seventhe | a quick work update (posted from work lulz)

My boss is doing what he can to help solve my problems here at work. A longer and more hilarious version later, but for now:

I am no longer allowed to come in for meetings on Fridays, because I do not work on Fridays. If anyone truly wants me at a meeting on a Friday, they have to go through my boss so that I can have permission to change my work schedule. This is not only to scare off people who don't want to deal with my (admittedly terrifying) boss, but to also help me feel less guilty about not being able to attend an important Friday meeting. I love how this man deals with me.

I am being heavily encouraged to start saying no to any other meetings I do not think are necessary, and if someone disagrees with my judgment, they are to go through my boss.

I am also allowed to put batch work aside if I feel that meetings - ones that encourage communication and collaboration and my project and other actual work things - are more valuable at the time. He and I both expect this to be the case for the next ~6 months -- which doesn't alleviate my meeting schedule, but it does cut the weight of the other project work I have had sitting on my shoulders by a good bit. I should not feel guilty about only attending meetings if they are actually helpful and productive - meetings are work too.

I have been encouraged to selectively accept collaborative work from certain people (who will actually further my project's goals) and not from others (who may be giving it to me simply because then they know it will get done, rather than actual relevance to my project). These lines have been - rather humorously - clarified by my boss.

We still haven't worked out the Overlord Issues yet (I'm not sure I even bothered to post about the upset two weeks ago which basically completely contradicted the directions I was given six weeks ago, threw my entire schedule and project sheet into upheaval, and put a recurring biweekly meeting on my calendar every other Monday for the rest of my life -- at that point I might have just given up posting about everything), but he's at least aware of it, so while I have no more authority than I did previously (already in the negatives), I have increased awareness, and actually increased motivation to stop giving a fuck and just do things whether I have the authority to or not. Forgiveness and permission, etc.

The down side to all of this was that it was bartered on condition of me finishing my fucking thesis and getting my stupid Masters, so now I get to fill up all of the time this gives me back with godsbefucked grad school. I fucking hate school so much. But maybe I can be done with it, soon, and try to have a life that involves a reasonable bit of actual relaxation and shit.

I have to say, though. Completely platonically and in a way that is as non-creepy as love from Sev gets: I officially adore my boss more than anyone else in the world.

Crossposts: http://first-seventhe.livejournal.com/324400.html

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whitemage

Good boss is good!

From:

temples

Your boss is the bee's knees.

Here's hoping you get the R&R you need, my favourite Sev! Funny story, in trying to type "Sev", I typed "Sex". Like, four times.

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ser_pounce_alot

this is VERY good news, even for the simple fact that it means he is listening and responsive and willing to work with you and your concerns and how stressed out you've been from all of this. so even if maybe things take awhile to get into effect, or like you said, the overlords have other plans, you have been given some of your sanity back because your superior understands, believes you, and wants you to stay relatively not crazy!! so i think that is good. :) and i hope these things help you to not feel so overworked and overloaded. particularly the friday thing, because that was fucking balls on toast, yo, and completely stupid.

♥ i love you and miss you!!