Work Rant

On Tuesday I was called into my managers office.  He informed me that someone, who evidently knew I had a blog, had informed him that I might be posting on work time.  My boss then proceeded to visit this website and check out the time-stamps on the posts to determine if I had done so.  Now, what really happened is that my boss most likely was reading my weblog (on work time) and happen to notice that I posted one entry in the morning, and one in the afternoon and thus determined that I could not have been posting on my lunch break.

Lets ignoring the fact that I ONLY post during breaks (as if lunch is the only break I get during a nine hour day.)   And lets totally ignoring the fact that my long post are generally written on the bus on the way to work and then posted when I remember them sometime during the day.   And lets skip over the fact that the single biggest obstacle to me getting work done during the day is getting called into meetings to discuss unrelated bull shit (if this place spent half as much time getting me new programmers as it did pulling me into offices to fuck with me during the day, I could have already rebuilt the entire application infrastructure.) No, we are going to ignore all of that and just pass out a big FUCK YOU to either my boss or the person who reported me to my boss. 

Because of these  developments I will no longer be posting anything during the work day.  However (evil grin) I HAVE removed the timestamps from all of my posts, comments, search queries, etc.. etc.. etc.. and I have set up the system to post any waiting Drafts (unpublished articles that are already in the system) to the blog at random intervals during the day. And what is more interesting is that the pages will be rebuilt at random intervals (i.e. the published articles will not even appear on the pages until later the same day.) Evidently I am not the first blogger to have this problem because these tools were ready and waiting for me to install.