Happy monday morning...
Apr. 25th, 2005 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnpalmerSo, I found the new office building, found parking (not that easy, let me tell you!) and walked up to my brand new office.
I could tell it was bad news when the door still said "supplies" on it.
I've been moved to a closet.
It's a big closet, though!
Which is why they put three people in it.
I spent most of the day in an ADHD haze, which, really, isn't that surprising.
My monitor is about six inches more than resting-arms' length from my face, there is no room to kick back, no room to spread out, and no desk space not taken up by monitors. I had a two monitor setup, but I think I'll change that... I still won't have any *room* though, because the monitor is too deep and the desk is too small. if I want to take notes, I either need to put a clipboard in my lap, or use the desk surface to the side of the monitor (meaning I have to keep shifting position).
It's the final indignity of this job, and it's too damn much. I'm looking for other work.
I could tell it was bad news when the door still said "supplies" on it.
I've been moved to a closet.
It's a big closet, though!
Which is why they put three people in it.
I spent most of the day in an ADHD haze, which, really, isn't that surprising.
My monitor is about six inches more than resting-arms' length from my face, there is no room to kick back, no room to spread out, and no desk space not taken up by monitors. I had a two monitor setup, but I think I'll change that... I still won't have any *room* though, because the monitor is too deep and the desk is too small. if I want to take notes, I either need to put a clipboard in my lap, or use the desk surface to the side of the monitor (meaning I have to keep shifting position).
It's the final indignity of this job, and it's too damn much. I'm looking for other work.
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Date: 2005-04-26 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-26 07:16 pm (UTC)Interesting thing, though...the more I'm drawing away from this job, the more I'm finding myself fascinated by some tech stuff that I'd been frustrated by, as long as it's not directly work related.
I'm studying Perl, and it's like, "I wonder how to enclose a date in quotes in a text file?" and I don't really want to dig into it... if I did, I'd be adding quotes to the dates in web server logs, and importing them into a database. If I stop and say "but just pretend you had your own webserver. How would you do it?" and suddenly, I'm thinking "Well, if it's positional, I can do (this), otherwise I need to find a regular expression that hits positive only on the first date string...." and it starts to fall into place.
Apparently a bad job attitude is more pervasive than I'd realized. Something i'll have to keep in mind if I'm ever in a management position (which I sincerely hope never happens... but only because I hope to be in another field, soon.)