jtgjr007
Shared on Tue, 09/26/2006 - 07:42Well, I don't know if that's exactly what it is per day, but you get the idea. I'm here at work, and it's only 6:30 AM. I'm here an hour and a half early. "Wow JT you must really love your job!" I can hear you say. Yeah...right. I have one of those jobs that seems to be the catch-all for everything else that no one wants to do, or is incapable of doing correctly. When I started here I told myself, "Just do your job. Don't make waves." Well, I did pretty good for about a year. I just did my daily duties and went home. Eventually though, I couldn't help myself. I started making suggestions about how we could improve this flow of paper work, or streamline that production process, increase productivity in this department, lower overhead in that department, Increase our inventory accuracy and burden absorption rates...I couldn't stop!
Of course upper management thought all my ideas were great and every time I suggested something the response was, "Great idea, why don't you do that? You'd be the perfect one to head up that project." At first it was nice to be recognized for my truly awesome skillz, but now It's getting tiresome. It's even to the point that my name will come up in meetings that I don't attend! My supervisor suggests me for all kinds of little pet projects. Of course it doesn't help that I get all these little projects finished ahead of schedule and surpass everyone's expectations at the same time. I knoe what you're saying... "Slow down, don't work so hard." But I can't, I thrive on challenge. I can't sit on my laurels.
So, here I am at work at 6:30 AM. Not because I love my job, but because I was volunteered to analize the past due sales for our biggest customer accounts every Monday and have that report ready for Tuesday's 8:00 Production meeting. (Everyone failed to realize that most of the data can't be complied until after last weeks' sales have been booked ... Monday night!)
Back to work I guess. And I'd better make sure that I have the correct cover sheet on my TPS reports.
Of course upper management thought all my ideas were great and every time I suggested something the response was, "Great idea, why don't you do that? You'd be the perfect one to head up that project." At first it was nice to be recognized for my truly awesome skillz, but now It's getting tiresome. It's even to the point that my name will come up in meetings that I don't attend! My supervisor suggests me for all kinds of little pet projects. Of course it doesn't help that I get all these little projects finished ahead of schedule and surpass everyone's expectations at the same time. I knoe what you're saying... "Slow down, don't work so hard." But I can't, I thrive on challenge. I can't sit on my laurels.
So, here I am at work at 6:30 AM. Not because I love my job, but because I was volunteered to analize the past due sales for our biggest customer accounts every Monday and have that report ready for Tuesday's 8:00 Production meeting. (Everyone failed to realize that most of the data can't be complied until after last weeks' sales have been booked ... Monday night!)
Back to work I guess. And I'd better make sure that I have the correct cover sheet on my TPS reports.
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