ARRGH! >_<#

Sometimes, my job REALLY pisses me off.

Apparently, I'm the most valuable person in the company. Why? I don't know. Maybe because I can type, and something like 90% of the people there can't. I'm okay with that though. I'm being unclear, let me explain better:

For a lot of my 6 years at this company, I've worked in Quality Control. Not exclusively, and its never been my main position, but there have been long periods where I was working there. I don't like it. I don't like working in that department because the work they give me makes me feel absolutely RETARDED. I put files away. I make photocopies. I stamp papers and copy down numbers. I connect wires to these plastic boards so OTHER people can test them. I cut tie wraps and run menial errands. RARELY do they ask me to actually inspect a part.

Last year, the QC Manager begged my father (the Assembly dept. Manager) to convince me to start work THREE WEEKS earlier than I had planned, because she "desperately needed me there". Seeing to reason not to believe what she said, my Dad talked to me and I reluctantly agreed, for the same reasons. I started work at 7 a.m. on the Monday after my last final. They ran out of work for me before 10 a.m.

-_-#

It wasn't until two WEEKS later (during which time I ended up splitting my time between my father's department and Stock Room) that they came back to me with more work. What was this job that was so important? An Internal Audit, which sounded so important... I'm not going to go into the details of what actually happened there, for certain reasons.

Earlier this week, the QC Manager went to the Engineering Manager and told him that one of her employees was going to be out for most of the week. She wanted me as a temporary replacement. That's where I've been for the last week, which is okay... except that the person who was out came back today and QC seems entirely uninterested in letting me go back and do my ACTUAL JOB in upstairs. In fact, they laugh and tell me to "forget all about that".

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I don't appreciate being dragged away from what I'm doing, especially when I consider that fairly important, to do meaningless busywork. How exactly am I replacing someone by doing stuff that I know FOR A FACT that they DO NOT DO? I'm flattered that they want me so bad that they conjure up ways to pull me away from new assignments, but there's a reason I haven't made any effort to go back: I DON'T WANT TO. I would rather remain upstairs doing what I've been doing for TWO MONTHS.

Luckily, I think I've found an out: next week, I'm going to be gone for the first few days on vacation down the shore (YAY! ^_^). When I come back on Thursday, I'm going to go back upstairs and get started on a BIG project. This way, I'll say: "well, I didn't think you still needed me, so I went back up. I can't go by you now, I'm very busy." Unfortunately, I suspect QC plans to give me a very big job right before the end of the day tomorrow, something they know I can't finish by the time I leave... and then, they'll let it sit there until Thursday and make me go back and finish it then, just in time for a bunch of new meaningless busywork.

I need to get out of that department.