What makes it wonderful? No micromanagement. My boss doesn't even know where my desk is and he has never asked. We're in separate buildings. I can work for as long or as little as I like. Today, for instance, I took the whole morning off to buy furniture. He never knew, nor ever will. Unless he sees my time card.
What makes it terrible? I have to micromanage my boss. Since I'm a student working here, I don't really know everything I'm supposed to do. My boss doesn't realize that, but I'm painfully aware. I basically take raw data and organize it to make pretty graphs and charts for the report. But what kinds of graphs? What am I looking for? What do all these acronyms mean? If that's an equation, then where are the numbers? May I push the big red button? Can you repeat that? I'm always pestering him with questions.It would be less inconvenient (and by that I mean, "more convenient") for both of us if I could just email him my results and he responded with the requisite changes, but I'm working on a secret government project in a room that has no outside network access. (BTW, if I told you I wouldn't have to kill you, but I would get sent to federal prison. I don't know what would happen to you). Any time I get stuck or I want to show him something, I find him in his office (if he's there and not busy) and bring him to the confidential room. Sometimes he is nowhere to be found. Maybe he's out buying furniture. I go back to my desk in the other building and send him an email.
While I'm there, I read the blogs.
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That would be very hard, because I like to know exactly what I need to be doing and how they want it done. I would drive my boss crazy with inquiries.
Lets hope he doesn't google your name and find your blog. Then, you'll be busted for buying that furniture
Sounds like you are a good employee. Many people would take advantage of that freedom by doing NOTHING.
Have you thought about getting like a bank teller tube system? You guys are engineers, figure it out.
Isn't it interesting how you can feel such a connection to someone--even if you've never met them (referring to sunlize here, not your boss). I don't leave comments very often because i am not very good with my words. You, on the other hand, have a very good way of saying what needs to be said simply and directly. Good job.
And yes, that last post seemed like a huge step backwards to me too.
You'd be AMAZED at the kinda of stuff some students do while waiting for instruction at SDL. When I was a student there I knew guys who had Nintendo emulators on their computers and would beat old classic games. I know another who played the online game "Runescape" for HOURS!! Being a gamer, I have nothing against these activities, but they were doing it on the company dime...probably not such a good thing.
At least it gives you a chance to get out. I used to work in an underground vault. I could get my questions answered immediately but I went a little crazy in the process.
Ahhh...jobs. Who really ever knows what they are doing? But what furniture did you buy?!
I got a sofa and two chairs and a floor rug, but the rug might be too small. Celeste needs to come over and see if it will work.
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