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thessalian) wrote2006-02-15 03:14 pm
thessalian) wrote2006-02-15 03:14 pm
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Probation
The meeting went about as expected. Michael told me all the things that were going wrong (neglected T-card updates, which I started improving at least a month ago, papers that were 'stuck' because no one was responding and I was too busy trying to track down other stuck papers to notice those ones, missing referees for which I never got help with the address or author name from Ham-Fisted Editor etc), didn't listen to any of the improvements that I had already made to stop any of those things from happening again or the fact that I can't take back the fact that things didn't happen when I was trying to find my way around things and set up my own systems, and generally got a sound bollocking.
I also got told that, because of the stuff he brought up, Michael doesn't feel that my work is good enough to justify taking me off probation. So he's extending it to May. If things don't improve by then, well ... you get the picture. So because I don't generally have the time to file everything in triplicate when I'm trying to do three things at once, and because Ham-Fisted Editor can't get certain things right, and because of a learning curve that's only showing up problems now because of turn-around time, I may lose my job in three months. Needless to say, I'm not exactly happy. Lady Competence has had nothing but praise for me, and yet. Everything's on the computer, and it's not exactly rocket science to run a search and get all the details right then and there, but another thing that I got bitched out about is not having a copy of everything I ever send out about a paper in the folders. When they could just ask me to look in the Sent file, or do it themselves if I'm not there. But Michael doesn't seem to think that's a reasonable way of doing things, so...
The orders are as follows: I have to keep hard copy documentation of everything the editors send me, in chronological order and on file, and mark off what I've done on each after it's been finished, to be reviewed in May. I have to go over all the T-cards (going on a hundred) once a week to make sure no papers are 'stuck'. I have to print off not only everything that comes in, but everything I send out, and file it in the folder of the paper to which it relates. I'm trying but it's already slowing me down to the point where I think I'll be in a pretty bad position come the end of the week. (And no, I don't think the five minutes it'll take to type this will make much difference.) And of course, if I end up in a hole work-wise, it'll be pretty bad come May. Which will say nothing but bad things about my work performance, which will have me either on further probation or outright sacked. I just want to curl up and die.
In the only positive news of the day, I picked up a copy of Tipping the Velvet while on lunch. I'm enjoying it one hell of a lot better than Neutron Star, I can tell you. I guess I just don't get along with hard fantasy; not enough people dealing with people and too much people dealing with machines. I guess it's predominantly writing for geeks who don't like dealing with people and prefer machines (no offence, y'all). Not that I'm not going to finish Neutron Star; I said I would and so I will. It's just not my bag, and I guess it never will be.
I also got told that, because of the stuff he brought up, Michael doesn't feel that my work is good enough to justify taking me off probation. So he's extending it to May. If things don't improve by then, well ... you get the picture. So because I don't generally have the time to file everything in triplicate when I'm trying to do three things at once, and because Ham-Fisted Editor can't get certain things right, and because of a learning curve that's only showing up problems now because of turn-around time, I may lose my job in three months. Needless to say, I'm not exactly happy. Lady Competence has had nothing but praise for me, and yet. Everything's on the computer, and it's not exactly rocket science to run a search and get all the details right then and there, but another thing that I got bitched out about is not having a copy of everything I ever send out about a paper in the folders. When they could just ask me to look in the Sent file, or do it themselves if I'm not there. But Michael doesn't seem to think that's a reasonable way of doing things, so...
The orders are as follows: I have to keep hard copy documentation of everything the editors send me, in chronological order and on file, and mark off what I've done on each after it's been finished, to be reviewed in May. I have to go over all the T-cards (going on a hundred) once a week to make sure no papers are 'stuck'. I have to print off not only everything that comes in, but everything I send out, and file it in the folder of the paper to which it relates. I'm trying but it's already slowing me down to the point where I think I'll be in a pretty bad position come the end of the week. (And no, I don't think the five minutes it'll take to type this will make much difference.) And of course, if I end up in a hole work-wise, it'll be pretty bad come May. Which will say nothing but bad things about my work performance, which will have me either on further probation or outright sacked. I just want to curl up and die.
In the only positive news of the day, I picked up a copy of Tipping the Velvet while on lunch. I'm enjoying it one hell of a lot better than Neutron Star, I can tell you. I guess I just don't get along with hard fantasy; not enough people dealing with people and too much people dealing with machines. I guess it's predominantly writing for geeks who don't like dealing with people and prefer machines (no offence, y'all). Not that I'm not going to finish Neutron Star; I said I would and so I will. It's just not my bag, and I guess it never will be.