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doodlemaierI made the coffee this morning, double strength and I am ripped right now!
Temps will be forthcoming out of the woodwork here soon. Again, management asked for my take on it and I politely declined. At least least this time they told they were going to hire another one(s) anyway. We are currently 1 month and 4 days behind (which does suck - I sent a donation to Earth Sangha and had a receipt back in a week!) Graciously, I explained that to train a temp and follow up behind them afterward is time consuming enough, and that I would be better of to just do the work myself. But I understand that it sometimes takes a step back to move a couple of steps forward (so we should have them trained and up to speeeeeeeeeeeeeeed just in time to run out of work and dismiss them . . .whatever.) They suggested that they could put the person who 'trained' me in charge of the new temps to free up my time (so now we're talking taking at least two steps back to move one step forward, but whathehell, it'll give me plenty of mistakes to follow-up and fix when the volume drops off in February. . .)
Better, I suggested, that I train the incoming temps to own this database and use it like the powerful indexing tool it was designed to be rather than a time-sync-boat-anchor-garbage-dump-for-personal-digital-enertia-passing-for-information, and that we take back the work that we currently farm out to Direct Mail Processors, significantly raising our volume so that we'd be this busy year-round and only need temps for year-end (being October - not January). The part that's hard to sell to management is that we end up spending more money than it costs us currently (health and benies, new work stations, etc.) and therein lies the rub. But again, isn't this what 'stewardship' is all about? I'm talking quality here, people. I'm talking ownership . . . .
But, also this is all part of my diabolical scheme to finagle the option to do more of this work from home, sweet home, Front Royalabama!
Helen's being progressive and 'pisky in Richmond somewhere right about now. Somewhere flooded deep in the chemical tsunami that is me I miss her dreadfully. But on the bright side, her cat is incredibly cool with me when she's gone.
How 'bout them apples?
Temps will be forthcoming out of the woodwork here soon. Again, management asked for my take on it and I politely declined. At least least this time they told they were going to hire another one(s) anyway. We are currently 1 month and 4 days behind (which does suck - I sent a donation to Earth Sangha and had a receipt back in a week!) Graciously, I explained that to train a temp and follow up behind them afterward is time consuming enough, and that I would be better of to just do the work myself. But I understand that it sometimes takes a step back to move a couple of steps forward (so we should have them trained and up to speeeeeeeeeeeeeeed just in time to run out of work and dismiss them . . .whatever.) They suggested that they could put the person who 'trained' me in charge of the new temps to free up my time (so now we're talking taking at least two steps back to move one step forward, but whathehell, it'll give me plenty of mistakes to follow-up and fix when the volume drops off in February. . .)
Better, I suggested, that I train the incoming temps to own this database and use it like the powerful indexing tool it was designed to be rather than a time-sync-boat-anchor-garbage-dump-for-personal-digital-enertia-passing-for-information, and that we take back the work that we currently farm out to Direct Mail Processors, significantly raising our volume so that we'd be this busy year-round and only need temps for year-end (being October - not January). The part that's hard to sell to management is that we end up spending more money than it costs us currently (health and benies, new work stations, etc.) and therein lies the rub. But again, isn't this what 'stewardship' is all about? I'm talking quality here, people. I'm talking ownership . . . .
But, also this is all part of my diabolical scheme to finagle the option to do more of this work from home, sweet home, Front Royalabama!
Helen's being progressive and 'pisky in Richmond somewhere right about now. Somewhere flooded deep in the chemical tsunami that is me I miss her dreadfully. But on the bright side, her cat is incredibly cool with me when she's gone.
How 'bout them apples?
