Monday, April 12, 2010

Thank God for vacation.

Boss Lady is somewhat distracted by all the other things going on in her life that are not work related-kids, husband that won't 'accept' the divorce papers, the fact that she cannot do more than one thing at a time or she loses all hope of making it through the afternoon-Sheesh.

Task #1: There was BEYOND a mess of statements that needed to be organized, in numerial order, when I came into work this morning. Not hard. I mean, there were only 7000. No, i'm not fucking making that number up. It was maddening. Did I mention Boss Lady called in today, so Yours Truely and her trusty coworker had to organize them all. So, thank God I was relaxed from a week at the Beach, because that would have been enough to send me over the edge.

Questionable Task #2: So, being in charge of all graphics/production layouts, I print on a daily basis. If we're at the office, I will 90% of the time be printing SOMETHING, ANYTHING for someone. With that said. You would think Boss Lady would remember to shoot me an email, leave me a post-it, SOMETHING that says "Oh BTW, the IP Address for the printers have all changed. You'll need to change yours to you can print." NOPE. Pretty much stumbled onto this task by myself. I did send Boss Lady a text message, Me: "So, did the IP Address change?" BL: "Oh yeah. Call Tim. :)" Me: "Uh, no. I got it already." Geez....

Task #3: Because I print ALOT (usually on 11x17 sized paper) most of my coworkers also assume that I know all about paper, or, for that matter, all supplies. My favorite is "Do you know if we have more tissues?" No. Because I'm not in charge of supplies, or your snot, no. Use toilet paper. Paper Towel. Your sleeve. I don't care, that's not my department. Thanks. Nor do I know where your favorite pens/Sharpie/envelopes are. Again, not my job to keep up with all you loonies.

I guess it hasn't been that bad today. I'm probably so mellow from the sun I haven't really had a chance to let it all sink in that i'm annoyed yet. No raised blood pressure. No angry sweats. No hand in the air, head shake going on today.
Don't worry. There's always tomorrow.