Well I was feeling like this was going to be another suck ass Tuesday and I would have no song for today, but as I pulled onto the ramp to exit the expressway I heard my song for today.
The song for this Turn It Up Tuesday is Sober by Tool. I have included a video for your listening and viewing pleasure.
Cha Ching!! We got our income tax check, I love this time of year. Time to start getting prices for my deck. Cannot wait to be able to sit outside on my patio and cookout.
Leap of Faith Fridays series was cooked up by Christine at Chicken Fried Therapy . I know I missed the first 3 weeks of this and I wanted to participate but I just cannot take the leap. These leaps of faith are things that I am in need of doing in every aspect of my life, personal and professional.
These leaps or coming out of my shell are things that I am seriously planning on doing in the very near future. I have been contemplating on going to a hypnotist to help retrain my brain into not being so afraid of going after things that I want out of life. I do not know if I am afraid of failure, looking stupid, being ridiculed , being judged by my looks or a combination of all of these things and the unknown reasons.
At the end of my journey I am planning on getting a large tattoo on my back of a person emerging from the water with arms stretched to the side, fits clenched symbolizing my emergence from my innerself.
Until then I guess this will have to be my starting off point to my own leaps of faith.
A little background to start you off. I work at a fairly large software company in the technical support department. On any given day we take anywhere from 1300 - 2500 calls per day from people in the auto industry.
Today we had our beginning of the year kickoff meeting which for us in the trenches is basically an hour off the phones, a welcome break. The only thing really important to us is how big our bonuses are going to be. We all listened to the executive talk about revenue, growth, profits, losses, etc hoping that someone would have lots of questions to try and stretch the meeting out as long as possible.
At the end of the meeting they said that they were at an outside sales conference with our customers talking about what we could do to improve business and so forth ( usual exec stuff ) when one person asked if they ever talk to the technical support staff to get their feedback on what the customers are saying and would like. DING ! DING ! DING ! What ask us pee-ons in the trenches what we think? You know the people who are the FACE of the company, the ones that support the procuct you seem to throw together at times. The ones that customers say are some of the best of any of our competitors. The ones that REALLY control how your company fares. If we do a bad job, you lose custmers. If we continue to do the top notch job we do, you get a good reputation and get customer referals and increased revenue.
Maybe they should start listening to us, we are not all mindless idiots, some of us do have ideas that are worth listening to. Its pretty sad that someone on the OUTSIDE had to tell them that they should listen to their support staff.
I may need to do something I didn’t want to do, after seeing the results of my last two post I just may need to sell out to the reality Gods. In order to get more traffic to the website you just may see more posts about all the reality and game shows that litter the TV. You know the ones, American Idol, Survivor, Biggest Loser, Dancing With the Stars, Amazing Race, Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, 1 vs 100, The Apprentice etc…
This will only be temporary just to see how much traffic the posts will generate, after all we gotta pay the bills somehow. How hard could it be to make $10/month?
You will still see our normal posts as we argue our way to sanity, so feel free to agree with me and disagree with the Queen as you enjoy your reading when you visit.
