learning more and more...

While Amy's been gone to Hawaii on business I've been focusing on my job and our garden. It's coming along smartly and I now know how to plant sod. But, my job. So far, it's going really well, I'm happy for the most part. It's not the perfect job but at this point, I'm realizing that there is no perfect job--just little victories here and there. I have a better grasp of supplier data now that I've had a chance to work with it. My co-workers probably get the feeling that I didn't want to deal it--and that's fine--complaining about it would have been just whining and I don't want to do that.

In fact, when our little team was supposed to be learning about supplier data, I was sequestered in meetings most of the day dealing with an XML idea that never came to fruition while my other co-worker was learning more and more about supplier data. Every time I returned to it was like starting all over again. Needless to say, it was a pain in the ass. I achieved what I could.

But I'm doing better with it now. There are more efficiency tools that I should be working on to improve our process. Also, I'm not placed in the best location to get the information that I should be getting to do my work. My two other co-workers yell at each other and sometimes inadvertedly leave me out of decisions they make.

So when I ask questions I usually get, "yea! that's how we've doing it... we told you". See? I agree that they probably did, but they talk about it all the time and really learn things. Because I'm out of the loop, I don't remember it.

My normal way of working is to identify what things we can eliminate and still do our job effectively. Sometimes it seems that my co-workers are looking for more things to document. They may make our work more accurate, but also take much longer.

I'm just rambling at this point. Until later.