This Is What I Like to Hear

[moon_custafer]

Backstory -- one of the projects I'm involved with at work is an appliance catalogue. We've been using two installation diagrams we got from the manufacturer, but they're (a) blurry and (b) don't really match each other in style. I've been cropping them and pasting labels over them for a month now.

Me, early yesterday afternoon: "Hey (My Boss), should we just bite the bullet and have me redraw these diagrams from scratch? I think at this point it'll be less work than what we've been doing."

My Boss: "I didn't want to make you do it, but yeah."

Three hours later:

Me: "Here are the new diagrams."

My Boss looks at them and laughs hysterically.

My Boss: "Sorry, I'm laughing because these are so much better it's ridiculous. Why did we suffer with the old ones for so long? (Pause) Now I kind of want to show these to (the manufacturer) and say 'Nyanyananyanah.' "

It really is amazing to work at a job I'm suited to. The only thing is that I go in for jury duty next Tuesday, and may be off for several weeks if I'm selected. My workplace is short-staffed as it is, and I hope they can cope (I'll try and explain that to the court, but I gather they don't usually let one make excuses. The other annoying thing is that I actually think it would be pretty interesting to serve on a jury if I weren't worried about missing work.) Guess I'll have to see if we can get the catalogue put to bed by the end of Monday.

Comments

[leave-harmony.livejournal.com]

Actually they let me take a pass when I was called in. It was when I'd started having heart palpitations and didn't know wtf was up with them, and the anxiety surrounding the not-knowing-if-I'd-end-up-serving set of a bad attack of 'em...so I dunno, I think with certain complicated situations they'll be understanding about it.
'Course it may have helped that I looked like a deer in the headlights...at mine, they allowed a written explanation, even. So I scribbled it all on the envelope that had the doctor's note in it. Apologising for penmanship and spelling.
You've had so much trouble with the temp stuff, and taking into account green_trilobite's anxiety...maybe they'd accept that as reason to decline?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Definitely play the anxiety card! You have a diagnosis, and meds. Go for it. (All they can do is say no.)

Also: Congrats on your triumph at work. Here's hoping this leads to bigger/better things, and better yet, permanent things.

[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

Congratulations on your new career as a draughtswoman! You follow in the footsteps of such luminaries as Will Eisner and his work for the US Army in WWII.

Re: the jury duty. It wouldn't be so bad if they actually paid you something for the week of being in the pool or however long you serve if you're actually chosen but you get bumpkis in Ontario. It basically means that the only people on juries are retired or rich people. Your boss can't fire you for going off on jury duty but they don't have to pay you when you're gone either. If you can actually make a case that you and your dependants can't do without that income then you can write a note to that effect and see what they think of that. Even though I would have dearly loved to serve I had to go that route when my card came up.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

They pay a minimum amount, and according to the terms of my employment, my job will pay for three days of jury duty -- the trouble is this is apparently selection for a murder trial that could go for a month. (I'm hoping that's the worst-case scenario and they're just legally obligated to say "could run four weeks" on the paperwork, but there you go.)