New year, new problems

Been a while since I posted. Main change is that S. retired. Even though she told others that she just got tired of dealing with the University and the State, the real reason was that she got tired of dealing with B. I asked S. if I could go with her. :) Her last day here was in November, but her real last day was 31 Dec. After she left, B took over. SW has been doing pretty much whatever she feels like, although she did quit as coach. RB seems to be content to just let things be and let B run most of the place.

B is hard to figure out. When a student worker made a mistake and opened an ILL package as well as other mail he shouldn't have, she said "It's ok." If I had done it, I'd be at the JJ's work right now looking for a job.

I gave her my comp time sheet and my invoice - haven't seen either back yet. She assured me that I'd get both back. Since evals haven't come up yet, I'll have to wait to ask to get them back - I don't want B or RB upset before they finish my evals. Now MR is doing my evals. I'm not sure I want that. No matter what, I don't think she can be fair - she is not happy that I'm married and she isn't. She's so down on M and seems delighted whenever she sees that he's done something that I don't like. She takes every opportunity to tell me that I married him, and maybe I should dump him.

I went down to tell B today that we received a journal she was waiting for. She couldn't just say good. She wanted to know why we have had so much loss of journals - things we paid for and didn't get. I can't force the publishers to send - all I can do is to document that the claims were made or why they weren't claimed.

She is looking for someone to blame it on - me or S. P and the girl that was in this position before me won't be, although they were the ones doing it before. P was checking in journals and was supposed to identify any journals I needed to claim - she didn't half the time. WWD, she told me to just let alone because they come out of sequence. Guess what? We don't have some of them because they never came - before or after claiming.

Honest to God, if I could take 10 of M's years, and do an early retirement, I would. If he could, he'd still have 25+ years left anyway. I wish we both could just leave this place.

To top that all off, the governor seems to think that all state workers earn too much. He's cutting budgets left and right, cut salaries - fortunately not ours, but he did JJ's - by 8+%. They are looking to trim things out of DSU's budget too. They did not replace Dean S., and they have not replaced Mrs. Q, or Mrs. J, or S yet. They may have to replace S, but I don't think they will replace Mrs. Q or Mrs. J. They did hire B's husband to do systems, but I have yet to figure out what he does - had an issue with my computer, talked to him... talked to RB who told me to email him. He forwarded my email all over the staff to tell them to address computer issues to ACO. Since we don't run our own server, what's left? I speak to him and he walks away. I started talking to him when I came in, and he walked off while I was speaking. I think that's rude. What do I have to do to have one word with him? Or aren't I supposed to? No one else seems to have that problem. I give up.

When I first came here, MR was like my best friend, RP didn't speak much, the only one who is like they were when I first came is RD. MR acts like a witch most of the time. RP has been out for surgery - this is the second time - but she's really nice with me. She gave me a Christmas present and I think I am the only one she did that to except the person whose name she picked. TD, of course, is gone. P speaks only if she thinks she can get something - except for her niece's baby stuff. The others are about the same except that SW speaks more, but then she about has to. S, when she left, was actually my friend - makes me feel like she escaped and left me to face the wolves alone. M doesn't care one way or another; I don't even think he's noticed much of it. There are 3 new people - M, B, and the new girl (I forget her name). She's doing cataloging. If it hadn't have been a grant position, I would have considered applying for it since it's daytime. M works with us and B took Mr. L's position after he retired. MR and RD are back on 2-10pm and M and I work 4-Midnight.

This whole last week was a wash. We were here a total of about 6 hours the whole week. The rest of the time, we were snowed in.