So, it's been snowing almost non-stop for the last two weeks; I'm incredibly disgruntled by this snows presence in my life. But, regardless of the snow I did find a way to leave my wee little Auburn,WA suburb of Algona/Pacific and get to my sisters house in the wonderful city of Lacey (Olympia). I love this place, this town, this spot on the earth; it is my home!
Despite the fact that this snow sucks and it's pretty much made me prisoner in the apartment I share with my Dad and new Step-Mom, it is kinda pretty. I think in the many years that I've lived in Washington State this is going to be my first real "WHITE CHRISTMAS". I've had Slushy Christmases and I've experienced Christmases with snow fall, but never a Christmas with a foot of snow already on the ground and the promise of even more snow fall. I think tonight I'm gonna try to talk someone into helping my build a snow man.
Christmas is exciting to me and coming home to my Sister and my brother-in-law, The Canadian, makes the holiday even more special. I think though, what really made my season bright was the "Merry Christmas" I received from my work. My new supervisor, (The one who always forgets who I am, never remembers I'm new to her center and do not know all of the procedures for things yet, no matter how many times I tell her.) takes me to this back room called "The Monitoring Room" (It has a sign.) and proceeds to tell me she got an email from my quality coach (From whom I have recently received scores of 95% and 100% on my call quality.) and they are concerned about how I'm fitting into the job and my supervisor flat out asks me "Do you like working on the phones?". I almost wet my pants at this question.... What am I supposed to say to that? I can't lie... because lying is bad... I've lost too many Christian points doing and saying other things. (+10 Christian Points for helping the needy, -5 Christian Points for thinking impure thoughts about the guy who stocks the vending machines in the lunch room.)
At this point, I'm not about to lie to a supervisor at the largest Christian NGO's in the US. And of course I do have my own moral standards that prevent me from lying. So, I explain in the most professional way that I can; that I apologize if I ever seemed that I didn't like my job, (I always thought I did a good job at not complaining.) that honestly, working on the phone is most definitely not my most favorite thing to do and I don't want to do this forever; But that I always try to do my best no matter what I'm doing because that's what I'm called to do by my beliefs and that my time working here would be met by me working as hard as I needs to, to meet the requirements of my position. I reminded her on my good quality scores and ended with another brief apology. (The classic sandwich method.) But Ms. Forgetful-supervisor-lady tells me that they are going to be monitoring me and my work extra to make sure I'm not slacking off and verbatim said "This is a verbal warning...". What the deuce?!?! And a Merry Christmas to you too, my place of employment!
Now, with all that said... I guess I'm gonna be looking for a new job soon...
My sister told me I need to learn to "play the game" better... She said I should have more indirectly answered the question. I couldn't do that, I lived a life of "playing the game" while working at LiveBridge/ACS and I can't play the game anymore. Not giving the whole truth or giving fanciful answers is the same as lying in my book and my life is too short for me to waste my time playing some game just so I can "make it" in some corporate world. I have to believe that there is more to modern existence than that.
Well, to all the world I wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
And here is an awesome picture of a spider eating a bird!
-Gideon
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