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No Skyclad Dancing for ME today...
Dang and Fie! I have once again forgotten to ask for Summer Solstice off work. So, I'm here all day today even though it's ridiculously nice outside. Bummer. I'm also kind of pissed at Ye Olde Day-Job right now.
Communication here can be astonishingly poor, especially considering that we're a family-owned company that employs roughly 100 people. At our last All Company Meeting (that part-timers such as myself do NOT have to get up at the crack of dawn to attend) they said we were making a transition from a call-in mail order company, to an E-commerce company that also has a contact center. Makes sense to me. Even Amazon has a contact center.
I gave this some thought. At the beginning of May, I Emailed our VP of Marketing to ask if anyone was pursuing us offering a chat feature for customer service. I would be damn good at that, and told them I wanted to be involved. Found out late Friday night that they went right on ahead and set the whole thing up with no input from me whatsoever. Granted, I didn't single-handedly invent chat support. In fact, I thought of it because the web host I use has that and it's awesome. But an Email a) thanking me for my input and/or b) letting me know they are going ahead with it would have been swell. Even though my department is awesome and my supervisors are totally supportive and great--the company as a whole does not do a very good job of motivating people. In fact, that's my main complaint about the company.
Next ep of Kiss Me Like You Love Me audiobook podcast is going to be late. I'm sad that one of my actors can't get me a 10 minute recording once every 3 weeks. I do mine every other week and they are twice as long. Then again, I only work 4 days a week and do not have any kids. Still, this is such a big deal for me and I'm trying not to stress about it, which is tough when I'm not getting my chapters in time.
Got a bit written over the weekend. So far, aside from figuring out a coherent plot, the toughest part is coming up with a voice for the Dog. That's right, one of the many first-person narratives I'm doing this time around is a dog. I am told that a dog's vocabulary should be about 200 words. That sounds like too many to me, and I'm struggling with how to go about it. I want it to be minimalistic, but still easy to understand.
I guess since I have down time on the podcast, my next ParaBlog post will be early. I'm also guest-co-hosting the ParaWomen Radio show this week with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kissdbyagnome. That's on Thursday if any of you's want to check it out.
So yeah, trying to be a successful and popular author.
Feeling rather twarted in that endeavor.
Communication here can be astonishingly poor, especially considering that we're a family-owned company that employs roughly 100 people. At our last All Company Meeting (that part-timers such as myself do NOT have to get up at the crack of dawn to attend) they said we were making a transition from a call-in mail order company, to an E-commerce company that also has a contact center. Makes sense to me. Even Amazon has a contact center.
I gave this some thought. At the beginning of May, I Emailed our VP of Marketing to ask if anyone was pursuing us offering a chat feature for customer service. I would be damn good at that, and told them I wanted to be involved. Found out late Friday night that they went right on ahead and set the whole thing up with no input from me whatsoever. Granted, I didn't single-handedly invent chat support. In fact, I thought of it because the web host I use has that and it's awesome. But an Email a) thanking me for my input and/or b) letting me know they are going ahead with it would have been swell. Even though my department is awesome and my supervisors are totally supportive and great--the company as a whole does not do a very good job of motivating people. In fact, that's my main complaint about the company.
Next ep of Kiss Me Like You Love Me audiobook podcast is going to be late. I'm sad that one of my actors can't get me a 10 minute recording once every 3 weeks. I do mine every other week and they are twice as long. Then again, I only work 4 days a week and do not have any kids. Still, this is such a big deal for me and I'm trying not to stress about it, which is tough when I'm not getting my chapters in time.
Got a bit written over the weekend. So far, aside from figuring out a coherent plot, the toughest part is coming up with a voice for the Dog. That's right, one of the many first-person narratives I'm doing this time around is a dog. I am told that a dog's vocabulary should be about 200 words. That sounds like too many to me, and I'm struggling with how to go about it. I want it to be minimalistic, but still easy to understand.
I guess since I have down time on the podcast, my next ParaBlog post will be early. I'm also guest-co-hosting the ParaWomen Radio show this week with
kissdbyagnome. That's on Thursday if any of you's want to check it out. So yeah, trying to be a successful and popular author.
Feeling rather twarted in that endeavor.
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