Well, Blogger, through its infinite bugginess has decided (through a double blog entry) that I owed you, my loyal readers, more information than I provided. What is there to say, though? Check out the forum, as we all rejoice in the return of Popeboy! He took a month off, but hopefully he can post occasionally without it sucking the life out of him. I know that I've had to tone it down a bit to get more done, and I hope that he can find that balance as well.
posted by Zim at 12/14/2000 06:01:00 PM

I think if I actually knew My Simon from MySimon.com I would kick his CGI ass. Who wants to talk to a know it all thinks that he knows not only how much you paid for something, but where he could get it cheaper? Hey Simon, we have a name for a guy like that... "Dickhead".
posted by Zim at 12/14/2000 06:00:00 PM

Ah, the power of mockery by a complete stranger...


I have been shamed into writing more here than I usually do. Seeing as I have so few experiences these days that are not a) waking up b) going to work c) talking to Lise on the phone d) watching professional wrestling e) sleeping, I'm not sure what I'm going to put here. If I talk about work I might get in trouble, because I finally gave in the other day and at the urging of both my direct manager and the HR department signed off on the corporate policies which I feel violate my civil rights.


See, I wonder if I can even say that now. From what I understand, I've given up the right to complain about my job. It didn't say it EXACTLY like that in the book, but I bet if a lawyer wanted to stretch the guidelines they could. I ammended as many parts of the agreement that I thought were unconstitutional, but it still bothers me that when it comes down to it, I had basically two choices. 1) I could sign the forms and waive a good chunk of my civil liberties or 2) I could quit my job.


Why is this not considered a bad thing by most people that I know? Why do they just sign these papers? If I had signed the original draft of the document, it would have granted my work the following "In addition, I specifically consent to my employer's conducting video surveillance to ensure that I appropriately respond to customer service inquiries." That sounds barely acceptable, if you look at it in the context of being just at work... but there's the catch. It never mentions that they would just do it at work, it just says that they have explicit permission to video tape me.... ANYWHERE.


Well, that's not such a bad thing, right? I mean, you won't be doing customer service from home so they can't watch you there... Wrong. I have a company cell phone. Any time they call me they can video tape me now. Ostensibly, they can have me on 24 x 7 video surveillance now because I HAD TO SIGN.


America, Land of the Free.
posted by Zim at 12/12/2000 01:48:00 PM

I thought that I was going to keep this more up to date... I thought that I would write more... then I had the busiest month of work that I have ever had in my life! I haven't even been able to sneak away for my state mandated 15 minute breaks, let alone the 1 hour of lunch that I am not getting paid for daily... I suppose it all works out in the end, but right now I'm being pushed to the limit.


Christmas time - who can believe that this year is almost over already? It seems like just yesterday that people were freaking out and storing Dinty Moore beef stew and Evian... So this year I don't have to hang out at work, waiting for something to break... I get to be on call instead :) It's ok, because I'll be in Seattle, and there isn't really much that I can do if anything goes wrong.


I really should start looking for Christmas presents for people, I guess. I probably should go pay my rent too... maybe my electric bill. I know you all live for these personal details...
posted by Zim at 12/11/2000 01:12:00 PM