Always something...

Alllllrighty

Well it's Monday and I'm already frustrated, should make out for a good week.

This morning, our secretary came in and out of our office fuming and breathing hard as if she was practicing lamaze techniques, and mentioned something about needing a raise because she's only technically supposed to be our boss's secretary but she's doing work for the whole department. Really? I wanted to say, "get out, you only answer the phone anyway and our department only has like 6 people", but instead I just tried my hardest to fake a smile and pretend for the umpteenth time this year that I was listening and cared. Which by the way has been getting progressively harder lately. And that "passive-agressive forced laugh when you really want to cry" look isn't working for you...find a new style.

Then, this afternoon, while I've been juggling constant phone calls of my own and issues that other people cannot get right no matter how many times we go over it, I just had to spend 15 minutes walking someone through a 5 step process to redirect their computer to the right server, (should take 4 minutes) only to find out that the whole process wasn't necessary at all, they just didn't realize you could click an arrow on the right of a drop down menu to scroll down if you didn't see your name in the menu.

And don't even get me started on my time spent walking someone through writing an email. That was last week. Riveting stuff I tell you.

Also -- another great gem I had forgotten about was the term "monkey survey". Every time people around here want to get a read on something from the population they suggest doing a "monkey survey". Next time that comes up I might just make up an entire survey monkey about chimps and gorilla trivia questions and see what happens