Extremely boring work rantings

[katallison]

Up at 4 a.m., after lying in bed for a while staging a furious mental debate with a higher-up at my job. *Man,* I am eloquent in my head at three-thiry in the morning.

What's odd is that I've been amazingly productive and organized at work this week, accomplishing lots of really good stuff with my students. I realized, lying in bed just now, that I've made a decision to simply do my work in the way that seems best to me for whatever individual student I'm working with, and if that runs counter The New Diktat, then they can reprimand me, and if they're unhappy enough about it, they can fire my pasty white ass. I'll be fine; the only way I won't be fine is if I start doing stuff that fucks over my own values and ethics, simply for the sake of keeping a job.

And having clarified that (and bored my friends senseless with it), I can maybe now grab another hour or two of sleep. Friday, thank *god.*

Comments

[minette.livejournal.com]

If it's working, you'd think they'd be happy about your way of doing things.

[luminosity]

It's amazing how often I reach that obvious conclusion about how to do things. If I can't stay true to my own personal moral codes and ethics, then I'm even more miserable. And *that* will make me do a bad job.

I have amazing confrontations at 3 a.m. in my head, too. :)

[debchan.livejournal.com]

Good for you, Kat. We've had three management changes here over the last year and I've finally learned to just...ignore them and do my job. To do otherwise leads to madness.

[aerye.livejournal.com]

Just echoing others, good for you. Tough decision, good decision, ethical decision and, please don't short yourself - brave decision. Yay, you.

[tinyfroglet.livejournal.com]

Sounds like your thinking is crystal clear. Unbiased opinion: you're on the right path.

[(Anonymous)]

And I wonder just what you people have been drinking!!!! Or maybe smoking