My company is making changes for the better, and I won’t be able to enjoy them. Oh well. They’re going to be less cheap with vacation. I think it won’t take as long to have 3 or 4 weeks a year, and everyone gets to take their birthday off.

My next company will be giving me everything I asked from this company before I started, though. My formal contract is still being drafted up!

There’s going to be a new employee handbook out soon. I can’t wait to read it and find things in it to make my boss look bad! Bitter much? Why, yes! Thankyouverymuch!

Oh! This morning, it took me about an hour and 45 minutes to get to work because of some car accident. We have weekly team meetings at 9:30, but this week’s was rescheduled for 11 am. When I got in to work at 9:45, a coworker told me that my team was having a meeting.

I had sent a text message to a coworker at 9, asking him to let our boss know that I was running late. I don’t think he got in until I got into the office, and I don’t think he passed along the message either.

When I mentioned out loud that I thought the meeting was at 11, my boss said that was next week. I hope he sees the Outlook meeting reminder when he gets back to his desk. I really hate the weekly meetings because they’re a waste of time. There isn’t much discussion because it’s just each person telling our boss what we’ve been doing this week. Often, the meetings drag on because our boss starts discussing details that should be discussed between him and whoever is working on something.

The last time I was sick and working at home, I emailed my boss about what I had done for the week, and I said I could call in for the meeting. But he never replied to that email. A few weeks ago, he also said he’d review my document “next week” and get back to me. I’ve heard nothing.

I’ve found this boss and my last boss to be extremely unprofessional, especially in terms of communication. Is this normal? Are my standards too high? Meetings never start on time. Emails never get replies. There is never any followup on anything!

Oh, and one more thing...in regards to my proposal for having my company send me to a conference. I spent time and effort to whip a proposal, and my boss sent me a one liner email response to it. When I brought it up again, he said he thought the conference was for 2007 and not 2008 (Did he even read my proposal?). And he said he would discuss with his manager. Did I ever get a followup? Nope! 

And he thinks my time is better spent printing out reports...fine...that was not part of my document plan schedule, so this counts as an unexpected roadblock! YEEEAH!