Termyn8or
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I appreciate the responses, even the ones calling me a whiney baby because I posted this to find out what people think. I will take all under consideration, but I posted this before work this morning.
As such I did not include enough detail. Now I don't want to blow my owm horn here, but in technology I am top dog. I make the most, I get asked the questions and if I disappear the boss shows up at my house to see if I am alright. I brought ALOT of resources there with me, and have found even more. The place would be totally screwed without me.
In view of that, the situation is different. Because of how much I make I shouldn't be warehousing things, I should be working on them. I literally make twice what anyone else does except for the boss.
This guy has been told, and after he had the tantrum, he was told again literally "Damn, I got Jeff to work Monday, don't do this to me". I am usually off Mondays.
As for the whiney baby stuff, I am not the one who had a tantrum and burned rubber out of the parking lot. He did. I never even raised my voice.
Whenever I get aggravated at work I do not let it turn into anger, I just look at the clock and figure out how long it's going to take me to make one dollar. You couldn't listen to one song in that time. If I am held up somehow and can't do my job, the clock still ticks.
I did tell the boss that I would come in as long as the guy knows who I am working for. Normally we work together quite well. There are just those times, he has this presumed authority, and the fact that he did not have the power to order me around is proof of that.
I would never get into a "it's him or me" situation, that is stupid. But in the vernacular of my past, he has to know who the fuck he is talking to. Actually he is a likeable guy for the most part.
Maya, I have seniority in the field. Bigtime, and I used it well. I have gone into work with a sixpack of beer. I have also missed a day and showed up telling the boss that I missed because I did coke. That was a while back. That was the only time I asked for a front, to get weed. If I leave, they might as well close the doors. This situation has not recurred, because I have no desire for drugs, something I found out back then. He did not get pissed, and we talked about it. I had already been there over a year and he asks "So is this like a once a year thing for you ?", I said "Something like that, sometimes twice and sometimes I go years in between".
Tigre, I don't want to be in charge. I hope you and Maya are not projecting here. I do what the guy I replaced did in a forty hour week, but I do it in a twenty hour week. As such I should be facilitated.
Anyone wants to call these people and ask, I will give out the phone number(s)
Beth, I told him what I said I would tell him, and added "everything should be fine". When the guy that hired me makes me aware of some sort of chain of command, I will comply. This has not happened. This guy left tracks in the parking lot just a few days ago, and the boss is leaving for FL tomorrow.
Again, it is not I who had the tantrum.
Vend, there will be no fighting at the shop. Even raising your voice and saying "What the fuck is this ?" will get you sent home for the rest of the day. He will say "Go home have a couple of beers, burn a fat one, do whatever you do, see you tomorrow". This happened already, to the person to whom I am referring.
Quiv, good point. When we sell our time we sell our time. In a relationship it is given, but at work it is indeed bought and paid for. Interesting analogy.
I have done things there that nobody ever even thought could be done. I got a print in electronic form that nobody even knew existed, and it would've cost $100 or more. I got it overnight, for free and burned it to CD. I have done many successful modifications to accomodate aftermarket parts and found solutions to problems that nobody else would ever think of. It's that or lose the job. It's either money in the bank or a full dumpster.
Even the guy on the power trip has said to me "When you're not here money gets tight", or something to that effect. After a statement like that I wonder how he would figure to play with me like that.
I don't get pissed off, just have a look at the clock, my money still rolls in. I only got pissed off a couple of times, and it was over something like "This is ridiculous", and very unprofessional. Personal issues, I don't really care, it is not a personal matter.
Like I wrote before, it was really too late to take any advice, but I think the whiney baby comments were uncalled for. However since I opened up the subject and asked for opinions, so much for that. It is the reader's perception, and really, the more I learn about how to express myself, the more I find I do not know.
I opened up the subject though, so agree or disagree.
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