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klsiegel320) wrote2003-11-06 08:08 pm
klsiegel320) wrote2003-11-06 08:08 pm
Ooops...
I had an "ooops" after we got back from lunch today...was out to lunch with the PM (Project Manager) and a couple of the guys I work with, trying to figure out how to do about four or five weeks' work in two weeks. Not gonna happen, basically - we're sort of proactively postponing the other things because nobody's quite breathing down our necks yet...anyway...I'd had to leave a meeting about one of the large things I'm working on, to go to this lunch, so I stopped by a colleague on the way back in to ask what I missed. Innocent intentions: catch up on what else happened in the meeting, catch her up on what we'd said at lunch. But you all know what's paved with good intentions...
Basically I got into a non-CCE-business-related conversation with this colleague; worse than that, it was something of a what's-happening-at-Fujitsu conversation (i.e., people let go, reviews basically just cancelled, etc.). PM comes around the corner and snaps, "Would you cut this conversation in public, please?!"
At which point we jointly remember that we're surrounded by CCE personnel, not to mention consultants from other consulting companies also working on the project...so I'm deeply embarrassed and ashamed, and I e-mail an apology to him.
He's not really mad; he just needs us to remember that we have to present ourselves professionally, and then suggested that "since we all - CCE personnel included - know your workload, perhaps it would be best if you just stayed in heads-down mode for the next couple weeks, and only surface for air if you really need to."
In other words, sit down, shut up, go back to your corner and don't talk to people unless you have to. What a great thing to tell a person who's already suffering from depression and feeling isolated and cut off from people.
I'm okay with it; not thrilled but...surviving.
Basically I got into a non-CCE-business-related conversation with this colleague; worse than that, it was something of a what's-happening-at-Fujitsu conversation (i.e., people let go, reviews basically just cancelled, etc.). PM comes around the corner and snaps, "Would you cut this conversation in public, please?!"
At which point we jointly remember that we're surrounded by CCE personnel, not to mention consultants from other consulting companies also working on the project...so I'm deeply embarrassed and ashamed, and I e-mail an apology to him.
He's not really mad; he just needs us to remember that we have to present ourselves professionally, and then suggested that "since we all - CCE personnel included - know your workload, perhaps it would be best if you just stayed in heads-down mode for the next couple weeks, and only surface for air if you really need to."
In other words, sit down, shut up, go back to your corner and don't talk to people unless you have to. What a great thing to tell a person who's already suffering from depression and feeling isolated and cut off from people.
I'm okay with it; not thrilled but...surviving.
{{{{{Karen}}}}}
Sorry the oops and your PM's comments made you feel rotten. Somehow I don't think he needed to tell you to work in heads-down mode -- seems like you're working pretty hard every time we talk.
The parenthical things you mentioned about Fujitsu (reviews cancelled, people let go) don't sound positive. If they don't give reviews, does that mean no raises?
Bassett is dealing with a hiring freeze (which doesn't affect my department) and, as far as I know, no one is getting a pay increase, not even a COLA. Of course, our contribution for health insurance has gone up for next year. :-/
Re: {{{{{Karen}}}}}
Yeah, no reviews means no raises. Last raise of any kind was in July of 2001. The tax cut has essentially amounted to a bit of a raise; not that I think the tax cut was warranted but I suppose in this particular case it's been a help.
And yeah, the contribution for health care goes up, the rent goes up, the gas bill goes up, the ISP bill goes up...but the salary stay blithely unaware.