fuck this job.com

Remember how I said I'd be back to complain? Here I yam!

Although things on the job are less suicide-inducing than last year at this time, all is not tranquil. Indeed I am sensing a new disturbance in the Force. It's not like anyone ever tells me anything, so that's how I know what's going on up above in the hierarchy... I use my psychic powers - oh, and observing the stupid, arbitrary decisions that rain down on my head from above. Yes, it seems the president of the company has NOTICED my department's existence and now wishes to extend his insanity downward to us.

You can tell there has been in a disturbance by the weird, last-minute assignments you get, usually with handwritten scrawled notes attached from your immediate supervisor. Oh wait, I don't have a supervisor. OK, from the higher-ranking guy who gives me stuff to do but who isn't actually responsible for making sure I have adequate time off, adequate coverage for my duties when I'm off, adequate resources to do my work, etc. Assignments that have very little to do with your department's alleged mission, but which are marked "IMPORTANT." It means that way, way, way up the hierarchy, someone is doing some crazymaking. Someone's had a "bright idea" and is inflicting it upon someone else, who is inflicting it upon the next person down the line, and by the time it gets to you, it arrives with absolutely no justification or explanation, just "DO THIS."

So now - what else is new? - they want to take something I do actually pretty well and simply and gussy it all up and make it more complicated and darn near impossible, just to impress some person they are imagining needs to be impressed. This will make one more facet of my job more difficult and miserable. Not that they have done any actual research on whether or not this change would fulfill their objectives with the project. No audience research or anything like that. Since I and only I am looking out for myself, I'm wondering if I should bring this up to them. But then if I start, I might not be able to stop from jumping on the conference table and asking a lot of other hard questions.

On the bright side... my workplace has become very politics-driven over the last few years - and there is an EXCELLENT chance that if a new presidential regime gets into office in the next election, the person who is doing all the crazymaking up top might just land an administration job so if I am forced to stay here my suffering could very well end (or at least get slightly less awful) in (checks watch)... January 2009. That's only a little more than 2 years away!