Happy April Fools, everyone! May you wade through the deluge of tainted information more or less unscathed.

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Work is teh suck right now. I feel bad/guilty because I'm not getting anything substantial done. I'm not getting anything substantial done because nothing is wrong *knocks on wood*, there are interesting things to do besides work, I am horribly mismanaged, and I have a particularly confrontational co-worker that I don't wish to anger by making some choice/decision he disagrees with. Bleh.

The laziness is easy to overcome.

Management I can mostly just placate and ignore. At this point, however, my boss actively impedes my accomplishment of my assigned tasks.

Dealing with my coworker just requires me to grow a spine and learn to face confrontation. It's not like he really has any legitimate reasons to be irritated with me in the course of my normal work. Normally we can work things out. I guess I just need to keep that in mind.

Fuck. I just want to go out and sit in the sunlight someplace... and not face the tediousness of this work situation. Gotta love the types of choices our society prefers us to make.

</whine>

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Update: I'm feeling better now.

Random Thought

It begins to seem like asking someone how to do something is really the hard way to learn things.

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I must, I must, I must increase my bust

phil
Learning new things...
My learning is driven by what I like to call the "annoyance factor". I'll ask a co-worker, or anyone that I think might have a better understanding of what I'm trying to accomplish. If they are most helpful, excellent. If not, I will eventually get fed up and figure out how to do it myself. =)
m4dd4wg
work it, work it!
I'm not used to working with techies, and my few experiences working with techies have been infuriating, but my experience in jobs is that supervisors know about problem co-workers before you do. Although you're reluctant to piss him off, I might say to your boss, "I want to try this, but I'm afraid ole boy's gonna throw a fit." That way you can work out a plan together.
fathom
work
does the "co-worker" read your blog? let's hope not, well of course unless he knows how you feel. i would guess that he does not.  there's a lot about my job i don't like either, but i guess i just have to blow off steam, put my head down, and keep at it.  the other option of course is to join the peace corps and then not worry about such things.