From 1:47pm to 2:13pm, I’ve finished 107 items, highlighting each row of the spreadsheet with golden yellow and hot red. Now I shall sneeze, fart and burp; and walk around to enjoy some fluffy, puffy clouds of sleepiness. First, I shall taste the bitter draught of Flavia, decaffeinated coffee.
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Resurrecting Uncategorized Private posts ending in Being Bored/Again. 20250106-0017 PST.
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20110308-Being Bored
After refreshing the data of the spreadsheet, this morning’s work came out blank! So I sat back and relaxed again and pondered my purpose at this “temp job from hell”. Of course, I’ve got no response from above, below, front, back and sideways. All I could do is blog and read more war nonsense via Yahoo! News and other stuff via SJ Mecury and Sunnyvale Sun.
Today, I’ve left around noontime to get an Anniversary cake, which I requested to be picked up at noontime this Thursday. The smallest sized cake cost around $25 dollars and they don’t decorate the cake as well as the “standard order”. I called home and Paw answered. I had to repeat myself to be clear. The boy was eating lunch at home. It took 45 minutes to travel both ways and order the cake.
From 1:13pm to 1:23pm, I’ve finished only seven entries. Out of 885 orders, most are being handled by the full time staff. I take the workload as a sign that it’s time to look for another work where I could be useful. I wonder if the hospitals, asylums, prisons and other sanctuaries are looking for any help in “orderliness”.
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20110307-Being Bored
For whatever reason, this morning’s report came out blank. I take that as a sign to sit back and relax. And I’m overhearing something about “backlogs”, which I would assume originates at production level.
After my rants with the temp guy during lunch of “Pho soup” last Friday, the lightbulb of truth went off in my head. The reason why there’s a “backlog” it’s because the workers are not full time staff!
Therefore, as expressed in my previous blog entries, the committment to quality is not “up to par”. Workers simply will not produce fast enough without full time status.
Again, we temporary workers would be considered “contracted workers” who can come and go as we please. We have reached the point of no return and have been humbled during these financial hardships and economic downturns.
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20110304-Being Bored
After ranting to Hoan about my sentiments with this client and my status as a temporary worker over lunch from 11:45am to 12:30pm at Pho Viet off N. First Street and while browsing online at work, I came across the following news article in which I give my examples after each “sign”.
Signs You’re About to Get Fired
By Rusty Rueff Rusty Rueff – Fri Mar 4, 12:43 pm ETThere’s been a “change” in your boss’ behavior towards you. Recently the “boss” left me to do whatever I wanted but I complete my work at the end of each day. Then one day he comes by my desk and makes a big deal about the “errors of my way” in a loud tone of voice.
One-on-ones are consistently canceled. There is no one-on-one because I’m a temp worker. He has not replied to two of my emails suggesting improvement in the process. I expect nothing from a slave like him.
The boss has a new attention to detail. His attention is to cover his ass. He wants us temps to work faster and harder. We are not committed to a client (or employer) who won’t hire temporary workers full-time.
No more talks about planning and the future. Temporary workers are left out of any company planning. There is no future with a company that keeps workers on temporary status illegally for more than two years.
The “insider” stops talking to you. The “insider” tells me more than I need to know. Once I find a suitable, higher-paying job, I’m leaving this “temp job from hell.”
HR doesn’t have time for you. HR does nothing for temporary workers. The “head hunter” doesn’t care if I suffer a heart attack from sitting near the back door. Whoever decided to set up the desk areas near any slamming door will suffer great karmic debt as a result.
Your complaints get answered with, “You’re right.” I receive no rewards, no free food or snacks (like donuts and bagels) and no word from the “head hunter” on the potential for full-time work.
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Addendum-Last edited by FLYNN on 20110304 at 21:46:53 PM UTC: If the client/employer no longer wants its slave, least be discreet about their lack of enthusiasm/work and let the “head hunter” know or fire/lay-off. But of course, any “bad news” makes the company “look bad”. -
20110302-Being Bored
For one hour and forty minutes of generating reports and sitting around doing nothing and after ten minutes of completing a secondary activity, a full-time staff just email us to complete a primary activity, which is already caught up (for and by me, at least), not unless there’s somethings these morons aren’t telling us dummies how to make sure it’s done properly. Huh.
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20110228-Being Bored
Well, in 30 minutes and at 11:00am, I’ve completed around 50 “new entries” out of 700 items, most of which have “issues”. That’s after waiting one friggin hour for the system to generate the reports! I’m going to pee, now!
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20110225-Being Bored
My primary activity has been finished since yesterday. Since there is still this “backlog,” the secondary activity has been completed at around 3:55pm. That’s for both my “arm” of 70 items and her “leg” of 720 items. with plus or minus ten items not included due to entering data too fast. For one hour and four hours, I’ve finished both types of “products”. I took my half hour lunch late starting at around 1:35pm and walked another ten minutes starting at around 3:35pm. I’ll take another walk in the FREEZING air outdoors. I’ve worked too hard. That’s my goal until I die, I guess.
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20110222-Being Bored
Well, I’ve finished one activity even those the dummy per the boss said to do another activity, which is already CURRENT!
So I don’t know what else I could do except relax and do the work ACCURATELY, which is fine by me as long as there is the copy/paste feature — there could be no wrong.
Besides, I can see how different workers function. One can tell the other is trying to fool us. For example, the dummy merely renamed a spreadsheet by the boss dated 2-1-2011. That’s a no-no: It’s deceptive.
If I had to hire someone to fill this job, it would first be Hoan because he knows how to get the answer, then me because I’m the computer nerd and then the dummy who just looks pretty for “quota” purposes.
Overall, the workload is fine. I have no complaint as long as no one goes over my head and make me look dumb despite my fugly photos! Hahaha!
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20110217-Being Bored
At 9:50am and in ten minutes, I finished around twenty new items. That’s after thirty minutes of generating the reports, copying/pasting the data into the spreadsheets, editing the formulas and saving each transaction.
That’s also after walking half of the building to the other break area, just to get my favorite chocolate flavored, Dove by Flavia.
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20110216-Being Bored
In fifteen minutes from 10:00am to 10:15am, I’ve finished around 60 new items. It takes around 30 to 45 minutes to generate the reports, copy and paste the data into the spreadsheets, edit the formulas, and save the work after each transaction.
No wonder the boss came by my desk earlier to inquire what I’m doing. He must have heard me making lots of loud, typing noises on the keyboard. I was blogging at that time. This place is so quiet and very slow that my fast pace of working has disturbed the serenity of these pretentious fakers of work. That’s why I’m vetted from my previous employer. I worked honestly and hard. Hah!
But because of my sinus congestion and compromised hearing, the volume of my voice is louder than normal. And I had to tell him I was doing the primary activity when he wanted us to do the secondary activity, of which my products are already updated since yesterday. There is really nothing left for me to do but try to stay sane by going online and reading Yahoo! News.
I’ve been online the whole day and that makes me happy and sane. Thanks to Allah, Buddha, Krishna, Jehovah and pals, along with my karmic debt, I’m supposed to continue working at this “temp job from hell”.
I was hoping for “Plan A” but the fat bastard and pals are up to something. The elder “squire” and government pals already know the answers. I must be dreaming to believe in the impossible. So here I am for now — blogging at work. But for how much longer will I stay?
It’s fine because hardly anyone bothers us and of course we are supposed to finish our jobs without complaint. But since I complain, this “temp job from hell” might not be a good fit.
Sure, I have lots of free time, getting up seldomly to refill my glass mug with flavored water, taking lots of breaks by walking around the place outdoors while enjoying nature, and learning how to relax and take it easy until during the slowness of the first quarter.
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20110215-Being Bored
Well, there were only around one dozen new items of work. The rest show “no record”. And in ten minutes, I’m done. Can I go home now?
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20110210-Being Bored
After one hour of preparing just my report, it only took me around 35 minutes to complete around 60 entries. Now I’ll go walking for my mid-morning and enjoy the outdoors, in which the air smells amazingly cripsy and fresh, despite this early morning’s stinky smelly.
Come to think of it, the stink is closely to that of marijuana! That’s right! The smell is pot! I don’t know what variety but the next door neighbors may be smoking the good stuff! And I thought it was the sulphuric or acrid odor of UFOs and the possible alien abductions. But now I know! I assume, of course!