fuck this job.com

Today I came to the conclusion that nobody wants me to do the job I was hired for. None of the menial work that they ask me to do ever gets properly scheduled. This means I have to go around the plant pissing people off by begging resources from one department or another on bended knee at inconvenient times for everyone. My asshole supervisor lectured me yesterday about my project not getting completed even though he never scheduled the resources I needed when I told him I needed them the last four months in a row, and kept handing other stupid projects off on me and telling me that my project wasn't a high priority every time I asked. So today I had to go begging for resources from another department to finish the job and I had to go and beg the shit-heel director of another department for staff and tools. He got pissy and told me to go through proper channel. I don't fucking blame him, but let's face it, my boss is as useless as Tits on a Fire Hydrant and I can't get him to do shit for me no matter how much paperwork I cram down his throat. Everyone at the plant knows this and either the shield themselves from him with procedure and paperwork or they just give up. He doesn't know his own job and he's a shitty manager. He couldn't plan his way out of a paperbag, and it would be cheaper to make our products ot of fifty dollar bills than have him try to pretend to be a project manager. It's funny, but ever since the guy started there the company has been losing money and the executive management doesn't seem to see that. Every time something about the guy pisses me off and I mention it to a co worker they say "Yeah, thats just one of the things that'll drive you crazy".

HUMA is an acronym I came up with that stands for "Head Up My Ass", SUMA is an acronym, you guessed it, for "Stick Up My Ass"
Use them wisely my children

I thought I'd make this an entry instead of just a comment

The company I work for is run by a bunch of metally deficient anthropoids. My boss, an engineer no less, thinks product design begins and ends with a doodle on a cocktail napkin. I have been a product designer in this particular industry for ten years. When this big, prominent company lured me away from a job I really liked, I thought ,"finally, the Major Leagues have called me up."
This company is a fucking joke.
If I was allowed to design products from the ground up, they would be efficiently prototyped, have minimal corrections after prototyping, have predictable and reliable performance characteristics and be as cost effective to make as possible. Instead, I have to start with an exsisting product that was badly designed from the start (you can tell by the number of band-aid fixes and the poor performance) and add pieces from another product that also is a piece of shit to make a "new and improved product". I'm not allowed the time to do the analysis required to head off any problems before the prototype is made. The prototype never gets scrapped. No matter how badly it performs they are willing to pour unlimited money and resources into it to force it to be marginally acceptable. Often this has to be done with every single one of these products through the entire production run. How many of you out there have ever heard the Johnny Cash song "one piece at a time"? It's like taking pieces out of two worn-out jigsaw puzzels and trying to make the picture of your choice from them. It's a waste, and a embarassment, and I'm disgusted. I had to meet a customer on delivery day once, and he was shocked at what a piece of shit it was.