Plus and Minus

I’m gonna be stuck in a classroom again for four weeks. I am honestly getting tired of teaching client specifics but I’m okay. I look forward to meeting my trainees and seeing what kind of folks HR hired again. And I have this game I have going on with myself where I don’t smoke for a day when I have a TFO. (Training fall out for you) Kinda keeps me motivated. And it’s always nice to meet new people. So, I should be excited with this batch right?

Not so. And it’s not because of the batch itself. They can give me 40 trainees, all with ADHD and I’ll survive and have fun. I won’t even mind the occasional outbursts and the crying and shaking that goes on when it’s assessment time. I can deal with it.

The one thing that I have been dealing with but don’t want to EVER again is the crappiest of all crap. The most inefficient tool ever created in the face of PeopleSupport. The most overrated, most overestimated and most frustrating.

It’s called the S-r----d--k +. (Edited for confidentiallity purposes)

An illustration of what I wanna do, EVERYTIME.

There is no + about it. Unless they are talking about plus 10x the normal amount of work you do because of all the crap it dishes out. I love my IT guys, some of them are the best alcoholics God has ever put on the face of this earth. But dang! This tool is definitely a TOOL! If it has a physical presence I would have killed it on its first breath. It’s hard enough to communicate with these guys (Hangover anyone) but to do it in an application like this is beyond frustrating I kid you not. For the first time I am actually thinking of using the V---- just because of my mounting blood pressure. I need to really take a deep breath and count to ten when I think about the thought of dealing with all this shit again.

On a lighter note, my boss just got promoted. He’s still my boss but now he’s THE BOSS. He’s still the same demanding, vain and argumentative boss, nothing really changed. But it’s nice to call him OUR BOSS. It ties with other good and great news that I cannot discuss right now due to some ummm.... stuff. Just wait and I’ll definitely spill all when the timing is right.

I don’t think I’m gonna be able to update again anytime soon. I even have Saturday classes now. But it’s ok. I’m gonna be racking up CTOs. (Compensatory time off for you) and will be cashing in on May of 08 when I go to BKK. (Bangkok for you Becky. Hehe) so, ciao! I’m off to my last care-free weekend for about a month. =)