Observe my bitter ranting
Oct. 22nd, 2006 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynSo, some of you know I work for a fairly high profile online magazine. It has its perks in that I work from home remotely, because an east coast company bought our magazine out last year and they were going to keep us west coasties on for a transitional period, but it worked out well having someone three hours behind, and I'm still here a year and a half later. It's not a great job, because I'm surrounded by Ivy League privileged prep school Oxbridge studying asshats who think they're so special and i'm dirt, but at least I don't have to *see* them, it's all remote.
But that bad part comes in that it's news and opinion, which means when news is breaking, like Katrina, you have to work on weekends or someone dies at night, you're stuck, but this weekend has turned into such a clusterfuck that I am contemplating job hunting again. I've worked most of the weekend, pretty much all day today and still will be going at 10 tonight, which is my bedtime because I work east coast hours and so I get up abysmally early, and I'm not a morning person. I kindly took a fellow copyeditor's weekend update duties, even though my desk chief had scheduled me for no weekends anymore because I'd taken on double duties on Fridays, a killer day for us.
Even more killer this Friday, when changes were coming fast and furious, we were shorthanded, and everyone was leaving early, leaving me alone with a huge nightmare project that our dev team didn't get started on until Friday that was supposed to encompass all these quizzes and polls, and copy, and more copy that linked to other copy, and linked to more quizzes... and of course they couldn't finish it, were putting in incorrect, nonedited text, and just... clusterfucking the whole thing. I worked about an 11 hour day, then worked more at night doing the usual morning weekend updates we do (I just do them late at night, because it's like 1 am there, so it's okay), then worked on Sat., and then today I've worked more than 8 hours, and I won't be getting a big day off for this or anything. My boss, who I've spent way too much time on the phone with today, was saying to take a half day off and I was like, WTF? a HALF day? Because dude, the stress alone merits a sleep-in morning.
Not that I'm bitter or anything. Bitter about people who can't do their jobs and don't care. Bitter about people who think because you're a lowly copyeditor, you have no life. I chose to be a lowly copyeditor after running publications for years, because I just didn't want to be management anymore. But this is what you get.
I'm so tie-tie, but there's still more crap to do. Gah. There go my plans to catch up on Netflix movies and The Wire. The only good thing was that I stumbled on Wolfen, and old favorite I haven't seen in years, on AMC. God, I love that movie, especially young, hot Edward James Olmos as one of the high-steel working Indians. He gets nekkid and chases Albert Finney around. Heee. People are always so mean about his looks, but I've always adored him, and anyone who watched Miami Vice knows what a hottie he is. Dancers usually have those wonderful bods, and he was no exception.
But that bad part comes in that it's news and opinion, which means when news is breaking, like Katrina, you have to work on weekends or someone dies at night, you're stuck, but this weekend has turned into such a clusterfuck that I am contemplating job hunting again. I've worked most of the weekend, pretty much all day today and still will be going at 10 tonight, which is my bedtime because I work east coast hours and so I get up abysmally early, and I'm not a morning person. I kindly took a fellow copyeditor's weekend update duties, even though my desk chief had scheduled me for no weekends anymore because I'd taken on double duties on Fridays, a killer day for us.
Even more killer this Friday, when changes were coming fast and furious, we were shorthanded, and everyone was leaving early, leaving me alone with a huge nightmare project that our dev team didn't get started on until Friday that was supposed to encompass all these quizzes and polls, and copy, and more copy that linked to other copy, and linked to more quizzes... and of course they couldn't finish it, were putting in incorrect, nonedited text, and just... clusterfucking the whole thing. I worked about an 11 hour day, then worked more at night doing the usual morning weekend updates we do (I just do them late at night, because it's like 1 am there, so it's okay), then worked on Sat., and then today I've worked more than 8 hours, and I won't be getting a big day off for this or anything. My boss, who I've spent way too much time on the phone with today, was saying to take a half day off and I was like, WTF? a HALF day? Because dude, the stress alone merits a sleep-in morning.
Not that I'm bitter or anything. Bitter about people who can't do their jobs and don't care. Bitter about people who think because you're a lowly copyeditor, you have no life. I chose to be a lowly copyeditor after running publications for years, because I just didn't want to be management anymore. But this is what you get.
I'm so tie-tie, but there's still more crap to do. Gah. There go my plans to catch up on Netflix movies and The Wire. The only good thing was that I stumbled on Wolfen, and old favorite I haven't seen in years, on AMC. God, I love that movie, especially young, hot Edward James Olmos as one of the high-steel working Indians. He gets nekkid and chases Albert Finney around. Heee. People are always so mean about his looks, but I've always adored him, and anyone who watched Miami Vice knows what a hottie he is. Dancers usually have those wonderful bods, and he was no exception.
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