Oh, Digital Mustache. Im so sorry that Ive neglected you (already!).
I meant to do this week's Things I Love Thursday but got caught up in another really horrible week and forgot that Thursday was Thanksgiving. Shame on me! I hope you all ate delicious food and hung out with people you love. family or otherwise. Now its speeding towards Christmas which, to me, is absolutely not the most wonderful time of the year. You are so gross, winter time. So. GROSS.
Im battling the impending cold by listening to some fun, hot-weather music and cranking up the heat, yo!
Passion Pit - The Reeling
Atmosphere - You
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Things I Love Thursday for November 19, 2009.
Are you familiar with Things I Love Thursday? Someone out there got the bright idea to make a list of things you've been really digging that past week or so for all to see. A little 'the weekend is almost here' pick-me-up, I suppose. Bloggers gobbled the idea up, lists were made, positivity was shared... the world was a momentarily better place because at least for that while you could focus on all the good youve had that week. Big or small, important or not, it doesnt matter - share it!
That said, my week has been pretty terrible. So..well...lets get this positivity ball a'rollin, huh?
:Jace's awesomeness at cheering me up during the crappy events of the week. I am one lucky lady.
:The new Themselves album. Holy shit. Go buy it. Like, right now.
:Reading about Buckminster Fuller during my free time at work.
:Surprisingly delicious workplace breakfasts.
:Random co-workers saying "Funny story about Tuesday, I had to run home and get my tuxedo shirt and on the way I was going to stop and get you a plant. But then I thought, "meh, that's probably cheesy". So I didn't. Looking back, that would have been a very random event in the day and I probably should have."
:Theres a Felt 3! Get that shit in your life, homeslices!
:Bacon flavored popcorn?! If its made with not actual bacon Im gonna have consume some ASAP. If there are actual meat products involved maybe I could just buy some Bacos (theyre vegan!) and sprinkle 'em on my SmartPop? Hellooooo, fat kid!
:Getting blood money at work. As in, I give them my blood, they give me their money.
:Crab, beer and good TV night!
:My mom. ALWAYS my mom. Have you met her? Shes kind of super amazing. Just sayin'.
:My dad's very awesome work-related advice. Have you met him? Hes kind of super amazing, too.
:Our new furniture! Ikea, you are a wonderful, wonderful place.
What about you, my lovelies? What is brightening your week?
That said, my week has been pretty terrible. So..well...lets get this positivity ball a'rollin, huh?
:Jace's awesomeness at cheering me up during the crappy events of the week. I am one lucky lady.
:The new Themselves album. Holy shit. Go buy it. Like, right now.
:Reading about Buckminster Fuller during my free time at work.
:Surprisingly delicious workplace breakfasts.
:Random co-workers saying "Funny story about Tuesday, I had to run home and get my tuxedo shirt and on the way I was going to stop and get you a plant. But then I thought, "meh, that's probably cheesy". So I didn't. Looking back, that would have been a very random event in the day and I probably should have."
:Theres a Felt 3! Get that shit in your life, homeslices!
:Bacon flavored popcorn?! If its made with not actual bacon Im gonna have consume some ASAP. If there are actual meat products involved maybe I could just buy some Bacos (theyre vegan!) and sprinkle 'em on my SmartPop? Hellooooo, fat kid!
:Getting blood money at work. As in, I give them my blood, they give me their money.
:Crab, beer and good TV night!
:My mom. ALWAYS my mom. Have you met her? Shes kind of super amazing. Just sayin'.
:My dad's very awesome work-related advice. Have you met him? Hes kind of super amazing, too.
:Our new furniture! Ikea, you are a wonderful, wonderful place.
What about you, my lovelies? What is brightening your week?
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
If youre reading my blog Im fairly certain you know my past history with jobs. If not I can sum it up pretty quickly; Im the hard worker who gets fucked over. It started out as a semi-funny coincidence - I mean, really, what are the odds of having two corporate music store jobs stab you in the back with such vengance that youd swear you mustve kicked their puppy in your past life only to watch those stores close within a years time? If youre Jesika, those odds are 100% attainable, my friend. By the second time around the semi-funniness had lost its novelty so I decided to really mix it up. Id go from being able to use my music know-it-all-ness to putting stickers on various bodily fluids and parts. Work, work, work, new, new new.
By now Ive moved up a bit in the blood business. I got hired as a Tech I, slowly moved up to a Tech III and farily soon after that my job changed to the very important sounding Problem Resolution Specialist. I got shit done, I figured shit out and I mostly kept to myself. Most importantly, however, I started doing the job of two people. My counterpart (lets call him Shitty Dude because he is) has health issues that, while out of his control, have allowed him to use what must be unlimited FMLA. That isnt the problem so much as a factor of a more intricate one - you see, it wouldnt matter if he was home sick or at work...the results would be the same as far as his job performance goes. Yep. Hes one of those. Two hour-long lunch breaks? Definately not out of the norm. Compromised samples? More frequent than Id like to admit. Passing off what little work he should be doing onto me? Daily, if not hourly from the guy. Ive done my best to take it in stride because, hell... its not like hes there that much anyway, right? I might as well just do the job, cover my own ass and keep myself busy - what he does will (hopefully) fall back on him. (Oh, optimism!)
Fast forward to this morning. I wander into work to find the hasnt-been-at-work-in-at-least-a-month offender sitting at his desk as if it isnt at all strange to suddenly have him there. We dont care for each other much, so there are no words exchanged. Then the Big Fat Problem happens. Im called into the bosses office and told that unless I switch to a seven days on/seven days off schedule that I will be asked to step down as a Problem Resolution Specialist and will have to endure a 10% pay cut. As for the slacker, never-there coworker? Well, he's already accepted the schedule change and will face no pay changes what-so-ever. A 7/7 shift is impossible for me. I live far from work and public transit in this city on the weekends probably hasnt improved since dinosaurs roamed the valley so...I guess the pay cut and being demoted is my only choice.
"But what do I do when Shitty Guy isnt here like he should be? What if some mislabeled samples get brought to me and I know how to fix them before a patient gets the wrong test results? Since that isnt my job anymore but the person who's job it is has called in for the third week in a row...do I just...well...what do I do?"
"Just make copies of the issue and give it to the evening shift person to take care of."
"Hours later!? When its way too late to do anything about it before hypothetically the patient gets put on the wrong medication for a disease they dont even have?"
Apparently.
If it was just me getting fucked over, sure, itd still be horrible. It still wouldnt be right that I get a pay cut when someone who cant pull his weight gets off scott-free. But what about the person who just had a bone marrow biopsy and is waiting to find out if they have Lukemia but has to wait another day because Shitty Dude isnt there to correct the mislabel while Im just sitting there watching a sample pass its expiration? How is that fair to the person waiting to find out if their HIV test is negative or not? It might not be my job to care, but my morals dont give a fuck about that. My options are pretty limited. Do the same amount of work for less pay vs. ...well, nothing really.
Im getting good at excersizes in patience. Im getting even better at finding videos on YouTube that always, always, make me feel better.
By now Ive moved up a bit in the blood business. I got hired as a Tech I, slowly moved up to a Tech III and farily soon after that my job changed to the very important sounding Problem Resolution Specialist. I got shit done, I figured shit out and I mostly kept to myself. Most importantly, however, I started doing the job of two people. My counterpart (lets call him Shitty Dude because he is) has health issues that, while out of his control, have allowed him to use what must be unlimited FMLA. That isnt the problem so much as a factor of a more intricate one - you see, it wouldnt matter if he was home sick or at work...the results would be the same as far as his job performance goes. Yep. Hes one of those. Two hour-long lunch breaks? Definately not out of the norm. Compromised samples? More frequent than Id like to admit. Passing off what little work he should be doing onto me? Daily, if not hourly from the guy. Ive done my best to take it in stride because, hell... its not like hes there that much anyway, right? I might as well just do the job, cover my own ass and keep myself busy - what he does will (hopefully) fall back on him. (Oh, optimism!)
Fast forward to this morning. I wander into work to find the hasnt-been-at-work-in-at-least-a-month offender sitting at his desk as if it isnt at all strange to suddenly have him there. We dont care for each other much, so there are no words exchanged. Then the Big Fat Problem happens. Im called into the bosses office and told that unless I switch to a seven days on/seven days off schedule that I will be asked to step down as a Problem Resolution Specialist and will have to endure a 10% pay cut. As for the slacker, never-there coworker? Well, he's already accepted the schedule change and will face no pay changes what-so-ever. A 7/7 shift is impossible for me. I live far from work and public transit in this city on the weekends probably hasnt improved since dinosaurs roamed the valley so...I guess the pay cut and being demoted is my only choice.
"But what do I do when Shitty Guy isnt here like he should be? What if some mislabeled samples get brought to me and I know how to fix them before a patient gets the wrong test results? Since that isnt my job anymore but the person who's job it is has called in for the third week in a row...do I just...well...what do I do?"
"Just make copies of the issue and give it to the evening shift person to take care of."
"Hours later!? When its way too late to do anything about it before hypothetically the patient gets put on the wrong medication for a disease they dont even have?"
Apparently.
If it was just me getting fucked over, sure, itd still be horrible. It still wouldnt be right that I get a pay cut when someone who cant pull his weight gets off scott-free. But what about the person who just had a bone marrow biopsy and is waiting to find out if they have Lukemia but has to wait another day because Shitty Dude isnt there to correct the mislabel while Im just sitting there watching a sample pass its expiration? How is that fair to the person waiting to find out if their HIV test is negative or not? It might not be my job to care, but my morals dont give a fuck about that. My options are pretty limited. Do the same amount of work for less pay vs. ...well, nothing really.
Im getting good at excersizes in patience. Im getting even better at finding videos on YouTube that always, always, make me feel better.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Well, hello!
Not too long ago I missed a Very Important Memo; MySpace was out and Facebook was in. I cant pinpoint when it happened even though it wasnt a subtle transition by any stretch - all I knew is that suddenly I wasnt getting messages, no comments of any kind were being left for me, and even the friend requests stopped. MySpace had turned into a big, empty nothing which I mistook for a general case of the Jesika Sucks. Turns out that was that totally not the case (at least not this time), it was just that everyone moved all their shiz to Facebook without telling me.
I was resistant coated in stubborn. I liked what my page looked like, my pictures were organized just so and everything was in its right place. As far as I was concerned I didnt need to have another social networking site so I just wasnt going to give in. Simple as that. The problem, though, is that you cant exactly network with people if theyve all left you in a baron wasteland of emoticons and pop-punk bands trying to make you look at their haircuts.
So, fine. The Internet won. I made the switch and I wasnt happy about it. In fact, Im still not happy about it. The way people talked about Facebook made it sound like it was going to be some remarkably better, more grown up, and ultimately life-changing experience that I was somehow missing out on. Those people are damn fools! My questions of "Where is the customization? Where is the music? Where is the blogging option?" were answered with "Yeah, you cant do any of that. But its just obviously soooo much better than MySpace!" HUH?! I dont get it. You lost me. All I can see now is a giant, boring looking bulletin board jam packed full of quizzes telling you what Twilight character you are and how gangsta your name is. I refuse to "become a fan" of anything. The live vs. news feed confuses and irritates me. The validating factors are few and far between but if this is the way its going to go, then okay, I will use your damn Facebook. Often, I will even enjoy it. However, there is one thing I will not just throw by the wayside, and that my darlings is a customizable space to blog in. I thought I could go without it, and I thought that Twitter might fill the gap (and I do loves me some Twitter), but I was wrong. I guess thats where this comes in.Basically Id like to use this spot for just about anything that strikes my fancy that I think might strike yours, too.
You can count on personal updates/stories/pictures to music recommendations to random things of interest that Ive found across the web and anything in between. Oh and the blog name in reference to anything either. I just think mustaches are hilarious and since this is a digital blog well...there it is - digitalmustache! I hope you decide to stick around for a bit and Ill do my best to keep it interesting so that you do.
I was resistant coated in stubborn. I liked what my page looked like, my pictures were organized just so and everything was in its right place. As far as I was concerned I didnt need to have another social networking site so I just wasnt going to give in. Simple as that. The problem, though, is that you cant exactly network with people if theyve all left you in a baron wasteland of emoticons and pop-punk bands trying to make you look at their haircuts.
So, fine. The Internet won. I made the switch and I wasnt happy about it. In fact, Im still not happy about it. The way people talked about Facebook made it sound like it was going to be some remarkably better, more grown up, and ultimately life-changing experience that I was somehow missing out on. Those people are damn fools! My questions of "Where is the customization? Where is the music? Where is the blogging option?" were answered with "Yeah, you cant do any of that. But its just obviously soooo much better than MySpace!" HUH?! I dont get it. You lost me. All I can see now is a giant, boring looking bulletin board jam packed full of quizzes telling you what Twilight character you are and how gangsta your name is. I refuse to "become a fan" of anything. The live vs. news feed confuses and irritates me. The validating factors are few and far between but if this is the way its going to go, then okay, I will use your damn Facebook. Often, I will even enjoy it. However, there is one thing I will not just throw by the wayside, and that my darlings is a customizable space to blog in. I thought I could go without it, and I thought that Twitter might fill the gap (and I do loves me some Twitter), but I was wrong. I guess thats where this comes in.Basically Id like to use this spot for just about anything that strikes my fancy that I think might strike yours, too.
You can count on personal updates/stories/pictures to music recommendations to random things of interest that Ive found across the web and anything in between. Oh and the blog name in reference to anything either. I just think mustaches are hilarious and since this is a digital blog well...there it is - digitalmustache! I hope you decide to stick around for a bit and Ill do my best to keep it interesting so that you do.
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