Well, today’s just special. I had an over-eager partner (not mine) that I had to spank via email - fun! But first I had to listen to the relo person rant about why didn’t he plan in advance instead of last minute and he hasn’t even been approved, blah blah blah. Meanwhile, I’m thinking, look, lady, I don’t even support the guy and I really don’t care one way or another, just tell me yes or no, so I can tell him yes or no.
Then cow-orker comes over to ask a question about something very, very basic, which she should know by now, seeing as how’s she’s been here since November!!!eleven!! Then again, other co-worker had to explain, again, how to change her outgoing voice mail message last night. We have a very common voicemail system and we have little instruction cards for it with diagrams and everything.
Then I got an urgent mail sent out to all administrative assistants from our supervisor for something that needs to be taken care of right away, except for you, Jahdra, this doesn’t apply to you since you don’t support people at this level. Because, I don’t know, she couldn’t figure out how to click the little plus sign in the address bar and remove my name from the disti list, instead of singling me out in front my peers? Or no, actually, I’m *not * their peer, as you so cleverly pointed out in the email.
Oh, and is it acceptable to be upset with someone who didn’t do the job that you were supposed to do, but they got assigned to it when you went out on disability suddenly, and decided not to do it and now people are calling me about it, even though it hasn’t been my responsibility for over a year? And I don’t have access to that information anymore, so I can’t help them anyway?
Grrrr! I’m feeling very cranky today. I think it’s all the pseudo-work I’ve had today. I get all excited about actually doing something and poof! It’s gone in a cloud of smoke.