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[podling]

I have found that now that I've come to terms with the fact that my job (my current/old job, as opposed to my current/new job) seems to mostly consist of fixing mistakes that other people make, it's much easier to cope with. Or maybe it's that there's an end in sight. Hard to say which.

Thank you thank you thank you to those kind folk who re-upped me so that I could stop whining. I miss the whining, but I missed my pics more, so I am eternally grateful to you. Perhaps I should make a poll to honor you. I mean, okay, I know there are people who need more in the world, but you know, those people probably don't want LJ accounts anyway. So, next time I shall budget better. Really. Smoochies!

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[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

Fixing other people's screwups always feels better when it isn't your sole reason for getting up at some ungodly hour of the morning. Plus, you are safe in the knowledge that soon they won't be your direct colleagues and you will be able to laugh at them (even more) openly.

My similar discovery is that dealing with other people's insane computer-related decisions is much easier when there is no way you could have made them make a better decision, and you have no authority to force sense into them cos they're a client. At that point, you can sit back, make the best of a bad job, and mock them with your more sensible coworkers (in my case, there's only one of him, but still).

[podling]

Well, there's actually several funny bits about this. One is that even after I make the full switchover to the new job, I'm going to retain the power to look at what everyone here is doing on the bill paying system, with the ability to fix things if needed. The other is that I realized how... I don't know what the right word is here... impressive? responsibility laden? etc... that the new job is. Freaky.

What's odd about the fixing of issues is that without me there, they likely won't notice that these things *are* going horribly wrong, which is even more questionable. And when they do sense something amiss, it'll take them longer to figure it out, then fixing it will be near impossible. But hopefully I'm wrong on that score.