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Meaningless shit to fry your skull.
I’ve recently started back drawing. After reading some online posts by other artists, I decided that drawing on Xerox copy paper probably wasn’t the best thing to do. I followed another artist’s example, and bought a pack of 120lb card stock. So far, I am very impressed, and I have no plans of going back to copy paper anytime soon. If you’re actually reading this crap and like to draw, I suggest that you try it too. You can get a pack of 150 sheets at Wal-Mart for around 5 bucks, so it’s not like you’re making a big investment.
Started back to work today. And what a load of fun that is * sarcastic grin * Its raining again, so I’m stuck inside with little to do other than data entry, and I’ve only got enough of that to do to last for 2 or 3 hours. My work day is 8 hours long. That’s the reason that I’m writing these blog posts at work. Trying to stretch out the work until the weather gets better, ‘cause I can’t bear to sit around and do nothing at all.
My boss is back too. Let me tell ya about him. I won’t give his name or anything personal like that, since I’d prefer that he remain anonymous, and that I don’t have to go to court. My boss is a transplant yankee, he’s a second generation Italian immigrant from NYC that moved down here to good ‘ol NC about 20 years ago. He sticks out like a sore thumb. I’ve been working for this guy for the last year and a half, and I still don’t know what his job is. All I know that he is always ordering stuff that never gets taken out of the box, and that he fucks around with weather stations when he’s not moving boxes from one side of the hangar to another. He comes to work with a 15 mile long list of things that need to be done, but he will spend the next 12 hours sliding his boxes around and making phone calls. The list never gets touched. Speaking of phone calls, I’m willing to bet that this guy is on the phone for a minimum of 14 hours a day. He’s called me up at 12:30 am before, (while I was asleep, I might add) to ask me for details on my weekly schedule. Common sense would tell him that he would see me in the office at 8am that morning and that he could ask away until his heart content, but nope, when he gets a wild hair in his ass, he acts right then, with no regard for the victim. My boss is convinced that the world really does revolve around him. Hell, it’s not unusual for him to delegate his work to other people that don’t even work in the same division as him, sometimes people who are technically his superiors.
What annoys me the most about him though is that he has no regard for common sense at all. He knows the ‘by the book’ scientific approach to everything, but honestly, I think he’d have a hard time tying his shoes without a diagram and a physics book. I’m forever having to show him the easy, normal way to do things, and even then, he just stares at me with a blank look on his face and looks at me like I’m an idiot. He will then show me how to do it ‘his way’ which usually takes 3 times as long as my method and doesn’t work as well anyway. On a few occasions, I’ve showed him how to do something with his PDA, and he will come back to me an hour later, and show me, step by step, what I had just shown him, and tell me that I need to pay attention and learn what he is showing me. Fucking Idiot!!! As I speak, (err, type) he is taking cables out of one bag, and putting them in an identical bag, stapling them shut, and putting them in a box. When he gets done, I’m sure that he will move all the boxes 3 feet to the left. Before he leaves, I’m sure he will move them back to their original locations. 4 times already, he has moved a box of PDA’s from one table to another, telling me that should someone need one next week, this is where they will be. Isn’t my boss smart? I’ve never seen someone work as hard as he does to accomplish nothing. He can stay busy for 12 hours…not even stopping for 10 minutes the entire day…and get nothing done at all. He calls it ‘multi-tasking. I call it a waste of taxpayer’s money. Someone, get this guy some medication. He of all people needs it.
Meaningless shit to fry your skull.
I’ve recently started back drawing. After reading some online posts by other artists, I decided that drawing on Xerox copy paper probably wasn’t the best thing to do. I followed another artist’s example, and bought a pack of 120lb card stock. So far, I am very impressed, and I have no plans of going back to copy paper anytime soon. If you’re actually reading this crap and like to draw, I suggest that you try it too. You can get a pack of 150 sheets at Wal-Mart for around 5 bucks, so it’s not like you’re making a big investment.
Started back to work today. And what a load of fun that is * sarcastic grin * Its raining again, so I’m stuck inside with little to do other than data entry, and I’ve only got enough of that to do to last for 2 or 3 hours. My work day is 8 hours long. That’s the reason that I’m writing these blog posts at work. Trying to stretch out the work until the weather gets better, ‘cause I can’t bear to sit around and do nothing at all.
My boss is back too. Let me tell ya about him. I won’t give his name or anything personal like that, since I’d prefer that he remain anonymous, and that I don’t have to go to court. My boss is a transplant yankee, he’s a second generation Italian immigrant from NYC that moved down here to good ‘ol NC about 20 years ago. He sticks out like a sore thumb. I’ve been working for this guy for the last year and a half, and I still don’t know what his job is. All I know that he is always ordering stuff that never gets taken out of the box, and that he fucks around with weather stations when he’s not moving boxes from one side of the hangar to another. He comes to work with a 15 mile long list of things that need to be done, but he will spend the next 12 hours sliding his boxes around and making phone calls. The list never gets touched. Speaking of phone calls, I’m willing to bet that this guy is on the phone for a minimum of 14 hours a day. He’s called me up at 12:30 am before, (while I was asleep, I might add) to ask me for details on my weekly schedule. Common sense would tell him that he would see me in the office at 8am that morning and that he could ask away until his heart content, but nope, when he gets a wild hair in his ass, he acts right then, with no regard for the victim. My boss is convinced that the world really does revolve around him. Hell, it’s not unusual for him to delegate his work to other people that don’t even work in the same division as him, sometimes people who are technically his superiors.
What annoys me the most about him though is that he has no regard for common sense at all. He knows the ‘by the book’ scientific approach to everything, but honestly, I think he’d have a hard time tying his shoes without a diagram and a physics book. I’m forever having to show him the easy, normal way to do things, and even then, he just stares at me with a blank look on his face and looks at me like I’m an idiot. He will then show me how to do it ‘his way’ which usually takes 3 times as long as my method and doesn’t work as well anyway. On a few occasions, I’ve showed him how to do something with his PDA, and he will come back to me an hour later, and show me, step by step, what I had just shown him, and tell me that I need to pay attention and learn what he is showing me. Fucking Idiot!!! As I speak, (err, type) he is taking cables out of one bag, and putting them in an identical bag, stapling them shut, and putting them in a box. When he gets done, I’m sure that he will move all the boxes 3 feet to the left. Before he leaves, I’m sure he will move them back to their original locations. 4 times already, he has moved a box of PDA’s from one table to another, telling me that should someone need one next week, this is where they will be. Isn’t my boss smart? I’ve never seen someone work as hard as he does to accomplish nothing. He can stay busy for 12 hours…not even stopping for 10 minutes the entire day…and get nothing done at all. He calls it ‘multi-tasking. I call it a waste of taxpayer’s money. Someone, get this guy some medication. He of all people needs it.
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