They called today the single worst day of trading in the last 2 decades. DJIA plunged over 700 points - and most investors are in a rut.
The house rejected the bailout plan today with about Republicans at 2-1 against the proposal. Those who voted no now face forewarnings of the consequences for not helping the economy when they can prevent an economic downturn. It is this very sort of foreWARNING that bolsters my own fears that maybe the economy won't recover as quickly as they had hoped. Things may not look any better in a year, or two.
Worrisome, to say the least.
Monday, September 29
Sunday, September 14
Sept 14, 2008
In the last two weeks, I've been in situations that have made me question a lot about everything in my life. Maybe not everything, but a few key things in my life. My manager, a bitch of a woman, who thinks she somehow knows more, and is more experienced in life, in her what? 2-3 years seniority over me, thinks that what she learned in class is somehow relevant to my life.
She has the audacity to dig deep into my life, after deciding that she would dump onto me the duty of training someone, when she knows full well that I have no room for it. Training. Not a problem. Telling me on a Thursday afternoon, 3 days before the training. Idiotic move. In what she believes to be a calming statement, says to me, that she should have been more considerate in realizing that I don't know the functions as well as she does, and that had she been the one to perform those tasks, she would complete them much faster than I, several hours faster.
This isn't the only bit that enrages me. She thinks that by giving me advice... she is somehow becoming my friend. Yet, really, all she has done is stack on the work. The work, again, not a problem. Stacking on the work, while knowing full well there are members on the team who do next to nothing, having time to watch full segments of live TV on the web, and toggling the screen as soon as someone walks by. It bothers me that she knows full well that she works two members of her team, and the rest are just idling away the day. She knows that we barely eat, because we don't have time. Yet she has the time to take half an hour each morning to go out to buy coffee. She takes on responsibilities, and then turns around, in a private one on one, and says "you do it". She says one thing in a one on one, and turns around and says another in a team meeting.
She even had the audacity to tell me something about a book I was thoroughly into, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I had even taken a one day course on the subject. She had the audacity to give me advice about how to deal with my brother, and that my emotions over how I feel, and what I've experienced is a result of my not doing anything. Then proceeds to tell me how she fairs with her sister, giving me minute details of a surface of a life, and expects, or assumes in this case, that it is one in the same. The girl has no idea. Big eyed, and half brained.
It's one thing to have fully experienced what another has, and to say I've been there. Yet, at the same time, no one really ever takes away another's grief by saying, I've been there, and done that. It's unsympathetic, and entirely dismissive. If she's trying to be a friend, she needs to try a bit harder.
It's funny she's trying to add me on those random social websites. AS IF! DENY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try having an oppressive, 1 year younger brother, that your parents favor to no end - who turn their head when things are done, and then tell me you know what it feels like, biyatch.
She has the audacity to dig deep into my life, after deciding that she would dump onto me the duty of training someone, when she knows full well that I have no room for it. Training. Not a problem. Telling me on a Thursday afternoon, 3 days before the training. Idiotic move. In what she believes to be a calming statement, says to me, that she should have been more considerate in realizing that I don't know the functions as well as she does, and that had she been the one to perform those tasks, she would complete them much faster than I, several hours faster.
This isn't the only bit that enrages me. She thinks that by giving me advice... she is somehow becoming my friend. Yet, really, all she has done is stack on the work. The work, again, not a problem. Stacking on the work, while knowing full well there are members on the team who do next to nothing, having time to watch full segments of live TV on the web, and toggling the screen as soon as someone walks by. It bothers me that she knows full well that she works two members of her team, and the rest are just idling away the day. She knows that we barely eat, because we don't have time. Yet she has the time to take half an hour each morning to go out to buy coffee. She takes on responsibilities, and then turns around, in a private one on one, and says "you do it". She says one thing in a one on one, and turns around and says another in a team meeting.
She even had the audacity to tell me something about a book I was thoroughly into, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I had even taken a one day course on the subject. She had the audacity to give me advice about how to deal with my brother, and that my emotions over how I feel, and what I've experienced is a result of my not doing anything. Then proceeds to tell me how she fairs with her sister, giving me minute details of a surface of a life, and expects, or assumes in this case, that it is one in the same. The girl has no idea. Big eyed, and half brained.
It's one thing to have fully experienced what another has, and to say I've been there. Yet, at the same time, no one really ever takes away another's grief by saying, I've been there, and done that. It's unsympathetic, and entirely dismissive. If she's trying to be a friend, she needs to try a bit harder.
It's funny she's trying to add me on those random social websites. AS IF! DENY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try having an oppressive, 1 year younger brother, that your parents favor to no end - who turn their head when things are done, and then tell me you know what it feels like, biyatch.
Tuesday, September 9
Sept 9, 2008
It seems I become evermore aware of how mentally and physically abused I am....
.... at work.
Not often though, I get uber upset, I'll complain, etc, just to vent out all of this suppression of what has long been overdue. Yet, despite realizing the detrimental harm this profession, or this particular job, is causing I am still enduring.
People are often telling me to look for another job, yet having made a commitment, I feel more obligated to stay, especially for the retention bonus. Besides I don't mind the banging around if I can utilize it in my resume.
.... at work.
Not often though, I get uber upset, I'll complain, etc, just to vent out all of this suppression of what has long been overdue. Yet, despite realizing the detrimental harm this profession, or this particular job, is causing I am still enduring.
People are often telling me to look for another job, yet having made a commitment, I feel more obligated to stay, especially for the retention bonus. Besides I don't mind the banging around if I can utilize it in my resume.
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