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8.20.2003

i never really talk about work....because its boring for me to do it.
but today i think i will. im bored and works not helping...oh and im being bratty about the turn of events around here.

so as a primer to the landry work environment i will say right up front that i love the company i work for. I really do.
they are socially responsible
they were rated #2 only to Avon in Forbes magazine as "places for women to work" for the past, i don't know, 6 years or something
they give TONS of money to AIDS organizations
and they are on the forefront of corporate initiatives supporting domestic violence organizations and recently launched a colaborative website that helps and encourages other corporations to put domestic violence on the radar as an issue in the workplace and to put in place and enforce company policy around the issue.
we blow away ALL of the other companies that are in the collaboration with our policy and benefits that we have to help employees who are victims of domestic violence.
we have domestic partner benefits
and the company has a voluntary non discrimination policy around sexual orientation and gender identity.
i am proud to be a part of this company. That is a big deal.

also on a less 'corporation wide' note, i have free run of this place.
i am not micromanaged (as evidenced my the time marks on my posts)
my boss does not hang out over my shoulder
she respects my decisions (generally)
she looks for my opinion on things
i have earned my independence and she is fully aware of it. i get the job done 100% of the time, on time.
she knows that she can throw anything at me and i will figure out how to do it, even if i don't have the skill set i will learn what ever i have to to get the job done. im determined...like a pitbull.

oh and i get 4 weeks vacation plus unlimited personal days and paid holidays

all that is the reason that i can't just take any old job in atlanta. I have been accused by my friends of all sorts of nefarious reasons for not moving there permenantly including but not limited to, "you don't really love your girlfriend and you are trying to put distance between you so you don't have to deal with it"

brwwwwwaaaaaaat
that is landry puking

landry has to be peeled from the car at 5:45 am when dropped at the airport by the girlfriend.
there have been a million times that i just thought "fuck it. im just not going back"
but i am too responsible
or something like that

so when my boss told me that i could not work from home it was for some reason that didn't make sense to me logically. i kept going it over and over in my head and thinking, that does NOT make sense. and of course the lovely alex's voice pops into my head saying "if you don't understand something and it doesn't make sense, then you are missing some information"
so i knew that had to be the case. i was told that i was going to have to do a 'timeshare' with my computer. she chalked it up to 'splitting costs' with another division. so i went to design technologies and asked what our yearly costs were. it costs approximately $6000 to maintain my design systems each year. so i knew that her answer was not accurate or truthful.
well i got exactly the piece of info i was missing. I will be doing the computer timeshare with myself.

I was basically just handed all of he design responsibilities for the biggest acquisition that the company has had to date.
with none of the pay raise.

and luckily for me, this morning? i decided that i was never really meant to be designing for apparel.
the shiny new store will be opening on the corner of 57th and 5th this fall.
sigh




.: posted by landry 3:39 PM

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