I was told I could pick a title. I really wanted a title like "Evil Overlord" or "Benevolent Despot," but I don't think they would work too well on the business cards. And I didn't want to be a Project Manager b/c my experience with Project Managers have not been the more positive interactions. Instead I'm a "Systems Manager." Not that it means anything to anyone, but I have "manager" in my title now. So far all it means is I work twice as hard for the same pay. But I'm working to fix the latter part of the equation.
This last weekend we moved offices. Again. And things could not have been more messed up. Over the weekend I ranted to anyone who would listen for at least 30 minutes about everything that had gone wrong and was continuing to go wrong. I could go into it all again, but there's not much point. Long and short of it is none of the vendors did what they were supposed to do. We had no internet until today when it should have been delivered last week. The furniture will be there Thursday when it should have been delivered last week. The cubes have not been assembled... yada yada yada. Long hours and lots of yelling at stupid people accomplished nothing. Isn't management fun?
The highlight of the weekend was a visit from Kevin and Sesalee. I hadn't seen them since last summer, but they came up to visit Jeff and Lisa and their new baby Jakob. I joined them at Jeff and Lisa's house where we watched Starwars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network and played Monopoly. I tried to warn them before we started monopoly that I got competitive about the game. I don't think they quite realized how competitive. We quit when I controlled 2/3 of the board and was working hard to get more.
9:16 PM Posted by Big Dave
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Lisa Smith, at 6:10 PM
But Monopoly was great and it was fun to do something different! I think we should do more board game, card games when we all visit. It was really fun!