Today is for ME!

Actually, everyday is for me, but I'm working around the house today. Tomorrow I'm renting a tiller and dig up lots around the yard. (Yeah, right!)

Cindy vs Capitol Police, Capitol Police vs Paul Howard
Don't know which sides to take on this. They are talking about charging Cynthia McKinney with assualt for attacking the policeman that was just doing his job, then a policeman who was just doing her job is attempting to bring Paul Howard (DA) down because he allegedly attacked her. There's something about roles and subordinates attacking superiors in here that says something. Cynthia McKinney is the boss, and should not have gotten physical with her subordinate who was just doing his job. On the other hand, Paul Howard was just doing his job, even though the judge in charge told him not to. The guard or policeman or whatever attempted to stop him, a scuffle occurred and the policeman got her shoulder dislocated. She now wants to arrest Paul Howard for assualt. So this should be the same thing, right? Paul Howard was out of line, but I can't imagine such a fracas in a courtroom that would dislocate a shoulder. At any rate, I think the courtroom guard's attorney should face some type of prosecution as he's threatening a public official with 20 years behind bars. This man is too big for his britches.

Some Thoughts on Business Behavior
I am not a game player, and I don't understand a lot of the office politics, so this is just how I see things. The job I was 'eliminated' from was a no-win situation from the start. The ONLY IT guy had done the IT stuff by himself for over 10 years. I came on board and started questioning why he did things, asking for documentation and attempting to set some procedures. He didn't like that. The biggest issue was my coding skills. I found out (too late) that he had written a lot of the application we were using, which I had to support. He was a self-taught programmer, where as I have taken classes and gotten experience. When I presented to him another way to do things (and I was smart enough not to say the right way) he completely shut down. Any modifications I made to any of his programs were suspect as he didn't understand my methodology, nor did he want to learn. As he said in the interview 'I can teach you to code'. That should have been the first clue.

Expense was another big issue. He had saved the company a sum of money early on in their existance and that was enough to get him a spot in the Executive Council, for life. He did whatever the owners asked. They had wireless keyboards and mice, a sharp DVD system and flat screen in their office. The Customer Service Reps didn't have headsets for their phones. Why not? The IT Director said it's because the CSR's broke them. In reality, I discovered it wasn't the CSR's, it was the headset jack in the phones that broke. So instead of getting new phones, the CSR's had no headsets. I had a new phone (IP), with a headset, IT director had a phone and a headset, but it wasn't important to get the CSR's, who spend all day on the phone, a headset. I don't think that's correct business behavior. But what do I know, I just got eliminated.

More to come...
As things happen, I'll be posting. Thanks for taking the time to read. You're opinions are welcome but if you have to start calling me names, don't bother, I won't read them. As my Dad says 'Opinions are like a**holes, everyone has one.'