A couple thoughts about work
If it hadn’t been for Dooce, and the circumstances that surround the term “dooced,” I would have a hell of a lot more crap to put on this blog. But in the interest of keeping my job, and my good standing and all that, I try to keep the work bashing to a few good euphemisms and call it a day.
Today’s entry is no different. It does have a bit to do with work, but the point is more about me as a person rather than my job.
Maybe it’s unrealistic, but I really want to have a job that I can feel like I make a worthwhile contribution. At the end of the day, I don’t want to think “Well, that was total bullshit.” Seriously, if you have a 40-hour a week job (or more etc whatever including SAHM b/c we know it’s the most work for the least buck EVAH) you really don’t want to finish the day and think that you wasted that much of your life for total bullshit, right? Ok let’s go with that.
After a year or more of bouncing around with little to no direction, I finally found my way back to that groove.
Honestly, I work in the accounting department of my company, and I deal with all the technical software crap that no one else in accounting wants to deal with. And I like it. Not to mention that I’m damn good at it. I know it and so does my boss. I know far more detail than she’d ever care to know about how the system works and how it can accomodate the needs of the department, not to mention the interfacing with the other departments.
I have one small point that I feel is important here. It’s probably something I really should address with my boss, but until I find the way to do that with just the right amount of tact and diplomacy, I have to mention it here.
The small point is this (directed at my boss): When there is a division of the company that wants input from our department on system design… please do not volunteer YOURSELF to be on the team. Learn to let go a bit and give that responsibility to ME. Between your direction on what you’d like to see, and my knowledge of how the system functions, I really am the person more suited for filling that spot in the meeting. I promise.
Also - I mean, while we’re on the subject - please stop referring to me and including me in the description that identifies my OLD position. You know - the one that I used to fill before I went and proposed my NEW position, which you accepted, and took on those responsibilities. Yes, I still fill some of that role, but please remember it’s really a favor to you until one of your managers can replace that position. Just so you know - I HATE that you still refer to me as part of that team. Because my contribution to that team is bullshit. I don’t know if you know, but I am basically plugging numbers into spreadsheets for them. That’s all.
Don’t worry, it’s not a big deal. I’ll totally bring it up in our next individual weekly meeting. Because I’m not one to just keep it to myself and stew over it until I go nuts. It might seem like a small thing to you, but I’m telling you - the proof is in the pudding. Which means I’m all about the details. See - that’s why there is that little word “ANAL” right there in my title. My title of SYSTEMS ANALYST.
Not Staff Accountant. I’m just saying.
