The big project is due tomorrow morning at 8AM. Between computer problems, micro-managing managers who won't stop making changes, and the usual piss-poor planning, it's almost 9PM and we're nowhere near... anything. I have to stick around to put the job on CD-ROM when it's all finished. That's after printing. Nothing's printed yet, and our lone word processor had to start over on formatting this morning (due to the aforementioned computer problems), and was only just given one of the 5 volumes an hour ago (when the manager finished writing it). Meanwhile I sit around killing time, waiting. It's possible I won't get to make the disks until after midnight. Or so. This is the last of three big projects in three months, all of them run with about the same amount of stupidity. Every one, the last day (printing and delivery) is like this. Nobody plans, and everybody ends up scrambling at the end, barely making it. The last one got finished at 7:30 PM. Yay, going for a new record tonight! Methinks, whatever time I get home, I'm staying there thru tomorrow.
I get paid straight time for the hours. Plus, when I go to retire, your pension is based on the average of your last 5 years gross pay. This'll bump it up a little. Waiting around sucks, though. I'm working on updates to my website, surfing... There are a dozen bathrooms in this building, and at this hour, I keep picking one being cleaned by one of our many nice little Hispanic ladies.
Small world! Every-single-time I really have to piss the Walmart bathrooms in the front of the store are being cleaned, so I have to go to the back bathroom. So you're talking about one hundred meters or so,
I went to the nearest bathroom at 10PM, and the fucking program manager on this project was in there. I can't even take a piss alone at 10 o'clock at night here.
Somebody pissed in a garbage can here late one night. I had to take pictures (the graphics dept has the official camera) of the dried pee stains for the Environmental Health & Safety Department. And it was one of the wall-mounted hallway cans!
Is that all you need to do? If so, just show someone who is required to be in for other things, how to burn it to a cd?
I have observed in the past that Forbin's company operates on pretty old school methods. Note how they have somebody with the job title of word processor, because I guess the people writing the proposal still use pen and pencil, or are unsure how to format bullet points. Until recently, they probably had a guy whose only job was burning CDs, and somebody else who did all the photo copying.
It’s nice when I have time to get the admin to check the formats for my reports and proposals, but generally I write it, format it, if it needs printed and bound I do that myself, burn to dvd, stick it in the post/arrange a courier/web upload myself. Just seems a bit of overkill making forbin stay in for a simple task. Of course, Forbin might have more to do with the proposal than put it on a cd in which case fair enough.
We're a department of only three people now, there IS nobody else. The boss says John, stick around and make the CDs, I stick around to make the CDs. Unfortunately I have no moral high ground for leaving while the boss works 90 hour weeks, our only remaining word processor does almost the same, and the print shop has to stay till dawn to print the final books. I finally left at 3:15AM last night. Or this morning. I literally did nothing but wait from 4PM until 2AM to be told it was time to make CDs. Got only 4 hours of sleep, thanks to this miserable cold I have. I plan to spend today sitting in my heated, vibrating recliner reading, watching TV and snoozing. On the bright side, we get almost 2 weeks off for Christmas shutdown! W00t!
Well yeah, I draw most of the figures and diagrams, and need to stand by for last minute corrections. My coworker George does the same, plus he's our cover artist. He tends to get nailed at the end (like last night) with last minute cover changes.*Karen, the word processor, is usually working non-stop from 6AM to whenever they let her stop for the day, often 9 or 10PM! I admit it's only fair they make me stick around to share the load, but that doesn't make me like it any better. *This project's cover was especially aggravating for him. One of the engineers oversaw it, and had George create a 3D scenario (in Vue 3D) of exactly what our proposed equipment will do. Days of design and rendering later, someone pointed out that "exactly what our proposed equipment will do" is classified - get it the fuck off the cover.
Well I have been up for 48 hours straight doing deliveries. It's that time of the year where it gets really busy and everybody is wanting food. The good news is that it's over and I'm home.
Hhahahaha!. Yes. Actually I work at a BBQ resturant and for one place we cooked turkey and dressing and delivered it at 11am, 7pm and 2am! We had been up since 4am the previous morning. So we spent the night at the resturant. I'm still dead but a bit more rested now than I was yesterday!
