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apocalypsosI work with idiots, but then, you knew that. So there's a guy at work who hasn't been special enough to warrant a snarky nickname yet, because frankly, he and Lieutenant Asshat are quite frankly the easiest people in the office to deal with. But he now officially becomes the Town Crier, even though I'm pretty sure I succesfully vanquished him today.
See, I'm not supposed to be doing any overtime, but I came in to work today an hour or so early (unpaid, and woohoo for that) to clean up the mess that is my overstuffed office full of crap. I shut the door for that hour, because I obviously wasn't all that happy and with my non-vacation coming up on Friday, I'm just getting more and more irritated the further along we go. And what doesn't help is the Town Crier.
I have to answer messages now that Bosslady's gone, which basically means customer service sends us a company email saying, "I have the right address for you!" or "I never learned to read, what the hell does Incorrect address, room number missing mean?!". It's not like there's a lot of messages, but I've gotten into the habit of checking the queue every fifteen minutes, which only takes a second and is usually empty anyways.
But God knows I'm an idiot, a new employee, and illiterate, so every time a message pops up in the queue, the Town Crier experiences a mental trigger that causes him to call out, "Jennifer, message queue!" as loud as humanly possible. This, by the way, is usually as I'm either in a phone call or in the middle of finishing updating a package.
Today was the wrong day to piss me off with the "Message queue!" yodel, which was a point I got across by slamming my office door shut the first time he did it. A minute later, he barges in. "Why'd you slam the door shut?"
I whirled on him and snapped, "Because I was in a phone call when you yelled that, and I've been checking the message queue every fifteen minutes for the past week and a half since [Bosslady] left!"
You can tell he's one of the better guys there because he looked properly cowed at that and didn't pull that shit again. Grr.
In other news, Don & Mike's secret sound contest is up to $1300, and I think I know what the sound is. God, I seriously need to try tomorrow.
Oh, and I'm still having vid ideas I can't act out. Like a fanvid about Faith to Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation". *sigh*
See, I'm not supposed to be doing any overtime, but I came in to work today an hour or so early (unpaid, and woohoo for that) to clean up the mess that is my overstuffed office full of crap. I shut the door for that hour, because I obviously wasn't all that happy and with my non-vacation coming up on Friday, I'm just getting more and more irritated the further along we go. And what doesn't help is the Town Crier.
I have to answer messages now that Bosslady's gone, which basically means customer service sends us a company email saying, "I have the right address for you!" or "I never learned to read, what the hell does Incorrect address, room number missing mean?!". It's not like there's a lot of messages, but I've gotten into the habit of checking the queue every fifteen minutes, which only takes a second and is usually empty anyways.
But God knows I'm an idiot, a new employee, and illiterate, so every time a message pops up in the queue, the Town Crier experiences a mental trigger that causes him to call out, "Jennifer, message queue!" as loud as humanly possible. This, by the way, is usually as I'm either in a phone call or in the middle of finishing updating a package.
Today was the wrong day to piss me off with the "Message queue!" yodel, which was a point I got across by slamming my office door shut the first time he did it. A minute later, he barges in. "Why'd you slam the door shut?"
I whirled on him and snapped, "Because I was in a phone call when you yelled that, and I've been checking the message queue every fifteen minutes for the past week and a half since [Bosslady] left!"
You can tell he's one of the better guys there because he looked properly cowed at that and didn't pull that shit again. Grr.
In other news, Don & Mike's secret sound contest is up to $1300, and I think I know what the sound is. God, I seriously need to try tomorrow.
Oh, and I'm still having vid ideas I can't act out. Like a fanvid about Faith to Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation". *sigh*
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