Job complaint post incoming.
Last Thursday I get an email from Sarah in Children's. She says the summer program stuff for the webpage is all ready and in the fountain_docs drive just waiting for my eager fingers. I'm all happy about this. The other departments had already given me all their info and I was on my way to finishing everything up early for a change. Thursday comes and goes. I finish up everything for outreach, young adult, and adult, and now have 3 work days left to finish up the rest. Plenty of time.
I get in on Friday and open up the fountain_docs drive to get at those tasty morsals of program info. But whats this!?! No informative nuggets to be had! That's right, all that was in there for me were versions of the calendar handouts that they wanted me to turn into pdf files for the webpage. Isn't that just the best thing ever? I can't seem to get a hold of anyone who knows anything about where all the program write-ups are at. I send out emails to people hoping to get the ball rolling and content myself with other projects while being slightly annoyed by the wasted day.
yadda yadda yadda weekend happens
Tuesday comes along and I get a reply from Sarah. She has no idea what I'm talking about. So I read her a little blurb from our program newsletter, which is what I'm working from to get the program stuff done on time. It says "The programs listed in the newsletter are only HALF of the super programming we have planned this summer! Stop by the library or visit www.fountaindale.lib.il.us to find out about everything else". You see the problem here? The only source of program info I have is the fountain, and the fountain is telling people to visit the website for a complete list. Sarah, being the smart cookie that she is, realizes the problem and quickly copies over the folders they have of all their program info. Goody for me! The folders are a jumbled mess. Not so goody for me. Ah well, I have all day and Wednesday to work on it. No problem.
Wednesday comes. I'm slowly plugging away at the children's stuff when Nancy calls me around 1. She just emailed me the program info for the webpage. I tell her its no problem, I've been using the info from the folders Sarah sent me. Nancy tells me, "No don't use those, we've changed a lot since then and those sheets are no longer correct."
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FUCK!
I just spent all of Tuesday and half of Wednesday inputting the wrong fucking info onto the webpage. Start over time! The stuff from the fountain was ok, but everything else was trash. Work work work. Children's gets finished. Work work work. Program calendar gets finished. I'm done, and its only 6:00, an hour after I was supposed to go home *sigh*. I didn't do July or August for children's, and I didn't categorize the programs by age like they like me to do. July and August will come eventually if I'm not too busy. The search by age page will not exist for the rest of the summer. The window for working on the summer reading programs has closed. I've moved on to other projects and will not do anymore extra work on the children's page.
Here it is, Thursday, the first day of the new month. Time for me to upload all that reading program info I put on the webpage. Man, it sure is taking a long time for me to connect to the webserver this morning.
*ERROR: The server has rejected your login credentials*
wtf?
Yeah, gadgroup, the company outsourced to fill my old boss's shoes as network admins, has decided I shouldn't have administrative access to the webserver. What's that mean for the webpage? It means nothing gets fucking done because I can't do shit but save the files on to my network drive. They had better give me access to that server again. I am not about to send all my work to them so they can load it on. What about when I finish up setting the frontpage to a blog format? Most of the time when I work on a webpage, I can preview it to see if it looks the way I want it to. I can't do that with the blogger code. It needs to be up live in order to work. That means I'll be tweeking code and uploading changes multiple times a day in order to get it working and looking proper. I don't want to have to send it someone, then wait for him to upload it to the server. Its dumb and a waste of my time. I don't want to hear anyone mention anything about the need to go through proper channels. Fuck proper channels, and fuck all the managers who are obsessed with it.
Last Thursday I get an email from Sarah in Children's. She says the summer program stuff for the webpage is all ready and in the fountain_docs drive just waiting for my eager fingers. I'm all happy about this. The other departments had already given me all their info and I was on my way to finishing everything up early for a change. Thursday comes and goes. I finish up everything for outreach, young adult, and adult, and now have 3 work days left to finish up the rest. Plenty of time.
I get in on Friday and open up the fountain_docs drive to get at those tasty morsals of program info. But whats this!?! No informative nuggets to be had! That's right, all that was in there for me were versions of the calendar handouts that they wanted me to turn into pdf files for the webpage. Isn't that just the best thing ever? I can't seem to get a hold of anyone who knows anything about where all the program write-ups are at. I send out emails to people hoping to get the ball rolling and content myself with other projects while being slightly annoyed by the wasted day.
yadda yadda yadda weekend happens
Tuesday comes along and I get a reply from Sarah. She has no idea what I'm talking about. So I read her a little blurb from our program newsletter, which is what I'm working from to get the program stuff done on time. It says "The programs listed in the newsletter are only HALF of the super programming we have planned this summer! Stop by the library or visit www.fountaindale.lib.il.us to find out about everything else". You see the problem here? The only source of program info I have is the fountain, and the fountain is telling people to visit the website for a complete list. Sarah, being the smart cookie that she is, realizes the problem and quickly copies over the folders they have of all their program info. Goody for me! The folders are a jumbled mess. Not so goody for me. Ah well, I have all day and Wednesday to work on it. No problem.
Wednesday comes. I'm slowly plugging away at the children's stuff when Nancy calls me around 1. She just emailed me the program info for the webpage. I tell her its no problem, I've been using the info from the folders Sarah sent me. Nancy tells me, "No don't use those, we've changed a lot since then and those sheets are no longer correct."
...
...
FUCK!
I just spent all of Tuesday and half of Wednesday inputting the wrong fucking info onto the webpage. Start over time! The stuff from the fountain was ok, but everything else was trash. Work work work. Children's gets finished. Work work work. Program calendar gets finished. I'm done, and its only 6:00, an hour after I was supposed to go home *sigh*. I didn't do July or August for children's, and I didn't categorize the programs by age like they like me to do. July and August will come eventually if I'm not too busy. The search by age page will not exist for the rest of the summer. The window for working on the summer reading programs has closed. I've moved on to other projects and will not do anymore extra work on the children's page.
Here it is, Thursday, the first day of the new month. Time for me to upload all that reading program info I put on the webpage. Man, it sure is taking a long time for me to connect to the webserver this morning.
*ERROR: The server has rejected your login credentials*
wtf?
Yeah, gadgroup, the company outsourced to fill my old boss's shoes as network admins, has decided I shouldn't have administrative access to the webserver. What's that mean for the webpage? It means nothing gets fucking done because I can't do shit but save the files on to my network drive. They had better give me access to that server again. I am not about to send all my work to them so they can load it on. What about when I finish up setting the frontpage to a blog format? Most of the time when I work on a webpage, I can preview it to see if it looks the way I want it to. I can't do that with the blogger code. It needs to be up live in order to work. That means I'll be tweeking code and uploading changes multiple times a day in order to get it working and looking proper. I don't want to have to send it someone, then wait for him to upload it to the server. Its dumb and a waste of my time. I don't want to hear anyone mention anything about the need to go through proper channels. Fuck proper channels, and fuck all the managers who are obsessed with it.
i'll come back and read your journal when i have a couple minutes, k??!!