UGH!!!!!!!!!!!! jesus christo!

jesus tap dancing christ!  the time between the last call was only 16 minutes!  16 MINUTES!!!!

so when i am out of the country on my vacation BOSS has this joke of a list of demands that i have to put together (which will probably take all week to put together so forget getting any real work done) so he can make sure there won't be "any fires!" well honey, let me tell you, if there was a fire caused by grease, you'd throw water on it uh-kay!?

i, like a fool, was generous enough to let him know that i will attempt to check my personal email while away but will not be logging into our network.  he jumps on me "oh, you aren't taking a laptop?  you should get a internet phone so you can call from anywhere" - i chimed up and reminded him that this will be a no-worky vacation.  i was simply letting him know as to set him a ease that should anything happen he can email me and i'll get back to him if i am able to.

WHY DO I BOTHER??? please please please note:  don't ever offer to do anything more than you need to at work.  especially when you are not happy and have a superior who reminds you of "our different social class" and nothing you do it ever going to be good enough.  

just don't do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Monday!

i just realized this friday is the 13th again.  how unlucky is that?!

so today started out as the usual shitty-monday: late to work, tired (especially from the time change), cold...

...add me spilling my coffee down the front of me in the car and getting here in work clothes so tight i can't breathe, only to find out it's a "daylight savings casual day!" - i can bet there will be an episode of the office soon with this subject.  it's becoming a phenomenon!  (not the daylight savings thing, but any reason to have a casual day in a business attire environment).

when BOSS isn't in the same office as me, he calls me every god damn 20 minutes to ask me what i'm doing, what am i working on, what did i do since the last time we spoke  -  oh!  you mean 20 f*ckin minutes ago when you asked me the same god damn question???  "not much." 

i hate that i have nothing to say when he asks that.  but the reality is, he'll ask, and i'll start telling him literally what i've been doing "writing an email campaign and putting together a list to send out to new leads" only to get cut off "stop, i want to hear about something good that can bring in money" - riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.  marketing is just filler work.  i totally forgot.

i am going on vacation next week (so you won't see anything after this week until the 25th of march) and i have a list of things that are really about nothing that needs to be done before i go.  it is this B.S. that wastes so much of my time to where i can never get anything done.  we have meetings about our meetings.  i make lists about lists.  i have to update him on the calls that he knows i have to make, the lists i need to list, and find time to have a meeting about a meeting about nothing!

anyone remember seinfeld?  well, i've downloaded the theme song to the show and whenever i am called into a meeting i play it in my office while i am away.  some of the comments by passerby's have been awesome.  at least i am not alone.

cheers.

Tuesday afternoon delight

i am so ready to blow a gasket right now!!!!!!  not 20 minutes, 20 MINUTES  after having to "see him", he calls me in to have ANOTHER F*CKIN MEETING!

this time it's to tell me that i should finish packing and get over to the new office space within a day or so.  umm, hello!  the plan was next week.  i have goodbye lunches, things i want to do on the westside, and stuff to wrap up in this office.  oh, but "there is no need for you to be here" - well shit, there is no need for me to be in any office. 

my job is all online and on the phone.  it's so lame.  this drive is bad enough.  now it's going to be more than double the miles and three times the commute time.  

GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - sometime after lunch

as i've said before it's rare these days to go out of the office for lunch let alone eat lunch.  so when i do, i make the most of it. 

today two of my friends and i went to the mall (to not reveal real-life, i will refer to the mall as that rhymes with lenchury mitty) for lunch.  oh boy very exciting.  i mean, i continued packing up my office, met with a financial advisor in the building of all places, and then off to lunch.

when i get back, there was the usual note on my desk (see picture) because apparently the two emails, two voicemails, and the verbal "see me" when i saw BOSS in the hall wasn't enough.

it must be tough when you get older.  when you hit retirement age but can't just let go of work.  even though you aren't needed anymore at the office.  you are treated poorly and yet still desire to keep coming into the office to do what? 

wait.  am i talking about him or me now?  hard to tell.  i just confused myself because you can apply this to BOSS or myself.

shit.

ARG...ARG...ARG...

give me a break already.  should i wonder what's up when boss says that i need to list all of the things i know before i go on vacation next week?

like, how to handle new clients, how to process payments, how to set up the database, how to manage the websites, how to do a podcast, how to edit a webinar, how to set up a company in quickbooks, etc, etc, etc???

really???????????

i joked and said "see, there is so much that goes on here and you have no idea.  now you know that things run smoothly for a reason" - and he goes "i think it's just a reason for you to have job security." - hmm, maybe that should be the quote for today.

Mid-morning snack i think not!

didn't get a chance to have my green tea and low-cal yogurt today.  i shit-you-not i would copy and paste my phone log into this post if it wasn't confidential just so you can see how many god damn times he's called me this morning.  keep in mind he is two doors down.

there is NOTHING to talk about!  he's bored.  and when he is bored he bugs me.   i made a comment because a friend of mine is working on a logo for me as a favor, and BOSS keeps hounding me for it.  i said "well, his boss is on him every second and he has to do it on the D-L." he replies "she is standing over him every second?  she is that annoying?" to which i replied "well, that's what happens when your boss won't leave you alone.  you can't get any work done!"

today is one of those days where i feel like my head is going to explode.  and i am not even hungover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday Morning JOY!

back in the office today.  i walked in to my almost packed up office and wanted to cry.  it was so depressing.  the fact that i have to move to a part of town i despise and have to do it all myself wasn't what frustrated me.  

it was the fact that it's the first day of the month (work-wise) and i landed a new client within one hour of being in my office.  $3000 for an hours presentation, on a whim, unprepared.  BOSS was surprised by rather have something nice to say calls me into his office.

i go in.  he tells me to shut the door (you would think that is bad, but he will insult you with or without the door being closed.  BOSS starts right in:

1)  i hope your little vacation on friday isn't the start of the old you.  you were doing so good.  i'd hate to see you calling in sick every week now. (um, a year ago i was sick and on the verge of a mental breakdown and took a week off).  i have so much vaction time but can never take it.  oh, but i am losing that anyway... - that's a whole 'nother blog topic i'll save for later in the week.

2) couldn't find this clients' info.  i went through all of your stuff in your office and i am concerned because i did find this, he says.  he pulls out something that i was working on for an outside charity.  "i hope you don't spend all day doing stuff that isn't work related" - i did tell him that that was personal, not for him to have in his possession.  i admitted that it was something i was doing on my lunch time since i don't leave my office for lunch.  i don't even eat lunch because i get more and more crap piled on me.  for some reason, he doesn't seem to think running a company is enough to do.

i digress.

so he gives me the weekly list of things i need to finish up on and update him on and then go back to my office.  it's so depressing.  i can't stand it.

PIECE OF WORK!

Okay okay Friday I called in sick because, well, I was sick!  Sick of work!  Sick from the number of martini's from the night before.  You name, I was just sick.

BOSS only called me three times Friday.  He must have been too busy to worry about me.  But that's alright.  He just calls every hour just to make sure I am working every single second of the day, and forget going to lunch!  A good employee, er, emtrepreneur doesn't prioritize lunch when there is money to be made. 

(Funny, he goes to lunch everyday right at noon and if you saw him, you'd see that he eats everything on his plate)

I got out of bed at 5 pm friday and returned his call.  Naturally i was expected to handle a client concern so to avoid having to hear how irresponsible I am for being too sick to answer the phone, I dealt with it.  

No appreciation.  Nil.

Happy Friday.  (even though it's monday today)