Aren't managers supposed to inspire?

You know, I thought this week would be fun. Only had 1 shift on calls and 2 1/2 hrs would be spent in a potluck/team meeting. And I had a 1 1/2 hr training. And I was going to see my family for belated Father's Day thing.

Well, on the personal side it was fine. Had fun w/ the kids, my family didn't ask me annoying questions. Got my youngest niece to talk and interact w/ me. Melissa's quite the talker, and very interested in learning. When her big sisters do their homework, she gets some paper and sits right next to them and says she's doing her homework too. My nephew Justin was cranky and didn't get to play with him. He seemed to cry every time he got near my dad. LOL. But he's so big now, I can barely recognize him. Which makes sense. He's 21 mons now, but I've seen him maybe...4-5 times? My sister-in-law as usual barely spared us a glance or hello when she got home.

But work-wise? Gawd, I've never been so annoyed in a meeting that I've wanted to walk out. Being told that if we're late, swear on the floor or are rude to the customer that we'd get our position on the team evaluated? It's one thing if the definition of swearing and being rude would make a sailor blush, but their definition is anything that would offend the Pope. And even then the Pope would probably forgive a lot. If we don't kiss up to the customer, we're in trouble. If we're stern or point out the customer's stupidity, we're in trouble. We can't even say they're lying when they completely contradict themselves. They're telling us if what the customer says contradicts what the reps have notated (and notated very clearly and well), we're supposed to believe the customer. All b/c a bunch of stats are low, so they're trying to buy the stats by having us throw out the policies and procedures. She keeps harping on the "you're the creme de la creme", while throwing all this crap at us. Our previous managers were a lot better about it, they'd let us whine and bitch for a decent amount of time before telling us to move on. Now it's if we step out of line a bit, we're going to get canned from the team and its perks. It so sucks.

Anyways, a lot of managers are leaving too. There's another team that's hiring, and they have a fair bit of perks, but not the $0.50/hr bonus. But I dunno who their new manager would be so it's kinda annoying. Truly when you find a manager you can connect with, it's so much easier.

Anyways, T had surgery about 2 weeks ago. Been trying to take care of him w/o seeming smothery. I dunno, think I read too many manga and watched too many anime with episodes of characters taking care of other bed-ridden characters/love interests, and they're mostly romantic comedies or shonen-ai. Even volunteered to tidy up his apt! Anyways, also used up all my min checking up on him...and my bill cycle doesn't end until about end of month. *sob* Maybe I should call up my carrier to see if they got any bonus minutes or something.

Yeah, so work has really sucked. I've been thinking of just calling in absent, just so I can get an extra day off. I haven't had a cat day in ages. It's been grocery shopping, going away parties, cleaning, cooking or some other chore. So odd to be so popular. But what pisses me off is that D doesn't do anything that I can discern. All he does when he's home is nap, go on his laptop, play his games. Doesn't bother cooking or cleaning. I have to tell him to clean the stove or counter, take out the garbage, etc.

Since I'd had to write so many cards lately, and I haven't time to practice a new font for each card, I've been working on the Linoscript font from Linotype. I've added a few of my own touches, and it's looking pretty good. My characters are about the same size, same angle. Heh, who needs to buy fonts when you can just copy them?