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How does work make you feel today?

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Just in case someone needs to feel better about their job.
 
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For the past two weeks I’ve been getting bent over a table over the reporting requirements of a couple of projects I’m working on. I’ve been telling my supervisor that he was using the wrong criteria for establishing what he thought were the requirements and that his guidance has been wrong and impossible to implement without creating regulatory violations. Fortunately for me I kept a paper trail. Yesterday afternoon we had a division meeting and all of this came out, the division manager came down on my side. My big question now is, how do I rub my supervisor’s nose in it? Do I just display my smug for the whole world to see. I was thinking about bringing in doughnuts and having a little morning celebration. Any recommendations? If it helps I’m fairly certain his position is getting eliminated and he’s being given his walking papers shortly.
 
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The KSB said:
For the past two weeks I’ve been getting bent over a table over the reporting requirements of a couple of projects I’m working on. I’ve been telling my supervisor that he was using the wrong criteria for establishing what he thought were the requirements and that his guidance has been wrong and impossible to implement without creating regulatory violations. Fortunately for me I kept a paper trail. Yesterday afternoon we had a division meeting and all of this came out, the division manager came down on my side. My big question now is, how do I rub my supervisor’s nose in it? Do I just display my smug for the whole world to see. I was thinking about bringing in doughnuts and having a little morning celebration. Any recommendations? If it helps I’m fairly certain his position is getting eliminated and he’s being given his walking papers shortly.
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My advice based on similar experiences is just to be confident in the knowledge of your vindication. I wouldn't do anything that might seem like you are rubbing his nose in it or celebrating, but rather be like Barry Sanders and hand the ball to the referee like you have been there before....
 
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One of my weak points has always been keeping in contact with former coworkers and leaders, which makes a references section on an application a real pain in the ass. I've gotten so used to jumping around internally that I haven't needed references in a few years.
 
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I had what seemed to be a good interview last week. They asked for references, which I took as a good sign. I also have been contacted on a couple of other positions and have a sit down for a position that I interviewed for a few months ago. I am really looking to get back to an executive role and 2 of the 3 opportunities would put me there. I really need to make a change.
 
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I have to wait until the first two weeks of December (more likely the end of January with how ridiculous Casting's holidays are) to find out if I'll even sniff a shot at moving over to our Animal Programs in a tech role. Hoping it pans out, because hearing lame excuses all day is starting to wear my patience and sanity very thin.
 
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I am the resident INTP in our IT department. Today the extroverts were being a bit unruly and the INFJ got in on the action, and since he was the only one I could see over the walls of cubicle-land since he's about 6'2" I glared at him before slamming my office door shut.

Mentioned to my wife I think I probably pissed off the INFJ today, then she points out that as the INFJ he's the one that feels more guilty about pissing off me. Now I feel like I have to go and apologize for my behavior to the guy that was snapping his fingers in a deliberate attempt to be annoying. I hate office politics.

My wife says I have to learn how to block out 'white noise.' My counter is that the dude 50' away that whistles while he programs is white noise and I've blocked that out for ten years, people holding conferences four feet from the door of my office when the conversation doesn't even involve me is not white noise, it's a deliberate and coordinated attempt by my coworkers to see if they can egg me into going postal.
 
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buckeyebri said:
I had what seemed to be a good interview last week. They asked for references, which I took as a good sign. I also have been contacted on a couple of other positions and have a sit down for a position that I interviewed for a few months ago. I am really looking to get back to an executive role and 2 of the 3 opportunities would put me there. I really need to make a change.
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Ended up as the runner up to the job I really wanted. The person selected, had contacts with all of the organizations that they were working with. The owner did come back and say that he wanted to meet with me in January to look at other opportunities, as they really liked my background and experience. So. there is some hope there.
 
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Have an interview next Tuesday for the position with our animal programs group I was interested in getting. I'm hoping its a decent bump in pay because it is technically a step down in status, even though I'd have the same amount of hours.
 
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