Ha ha, our posts crossed paths.

I can't believe no one did the work for your presentation! Nice team work!

My migraines involve tooth pain in the wisdom teeth area and lights flickering. There is also a huge light and noise sensitivity and feeling sick to my stomach. I have this 'thing' where I would start a home construction project and then get so overwhelmed by it that I would have to go to bed in the middle of the day. I would need dark and absolute silence. When I woke up the next morning (or middle of the night), I would feel better.

I still don't think of it as head pain. It's not that it's painful, just that I am so miserable and feel so lousy that I can't deal with anything.

So I am wondering - home construction projects often kick up dust! Maybe it's not that I am overwhelmed, but that there's a sinus issue!

The job really does not need to look better! Even if you are 100% sure about that, going with the idea that you might be wrong is so much more beneficial. What do you have to lose? An hour getting your resume up to date (so it's ready the moment the perfect job lands at your feet)? A few hours practicing interviews with someone you'll never see again?

Getting the energy together to apply for a job you don't want is a lot easier than finding energy for one you do want!

So I drove the hour (it was longer) to plug the thing in and leave. I guess if they want to pay me three hours to drive around, whatever. If my car had AC I would be happy about getting out of the office.

The people at this site are awful and I don't trust them to do what I tell them. It's really, really bad. We installed some new equipment and it mysteriously broke - sabotage has not been ruled out.

I had someone in another office call me today wanting me to drive 2+ hours to add some RAM to a machine. Seriously?!?!?! This guy has been doing this stuff for 7 years and now is suddenly incapable of it?

When I took the job, I knew there would be some BS, but I didn't quite expect this. I figured that it would be okay since I got paid the same amount either way. It really is grating, though. Some of the people at this place treat me like I am some sort of servant. I had an incident last week that was simply infuriating. Someone wanted me to set up equipment for a training. He told me an hour before it took place - right as he was leaving for lunch, like I was going to set it up for him while he was gone. I didn't.

The biggest problem I have with these people is that they have solutions worked out that make no sense. This is not something I have encountered in other places. What I run into in this place are people telling me *how* to do things, but what they want me to do is impossible. The guy with the training kept telling me that he needed me to set up X, but I knew he needed Y. Two minutes before his training starts, he asks me how to make X do Y. I told him that I had no idea how to do that and assumed he did from the way he was talking.

And, really, I am not a difficult person (usually). I want to be helpful. I am done being taken advantage of or treated disrespectfully. Asking me nicely, apologetically, for help at the last minute is one thing. Telling me to set up for your meeting at lunch time? Nope.

That condo networking thing - wow! That escalated quickly! It sounds like you did well to just cancel the account. I have heard some pretty funny stories about neighborhood Facebook groups - luckily there's nothing like that in my neighborhood

I am not sure what will happen with the travel. The person I (currently) report to does not want me on the road for these dumb reasons. Since I am only in a few days a week, it's really kind of big deal for me to spend one of those days on the road doing something ridiculous.

I learned today that someone at the parent company requested my resume in case they want to utilize me in the future. Really???? Maybe everyone really *is* irritating!!!

I kind of want to go to bed already too, but I am not going to.