WHOO

Watching LGR on Youtube and just finished eating some Taco Bell. Just wanted to write about my day today.

I suppose my work ethic has increased tenfold over the past six months. I also found out a week or so ago I think now, that my boss has to constantly defend me from HIS boss because he just wanted to fire me all the time. Like wtf dude I'm your last guy running this damn program cause my boss sure wasn't going to fucking take appointments. And it was EVERY SINGLE DAY apparently too.

That guy got "demoted" to a big name department in my company and kept his pay of 22 an hour. How, I don't know, but my boss just told me that that was how the company functioned. My department got merged with another Telecommunications department running in my company's building and we're under a great supervisor at the moment.

Basically in essence my boss's boss got "demoted" and we switched rooms and "merged" with a different department in my building.

But six months ago, we fired a guy who would NOT show up for work consistently so it was down to me, our Admin, and our boss. But the Admin was working part time also in the other department for some reason, because my boss's boss (Referred to here as BB) made some "deals" with some higher ups in that other department and was "loaning" him to the department, but it was affecting his work for US in our department, but we couldn't really blame him since he was placed on a team that handles literally 500 user migrations to Office 365, upwards of 500 users! That's stressful as fuck, I can barely handle a ONE user migration much less a TWO lol (even though the processes are generally the same). Anyway, so eventually our Admin was removed from our team and sent to the other telecom department, leaving just me and my boss from February to about June. In May, BB got "demoted" to the other department.

One thing you need to understand about BB: he's a bodybuilder and fucking craves attention and father figures, and his "best friend" at the time was a dude that also worked in the same room as him (as well as my boss and I) and literally never let the guy get any work done and put off his own work. He literally got one company to sue another company by being the middleman for a migration and fucking up the migration, essentially. No skin off my bones when every day I was worrying about my fucking department being shut down and having a full fucking queue every goddamn day of back to back to back to back to back to back appointments (6 appointments all day every day)and not even knowing that BB wanted to fucking fire me because of a tiny thing I'd say to a customer or some shit. It was just all super petty fucking crap.

And I don't hate the guy for that, I hate the guy for where he left MY BOSS with MY DEPARTMENT. We were literally up shit creek without a paddle. And the reason was because BB was not reporting correct things about our department to the COO IN THE FUCKING BUILDING at the meetings they were having. And to be honest if my boss hadn't stood his ground in those meetings about where our department was and the state of our department. And it made me feel terrible when my boss one day said that he hated coming into work, through no fault of my own but rather that I still enjoyed my job, I was just half-assing it, or rather "phoning it in", if you will. And it was like that for MONTHS up until BB left the room with his "best friend" (who was actually fucking annoyed as fuck with him all the time and is performing admirably as a team leader (which BB also applied for and did not get cause he's a fucking idiot) which I'm happy about.

So now we're under a better boss who passes everything we need to the COO, open communication, etc. BB was just trying to save his fucking ass from looking like an idiot to the "head honchos" and in the end it bit him in the ass. My boss feels better about his job and so do I, and we even brought on a person for an "admin" role on our team along with another guy who is on a school schedule so he's there from 6PM to midnight, generally. And it's just all around a much less depressive environment and it's really nice.

And the point of my post here today after explaining what's been happening the last half a fucking year at my job, is I got a "coaching" today (I say "coaching" instead of coaching because we generally don't need to have coachings a lot since we work in such close proximity to each other, but for the sake of "paperwork" we do have to do them like once a month or something.) and I was praised for my "hard work and dedication" which, I mean, I don't consider this job hard work. I consider fucking Circle K work hard work. But I digress, I was praised for my work and it feels gud but you know what feels better!?

THAT'S RIGHT FUCKIN MONEY BITCHES

And I'm getting a $50 Amazon gift card for my work with the company. HELLLL YEEEEAAA BOIII less than a year there and already praised for my work. Despite the "cringe" factor, our COO called me a "rock star" in terms of my work and my boss told me today on the way home that our boss basically was like 'eh he called him a rockstar, that warrants a reward right' lolol. I mighta preferred a subway gift card but it's whatever! (I think I can just buy the card on amazon or whatever so)

It's been a rocky as fuck six months and I kept my mouth shut about going to our COO about our issues and let my boss handle it. And I really do try to assist my boss in any way I can that's possible for me to help him and I know he appreciates it very much. Buys me fast food on the way home every now and again which is 100% appreciated since I'm usually starving at the end of the day heh. Also the rides home help too lol.

BUT I was writing this out and this was all required because I found out some shady ITT Tech so the company I work in is in an old ITT Tech building where I live, and there's a lot of old ITT Tech stuff that was left in this large room we call "the warehouse", which is where we store spare shit and stuff. And in there is a filing cabinet that has personal information about students that went there over MANY years as well as personal information (like social security numbers, phone numbers, emails) of students and teachers.

Now, the one thing that I found interesting is that there were three filing cabinets. The first one was all locked. The second was unlocked and the third was locked. So I opened the first drawer in the second cabinet. Nothing. Second, nothing. Third, nothing. Fourth... GEMS OF INFORMATION!

I grabbed these two binders that were in there and I opened the first one. In the pocket folder of the binder was some email correspondence as well as some other papers from the ACCSC (Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges) and the email chain I read spoke about some of the staff members emailing each other about who hired this new person who was made CHAIR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE FOR THE SCHOOL. The new person apparently was NOT qualified to be in that position and I actually went and LinkedIn their profile (while logged in, oops) and they went from A SPRINT TECHNICAL SERVICE MANAGER TO A CHAIR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE WITH NO SCHOOLING INBETWEEN TO BE ELEVATED TO THAT LEVEL. She now counsels people at a psychology clinic here which scares me even more. The school was investigated by ACCSC and basically found lacking for many things for students in 2008, but I learned today that ITT Tech shut down in 2016. TWO YEARS ago, the whole organization.

My department and I laughed our asses off and I took a screenshot of her work history without any other information in the picture about her. There was also a BUNCH of other binders (also I found out she was fired after ACCSC found out she did not have the correct education for the position lol obviously) and there were like the "end of class surveys" where people graded their teachers and left comments about the class and stuff and I learned two things:

One, that ITT Tech had ONE computer room for students to use for classwork.

Two, that computer room got changed into a classroom that USED those computers actively for that class.

Three, eventually that became a problem so they played "musical classrooms" and when people needed to use the computers they moved the class to another classroom, etc etc.

Four, a TON of really cool teachers worked there apparently based on the students' comments on those many black and white pages I leafed through.

I feel so bad for the students that got "degrees" from there because I'm pretty sure they're invalid now. I did also find some SUPER OLD binders from 1991! The papers were stuck together and stuff and had that old paper feel... shudders oh man that was gud shit. But yeah, today was an adventure. Finding out the staff just hired anyone with a pulse to teach students... oh yeah and a lot of classes also were missing a lot of "teaching hours" and stuff so people were getting a half-assed education on top of that! It was ridiculous to read about this.

I'm glad they're gone but I wonder what my schooling is going to be like from a similar school like Full Sail University... we were cracking jokes about it actually, was pretty good.

Anyway I guess I'm off to play WoW or something. o/