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SergeBroom ([personal profile] sergebroom) wrote2011-03-12 08:37 am

gripes

I've been thinking...
("Huh oh.")
I heard that.
Like I was about to say, I've been thinking that I gripe too much about work on my blog. After all, people come here not for that, but for my wit.
("Your what?")
I heard that too.
Anyway. I'll lay off.

[identity profile] brownkitty.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? This is your blog, where you're supposed to be able to say what you want.

[identity profile] sajia.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if we disliked it that much, which we don't, we could always just scroll down.

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, all of you. I do try to balance the telling of bleh stuff with some office-related yay stuff. For example, I have received many thanks from people I've worked with, some of those thru very official channels.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2011-03-13 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I second that emotion.

[identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Lay off? I'm not sure I want to hear about layoffs.

[identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com 2011-03-13 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
Seriously, what I get from your work-related posts is that you're good at what you do, and you are coping well with work situations that are not atypical.

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2011-03-13 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I did quite well, but some people higher up felt differently. I'm getting my yearly review on Wednesday so I'll see then exactly what their perception is. Wish me luck.
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[personal profile] pedanther 2011-03-12 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
As brownkitty says, this is your blog.

And if you can't gripe about work to your friends, who can you gripe about work to?

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
True, but there is such a thing as overdoing it. I was afraid that's what I was doing.

[identity profile] lunacy-gal.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You can always gripe about *my* work, if you like...

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I undestand that your job involves silly people making demands for tasks the results of which will become moot by Sunday AD. I've never heard of such a job until now.

[identity profile] lunacy-gal.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Never worked for the Canadian public service, then?

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2011-03-13 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I worked for the Quebec govt from 1978 until 1986. Does that count?

[identity profile] evilrooster.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I actually am interested in how your work life is going. If we're declaring our interests, here, there ya go.

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. Still, I will try not to abuse my friends's interest in my professional life.

[identity profile] redrose3125.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[[echoes all the above]]

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2011-03-12 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. By the way, I'm finally getting my yearly review this coming Wednesday, and it's by my boss's boss, with whom I have seldom spoken. Of course, I'm a bit nervous, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.