Work Times
Jan. 13th, 2022 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittySo, they sent us to work from home for the first two weeks of January. We were originally scheduled to return to the office next Tuesday after MLK Day.
As a quick aside, I'm re-watching all of the Jodi's Doctor Who episodes, since I've only seen her first season and nothing else, and decided to start back at the beginning of her run. As such, I watched Rosa the other day, and I think it's fitting going into the MLK weekend.
Anyway, we'll see if they still want us back in the office come Tuesday. I'm annoyed that my actual company that I work for doesn't include MLK as a paid holiday. So either I work when no one else in the company I'm contracted with are working, or I take PTO to get paid for not working. My parent company does the bare minimum when it comes to PTO and holiday pay.
The place I'm full-time contracted with, seeing as how this is 1 of 4 contracts I have, is testing my limits. I say that it's as though all of the staff in the accounting departments there have been heavily sedated under the gaslighting they have been fed for a decade. It's like they have no clue how messed up their systems, processes, spreadsheet, etc. really are. A couple newer folks I've spoken to thought they were losing their minds and that everything they had previously known was maybe just one way of looking at things, and I have had to reassure a couple of them that, no, they are not losing their minds, this place really is doing horrible, if not outright wrong, accounting, and that they need to keep their wits to get through this growing pain. And by growing pain, I mean the 20-year veterans in the office who have been perpetuating these working processes and need to accept a bit of change.
My supervisor is trying hard to get me hired on to take over her position, or better yet even become her boss along with the leads in the other accounting departments. She has her hands full enough with the staff accountants under her to not want to also have to deal with the veterans in the other accounting departments who are probably going to provide the greatest resistance.
It feels like I've walked into Civil War staging area. The New Guard over here making waves and the Old Guard over there trying to maintain the status quo because it's how they've always been doing it.
I'm spoiled. I don't want to have to go back into the office. I want to continue being able to roll out of bed 15-min before my start-of-shift time, grab my coffee, then go straight to work, take a lunch-time shower, and having kitty therapy whenever one of the cats decides to take a nap in my room. I don't mind not having to hear my co-worker conversations all day long, which interrupts my train of thought while working through yet another convoluted spreadsheet that has at least 5 more tabs than it foreseeably needs. I do like a few of the food places near the office, Salad And Go and the rigatoni at Zolli's Pizza now being two of my favorites.
As a quick aside, I'm re-watching all of the Jodi's Doctor Who episodes, since I've only seen her first season and nothing else, and decided to start back at the beginning of her run. As such, I watched Rosa the other day, and I think it's fitting going into the MLK weekend.
Anyway, we'll see if they still want us back in the office come Tuesday. I'm annoyed that my actual company that I work for doesn't include MLK as a paid holiday. So either I work when no one else in the company I'm contracted with are working, or I take PTO to get paid for not working. My parent company does the bare minimum when it comes to PTO and holiday pay.
The place I'm full-time contracted with, seeing as how this is 1 of 4 contracts I have, is testing my limits. I say that it's as though all of the staff in the accounting departments there have been heavily sedated under the gaslighting they have been fed for a decade. It's like they have no clue how messed up their systems, processes, spreadsheet, etc. really are. A couple newer folks I've spoken to thought they were losing their minds and that everything they had previously known was maybe just one way of looking at things, and I have had to reassure a couple of them that, no, they are not losing their minds, this place really is doing horrible, if not outright wrong, accounting, and that they need to keep their wits to get through this growing pain. And by growing pain, I mean the 20-year veterans in the office who have been perpetuating these working processes and need to accept a bit of change.
My supervisor is trying hard to get me hired on to take over her position, or better yet even become her boss along with the leads in the other accounting departments. She has her hands full enough with the staff accountants under her to not want to also have to deal with the veterans in the other accounting departments who are probably going to provide the greatest resistance.
It feels like I've walked into Civil War staging area. The New Guard over here making waves and the Old Guard over there trying to maintain the status quo because it's how they've always been doing it.
I'm spoiled. I don't want to have to go back into the office. I want to continue being able to roll out of bed 15-min before my start-of-shift time, grab my coffee, then go straight to work, take a lunch-time shower, and having kitty therapy whenever one of the cats decides to take a nap in my room. I don't mind not having to hear my co-worker conversations all day long, which interrupts my train of thought while working through yet another convoluted spreadsheet that has at least 5 more tabs than it foreseeably needs. I do like a few of the food places near the office, Salad And Go and the rigatoni at Zolli's Pizza now being two of my favorites.
