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Super busy at work

Man, I’ve been swamped lately with stuff at work. Normally I think that would be a good thing, but now I’m starting to wonder.

Right now any time my boss doesn’t want to do some prototyping, or work up a diagram or anything he puts me on it. Well, that means I’m pretty much constantly doing that because my boss runs into stuff like that all the time.

I wouldn’t mind so much, but he comes by every once in a while and asks me if I have some other part of my job description going, or some other project done yet. It is super frustrating because I’m constantly floating and never have time to help anyone else. I’m susposed to be doing quality improvements, and working on other peoples stuff too.

On top of that, we sent a bad cable to a company, and he is all over my ass about it since I worked on the pin-outs for the cables, but the kicker is when I prototyped the cable, it looked OK, just too bright. My boss looked at it and said it would be OK since they have a brightness controller built into their panel. Well, it turns out that it is actually two incompatible systems, and only part of the information is getting into the panel, so it looks too bright and washed out. This is all somehow my fault even though he is the one who said it was OK. Of course, he doesn’t remember ever seeing the prototype cable I tested.

They don’t pay me enough to shit on me like that. I’m gonna start making calls again to the recruiters in case my meeting in september goes bad.

This place needs someone to manage it, and help the owner with this stuff, cuz I feel like I’m wasting my time, and no one in the whole building has any idea what is going on half the time. I thought he was making smart decisions by hiring me as an overhead position, but now I’m wondering why he hasn’t hired a manager yet to oversee employees, cuz he sucks at it, and it is pretty obvious.