First, HI D!!!!!
She’s on vacation at her parents house and checked my blog via dialup. DIALUP, folks. Wow. So, if she reads again, HIIIIIIIII!!!!
Anyway, so D’s on vacation and I’m filling in for my employer’s administrative assistant. D and I refer to her as Saint A. I’m marooned over on the operations side of the building – within spitting distance of My Former Office. I spend a lot of time walking between Saint A’s desk and my regular one because I can’t access voice mail, email or our crappy Payroll program via Saint A’s desk. Our PITA geek guy strikes again. Oh, yeah, he’s on vacation too. Ugh.
It’s really like my usual job in Payroll. I’m either “let’s count the number of holes in the Muzak speaker” bored or “Jesus christ, I’m a busy bitch” busy. Today at 4 PM the owner’s son (in his 40s) calls so I’ll make a FedEx and to give me some addresses so I can send some dorky golf pictures to the others in his foursome. He asks, “Do you have the pictures in front of you?”
I am simultaneously talking to him, making FedEx labels and posting paychecks. I’m at my desk. The pictures are on Saint A’s desk and, for the freaking record, go in the mail TOMORROW, not TODAY anyway. “Actually, I’m at my desk” I reply. “I’m cutting some checks for payroll”.
I then spend two very valuable minutes explaining to him that No, the pictures are in another room but I’m going to write the addresses on a legal pad so I don’t need the pictures. “Ummm, could you go get the pictures anyway?”
Yeahh. Mr. “Getting the Ultimate 4o1(k) match when the old man kicks off” is used to getting his own way, so I put the dumbass on hold and go move to Saint A’s desk. (Well, not before calling him a choice name behind his back) and write down the addresses on the stupid post it notes with the guys names on them (supplied by this guy).
Frankly, I think he forgot the other guys names. Mooooron.
Hi Lainey! What day would be complete without a ridiculous last minute request from “the boy”? On company time and de niro no less! It’s all about the extra curricular! Sounds like you are hideously busy, but I bet the day went by fast huh? Didn’t happen to hear my name used in descriptive sentences today did you? LOL! I’m expecting Papa JLB to be quite unenamoured of me when I get back. Threw the ACH material together rather quickly and didn’t double check. I’m currently having nightmares about it. I’m sure the other resident saint was able to fix whatever I did wrong, it’s just embarassing, ya know? Then I’ll have to hear about it for months to come. Anyway, hope all is well in your world. I am seeking escape in another 24 hours or so. See ya next week!