welcome back

Ok, I know I said I was going to stay away from the work-bitching, but sometimes it can’t be helped.

Even though Wednesday I worked a half day (remember the fire?) and Thursday I worked a half day, I still had nothing to do. In fact, Thursday I even left early because I would rather spend 3 hours in an airport reading than any time at all at work. Today on my return after 2+ days gone, I still have very little to do. Most of my time is spent fixing everything that my coworkers screwed up while I was gone. I tell them just to leave it for me, but they insist on “helping” me. I spend the rest of the time arguing with the new receptionist.

I’ll explain the receptionist situation:
We hired this new person (A) to help out our current receptionist (S). This way, lunches are covered and things that require S to be away from her desk are easier to manage. However, I’ve just found out that S will be out for several months with an illness, and probably won’t come back at all. That means A is now “in charge”. One of the things she definitely is in charge of is pissing me off.

Her excuse is always “that’s how S told me to do it” which doesn’t make any sense because S has worked here for several years and knows how things run. Besides the fact that none of these things were done that way before A started doing them.
Some examples:
-I tell her staple the mail together, because I just have to take it apart anyway, what with “the mail” as a whole actually being made up of separate things.
-I say to make sure when she stamps “completed” on something that she has actually completed it.
-She said “Why don’t you ever answer the damn phone? These people are driving me crazy!” I gave her the list of reasons why, namely that she is the receptionist, not me.

So you get the picture. Basically anything I do or say is met with an argument by A. We’ve even had to bring in Boss to settle a few things. I do concede that she could be right; S could have told her to do these things. But S was not following her own directions if that’s the case, and I want to continue doing things the way I like them.

However, she has inspired me to set my final day here – July 25, 2007. Only 260 days from today. A little over 8 months. I’ve already been here a year. Passed the halfway mark without even knowing it.

Ok, so that’s enough for now. I’ll just keep counting down and arguing.