Grrrrrrr.......
Apr. 9th, 2004 07:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinLife would be so much easier if the administration would just let me bite the truly deserving.
Had an altercation with two of the part-time staff yesterday. I'd called them on the carpet for cruising Outer Belt Road instead of working: they'd passed where I was working 3 times in 15 minutes, in the golf cart, which is a super-slow transport, so they obviously weren't working. So, I'd called Turf Guy and asked him where he'd sent Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum to work.....later that afternoon, they stopped Courtney and I in the parking lot and chewed my butt for getting them in trouble, because "we've worked our butts off for three hours today, and you've called about us on the radio the past three times we've worked on your days." First, they'd worked three whole hours. I'm impressed, that's more than we usually get out of either of them in a day. But I'm not sympathetic, because I've been working hard all day, the past two and a half weeks, planting and mulching. Second, I haven't called about them on the radio the past three times they've worked on my days, although I have called about them 3 times in the past month, for the same BS....cruising around campus. They just don't get the distinction between goofing off, and goofing off discretely. Cruising past Vice President's window three times yesterday does not count as goofing off discretely. And they also informed me that I was not their boss (???? that's news to me).....that's a holdover from when D the Annoying was here, these two are/were his cronies, and we're still having trouble with all of that group. When I told them I didn't mean to get them into trouble, but didn't want to have to answer to Vice President about why he'd seen the golf cart pass his window 3 (or more) times in an hour, they puffed out their manly *snerk* little chests and said that Vice President could just come talk to them. *shakes head* It doesn't work that way...Vice President doesn't notice PT staff, except when they do somethign blatantly wrong in front of him; he barely notices the full time staff, and we ARE answerable to him for the PT behavior.
So, Maintenance Supervisor got an earful yesterday afternoon.....about this, and about some other things, 'cuz I needed to vent. He heard exactly what I thought about the way they've handled replacing Retired Grounds Supervisor, in great detail, and did answer some of my concerns/complaints. Not satisfactorily....I see what the administration was trying to do, by not making any changes while things were in limbo, but it's been left in limbo way too long, and by letting these things go (like the PT issues above), it's really messed up morale, and caused hard feelings between the crew and the administration. Not sure what I said helped any, except to get it off my chest, but at least I tried.
Got the pyracantha in the ground yesterday, and only hit two irrigation lines (minor ones at that) in the process. The ground was so hard one of the guys went and rented a post-hole auger to drill the holes out.....took longer to hand-dig the four holes that were close to power lines than it did to auger out the rest. But the soil wasn't bad once you got past the compacted crust.
Got more stuff to plant today (the seven 5-gal bayberries from last week), and stuff to spray, and hopefully, it will rain today/tonight, or I'll spend tomorrow watering.
No rehearsal last night, thank goodness, because the Art Center closes for Good Friday and Easter. I was way too cranky to go, if it had been held.
In other news.....By talked to Albert the Alley God last night, and got an answer about how many books he'd like to take with him, and how soon he needed them: 10, or as many as I can get done, and next Friday. And Albert thinks the price is fair, which it probably is, since he's into things on the cheap most of the time. So, I spent the evening folding pages, since that's the slow part....got 3 book's worth folded last night, plus a start on a fourth. By said he'd help me fold this weekend. We've already got leather aplenty, and stuff to sew with--I'm just doing the sewn leather Coptic, which doesn't use any glue, so it's much faster to assemble. Doing them all the same makes it faster, too. And I've about finished writing a blurb to slip into each book, about how they're made completely by hand, from folding and cutting the pages, to the stitching, and how the paper is "rescued" from a print shop trimmings dumpster. It'd be cool if I could come up with a logo for "Rescued Paper Bindery", which is what I want to call the project.
By said last night the Tivol meeting didn't go anywhere....they were wanting products that they could slap their markup onto and still sell for under $200. Cheap bastards. So, we'll see what's next.
Had an altercation with two of the part-time staff yesterday. I'd called them on the carpet for cruising Outer Belt Road instead of working: they'd passed where I was working 3 times in 15 minutes, in the golf cart, which is a super-slow transport, so they obviously weren't working. So, I'd called Turf Guy and asked him where he'd sent Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum to work.....later that afternoon, they stopped Courtney and I in the parking lot and chewed my butt for getting them in trouble, because "we've worked our butts off for three hours today, and you've called about us on the radio the past three times we've worked on your days." First, they'd worked three whole hours. I'm impressed, that's more than we usually get out of either of them in a day. But I'm not sympathetic, because I've been working hard all day, the past two and a half weeks, planting and mulching. Second, I haven't called about them on the radio the past three times they've worked on my days, although I have called about them 3 times in the past month, for the same BS....cruising around campus. They just don't get the distinction between goofing off, and goofing off discretely. Cruising past Vice President's window three times yesterday does not count as goofing off discretely. And they also informed me that I was not their boss (???? that's news to me).....that's a holdover from when D the Annoying was here, these two are/were his cronies, and we're still having trouble with all of that group. When I told them I didn't mean to get them into trouble, but didn't want to have to answer to Vice President about why he'd seen the golf cart pass his window 3 (or more) times in an hour, they puffed out their manly *snerk* little chests and said that Vice President could just come talk to them. *shakes head* It doesn't work that way...Vice President doesn't notice PT staff, except when they do somethign blatantly wrong in front of him; he barely notices the full time staff, and we ARE answerable to him for the PT behavior.
So, Maintenance Supervisor got an earful yesterday afternoon.....about this, and about some other things, 'cuz I needed to vent. He heard exactly what I thought about the way they've handled replacing Retired Grounds Supervisor, in great detail, and did answer some of my concerns/complaints. Not satisfactorily....I see what the administration was trying to do, by not making any changes while things were in limbo, but it's been left in limbo way too long, and by letting these things go (like the PT issues above), it's really messed up morale, and caused hard feelings between the crew and the administration. Not sure what I said helped any, except to get it off my chest, but at least I tried.
Got the pyracantha in the ground yesterday, and only hit two irrigation lines (minor ones at that) in the process. The ground was so hard one of the guys went and rented a post-hole auger to drill the holes out.....took longer to hand-dig the four holes that were close to power lines than it did to auger out the rest. But the soil wasn't bad once you got past the compacted crust.
Got more stuff to plant today (the seven 5-gal bayberries from last week), and stuff to spray, and hopefully, it will rain today/tonight, or I'll spend tomorrow watering.
No rehearsal last night, thank goodness, because the Art Center closes for Good Friday and Easter. I was way too cranky to go, if it had been held.
In other news.....By talked to Albert the Alley God last night, and got an answer about how many books he'd like to take with him, and how soon he needed them: 10, or as many as I can get done, and next Friday. And Albert thinks the price is fair, which it probably is, since he's into things on the cheap most of the time. So, I spent the evening folding pages, since that's the slow part....got 3 book's worth folded last night, plus a start on a fourth. By said he'd help me fold this weekend. We've already got leather aplenty, and stuff to sew with--I'm just doing the sewn leather Coptic, which doesn't use any glue, so it's much faster to assemble. Doing them all the same makes it faster, too. And I've about finished writing a blurb to slip into each book, about how they're made completely by hand, from folding and cutting the pages, to the stitching, and how the paper is "rescued" from a print shop trimmings dumpster. It'd be cool if I could come up with a logo for "Rescued Paper Bindery", which is what I want to call the project.
By said last night the Tivol meeting didn't go anywhere....they were wanting products that they could slap their markup onto and still sell for under $200. Cheap bastards. So, we'll see what's next.
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