I would like to start by saying I really do enjoy my job. I literally don't have anyone staring over my shoulder for 8 hours. And the people I have to deal with, no matter how pleasant or repulsive, only usually last anywhere from a couple of minutes to a few hours. Now unlike some, my coworkers are people I have to either call for help in programming something or other techs for assistance, not a person on the other side of a cubicle. Again for the most part these are civil exchanges. If you don't like the person your dealing with, you can just hang up...oops. I have had some real winners on the other end of the line. One lady liked singing to me while she was doing her part of the work order. Not that I would care, but she really couldn't carry a note even if it had a handle on it. Do you know how hard it is not to laugh at someone that singing at you? I call it long distance karaoke. Then you have the people that wanna talk to you about other weird things while your trying to get a quick fix for the customer that your standing in front of. And then they expect you to answer them back?! "I'm sorry, I was watching soft porn on the customers TV, what did you say again?" Then there is super tech, he is without a doubt the biggest douche(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=douche) I've ever met! Not only is he a one upper, there isn't anything he hasn't done. He's built house for 17 years, did electrical work for 12 years, tree trimming for 10 years, in the Navy for 4 years, he ran 6-8 crews at a time on job sites, and still had time to learn/master/& teach small orphan children the art of origami. And he's only 40 years old?! We, as in me, do not call him for ANYTHING at ANYTIME! Then we have my lovable 4' 6" supervisor, this is a man that is in charge of people that do communication work, and has no clue how to talk to people. If you ask him something that has to do with our job, he emails you the info on who to call and ask? Or tell him something is wrong, say at a cell tower site, he has no clue where the location of the site might be. How can you manage people when you really have no clue what the hell they do? Just a funny side note about my boss, we had to order uniforms one time, and he was using his computer and a projector to show us where and how to do the ordering. So this web page is up on the screen and he has already filled it out with his order, ok no big deal till my buddy says, "look at the sizes of his pants." Now this man is short, but his waist was 42" and the length was 28"...now think about this, this man couldn't hug his waist with his own legs (just using this as an example as if this was physically possible). Now the height, not his fault, the fat belly TOTALLY his fault. I'm sure when he comes back from this 2 week vacation he is on, we can expect the pants to be getting let out a size or two. We have another little guy that does the same thing I do just with a different style. He has been known to try and fix most of his problems from his van. There is no way you can fix something 20 ft. in the air from the comforts of your work vehicle. I have seen him do twice the necessary work just so he wouldn't have to climb the ladder. Then someone else usually has to go back and make it right. I would like to compare his work to a florist who is allergic to flowers, ain't much getting accomplished. But don't get me wrong, I have seen him on a pole before, just one arm is wrapped around the cable and the other one is holding the ladder. How you can do any work up there with both hands holding on for dear life is beyond me. As I said before, I really do love my job, it's the little things that make it colorful and interesting.
Well I hope everyone enjoyed whatever it is that you celebrated and to everyone have a safe and happy New Year,
Marc
