So, by rights, today should have been cuh-ray-zee busy at work. I have several new clients “going live” tomorrow, making it necessary that I spend today making sure their year to date payroll data is spot on perfect.
Therefore, it sure was a pain in the ass the way today ended up going. Spent the morning waiting for answers from the middlemen, spent the afternoon waiting for the freakin’ fraking :::shakes fist::: I.T. people to fix my computer. (This is a computer, BTW, that has been employed at the new company exactly as long as I have).
Basically, I spent half the day staring at my monitor, wishing that Outlook would not require me to input my password 47 times and then that Windows would just let me log in, fer cryin’ out loud. I.T. finally called at 4 in the afternoon. The fix took about 2 minutes. Yay.
One of the emails I had was from a middleman (technically, a middlewoman). She sent an email at 1:30 full of a lot of “you’d BETTER NOT do blah blah blah” and “you’d BETTER do blah blah blah” and then another one at 3:30 that was full of “WHY HAVEN’T YOU RESPONDED YET??” (for the record, I am making up the “blah blah blah” part but not the capital letters part).
Here’s what’s really obnoxious: she was right. Grrrr. One teeny tiny incorrect thing in the setup of a new client can wreak a fuck-ton of havoc and end up with a woman yelling at you via email, in Jersey-ese.
I can’t decide if I’m passable at my new job and getting better or just hopelessly doomed to mediocrity. My fingers are crossed for passable. Either way, it beats the hell out of the old job 🙂