Bye Bye Little Kozik

In my last post I wrote a small passage about my new workfriend Kozik. (I know his name now!) Besides HS he was the ONLY one there keeping me from going insane. So today my boss comes up to me and asks me what it is and what is it for. I said, its a toy and it is funny. She asked, "why is it here?". I said, I don't know it is funny. It makes me smile. She says M@@@ (who is her boss) is worried about it, he is not sure it follows company desk policy? I say, "We have a desk policy?". She says yes, some had to remove some...bla bla bla...at this point I stop listening and think, man I gotta keep looking for work, gotta gotta. So then she asks me to put it somewhere where NO ONE can see it. Not for poor little Kozik. He deserves to be in the spotlight, so I say that I will take him home.

Kozik:


Space Monkey and Kozik:



He is going to do a bit of a roadtrip and head off to LP's work where I am sure he will be happy and maybe people will like him. Hmmm...writing this blog makes me think that I should rename my blog, the adventures of Kozik, the rejected bunny! (see attached pics) In one he is posing with his good friend space monkey)

Speaking of bunnies, have you seen Donnie Darko? Very cool.

In other news I was mad enough at the big bloated book seller Ama%^N.**M today to cancel my account. All I wanted was to let them know that a certain book was NOT written by Tom Robbins, even though their sad little web page said it was. I didn't want them to tell me that I f****ed up or that in order to get a refund...bla bla bla bla. Anywho I HIGHLY recommend not shopping there. Buy local, buy used!

Last of all it is time to honor my good friend on the east coast and his fantastic website:

http://democracymeansyou.com/

Good night all, and to all, a good night!

Boring Central

Ok, so for this post I need to make a disclaimer, lest all you kiddies out in blogland feel I am just a complainer.

Disclaimer:

1: I am really happy not to be at former, poorly managed ERP software company.
2: I am happier to be spending time at home with my BEAN.
3: I am happy to be working in downtown Seattle.
4: I am happy that my commute has very little ill effect on the environment.
5: My coworkers are nice
6: My Boss is nice
7: My company is really good at what it does


Ok, now with that off my back here we go.

Part I: I am so BORED!

I've been at the new job for over a month now I really doubt that I have put more than 4 days of work in. At first I thought I was doing something wrong (like not going out there and finding work for myself), so I offered my services and availability to be a shadow to virtually everyone on my floor. That didn't work so I apporached my manager about more work. That didn't work either so I started spreading rumors that I was bored and looking for employment elsewhere. AHA, I thought I had done it. Another manager asked me if I wanted to work on some BIG projects with his group, maybe even in one of them CRAZY project, team environments that are so effective. Needless to say I was ecstatic. Of course this said manager has to talk to my manager's boss, to get the ok and my manager's boss is out for a new arrival in their house (baby) and evidently nothing happens in that instance (like working for a French company in August) and so nothing happens. Today my manager's boss is back, but probably has 10,000,000 emails to read so instead of giving me more work; this person decides to spend the day chatting with my coworkers about the joys of childbirth. (As you may have guessed this is a man we are talking about)

Whew, so here we are still with no work so Ryan decides to work on his blog.

(Tune in next week for updates to I'm so bored)

Part Deux: C'mon folks lets have a sense of humor here.

The second highly irritating point about my new job is the lack of interesting people. One exception for is for HS, who has kept me sane here and even aided in getting me drunk.

It is too quiet. No one laughs, no one yells, no one squeals. If it weren’t for the random sneezes I would swear that I am in a morgue. However if I wear a lime-green shirt (next week I will talk about the dress code here) people are like "Oh my god look at that color". What? You people want me to wear mauve like your house, shirts, pants and SUV's? Not for me kids, I need to be loud...one way or another.

So this weekend LP and I find this fantastic little toy store downtown called Schmancy.

http://www.schmancytoys.com/

And I decide my bland cubicle at work needs some dressing up so I buy a toy. It is so funny! It is a little mean bunny with a cigarette butt in its mouth and glowering eyes. Kinda like me. Anyway, so I bring it in, set it on my desk and put pens it its hands. Only one person notices/says something/laughs at it/smiles.and guess who? Yup HS.

Anyone out there?

I always wonder, does anyone read these thing...besides LP and JL?