Grr....

[shadesong]

So okay. I'm on Jeanette's computer so I can type up the AP letters, which should have gone out last week, but no one could find the template (wasn't in my directory - I wasn't here this time last year!). They finally found the template. So I'm typing up these 5 letters and this two-page memo, which should take, like, half an hour, max. Unfortunately, as I'm the only staff member in the office, I have to get the phone every time it rings. Which is often. And it's not in this room, so I have to run for it whenever it rings. And half the time, it's my boss, needing me to check on things and get measurements and whatnot. And when I'm not jumping for the phone, I'm dealing with the complaints and errands of the faculty that are here. Prof M. wants his shelves adjusted like *now*. And he doesn't have an access card to get into the building before 7:30 (neither do I yet!), and he doesn't have the key to his office. My boss has both of these. She will be in at 1-1:30. "But I'll be gone by then!" I'm sorry, she has them with her, in her car, there ain't shit I can do about it. Next? Prof. B is demanding hanging folders. We have - I counted - 34 boxes of supplies in the workroom. The hanging folders could be in any one of them. This ticks me off even more because I had a crate *full* of gently-used hanging folders at my desk for a *month* before the move, and had sent an e-mail advising everyone to organize as they pack and use those folders, as we'd be pitching them, not moving them. Well, Prof B. didn't, and now he has to wait, because my boss doesn't want those boxes touched without her supervision. Next? Prof. C can't find the lounge. Showed him. Now he's missing a box. We're all missing boxes, Prof. C; either go look for it in other people's offices, or wait - it'll turn up when the person whose office it's in gets to it and realizes it's not theirs. Yes, the movers suck. Yes, Prof. M, the building manager hasn't been by to adjust your shelves yet, I'll ask him again.

2 1/2 hours later, I finish the letters and memo. And I've been interrupted 3 times in the process of writing this.

All I want is for them to just send over a student worker to get the damn phone. Really. That would make it ever so much better....

Oh, and the construction/phone/everything people aren't done yet. They were supposed to be done last week. They're still working. So I have to keep moving for them to test phone lines and squeezing around ladders and whatnot.

I want ice cream, like, now.

Comments

[deza.livejournal.com]

Poor 'song. {hugs}

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

idiots. ::hugs::

[yendi]

*hugs*

Maybe your boss's new office will be infested with Clue Dust, and she'll eventually learn how not to be a total fucking moron.

[morenasangre.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry...welcome to academia.

I feel your pain - they remodeled the computer lab where I work last Christmas. Promised it would be done over break.

They started during finals week and when we came back, we had half a wall for 3 months. Bastards.

Consider yourself hugged, and get the ice cream, you're going to need it.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the computer lab here won't be ready til early September - and August 12 is the last day we'll have access to the old one. Rut-roh, Raggy....

Getting ice cream later. :)

Awww...

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* Poor you.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Can always be worse. When we moved into this office, the phone company assured us they'd set up everything, that we'd have working phones as soon as we got here. Well, technically we did. However, the numbers they gave us actually belong to students at Georgetown. The phones rang all the time, but they weren't actually calling for us. That sucked. Then they gave the numbers back to the students, but didn't give us new numbers. So only the people from the original site had working phones--luckily including the main line.

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I take it that you don't have an answering machine that the phone can roll over into?

Also, you could put up a sign that you are busy and you will attend to their problems in half-n-hour.

But then, I know professors. They'll be sure that that sign could apply to them. After all, they're important prima donnas professors...

[crackerbob.livejournal.com]

Just remember... it's almost Friday.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I am clinging quite desperately to that fact....


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[crackerbob.livejournal.com]

That makes two of us