life
Feels like time is going fast, yet slow. Feels like I have a lot going on, but nothing at all.
Thanksgiving was ok. Just had lunch at Aaron’s parents. Just the 4 of us, which was nice. Stayed there for a few hours.
We went to Walmart later that day. I didn’t really need anything, Aaron wanted to go there. But I did get a couple things (towels for cheap, new containers).
I had 4 days off from work, didn’t really do anything. But the days seemed to go fast.
Yesterday at work my department had a meeting. Meeting was with the head of this specific plant (I work in a factory). It was basically about how we treat each other, how there’s friction with each other. My department is maybe 20 people max. Majority are women (only 3 men). Some of the ladies are rude and talk badly about this lady, Sheila.
Sheila’s been at the company for maybe 2 years now, still relatively new (there are 6 people I work with that have been at the company for 20+ years). About a year ago boss started training Sheila to do more responsibility. This made some of the old timers pissed….they don’t like change, don’t like someone with little experience taking on more tasks, possibly having new ideas to change policies. Yet, these older ladies are gonna retire in the next year or 2.
So people are saying Sheila is doing sexual favors to boss, engineers. Or even flirting with people to get her way. None of that is true. Sheila has been feeling down in the dumps a lot lately. I’ve talked to her. I’ve been nice to her, never said anything bad. She’s thanked me a couple times for including her on stuff, for talking to her. I even walked with her on break earlier this week.
In the meeting, the semi big boss, she asked how we can make the team work better. I really wanted to speak up and say that half the people in the room are fucking jackasses. And how we need to stop talking crap about each other. Seems like when a lot of women get together, it’s a lot of trash talking about other women
Someone who has been there two years is still “new”? Wow. Resistance to change is toxic to a lot of companies. How toxic depends on your field of course, but still.
Does someone with 20 years experience actually have 20 years experience, or do they just have 2 years experience ten times over?
@mrroflcopter yeah, 2 years is still kinda new for my department and what the job includes. I can’t discuss my job in great detail. My department deals with the military (and especially can’t talk about it with you since you’re not a US born citizen haha)
20 years of experience means 20 years of experience. One coworker started her job in 1982. Out of the 6 people I mentioned, the lady who’s been there the least amount of time started in 1995
@serenadeoliver Yep, don’t pass on any classified information to me! 😀
What I mean by the 20 years question is – does being there 20 years make any difference to how well you can do the job? In a lot of lines of work you’re “experienced” by the time you’ve done it say 5 years and after that you’re just repeating what you know. That’s what I was curious about. All depends on the type of work and whether it changes much I guess.
@mrroflcopter By 5 years a person should know 90% of the stuff anyway. I’ve been at my job for just over 3 years and I’m just starting to feel comfortable with my job, knowing what to do. The first year was completely awful, contemplated why I was even at my job (not the people, just the actual work).
@mrroflcopter On Fri (Nov 30) I still had to question my boss on something….this ‘something’ could have been taken 2 different ways
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It’s too bad they have to do those things. Many years ago I worked with someone like that. I finally had to dress her down about it, and she left me alone thereafter. The last 15 years I worked in a wonderful atmosphere. Everyone was rooting for everyone else.
@dlk082244 hopefully things do get better
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