Trouble in Playland
I didn’t get paid this week.
I shouldn’t be surprised. I knew the company I work for has been having some cash flow issues for the last few weeks. We were told it was temporary… but I found out that some of our vendors are no longer willing to help with IT support, shipping and other usual office-type stuff. We all knew we were waiting for some influx of capital.
But then we didn’t get paid Friday.
Again, we are being told that this is only for (a few days) until mid-next-week when we will get our checks, but I wonder. This is a really, really BAD sign. It seems the “investors” may not be materializing after all and I wonder now how long I will continue to have a job. It is weird though, because the company just started working with some big web development agency. I know that other companies we have worked with have NOT been paid! Seems like some major stringing along is going on here.
And I am so freakin’ pissed! WHY can’t I simply find myself a stable job? It just seems as though you are safe nowhere anymore and within a year at best you could be on the chopping block again. In this case it might just be 6 months.
I will keep posting on developments, but right now it sure is looking like I might become a Miss Displaced once again. 
2011 in review. Gotta love Doctor Who.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
New Year and the New Job
I was just thinking this morning how this weekend is the last work holiday until Memorial Day. That’s five whole long winter months of nothing but work with no days off! Yikes! Why are American holidays set up like this anyway?
Things were pretty quiet at my office during the week prior and following Christmas. There was, to be honest, a bit of sketchy stuff, as we were not paid through the payroll direct-deposit system. I didn’t like the sound of that, but the check went through. I’ve worked at enough small companies to know when cash flow is in trouble. I think this will be resolved after the New Year, as more investor money comes in, but it still makes for a dicey situation. When you live like this, you never know if the job will last another week or month.
Because of this, I am pushing ahead with my last few classes in my master’s program. I’ve decided to take two this upcoming semester, even though it will be hard with a full time job. One class is mostly online, so I hope I can pull through the amount of work. I want to get that sheepskin in my hot little hand, should I become out of work again. I hope the degree will eventually lead me to a better place. IF there actually exists such a thing as a better work place anymore.
I wonder about that sometimes. We all know that work is called “work” for a reason. It’s not supposed to be fun or easy because we’d all rather be at home, right? I generally like what I do, but it just seems as though you can never really DO what it is you were hired to do without interference and generally being fucked-with by somebody. I hear so many people in so many different professions say the same thing, whether they work in retail, carry mail, or design dams.
Maybe this is warranted at some places. I’ve worked in a factory, where a greater oversight of employees was needed. Sure. But it seems you can never escape the “Lumbergs” of the workplace no matter what you do. Even high-level professionals, doctors, lawyers and scientists feel the pinch and complain about the management or the system.
When was the last time you had someone honestly tell you they LOVED their job? I mean really LOVED it in that all-engrossing kind of way, where they would still probably keep doing some variation of it even if they weren’t getting paid. If you are one of the workers like please do tell us why and how.
Holiday Office Party Woes
Oh no! It’s that time of year again. Time for the holiday office party.
I don’t mean to be a Grinch, but I HATE these things. Couldn’t we just have a half day off instead of drinking and dining with people you barely know and don’t really want to hang out with?
Not Much to Choose From
So today we had a meeting about one of the booklets I have been doing layout on. This thing has now become something of a 48 page mess, and this is only Version 5.
Anyway, during the meeting I was “questioned” about my decision to use photos of a Latino family on the cover of this magazine/booklet. I replied that I was merely choosing multiple ethnicities throughout, and that I was also following the directive of the last review round to “show more men and families.”
Now, some background is in order here. I project I am working on is a diet and fitness magazine. In the first round I chose “real” looking people, mostly female, of all ages and ethnicities. I was told at that review that it was “too female” and not to “show so many fat people.”
Now it seems that I can also not show people of different races. But then, three more pages into the book, when a nice, white husband and wife shot in a beautiful kitchen was seen, I was then told that the scene was “too perfect” and “not realistic.”
!!!!!!! AAARRRRGGGGHHHH !!!!!!!
A diet and fitness mag/brochure that shows NO fat people, or races other than whites, but shows lots of men and kids, but still looks “realistic” and not TOO PERFECT???? WHAT kind of diet IS this anyway?
