super-grump figures it out
May. 27th, 2005 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianIt's gradually becoming clear to me that the reason I'm feeling compressed and touchy is that there is now stress at work. Data entry isn't high-prestige, but the thing about it is that they give me a task, which usually takes less than a couple of hours, and I do it. Then I'm done. Then they give me another one. I can play games of doing them fast, doing them with maximal keyboard-shortcut use, whatever. No one gives me more than one high-priority thing at once, and I don't have to juggle tasks.
What's happening now is that I'm working on the highest-priority thing in the department. If someone sends me mail asking for this type of fix, I have to drop everything and do it. I'm good at it, and I've created an exhaustive procedure telling others how to do it, but this constitutes juggling. Probably juggling awkwardly-shaped things, really.
I like it, but this is not plain data entry. Eleven dollars an hour is not enough for this. And, to make things more awkward, I am definitely supposed to call my temp agency if anything like this happens... but I like the client company a lot better than I like the agency. I like me better yet, and my bank account pretty well too, but I don't want to piss off the client.
I'm thinking I'll figure out what's up with my UW classes today (please gods please), and then I'll know more about what to do when. I may just let it slide if the UW stress actually goes away and I decide not to work past June 17. (Yes, probably I shouldn't, but sometimes I'm a weenie.) Wish me luck slaying the bureaucracy.
What's happening now is that I'm working on the highest-priority thing in the department. If someone sends me mail asking for this type of fix, I have to drop everything and do it. I'm good at it, and I've created an exhaustive procedure telling others how to do it, but this constitutes juggling. Probably juggling awkwardly-shaped things, really.
I like it, but this is not plain data entry. Eleven dollars an hour is not enough for this. And, to make things more awkward, I am definitely supposed to call my temp agency if anything like this happens... but I like the client company a lot better than I like the agency. I like me better yet, and my bank account pretty well too, but I don't want to piss off the client.
I'm thinking I'll figure out what's up with my UW classes today (please gods please), and then I'll know more about what to do when. I may just let it slide if the UW stress actually goes away and I decide not to work past June 17. (Yes, probably I shouldn't, but sometimes I'm a weenie.) Wish me luck slaying the bureaucracy.
