Life of a Geeky Lesbian

Monday, April 8:

When I was younger, I didn't think there was anything to dislike about Mondays.

I have learned my lesson. :)

After waking up at an hour that felt far too early, thanks to Daylight Savings Time, I managed to get to work slightly early.

The company I work for just merged with another company (that had the offices next door to us, actually), and today was to be my first day working in one of their offices. All the web designers/coders are now in this big room.

So I walk in, early, like I said, and the guy who's moving into the room with me from the old office is there, and asks me how I am. I grumbled something like "To hell with Daylight Savings Time", and my boss, JT, is around to hear that. He's actually the President, with the CEO being his older brother.

I digress.

The network was down in our room, since so many people were being moved and all, so I don't know when it was sent (was the server time updated or not?), but there was a mail in my box from JT when I got logged in about an hour later.

It was a reply to a mail I'd sent him and my new supervisor, JR, detailing what I'd done on Friday, as both had shown some interest in knowing where I was at in that specific project I was given that day.

Only he hadn't meant to send it to me. JR wasn't in the to: or cc: fields, but this was the content of the mail:

"I assume [my name] will continue working on this. I think we need to monitor her progress and have a serious chat about her productivity."

I'm pissed. I've been there for eight weeks and the only real slowdowns after an initial week of getting used to things have been due to JT not planning things out properly, or not vetoing what the graphic designer does before he hands it to me to code.

The ironic thing is, I cc:ed JT on the progress mail as a courtesy. I wasn't required to send one, I didn't have to send one to either of them, and yet I do it as a freaking *courtesy*, and it causes questions about my productivity??

I had 50+ sites to go through and make changes on for this project, and JR even told me it was easily a day and a half to two day task. I finished half the sites on Friday, and it wasn't even all day Friday. I finished all I could do in a short day today (long story, but it was a short day for everyone, not just me), despite getting that early on in my day.

Any advice on how to deal with JT the Prick? I haven't said anything, but am thinking about talking to JR about it, like... "Uh, I *think* this was meant for you..." or something. I dunno.

Help. :)
the geeky one //

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