Another "I hate my job" moment:
today sucks. and blows. all at the same time.
My boss has a meeting scheduled for 10:00. So, of course, at 9:55, he asks me to print out 2 Excel documents for him that he desperately needs for the meeting. Okay, no problem. I print them out and give them to him. He then asks, are these the only excel spreadsheets in our system for this client? I need them ALL. Oh, and re-print the ones you already gave me, in color.
Okie-dokie.
Unfortunately, my computer runs R-E-A-L-L-Y slow for some godforsaken reason. (They've been trying to fix it for a few months now; I think I FINALLY got through to them and will be getting a new computer soon.)
And, add the fact that these are EXCEL documents that need to be printed. Those that use Excel, groan along with me. Because you understand my pain... each page has to be properly formatted to fit to the page size before printing.
And there were 15 documents to print. Which, with my slow-ass computer, took me a half-hour to do. (Made even MORE complicated by the fact that my co-worker decided to use our shared printer at that very moment to start printing off a bunch of random return envelopes to replenish her stack. Totally unnecessary. And she did it TWICE.)
So, my boss comes out to me and asks where the documents were...says that we might be having a "miscommunication." Nope. Just took forever and a day. (sigh. hand over documents that JUST finished printing out.)
5 minutes later, he hands me the 2 documents I had originally printed out for him (but in color this time), and says that he needs copies of these... he doesn't need ANY of the others. (WTF?!)
And then there's the lunch issue. My boss asks me to order lunch for the 3 of them in the meeting. And even though I order from this place online on an almost daily basis, of COURSE there are issues this time around and I have to call customer service to straighten things out. And of COURSE when I go to pick up the order that was delivered downstairs, I find that we are missing a salad. And of COURSE it's the salad for the attorney with the biggest attitude.
I offered to make a TOGO's run, but thankfully the other 2 people offered to share their salads. So I brought him in a bowl to use for his share.
And then, F-me, my boss pokes his head out of the conference room and asks if I could come back and SPLIT the salad FOR them!!!
Really? Yes, folks. This is my job. THIS is what I went to college for, graduated with my B.A. in Psychology for, and even started by own photography business for... so that I could stand there and move lettuce from one bowl to another while the grown men talk.
F my life.
but didn't you know, women in the work force are only good for getting coffee and preparing lunch (yes, i was told that once) chauvinistic men!
ReplyDeleteOMGGG Michelle I can TOTALLY relate. Excel SUCKS. I used to have to print a report and inevitably, each time I went to print I would forget to do something (format the page, print the ENTIRE workbook, print in color, etc etc.). One day my boss told his secretary to bind a report for him (that wasn't even for work, it was for his karate class or some shit) and of course, gave it to her 5 minutes before he had to leave. She had to use that binding machine that takes FOREVER because it's so finicky and then stood over her while she did it, reminding her that he was already late, needed it ASAP, etc. UGH! The comment about the lettuce made me laugh because that's totally something he would do. Oh, add to this the fact that I could hear him clipping his nails while he was on the phone. UGH.
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