Julie Wiggins: Data Dump

data dump 4-25-06

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:40:31 GMT

so today i blew up at a clients - I'm not sure exactly what is wrong with me - I'm not the happy julie that I know or that my clients know, i was so upset that I was crying. I know that I am overwhelmed and I'm still sick and stressed out and today a friend told me I need to find my chi again - and she is so right. I do, I need to find my center again.

I also have a client that is an ass for the lack of a better word - he always thinks he can bully me and get free help, he has an outstanding invoice and he won't pay and me I want to help and get him the answers he has questions about but I also don't want to do free work.

Then there is this other client that hasn't paid either and I guess he's not in the office this week but I did the work so I don't understand why these people can't pay me. I think from now on - tigger jobs, I want a deposit on the project - 1/2 of the proposal is due at the time of signing the agreement.

thanks zy for the lead of employee resources - you're right, I need to find my chi again and i definetly need a personal assistant asap.

bored and data dump

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:33:51 GMT

in the process of building a business, i think i forgot something called ME, doing things I like to do, it seems like i'm working and working and working and never taking time to just do things I like to do like blogging, website design and as my doctor said - people who work and work and are stressed and don't realize their body is saying stop get really sick all of the sudden and stay sicker longer

and as much as i like doing tigger projects, i don't particulary like all the people i have to train, although the last two clients have been exceptions in personalities except maybe the goonies(they were ok after i told them to shut up) and the last one - omg, prepaid me, what a concept but in general telelcommunications companies - WTF? why don't they like to pay, why do the owners always seem to be weasels who try to weasel out of paying or hold off on paying. You'd think I'd know better working for weasels in a corporate environment for 15 years and people tell me well maybe they don't have any money - you know I'm integrating their accounting system with tigger, i know that these people have money - i've seen the books. This one weasel in particular who won't pay, i sent him another collection notice and he called and left me a VM that said "julie call me" yea, I know who is was but i do not call back people who think they can intimdate me and I'm not arguing with him again

so i guess a few people have google me and figured out this blog exist - which is ok by me, i've got nothing to hide and I don't neccessarily blog about everything, some things aren't either something i want to share or even i find boring and not worth blogging about and sometimes i think of something really great to blog about and i promptly forget it, in one ear - straight out the other side *grin*

i keep getting these emails to my sexymagick address about my chase account, why would anyone be stupid enough to click on an email for an account they don't have?

just yawned, must be sleepy time finally

*message for ian* i should be back on track soon and will be able to help with your stuff, sorry for the delay

testing

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:03:23 GMT

test design on data dump category..its never just a simple thing to add a category when all my templates are different

frustrating week in the OC

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:56:44 GMT

I've been in OC all week and I am sooooooooooooooooo happy to be home in my own house, my own bed is waiting and my babies - all 5 are still here, soft and furry and warm. I so missed sleeping with them especially when I'm sick. And now I remember why I stopped being an IT project manager so long ago - the attitudes of people resistant to change - you'd think this were grown adults but nooooo

the sales group - they didn't want to have to do anything hard and complicated, the whiners

the operations group - if they don't make eye contact with me, then somehow they were invisible and they didn't have to learn anything new and that doesn't work, leave the office on some important mission for the day (although I did give my main contact an idea, on the day the system finally goes live, cut this group of people off from the old system - that way they will have to learn the new system one way or another)

the accounting group - they want the change yet are too busy to learn the new procedures, although I do give them credit, at least they finally stopped what they were doing and took the time to at least learn some of the functions

the owner - i think he might be in a class of his own. I think he wants the new system up and running deep down inside somewhere but he doesn't want to let go of the old system

the service dept - I like them, they are the techs and since systems are always changing, they constantly have to learn new ideas and they want something that will make it easier to work with the team.

and honestly if you schedule someone out there to train and get everyone up and running on the new system - don't you think you would make time in your schedule to be there. If he knew he wasn't planning on being there - then why did I come out? I guess I shouldn't complain because either way I get paid and he better pay me without hassle this time and its his money but I feel like it was a waste of time because he wasn't there, he didn't push the issue with the avoiders and the whiners.

And last thing I'll bitch about - if information is requested and nothing is received, the information that gets imported into the new database might be spotty and might be based on what I know rather than the way you ideally want it. I mean really, people respond to the emails if you want something different, otherwise I go forward with the original plan.

I was sick all week too, nothing like being sick and have to deal with a frustrating set of circumstances and people that just don't want anything to do with a new system, I almost lost it and told them all were to go with themselves.

A few times, a couple of people asked me how old I was because there is no way I could have all this experience, really you shouldn't judge a book by its cover - just because I look really young, doesn't mean I am, I just age really well *grin*