Just Your Average Work Complaint Post

Today I got to drive to Porterville College. I don't mind getting away from the office, in fact I quite enjoy the reprive, but Porterville is an awfully long way to go for a 10 minute meeting. But I went and talked about eye safety and the proper lifting technique to prevent injury while on the job to 5 incredibly bored workers, at least 1 of which didn't even speak english. It is however an OSHA requirement so it has to be done.

That burned up most of morning and when I got back to the office everyone seemed to be in a grumpy mood. Someone decided yesterday to open all the doors in the office which let in about 50 flies that have apprantly survived the night and are letharically floating around the office harassing us all today. One even landed on my eyeball which was much more disturbing than I ever expected.

Then there is the email situation. Since I work with dinosaurs, the men in the office don't email themselves but have my mom and I email for them. My mom works Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays so if she isnt here I have to take over her duties one of which is email. We use an outlook type program so you can only access the guys emails on my moms computer. This has been the case for over a year, yet they still can't grasp the concept that I can't email anything from their accounts on my computer or check their email without going to my moms "machine" (thats what they call it, I am serious). The other problem is the scanner is only hooked up to my moms computer and they always give me things to scan when my mom is here, which is clearly something she needs to do if she is here because she is sitting at that computer and if I were to do it I would have to get up, ask her to stop whatever she is doing and move to scan or email, which makes no sense. I explain this all to them at least once a week and I have made no progress.

Finally,a fly landed on my frickin eyeball! I know I mentioned that before but it was really creepy and gross, ughh. Sneaky fly.

Is it time to go to Landmark yet?

I have been gruummppy this morning. I was really craving eggs but I didn't have enough time to make them and I didnt have time to stop to get anything either without being late. So I decided to make some toast when I got to work. Well I ended up burning the toast and almost setting off the smoke detector. I threw the toast away and had to eat my 10 AM protien bar for breakfast. This annoyed me because now I am not going to have my 10 AM meal and will have to wait until lunch to eat or eat cookies and candy-which I won't do. Not a huge deal but I also haven't had coffee yet this morning so I have a tendancy to blow things out of proportion. When it comes to food and eating though I really don't like getting off my scheduled meal times and can get pretty cross when I do get off track.
So then I had to go to Office Depot and on the way there I noticed there was a truck driving right next to me and when I sped up he did and when I slowed down he did. I tried to not look up but I had to get over to the lane he was in. So I make eye contact with him and he starts smiling and motioning to his phone and mouthing "whats your number". Yeah buddy, I am going to give my number to a total stranger who happens to be driving next to me. I give him the shoulder shrug, I dont know what you are talking about look and try to ignore him but he still wont let me get over and he keeps trying to talk to me. So I make a left instead of a right which is where I need to be just to get away from him because I was about to pull in the parking lot and I was afraid he would follow me or think I am stopping because of him. Guys are strange.
On the way back to the office I stopped to get coffee so I am doing much better now but I think I have become one of those people that needs coffee now, yikes! Damn you Starbucks, damn you.

minor annoyance of the day

When people answer their cell phones as if they do not know who is calling them. Someone I know always answers her cell phone "hello?" instead of "hello". You have caller ID, you know who it is, whats with saying hello as if you have no idea who could possibly be calling? (I told you it was a minor annoyance) Actually I might just be more annoyed that this individual talks to their significant other at least 4 times a day and calls this person every morning to make sure they are up for work and then asks if the dog is in or out, every single day.

Carry on.