How does work make you feel today?

[buckeyebri]

This is what I've learned in life...doing your work quickly and effectively only gets you more work to help allow others to "catch up". But, if you work slow enough that you're not as productive, you also won't be 'rewarded' with more work.

The saying is true; you gotta do just enough to skim by without notice, forget the "praise", it's not worth it.....they'll ride you until you can't take it anymore.

You also have to go around and tell people how busy you are and how many hours that you work. Let them know that you are just overwhelmed and can barely keep up let alone do anything else.

 

[NFBuck]

Homicidal. Filling out papaerwork for Top Secret security clearance, and it's the rough equivalent of an anal probe with Brady Hoke's head.

All of this for an unwanted move to Omaha (Offutt AFB).

 

[BUCKYLE]

Fuckin sweet. Started a new job yesterday. Back to working for a local small business. The pay isn't great, but I feel great about working directly for the company owner.

 

[Mike80]

Homicidal. Filling out papaerwork for Top Secret security clearance, and it's the rough equivalent of an anal probe with Brady Hoke's head.

All of this for an unwanted move to Omaha (Offutt AFB).

Once you get Onit, you never get Offutt...

After the first TS, it gets slightly easier to deal with the bullshit though, just don't get an SCI

 

[NFBuck]

Once you get Onit, you never get Offutt...

After the first TS, it gets slightly easier to deal with the bull[Mark May] though, just don't get an SCI

It's SCI.

Well, it's not a wanted move as I love Colorado Springs. However, career-wise it's a big move and will open even more doors post-retirement. Plus, I've been doing this job for 6.5 years, I'm definitely ready for a change in that department...and this will be a big one. So it has that going for it, which is nice. Plus, I'm eligible for retirement 2 years from this July. I get there in June, so if I'm not fond of Offutt/Omaha, I can retire in 2 years. I have actually heard some nice things about Omaha as a city, so I'm not dreading it. Plus, with my midwestern roots, it won't be a culture shock. Will miss the mountains, though.

The biggest pain is getting the house ready to go on the market. We've decided to buy in Omaha vice renting as the market there has remained pretty strong and we can get a significantly bigger home for what our home here cost us.

 

[Mike80]

It's SCI.

Well, it's not a wanted move as I love Colorado Springs. However, career-wise it's a big move and will open even more doors post-retirement. Plus, I've been doing this job for 6.5 years, I'm definitely ready for a change in that department...and this will be a big one. So it has that going for it, which is nice. Plus, I'm eligible for retirement 2 years from this July. I get there in June, so if I'm not fond of Offutt/Omaha, I can retire in 2 years. I have actually heard some nice things about Omaha as a city, so I'm not dreading it. Plus, with my midwestern roots, it won't be a culture shock. Will miss the mountains, though.

The biggest pain is getting the house ready to go on the market. We've decided to buy in Omaha vice renting as the market there has remained pretty strong and we can get a significantly bigger home for what our home here cost us.

We JUST sold our house in Springfield from when I worked at WPAFB (I haven't updated that thread yet ) but yeah I'd imagine it's a lot cheaper in Omaha vice Colorado Springs. I have a friend who was at Offutt for years when he was in the AF and he says he might eventually return when he retires from GDIT.

When I was a contractor, I always said there's a reason it's called the green badge with an SCI. It opens all sorts of doors for you. Congrats

 

[Dryden]

This is what I've learned in life...doing your work quickly and effectively only gets you more work to help allow others to "catch up". But, if you work slow enough that you're not as productive, you also won't be 'rewarded' with more work.

The saying is true; you gotta do just enough to skim by without notice, forget the "praise", it's not worth it.....they'll ride you until you can't take it anymore.

I'm there. For the pay period ending Feb 7 I billed 104 hours (this was during Polar Vortex 2014 when the compressors for the HVAC that cools our server room all froze, resulting in several dead hard drive and power supplies across our SAN). Nothing like getting the alarm in the wee early morning hours on Sunday and trudging off to work when it's -27 degrees outside! Feb 21 was 89 hours. Today I put in my time for the past two weeks and had it down to a reasonable 86.

Here's the kicker: The only reason I had overtime these past two weeks was because despite leaving two hours early Monday for a personal matter, I got home at 3:30, hear my iPhone chime, and there's an email from the COO asking me to make changes to company security procedures and deploy a new gateway server with enhanced auditing. My 6 hour Monday wound up being 14 as I sat at my computer at home from 5:00 until 1:00 am getting his request done.

Soooo done with this job.

 

[Nutriaitch]

I'm there. For the pay period ending Feb 7 I billed 104 hours (this was during Polar Vortex 2014 when the compressors for the HVAC that cools our server room all froze, resulting in several dead hard drive and power supplies across our SAN). Nothing like getting the alarm in the wee early morning hours on Sunday and trudging off to work when it's -27 degrees outside! Feb 21 was 89 hours. Today I put in my time for the past two weeks and had it down to a reasonable 86.

Here's the kicker: The only reason I had overtime these past two weeks was because despite leaving two hours early Monday for a personal matter, I got home at 3:30, hear my iPhone chime, and there's an email from the COO asking me to make changes to company security procedures and deploy a new gateway server with enhanced auditing. My 6 hour Monday wound up being 14 as I sat at my computer at home from 5:00 until 1:00 am getting his request done.

Soooo done with this job.

that's about where I'm at right now.
averaging just over 80hrs a week since around mid-october.
including this week where Tuesday was supposed to be a Holiday for us.

we are growing rapidly right now, and landing jobs that seemed impossible 6 months ago.

previously, we had 20+ guys working in a local fab yard on a huge oil platform. that platform sailed 3 days ago (we're sending a small crew offshore with it to get things rolling).
keeping up with personnel and equipment was a freaking nightmare.

for the last 4 days, I've been preparing for the next project.
the biggest one in company history, and there is no close 2nd.

we're sending 36 people offshore with the "Lucius" project.
a massive platform going way the hell out in the Gulf.

the equipment load out alone was a 2 day task.
as in from 6:30am-midnight one day, and then 6:30am-7pm the next day.

then another 2 days (14hrs each) of paperwork for all of it.
have to create separate manifests for each container, cert papers for the equipment, MSDS for any liquids, etc. etc.

I have to do all of this paperwork 3 times.
We have our manifest and forms that I have to complete, the company that subcontracted us has their forms, and the Oil company who owns the platform has their forms I have to fill out.

Tentative ship date for this to ship out is Wednesday.
My goal is to be ready by end of the day Monday.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

I had a dream this morning that I was shot in the arm by a mugger.



I was disappointed when I woke up and wasn't. Probably not a good sign.

 

[Onebuckfan]

Scheduling no longer will be on the store level but from hdqtrs computer. No regard now for seniorit or productivity ..only availability..no promise of every other weekend off, etc. All to reduce hours to under full time! Thanks Nancy!!

 

[Mike80]

the esteemed CIO in my Agency has decided that everyone needed to be on the big corporate LAN which doesn't allow anything to work and has basically stopped all of our tools from working.

You can't spell DISASTER without DISA

 

[BIATCHabutuka]

DISA = Dick In Sore Ass?

sounds like a rough day at work

even if you are doing the dick delivering, you don't want to hear all the whining about a sore ass, well maybe just a little, but nobody likes a whiner


while on the topic of work based dirty acronyms, i like to write reports for all the places i have worked at. production, shipping, boring stuff mostly. to spice it up i generally give them long names. one of my favorites at a past job was the Historical Open Manufacturing Order report, which obviously becomes your HOMO report. makes for both good office and shop floor humor.

 

[Mike80]

DISA = Dick In Sore Ass?

sounds like a rough day at work

even if you are doing the dick delivering, you don't want to hear all the whining about a sore ass, well maybe just a little, but nobody likes a whiner

uhhh....no

it's not rough, it's just dumb. We told them our tools would not work if they migrated us, but like some big dumb stupid beast, we migrated anyway because it looks good on someone's ledger somewhere. It's fucking stupid.

 

[buxfan4life]

uhhh....no

it's not rough, it's just dumb. We told them our tools would not work if they migrated us, but like some big dumb stupid beast, we migrated anyway because it looks good on someone's ledger somewhere. It's fucking stupid.

Ahhhhh. Welcome to America. The land where you can lie to get a contract and let the "little people" deal with the fall out.

This is how corp america works now. You have a problem and we have 20% of the solution? Well, please hire us so we can throw a ton of non-essential staff at the problem and still not fix it because you are too dumb to see that you are being raped for money, moNEY, MONEY!!!!

Have a client that just spent $10K+ for upgrades, the same I could have have negotiated for about 75% of the price. Whatever, "they know best."

 

[Mike80]

Ahhhhh. Welcome to America. The land where you can lie to get a contract and let the "little people" deal with the fall out.

This is how corp america works now. You have a problem and we have 20% of the solution? Well, please hire us so we can throw a ton of non-essential staff at the problem and still not fix it because you are too dumb to see that you are being raped for money, moNEY, MONEY!!!!

Have a client that just spent $10K+ for upgrades, the same I could have have negotiated for about 75% of the price. Whatever, "they know best."

Well to be fair, I don't work in "corporate" America nor was it a contract to be awarded