Keyboard Headbanging
A funny tale concerning work, this is a lesson to anyone new in the adventures of 'getting your job on':
Be careful about volunteering your level of aptitude concerning anything, even if it's something you think you might want to do. The more people know about your abilities, the more they will try to exploit them to decrease their own work load. And of course, at any opportunity they will try to take credit for the things you accomplish.
Today I revealed to two other folks in the Business & Technology Division (my little wing of the Engineering Dept) that I had discovered the means to correct a problem in one of our humongous databases. It just happens to be a database for which I am already responsible for updating new entries. However, many of the already archived documents have errors that need to be fixed and the lead images need to be assigned new indexes. Further complicating this is that we are just extrapolating from a couple thousand already done just how many we need to fix. I can safely say that I will probably be taking over the quality control portion of this task as well. So, simply put, I get to sort through this database, containing at this point roughly 50,000 images tied to roughly 10,000 document indexes, find all the retarded errors the contracted imaging company made, and fix some dandy numbered sequences through Access. Now that I discovered a 'relatively' easy means to take care of the problems, I won't be resting until this is all done.
I guess I could be more flustered, and I should look at it as job security, but it certainly doesn't soften the blow of the other 10+ large ongoing projects I have to keep up with. Plus, you know, I'm supposed to be fooling around with maps and stuff, not making document management my consuming damnation of life.
Be careful about volunteering your level of aptitude concerning anything, even if it's something you think you might want to do. The more people know about your abilities, the more they will try to exploit them to decrease their own work load. And of course, at any opportunity they will try to take credit for the things you accomplish.
Today I revealed to two other folks in the Business & Technology Division (my little wing of the Engineering Dept) that I had discovered the means to correct a problem in one of our humongous databases. It just happens to be a database for which I am already responsible for updating new entries. However, many of the already archived documents have errors that need to be fixed and the lead images need to be assigned new indexes. Further complicating this is that we are just extrapolating from a couple thousand already done just how many we need to fix. I can safely say that I will probably be taking over the quality control portion of this task as well. So, simply put, I get to sort through this database, containing at this point roughly 50,000 images tied to roughly 10,000 document indexes, find all the retarded errors the contracted imaging company made, and fix some dandy numbered sequences through Access. Now that I discovered a 'relatively' easy means to take care of the problems, I won't be resting until this is all done.
I guess I could be more flustered, and I should look at it as job security, but it certainly doesn't soften the blow of the other 10+ large ongoing projects I have to keep up with. Plus, you know, I'm supposed to be fooling around with maps and stuff, not making document management my consuming damnation of life.
Nathan Prime 16:55
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