If he's a saint....

  Pope John Paul II to be beatified May 1



IMHO....
 
Seems like Benedecit may be sweeping a lot of stuff under the rug here....
 
Or pushing it back into the closet...
 
Just saying....
 

Hmmmm......

I am still a virgin....



And now so is G-Man:)





Earth's shift adds 13th sign to zodiac



Just for the record....

All the bitching I do about management at Peyton PHlaCe....

I have to say, right now my direct supervisor is noone to bitch about....

For the most part....

Noone is perfect, right?

MCM is supportive of my WFH philosophy which is a big plus in my book.

MCM is a working manager....

And MCM actually backs us up when others try to knock us down...

At least when MCM believes we deserve to be backed up....

Which is most of the time....

One of my biggest fears right now is that MCM will be raked over by one of the other managers at her level...

Because if she looks bad, they look better, right?

And then I am back working for one of  THEM....

You can hear me now....

Technically challenged as I am...

I think I FINALLY got Google Voice set up so that when I make a phone call the person on the other end will actually hear me and not hang up on me....

Now I can work from home and call into meetings without costing me precious cell phone minutes....

If I had service at my house, that is....

Damn Verizon/Sprint network and their deadzones...

Other than my condo and surrounding area being a dead zone, I love my Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go plan....

It is so worth it...

$25 per month for 300 minutes and unlimited web access....

That's all I need....

Since I cannot get service at home...

AND I have Google Voice...

AND I now have my mics working...




Oh yeah, I digressed....

It seems the mic jack on my home computer is another deadzone....

I finally realized that it was not just me...when I found a USB adapter for my headset...

The mic now works fine...as long as I USB it in rather than mic jack it in (in layman's terms)...

And as for my work computer....

Apparently I needed to tell the mic jack that it was a mic jack...

Go figure....

Rank this.....

So this week is "rank your people" week at Peyton PHlaCe....

All the managers/supervisors are off-site ranking their underlings...

And FPMs are ranking those who have worked on their Ps....

Coincidentally, or not, I received an email this morning asking me if I trusted upper management...

Apparently. a recent survey indicated that not a sufficient number of people trusted upper managemnent to make upper management happy....

So they decided to ask us individually...

Anonomously, of course...

Of course....

Of course, me being me, I replied that I did not trust the guys at the top...

So...next question....

Why Not????

Ok....they asked for it....

And they got it...

MHO that is....

Why would  I trust a management system that fosters competition and backstabbing in the workplace????


Why do managers have to rank their subordinates?


A simple "I would/would not keep her/him" seems to me to be sufficient ranking criteria....


Knowing that someone in your group has to be ranked 1 =  lowest does not seem good for morale....


Personally, I would hope that everyone on my team deserves a 4 or 5 ranking....


And not a 4 or 5 that they are the best on the team...


But that they know what they are doing and are doing their best to do things right.


That way, I know they are doing their job....


And that makes my job easier...

Yeah, I wrote that.....

Because, as it stands now, instead of trusting that my coworkers are doing a good job, my coworkers are regularly looking over my shoulder....

Trying to catch me in mistakes....

Because if I get caught in more mistakes than they do....

Well, its all about the rankings...

Nothing personal...

Well, unfortunately for me, I am not trying to catch their mistakes...

I am too busy making my own....

Gotta love office politics....

Ok, new resolution for 2011:

Find a way to work for myself.....