I know it’s been a while since I last wrote on here, but it’s been a busy and odd couple of months.

In November, after being told about 100 times that there were good things in the works, I finally lost my job at Black Ops to outsourcing. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), I was given a new job within the company. The new job, known as Project Tetris, is a pilot project meant to help fix problems with scheduling, routing, and dispatch for our field agents.  So far, I’m still trying to decide whether or not I like it. There are some nice things about it, like having weekends off (at least so far), having a manager that actually does management stuff, getting bonuses, and working closer to the cafeteria. Of course, there are things that really suck too. Like the fact that we’re doing very critical work that affects hundreds of field agents, and we’re a “lifeline” to the district managers according to our bosses, yet we still make less money than anyone else on the corporate campus. Or like the fact that I have to be to work at 8:00 am, which is the absolute worst possible time to have to drive. (It used to take me 20-30 minutes to get to work. Now it usually takes me 1-2 hours because of thick rush hour traffic.) There are other things that suck too, like being uncertain about having a job in six months when the pilot ends, being forced to do something that you weren’t hired for, doing work that’s like going back to high school math class, having a gut feeling that you have no idea what you’re doing but have hundreds of people counting on you, etc.

The whole situation sucks, but I feel like there’s nothing I can do. Some executive somewhere thought it looked good on paper, so they just put it into action (surprisingly quickly too) without giving a damn about the people that are caught in the middle of it. Seriously, from a business perspective it looks great. Here we have a group of people whose jobs we can outsource, and we have this new project that needs some people. Let’s take those people and throw them into this new job. That way, we can stop tossing labor money into Black Ops, plus we don’t have to pay them as much for Project Tetris as we would have to pay people off the street. And even better, since this new job is just a temporary position, if it fails after six months, we don’t have to give them any unemployment compensation!

And people wonder why I’m always in a bad mood.

Tags: Rants, Work