First real post
I would just like to say that this blog is a part of my imagination and if any "characters" I write about resemble any real people, it is strictly coincidental.
Here goes ...
Tat Woman
Tat Woman is .... well .... hot ! Hot in that Pamela Anderson sort of way. You know. A little bit too much make up, hard body, and unfortunately a hard face. Built like a Sherman tank. About 5'6", mid thirties, with green eyes (fake) , firm and subtle breasts (also fake) and generally overly tan and worked out (probably fake too) look that has been popular for years. Her hair is generally dirty blonde, kinda of David Lee Roth style if you will. Those of you Van Halen fans out there from the early 80's know that is not necessarily a bad thing. Old Diamond Dave knew his way around a mirror .
She came to our company as a temp about a year ago to fill in doing procurement work for a woman who went on maternity leave. The woman eventually came back , but read the writing on the wall and split to another job at a different company site. When you come back all fat and bloated from a pregnancy to your old job and a hot woman is currently doing it OK, you pretty much have to look elsewhere.
Here I should mention why she is known as Tat Woman. When she first started working for us and wore skirts and dresses , she would always wear high boots (over the calf). When the weather turned hot , we found out why. She has, on the out side of each calf, a tattoo that runs from her ankle to about mid calf. I haven't had the opportunity to see what exactly the tattoos are, but that will have to come for a later post. I should also mention that Tat Woman is one of those women, and there are many, that wears a lot of anklets and bracelets for no particular reason and can be heard from about 40 feet away coming down the hallway. She also wears various rings almost all of which are solid silver or silver with a turquoise stone. Do you get the picture?
I should mention here that Tat Woman is very good and professional at her job. She has to be as there are always new vendors and old contracts to close out. She has just not always been professional in her dress. The first month that she was here , she would favor one of two pair of tight pants/slacks for her look. I should mention now that these "slacks" were the same/similar material and fit as that of a dance squad for a NBA sports franchise as pictured here. From the knee down they were regular slacks, but from the knee up , lets just say, rah rah team!!
My office is actually split up into two sections a small group and a larger group. The smaller group, mine is located in the open area and the larger group is behind closed doors because of the secretive nature of clientele info. There has always been a dress policy that stated , no jeans, t-shirts, strapless tops (for the women) or sneakers (except Friday's) and what could be described as a business casual attire every other day. This rule had been largely ignored by everyone on the other side and most people on my side with dozens of folks wearing jeans and sneakers pretty much everyday. No holes, mind you, these are decent folks. We recently got a HR representative at our location after having to deal for the past two years with the old rep located in another state ! Coincidentally , about 3 weeks after she arrived , there was a new e-mail stating that the business casual dress code must be adhered to everyday but Friday by everyone, even for those folks behind the "iron curtain" (who would not normally be seen by visitors) What a stink this brought up! Folks were in an uproar over this news as they claimed that they would have to pony up $$ for an entirely new wardrobe! I should mention here that my small group of about 8 people have always had to adhere to business casual and that the dresscode is entirely sane for any company this side of the 1970s that wishes their employees to be taken seriously in any office working environment. The fact that grown people are crying about being forced to change clothes from their weekend attire to attend work is silly. But my real reason for bringing this up is to talk about HR in any relatively large company. First a lesson for anyone who has never worked for a large corporation before and who thinks that HR is the dept that is put there to help out the worker. HR is not there for the benefit of the employees, HR is there for the benefit and protection, I should add, of the company. (Watch out for those lawsuits and help us document/flag those troubled workers for later dismissal) They are almost exclusively worked by women with a rah rah- let's- get- together- and- have a- meeting about what we don't like and what I don't have the power or inclination to change. Don't you feel better ? No ? Oh well, would you like another session? I have had maybe 2 HR reps that were even helpful in getting us qualified candidates to interview in the 15 years that I have been working as a professional. We mostly find the best ones ourselves and then have to handhold HR to send the proper paperwork and letters to the candidate in a timely manner before they give up and take another position.
How do I have enough time to write about all this? I had previously been working 6 projects doing budgeting and preparing monthly reports for all of them and dealing with all the hassles that come with them by myself. I am not bragging the work kept me busy, but now I have only 3 tasks, one of which has just ended this month and another which will end sometime in the first quarter of next year. All of my current tasks combined is not on half the size of one of my earlier larger tasks. It's weird when the dept of govt that I support, the Treasury, collects money and revenue for the govt , but is getting cut back and not properly funded in a time when the country needs funding (tax revenue). We are not talking strong arm tactics folks or stealing $$ from the hardworking Libertarians, they need more people to just send out more notices to people who owe taxes and may not even realize it , but alas the current climate is to cut cut cut and let the beast starve, even if the beast is owed food if you will. Oh well , enough for one day the next entry will talk a little more about the personalities in the office.
Here goes ...
Tat Woman
Tat Woman is .... well .... hot ! Hot in that Pamela Anderson sort of way. You know. A little bit too much make up, hard body, and unfortunately a hard face. Built like a Sherman tank. About 5'6", mid thirties, with green eyes (fake) , firm and subtle breasts (also fake) and generally overly tan and worked out (probably fake too) look that has been popular for years. Her hair is generally dirty blonde, kinda of David Lee Roth style if you will. Those of you Van Halen fans out there from the early 80's know that is not necessarily a bad thing. Old Diamond Dave knew his way around a mirror .
She came to our company as a temp about a year ago to fill in doing procurement work for a woman who went on maternity leave. The woman eventually came back , but read the writing on the wall and split to another job at a different company site. When you come back all fat and bloated from a pregnancy to your old job and a hot woman is currently doing it OK, you pretty much have to look elsewhere.
Here I should mention why she is known as Tat Woman. When she first started working for us and wore skirts and dresses , she would always wear high boots (over the calf). When the weather turned hot , we found out why. She has, on the out side of each calf, a tattoo that runs from her ankle to about mid calf. I haven't had the opportunity to see what exactly the tattoos are, but that will have to come for a later post. I should also mention that Tat Woman is one of those women, and there are many, that wears a lot of anklets and bracelets for no particular reason and can be heard from about 40 feet away coming down the hallway. She also wears various rings almost all of which are solid silver or silver with a turquoise stone. Do you get the picture?
I should mention here that Tat Woman is very good and professional at her job. She has to be as there are always new vendors and old contracts to close out. She has just not always been professional in her dress. The first month that she was here , she would favor one of two pair of tight pants/slacks for her look. I should mention now that these "slacks" were the same/similar material and fit as that of a dance squad for a NBA sports franchise as pictured here. From the knee down they were regular slacks, but from the knee up , lets just say, rah rah team!!
My office is actually split up into two sections a small group and a larger group. The smaller group, mine is located in the open area and the larger group is behind closed doors because of the secretive nature of clientele info. There has always been a dress policy that stated , no jeans, t-shirts, strapless tops (for the women) or sneakers (except Friday's) and what could be described as a business casual attire every other day. This rule had been largely ignored by everyone on the other side and most people on my side with dozens of folks wearing jeans and sneakers pretty much everyday. No holes, mind you, these are decent folks. We recently got a HR representative at our location after having to deal for the past two years with the old rep located in another state ! Coincidentally , about 3 weeks after she arrived , there was a new e-mail stating that the business casual dress code must be adhered to everyday but Friday by everyone, even for those folks behind the "iron curtain" (who would not normally be seen by visitors) What a stink this brought up! Folks were in an uproar over this news as they claimed that they would have to pony up $$ for an entirely new wardrobe! I should mention here that my small group of about 8 people have always had to adhere to business casual and that the dresscode is entirely sane for any company this side of the 1970s that wishes their employees to be taken seriously in any office working environment. The fact that grown people are crying about being forced to change clothes from their weekend attire to attend work is silly. But my real reason for bringing this up is to talk about HR in any relatively large company. First a lesson for anyone who has never worked for a large corporation before and who thinks that HR is the dept that is put there to help out the worker. HR is not there for the benefit of the employees, HR is there for the benefit and protection, I should add, of the company. (Watch out for those lawsuits and help us document/flag those troubled workers for later dismissal) They are almost exclusively worked by women with a rah rah- let's- get- together- and- have a- meeting about what we don't like and what I don't have the power or inclination to change. Don't you feel better ? No ? Oh well, would you like another session? I have had maybe 2 HR reps that were even helpful in getting us qualified candidates to interview in the 15 years that I have been working as a professional. We mostly find the best ones ourselves and then have to handhold HR to send the proper paperwork and letters to the candidate in a timely manner before they give up and take another position.
How do I have enough time to write about all this? I had previously been working 6 projects doing budgeting and preparing monthly reports for all of them and dealing with all the hassles that come with them by myself. I am not bragging the work kept me busy, but now I have only 3 tasks, one of which has just ended this month and another which will end sometime in the first quarter of next year. All of my current tasks combined is not on half the size of one of my earlier larger tasks. It's weird when the dept of govt that I support, the Treasury, collects money and revenue for the govt , but is getting cut back and not properly funded in a time when the country needs funding (tax revenue). We are not talking strong arm tactics folks or stealing $$ from the hardworking Libertarians, they need more people to just send out more notices to people who owe taxes and may not even realize it , but alas the current climate is to cut cut cut and let the beast starve, even if the beast is owed food if you will. Oh well , enough for one day the next entry will talk a little more about the personalities in the office.
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