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2012-08-01 06:49:39 (UTC)

Untitled...

I titled this entry as "Untitled..." mainly because I am not exactly sure what to title it.

The last few days I have been in a funk of sorts. Yesterday morning on my way to work a lot of that funk can to a head. I started thinking about all of the platitude spewing graphics that everyone seem to post on social network sites.

You know the ones I am referring to, the ones saying enjoy what you have because there are others less fortunate than you, or Live today to the fullest for you never know when it will be gone...things like that.

Those things are all over the place, and when they get posted it seems EVERYONE "likes" them or comments about how true that is. What I find funny is that people will agree with the ones saying be happy with what you have; there's someone in this world without it. And those very same people will comment agreement with the ones stating that there is no passion to be found settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Maybe it's just me, but I see the first one as saying be happy and just settle for what you got, what gives you the right to want more or better when there are people with less than what you have. And I see the second one as a contradiction to the first...it says do NOT settle. If where you are at or what you have is not fulfilling you it is your responsibility to strive for better.

Now, you may ask, what does all of this have to do with my funk?

Well, my funk seems to have a dual cause right now, my marriage and my job.

On the marriage front, our intimacy has been in a funk for a LONG time and more specifically since last Oct. We have been in therapy off and on for several years now and one of her big complaints had been I am not affectionate towards her...but she fails to see that when I try to be she pushes me away. After many years of that one has a tendency to start thinking that maybe she is just not that in to you.

To kind of put the icing on the cake...last Friday I shaved off my mustache...first time in over 20 yrs. I came out and said "well?" I had told her I was going to do it, but she later said she didn't think I would. Her reaction was "Oh My God!". Then I went to give her a kiss on the cheek and she turned away and pushed me back.

I spent the rest of the weekend trying at different times to give her a kiss and each time she pushed me away saying I need a few days to get used to it.

Well, not to worry, I am growing the mustache and goatee back. Not for her, but for me.

(I am at work, so I gotta stop here and earn my pay for a bit. I will touch on the other part of the dual reason for the funk when I get back)

*** Okay, I am back after about 7 hours to finish this entry. ***
Alright, so I said that this was a dual cause for the funk...So part two is my work.

So for a while now there has been a push to bring more people into the program that I support. So to accomplish this our boss hired another person to work with us so we can meet the objective the senior people had set up.

When the guy reports so that we can start his training we find out that in approx 2 weeks he will be leaving for reserve military exercises and he will be gone for two weeks. Okay, this is livable...we just won't be passing him any people to work with yet. And when he gets back we will give him a refresher before turning the people over to him.

Well his week away only turned out to be one week, hooray for us. We can now get him back up to speed. I have 7 out of 20 of the people transferred over to him so he can start doing what he was hired for. (side note, he was hired from within the company.)

Then this last Friday our boss comes up and starts talking to him about a work field trip to Europe for two weeks. This would be performing his former duties. Ok...so this means another delay in his taking over the full 20 people. And thus stopping me and the other person from bringing in the new people that everyone was so hyped up on us doing. Me and my partner would just continue covering the existing people and not bring any new into the program until out newest partner comes back.

Then on Monday I over hear him talking to someone on the phone working about the travel plans and such and I hear him mention not only 2-3 weeks but possibly 90 days!

This basically negates any benefit for having hired this guy. Turns out he was supposed to do this trip back in June. What it looks like is they postponed the trip until he was out of his old organization's headcount and onto ours. A political type move without any consideration for the new position he was taking.

So we set up a pow-wow with the boss and explained if this 90 day thing goes through we need to have another person hired now to be able to keep fulfilling the original plan of bringing more people into this program.

He agreed and said he would present it to out 2nd level manager. Now we are on hold.

It is looking like our program is being used as a steady reserve for back filling the other organization should they have a manning issue. And the more they do then the more they will continue to do it...and if we are covering their duties then that dumps our duties on others in our program...over-loading their work schedule.




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