Ahhh, cube-farm life!

[kentauros]

I just sent this email to my next-door cube-resident, thanks to how our mapping lead communicates with us. She's only about 30' away, and these "cubes" have low walls, so it's not like we can't see each other easily.

Also, she's a GIS professional but has no concept of drafting, how we think or how we do things (this morning she wanted to put a scale on a type of drawing that simply does not use a scale, never has, and never will, and is even marked "N.T.S." or "not to scale".)


The Epitome of Impatience

I’m sending you an email.
I’m standing next to/behind you to tell you I just sent you an email.
I’m looking over your shoulder as you read my email, while I tell you to read my most recent email.
Now we’ll discuss the content of my email.
I’m going back to my desk to send you another email.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Ad infinitum.

:crazy:

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. This does not sound enjoyable.

:hug:

[kentauros]

2. It's mostly annoying, on a daily basis.

She's not overbearing, just mostly very inexperienced. I really don't know why they didn't hire someone with real management experience instead of promoting her. She's happiest when she's doing the work she was originally hired to do, i.e., GIS (a particular kind of mapping.) She's really out of her element being even just our lead. Deadlines make her very anxious and desperate.

Unfortunately, the engineer that's above her is fine with her being where she's at and there's no arguing with him over it. Corporations don't always make wise personnel decisions...

Thanks for the hug :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Well, that sounds rotten all the way around. I'll send her a mental hug! Hope

things improve for you guys!

[kentauros]

4. Thanks!

One bit of "brightness" came last week when one of the other designers started getting into some of the more advanced operations of AutoCAD, like we used to do. So we passed around instructions for that kind of work, just as a means of "relief" from the rather monotonous drawings we're doing these days (something called "property sketches".)

We make do. And we make fun }(

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Would your kind of "fun" qualify for

http://work.failblog.org/ ? :D

[kentauros]

6. No, but I do like those!

I'll have to pass the link around now :D

I did mention to my co-worker earlier that while I could send her a drafting-standards reference manual, the one I found (for board drafting) wouldn't work on her "fruity" computer. As she likes to tell everyone and often, her family (she lives with her parents) is an Apple Family.

I do try to help her with regards to some of the things, like her desperation during deadlines, and can only hope some of it is sinking in for how to act. I've read that this has been called "managing UP" :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Oh no, the cross-computer divide! Very hard to bridge. (My dad had Macs. I hated trying

to use them. Could never find anything! LOL)

[kentauros]

8. As I said on one of the Steve Jobs threads

(after the OP was lauding everything that had been created on Apples), "The tool does not make the talent." ;)

She has to use PCs at work, but won't even consider seeing how good the sound-quality is on my mp3-player (non-apple, but built for high-fidelity, instead of just being "good enough" like an ipod.) She's quite stubborn in many things, but will at least try to yield on some things. Still, she has a lot to learn about drafting and I don't think she'll learn it simply by being our lead. She needs to take some drafting classes, and ones that don't get into mapping, just the basics.