June 27th, 2005

I would like to take this time..

To explain that my boss is INSANE. The man sent seven emails this weekend, some of which are more than a page long, talking about the “new” direction our company is going in. Mind you, the company is only a year or so old and he’s already changed our name—twice.

We had a group meeting on Friday (wherein all four principals showed up), and during that meeting he proceeded to change EVERYTHING again. This typically happens at these meetings—hence the reason I dread them like a root canal sans novocaine.

Why? Well, 1) we (my coworker and I work from a separate office, thank god) have to drive over two hours (in bumper-to-bumper traffic) to get there—by nine a.m., 2) our boss makes drastic, sweeping changes (the company name, redoing the website, adding three new websites, etc) every time we go up there, 3) we always have to go to lunch at the same place and it’s been disgusting EVERY time, 4) we don’t get out of there until late, which means we hit traffic going home (we’re talking 10 mph-in-the-breakdown-lane traffic here) and 5) we don’t like the man, so being in the same vicinity with him (while having to listen to him—he likes the sounds of his own voice… blowhard) makes us a) dread the entire day and b) grouchy as all holy hell.

That being said, I now have to respond to his maniacal emails—that are asking if I have started on any of the projects we talked about—on Friday. Yeah right. He doesn’t pay me enough to work on weekends—damn, he doesn’t pay me enough to work during the week.

Fortunately, I went way out of my way this morning and picked myself up a nice Starbucks quad espresso. I will live.