Right now work is severely hit-and-miss. A particular customer is causing a series of problems.
Generally, they’re demanding more of me than I feel is right. Put another way, I am held to be their bitch.
There is a long, dreary backstory that I will omit. Suffice it to say, we cannot truly rein them in without becoming aggressively hostile; which we’ve already started planning, but these things take time.
This comes down to ego, though. They are crossing a line, to be sure; but that line is created and maintained entirely by my planet-sized ego. I know it unfair (foolish, immature, stupid, whatever) to bitch about moan about being forced, at times, to do things generally held to be beneath you, at your job; but at the same time, there’s a fuckin’ limit.
They are a very large customer upon whose monthly income we depend, so it’s hard to say “GFY” (where by “hard” I mean “impossible in a practical sense, and stupid in any sense”). We have customers we would fire, save for our own laziness; we can’t afford to let these guys go.
So I continue to be treated like a fucking intern, on call to serve my master. The daily laundry-list of menial intern jobs grows. (It should be noted: they had us hire them an intern, who they then ‘fired’ - by which I mean, broke their contractual obligation - so that I would be responsible for these tasks).
Most annoying is we just don’t know how to effectively cope. We’re a small company; putting my kneepads on daily for these guys is bad in the sense it only helps today and not next year, which is how small companies stay small.
