door-key
And so officially concludes the best job I ever had.
Today (Wednesday, 1/25) I will go to the mighty Mezz and turn in my door-key to the same lady that hired me almost 10 years ago. At that time she was the ‘pyooter-lady; now she is the Purchasing Director, and thereby the vaunted keeper of the keys.
That lady was semi-retired too — she didn’t work Mondays or Fridays. She’s 67, but apparently her job doesn’t burn her out like mine did. (Years ago, when she was ‘pyooter-lady, her job was a frenzied mess — mainly thanks to crashing PCs; but not now.)
I’ll tell her I really enjoyed doing the web-site; but every day was a crap-shoot: what steaming hairball was Ann Arbor going to lob at us today? (It was more reliable in the end, but still a crap-shoot every day.)
What probably burned me out more than anything was “Night Spots.” I’d come home knowing I had to work on it that night: 1-2 hours on my home rig.
The Senior Calendar tied up an hour or two on Mondays during the site-refresh.
Now the Steppin’ Out Editor is swamped by “Night Spots.” And the SC is probably a retype of the Canandaigua Department of Public Works e-mail I received every week. It looks like it — it lacks my fixes.
And the webmaster is swamped by the web-site. The eastside and westside e-mail newsletters are still using the same photos I did over a month ago — which is okay, except my eastside photo was of a Death-Star storm-trooper manning a Salvation Army kettle; before Christmas, for crying out loud.
Ridiculous, but the webmaster doesn’t have the two minutes it would take to do new photos.
The other issue was honor-rolls. I had two set-up remaining from the first marking period. I told an editor how I did it, and one appeared — looked just like mine.
So apparently he or someone did it — same way I did. The hairball is set-up. I used Word-tricks. What I dread is our poor typist-lady retyping an entire e-mail of the huge Canandaigua Academy (high school) honor-roll (200 names per class). Many honor-rolls are last-name first; some are all-cap or not alphabetical. I had Word-tricks to fix that stuff in seconds.
Faced with 16 honor-rolls that typist would blow a gourd. —In which case, some get farmed out, and reporters short their reporting.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they want help come graduation. I could do a complete grad-list in 15 minutes or less.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they want help for the next batch of honor-rolls. Although I don’t really want to. It would be too much like work.
Today (Wednesday, 1/25) I will go to the mighty Mezz and turn in my door-key to the same lady that hired me almost 10 years ago. At that time she was the ‘pyooter-lady; now she is the Purchasing Director, and thereby the vaunted keeper of the keys.
That lady was semi-retired too — she didn’t work Mondays or Fridays. She’s 67, but apparently her job doesn’t burn her out like mine did. (Years ago, when she was ‘pyooter-lady, her job was a frenzied mess — mainly thanks to crashing PCs; but not now.)
I’ll tell her I really enjoyed doing the web-site; but every day was a crap-shoot: what steaming hairball was Ann Arbor going to lob at us today? (It was more reliable in the end, but still a crap-shoot every day.)
What probably burned me out more than anything was “Night Spots.” I’d come home knowing I had to work on it that night: 1-2 hours on my home rig.
The Senior Calendar tied up an hour or two on Mondays during the site-refresh.
Now the Steppin’ Out Editor is swamped by “Night Spots.” And the SC is probably a retype of the Canandaigua Department of Public Works e-mail I received every week. It looks like it — it lacks my fixes.
And the webmaster is swamped by the web-site. The eastside and westside e-mail newsletters are still using the same photos I did over a month ago — which is okay, except my eastside photo was of a Death-Star storm-trooper manning a Salvation Army kettle; before Christmas, for crying out loud.
Ridiculous, but the webmaster doesn’t have the two minutes it would take to do new photos.
The other issue was honor-rolls. I had two set-up remaining from the first marking period. I told an editor how I did it, and one appeared — looked just like mine.
So apparently he or someone did it — same way I did. The hairball is set-up. I used Word-tricks. What I dread is our poor typist-lady retyping an entire e-mail of the huge Canandaigua Academy (high school) honor-roll (200 names per class). Many honor-rolls are last-name first; some are all-cap or not alphabetical. I had Word-tricks to fix that stuff in seconds.
Faced with 16 honor-rolls that typist would blow a gourd. —In which case, some get farmed out, and reporters short their reporting.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they want help come graduation. I could do a complete grad-list in 15 minutes or less.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they want help for the next batch of honor-rolls. Although I don’t really want to. It would be too much like work.
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