mild musings.

Greetings and salutations from la-la land. I am visiting la-la land because I am on that edge of being awake and asleep, you know, that point when your body gets the tremors, you yawn 2 to 3 times a minute. You might stare blankly at the wall and start to develop that little bit of drool, but your eyes are wide open. Well, let me say this.. the view from here is amazing! but dont ask me what it is I am looking at.

Here in la-la land, the people are annoying, even in their friendliest tone, but alas I am stuck here until the plane departs at 2pm. problem is I have no idea what I am going to do when I leave. oh well. I guess I will just sit here and be a good leiason between these citizens of la-la land and my home.

btw, did you know that when a stupid person makes a stupid phone call, a kitten in a foreign land is killed and eaten? neither did I until I akshoelley saw it.

/me sighs. I am tired.

Be Prepared.

This is the motto of the Boy Scouts.. and guess what, it should be everyones motto. There is truely no excuse to be unprepared for weather conditions such as extremely hot & dry summer, cold and damp winter, hurricanes. These are a regular occurrance and are not going anywhere any time soon. I live in the upper edge of tornado alley, even I dont have an excuse to not be prepared, but I was cautious enough to get a weather radio. so far its probably the best single adverse weather item I have ever spent money on. Now back to those of you living on the Gulf coast. um... its hurricane season. you have DAYS to get the necessary items gathered, packed, stored and stashed, yet you dont. why?

Get a clue people. High winds, High water, and High blood pressure kill. dont be stupid, if you die, we have to pay more in taxes.

First Annual "I don't give a shit" day.

Today marks the first day in the annual "I don't give a shit" day. I declare this day from here on forward to be earmarked where anyone and everyone can clearly and precicely state, I dont give a shit, to anyone or anything that they want. So, please join me in celebrating this joyous occasion, but if you dont, frankly, I dont give a shit.

So, I get turned down for a promotion at work, because my 'supervisor' thinks that I am too melodramatic and I get upset easily. Honestly if my 'supervisor' would not have used the terms "Don't be a douche,..." or "Whatever, just don't do it." and actually cared about the problems that his underlings bring him, I wouldnt have to get frustrated and throw a 'mini-tantrum' which since I am damn near 7ft tall seems like a mega-hyper-sunami-tantrum. Now, I am working on eligibility to getting a promotion to becoming a Lead, which is 1 step below supervisor, but I have to work on changing my image with my higher ups. Problem with that is, I strive to maintain a level of excellence and esprit d'cour that my higher ups have forgotten about and/or just dont care about, and my attention to detail only causes them to have to do more work. Um, question, isnt that a part of getting promoted to a supervisory position? Having to do more work?!??

Now, I am honestly working on curbing my tantrums, but the root of those tantrums is this. Why should I start not caring about issues that need to be addressed that bring the name of my company down? Why should I become just another tech on the floor and just not care that x number of people are without service, and field techs just cant seem to get it thru their hardhats that their laziness is causing customers to get pissy and call in 2 - 3 - 4 times a day to get told that they are going to have to wait 2 - 3 - 4 weeks before service is done. And when I present a specific location to where said issue exists, I am threatened with supervisory action (write-up) for using the tools available to find said issue. Oh well, today is "IDGAS"

Funny part of all of this... We are graded on our calls for having empathy for the problem, but we arent supposed to care about it enough to get it fixed right.