Only a few more days to go here. I'm doing my best not to say fuck it and go home from moment to moment. There were things I was willing to put up with because it was necessary to do so in order to pay the bills. Now, this place is unnecessary and along with it the inherent BS that comes with being a clerical monkey that does menial things all day long. I've been bounced around since the intern gets to have my desk. Eh, I've found ways around that now while she's here, like today for instance. Woo Hoo! I can move stuff around on someone else's desk and I'm sure they'll love me just as much for it as I love it when the intern moves my stuff around before I get back. C'est la vie.
This week, sometime between now and Thursday morning, I need to go to the state police department to get a finger print card done for my employment at THE NEW JOB. WOO HOO! It's happening folks. MONDAY! MONDAY! MONDAY! Say it like one of those cheesy announcement guys that do auto dealer commercials for television. Or monster truck rallies or something. MONDAY! MONDAY! MONDAY! I'm in such a weird mood today.
Thursday is lunch out with the crew day. So many folks want to come to my lunch to send me off. WOO HOO! How sweet! I get a free lunch and will likely have ink remnants on my fingers after my visit to the police department. It seems to be the plan, sleep until 8 and head out from the house to the police department, then to THE NEW JOB and after that, lunch with the office mates of past and present. YIPPY! Then one last day, one last day to get bumped from me desk for the intern to use. One last day for delivering mail and sneaking gtalk moments with the schnookums. :) I probably won't sneak so much, after all, it would be my last day and I don't care if the shrew or Miss Clydesdale tries to bug me about it. NOT MY PROBLEM ANYMORE LADY!
Sadly, I didn't find out until today that the intern is from Gary. So we've had quite a bit to chat about today, you know, stuff about places, events, and news and stuff. It was kinda nice to actually give her a personality for once. Not just El Tubbo or that damned intern, but a background that tells me she's been through some of the worst environments to grow up in within Indiana, but the intern nonetheless. My last week, I'm not going to try and develop any real relationships with anyone. I will likely never see any of them again and I'm ok with that for the most part. :) I'm evil that way.
I hold no special place in my heart for Purdue or WVH. There are very few people I would get upset about not seeing again from either place, at least not the people I worked with while at at WVH. I take exception to a few of them that were just plain cool to know and I do miss the clients despite the fact they nearly sucked the life from me on a daily basis. Ugh. That's enough babbling for now though. ENJOY!
Tammolly~ Counting the days
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Hail Purdue!
Well, that's the last time I touch any of my office mate's stuff. She's got this 2001 Purdue Football bobble head dude on her cabinet. Mind you, a bored Tammolly is a dangerous Tammolly. I'm making the head bobble around while waiting on her to get done with someone else. I see a button on the bobble head guy, it looks sorta mechanical in nature, movable arms and stuff. I hit the button and the Purdue fight song start blaring out of this thing and there is no way to turn the damn thing off! lol Everyone is now looking over their perspective cubicle prairie walls to see what all the noise and laughter is about. I was laughing so hard I was in tears. too funny. 11:15 Break TIME!
LUNCH TIME! 12:21 I haven't been having much fun today. Well, sorta, I'm finding more and more stuff the intern should be doing and is not. Before, I would try to keep things somewhat organized in the folders and file some stuff before she got here to work on W-2 duplicate request forms. Now, I'm not even making mailing labels! REALLY! She's supposed to be doing this stuff. She's gotta be one of the most unmotivated people I have met. Takes no initiative to see that something needs done and just doesn't do it. If you see a stack of papers, alphabetize them or put them in numerical order or even by date. WHICHEVER WE WILL NEED TO SEARCH FOR STUFF BY! A'rooo?
So I spent a half hour of my morning putting post-its on piles of paper with instructions on what she needs to do with them. We're supposed to look for returned W-2s when the duplicate requests come into the office. (Let's save some resources here by not wasting paper by printing out duplicates that don't need to be printed out here shall we?) I don't think she's been doing that either. A few things need to be done with each sheet! Highlight the name to make locating that information easier. Circle what needs to be done with the duplicate, mail, fax, or front desk for pick-up. Place a check mark in the upper right corner to show you have checked for the returned W-2s. Once they are completed, right down the date it was completed then put them in the completed folder in alphabetical order, not in clumps of alphabetical order, or groups of letters in alphabetical clumps, make sure they are ALL IN ONE STACK IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER IN THE COMPLETED FOLDER! Oy-vey
It's clearly not rocket science folks. Obviously, I know how to do this, because I've been doing all this crap for her and busting ass to get my stuff done, which I have not had time to do without skipping breaks and working through my lunch hour! Now that it's her responsibility, it's a huge friggen deal and she's not happy about it. Go figure. It means she'll have to stop moving around like a sloth and get something done in the 20 hours a week she's here besides chat and fiddle with her music player. I have no sympathy for students and the work they have to do, especially when I had a full-time job, full-time school, and a full-time and a half pain in the ass ex-husband who didn't get it. My supervisors are now seeing exactly why I was so pissed about the whole losing my desk deal when she's clearly not getting the work done, the little stuff is part of the work too and I'm done with the coddling.
Only nine more days to go before the new job starts. Granted, it's only five working days if you want to look at it that way. Five more days! WOO-HOO! No more Tubbo and crappy office drama and BS to deal with from the hell pit that is Purdue's clerical nightmare tango! I hope the people I will be working with won't be as annoying as some of the folks I have run into around here. Hopefully, I'll be dealing mainly with the kids rather than the employees, but we'll see what happens here. :) Time to end me lunch hour with a few Girl Scout cookies. Mmmmm cookies.
Tammolly ~ Just passing time
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
LUNCH TIME! 12:21 I haven't been having much fun today. Well, sorta, I'm finding more and more stuff the intern should be doing and is not. Before, I would try to keep things somewhat organized in the folders and file some stuff before she got here to work on W-2 duplicate request forms. Now, I'm not even making mailing labels! REALLY! She's supposed to be doing this stuff. She's gotta be one of the most unmotivated people I have met. Takes no initiative to see that something needs done and just doesn't do it. If you see a stack of papers, alphabetize them or put them in numerical order or even by date. WHICHEVER WE WILL NEED TO SEARCH FOR STUFF BY! A'rooo?
So I spent a half hour of my morning putting post-its on piles of paper with instructions on what she needs to do with them. We're supposed to look for returned W-2s when the duplicate requests come into the office. (Let's save some resources here by not wasting paper by printing out duplicates that don't need to be printed out here shall we?) I don't think she's been doing that either. A few things need to be done with each sheet! Highlight the name to make locating that information easier. Circle what needs to be done with the duplicate, mail, fax, or front desk for pick-up. Place a check mark in the upper right corner to show you have checked for the returned W-2s. Once they are completed, right down the date it was completed then put them in the completed folder in alphabetical order, not in clumps of alphabetical order, or groups of letters in alphabetical clumps, make sure they are ALL IN ONE STACK IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER IN THE COMPLETED FOLDER! Oy-vey
It's clearly not rocket science folks. Obviously, I know how to do this, because I've been doing all this crap for her and busting ass to get my stuff done, which I have not had time to do without skipping breaks and working through my lunch hour! Now that it's her responsibility, it's a huge friggen deal and she's not happy about it. Go figure. It means she'll have to stop moving around like a sloth and get something done in the 20 hours a week she's here besides chat and fiddle with her music player. I have no sympathy for students and the work they have to do, especially when I had a full-time job, full-time school, and a full-time and a half pain in the ass ex-husband who didn't get it. My supervisors are now seeing exactly why I was so pissed about the whole losing my desk deal when she's clearly not getting the work done, the little stuff is part of the work too and I'm done with the coddling.
Only nine more days to go before the new job starts. Granted, it's only five working days if you want to look at it that way. Five more days! WOO-HOO! No more Tubbo and crappy office drama and BS to deal with from the hell pit that is Purdue's clerical nightmare tango! I hope the people I will be working with won't be as annoying as some of the folks I have run into around here. Hopefully, I'll be dealing mainly with the kids rather than the employees, but we'll see what happens here. :) Time to end me lunch hour with a few Girl Scout cookies. Mmmmm cookies.
Tammolly ~ Just passing time
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Tyrannical Shrews
There's a woman in this cubicle farm that just gets on my nerves. I don't know why, she seems like she could be perfectly nice outside of the job setting, otherwise her mannerisms and such just bug total crap out of me. She's a manager person and she has her hands in everyone's cookie jar whether it's her department or not. Apparently in her own department over the next cubicle wall, she's told her folks they're not allowed to talk to each other and that they're only supposed to be keying information for vouchers. THAT'S IT! Never mind the fact the OnePurdue has consistently screwed up since they implemented it. Oy-vey, it's a nightmare around here with that damned OnePurdue crap. I'm told it has been working great on the satellite campuses, bully for them, it's not working out well here. I guess my main thought about the annoying manager person is that you don't have be a tyrannical shrew to get results from your underlings. Right? Oh hell yeah!
Many many many moons ago, I worked for a data entry firm that did medical records and stuff. We had hourly quotas to meet each day we were there. That boss didn't allow us to talk either. So we only did the minimum and yelled at anyone new who came in and blasted through projects like there was no tomorrow. It was our passive aggressive way of saying if you let us talk a little, we'll be more than happy to work a little harder for you. I eventually just got a CD player and listened to music all day while working there. I kinda do that here, but it's not quite the same thing. We're allowed to talk in our department and we get lots done when we're here. Go figure. Okey dokey, break time is over and I don't think I'll be back into this one today.
Tammolly ~ Kinda just here today.
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Many many many moons ago, I worked for a data entry firm that did medical records and stuff. We had hourly quotas to meet each day we were there. That boss didn't allow us to talk either. So we only did the minimum and yelled at anyone new who came in and blasted through projects like there was no tomorrow. It was our passive aggressive way of saying if you let us talk a little, we'll be more than happy to work a little harder for you. I eventually just got a CD player and listened to music all day while working there. I kinda do that here, but it's not quite the same thing. We're allowed to talk in our department and we get lots done when we're here. Go figure. Okey dokey, break time is over and I don't think I'll be back into this one today.
Tammolly ~ Kinda just here today.
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead~ HAPPY MARDI GRAS!
So, Tubbo showed up late today and I'm thinking I can't believe I'm wasting time trying to move shit around from one desk to another before ten this morning so she could have when she came in. So instead of processing departmental mail I'm moving things around. Had a somewhat pointless to me meeting this morning with our department. Knowing that I am leaving here in two weeks means any additional duties or information really doesn't pertain to me unless what I am doing is changing. It hasn't changed as far as anyone knows, so I coulda been doing other stuff that was more important than sit in a meeting with the irritable bowels grumbling for over a half hour. Talk about not staying on task either, blah blah blah blah.. Blah blah? Blah. I'm thinking stay on topic so we can get this over with before I let loose a juicy one just for you! ARRG! I ended up walking out on an emergency potty run because I couldn't take it anymore and was about to start my head to spinning like the exorcist in order to get out of there! I know, I'm sure you wanted to know my potty habits of the day, but it certainly set the tone for me being more irritated with El Tubbo more than usual. Besides the fact that she bugs me while I'm at the computer on lunch, she just makes me crazy with the incisive yawning, she sounds like a St Bernard that needs its adenoids removed when she yawns.
On a happy note, it's Mardi Gras! YAY! We had king cake and beads passed about the office area. Apparently, there's a plastic baby in the cake and whoever gets the slice of cake with the baby in it has to bring the king next year. I reminded them that my last day was going to be March 2nd and that I wouldn't be here next year. :-) Anyhoo, the cake was good too. Mmmm it was made by O'Rears, a local bakery that just beats the piss out of Krispy Kreme. :) Sidetracked the whole meeting when the boss got the plastic baby and nearly cracked a tooth on it while chomping on the cake. lol It was funny for about 3 seconds until the belly began the rumbling again. Ugh.
Other than that, lunch is nearly over and I have to get my happy arse into some other e-mail accounts to make sure it's not backed up to high heaven with e-mail like it was yesterday. yay-rah. I'm still psyched about the new job though, can't wait to see how much "fun" it's going to be working with these special kids. wOOt!
T~Molly~ Chipper
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Something’s Rotten In The State Of Denmark
For some reason, this building smells like a combination of old people and antiseptic today. *blech* It's a nauseating scent whatever it is. I got another interview on Monday with an entirely different place. I feel like I'm just wasting time with interviews when I'm not getting any calls back. WTF? Yah know? It's been really frustrating and I don't want to think about unemployment benefits and other such things because I just don't know how long this place will last before they no longer need me. Ugh. :( Lots of uncertainties and frustration when it comes to work and stuff. The one interview that I am gunning for and hoping to get has already made its decision, but they can't tell me who that is or if it's me because the background checks have not come through. Eh? Man, that's really getting frustrating. :( And it's not very encouraging either.
I am not at my desk today either. So hey, I'm not very excited about being here either. I suppose I will never be happy or content with a job, at least not all the time. I'm happy as a clam to have my desk, its vast space and lighting to get my work done, and a garbage can. I have this classy printer paper box next to my cubby hole from hell to throw stuff in it. Yeah, it's just fab having to use a printer paper box for a garbage can. I got tired of getting up every single time I had to throw something away. El Tubbo has the garbage can at my desk so crammed with candy wrappers, soda cans, and junk that it looks like I just sit there ALL DAY with a feedbag on my face or something. Ugh. Oy-vey. That's all for now. Time to amuse myself elsewhere.
MOLLY!!!!!
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
I am not at my desk today either. So hey, I'm not very excited about being here either. I suppose I will never be happy or content with a job, at least not all the time. I'm happy as a clam to have my desk, its vast space and lighting to get my work done, and a garbage can. I have this classy printer paper box next to my cubby hole from hell to throw stuff in it. Yeah, it's just fab having to use a printer paper box for a garbage can. I got tired of getting up every single time I had to throw something away. El Tubbo has the garbage can at my desk so crammed with candy wrappers, soda cans, and junk that it looks like I just sit there ALL DAY with a feedbag on my face or something. Ugh. Oy-vey. That's all for now. Time to amuse myself elsewhere.
MOLLY!!!!!
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Monday, February 19, 2007
Did You Just Fart?
So I had another interview today, this morning actually. I was not sure how it would go, especially after countless interviews and let downs, and rejection letters. I'm all ready for this to flop, I walked in feeling it would flop, one big notorious flop! FLOP! I came in a half hour early to fill out the paper application. Yip-py. Primary contact person comes out, we talk, I get the tour, we talk some more. I go sit and wait around a few more minutes. Meet with who would be my supervisor. We talk, we tour the facilities, "Did you just fart?" Yeah, that's what I thought he said when he asked me, "When can you start?" Seriously? Yes, seriously, when you can start? YAY! Bennies and 3 weeks vacation here I come! =) Woo-Hoo!
I will be working with the MRDD population, Mentally Retarded and Developmentally Disabled. It will be on helluva challenge and it will tell me weather or not I want to go into that area of concentration of study for my master's degree. wOOt! Also, from what I was told, they will pay and/or assist in tuition. YAY! Too bad that deadline has passed for this year. We'll see what happens. TWO WEEKS! I start in TWO WEEKS and with a decent raise! Woo HOO!
Happy-happy-happy Tammolly
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
I will be working with the MRDD population, Mentally Retarded and Developmentally Disabled. It will be on helluva challenge and it will tell me weather or not I want to go into that area of concentration of study for my master's degree. wOOt! Also, from what I was told, they will pay and/or assist in tuition. YAY! Too bad that deadline has passed for this year. We'll see what happens. TWO WEEKS! I start in TWO WEEKS and with a decent raise! Woo HOO!
Happy-happy-happy Tammolly
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Thursday, February 15, 2007
I’m A Meanie
No idea how pissed off I'm feeling at the moment. Last week, additional duties were assigned. I asked about what would happen to the duties assigned involving the use of computer once the intern shows up for work on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. I was told she would need to find another spot once she comes in on those days. Hey, this makes me happy, I don't have to worry about losing my space anymore, or at least for a while until OnePurdue gets its shit together. Ugh. NOT! She walks in, I'm off my desk, and stuck in the corner like the puppy that pissed on the kitchen floor. Bad Tammolly, no cookies for you or something. Grrrrrrr
The ride in wasn't pleasant due to every single intersection being backed up to a quarter mile or more or less, but mostly backed up to high heaven. Yay-ray. The extra half hour I gave myself to get in today was chewed up with traffic and morons that don't know how to drive in the snow. Morons exist all the time on the highway, but they seem to be more prolific on snow days. For example, my turn off the main road to get to work was back up all the way to a previous light. It’s usually four lanes and then a center turning lane to use for various places. THE CENTER LINE IS PILED WITH SNOW! Traffic is not only backed up, people are trying to get in the left lane from the right lane because it’s not moving at all. Then assholes from the left lane creep up through the center turning to get to the railroad underpass the cut back into the left lane. NOWAY! I made every single one of those jerk wads wait on me by pulling up just enough on the left so the folks in the right could get over for a few minutes since no one else was letting them get into the lane to get around the hold up. Then I went and by that time, center lane people are pissed because they had to wait. BOOYAH! Take that stupid people! C'est la vie.
Back to office crankiness, BIG STACK O' W-2s to be mailed out, only the addresses printed on the W-2s are not correct and require the use of a computer to make the labels to place over the mailing window in order to ensure they get mailed to the correct place, not the old address. I hand them over to the intern, she asks why I'm not doing them at the up front desk; lunch is in 15 minutes, I still have sorting to do for faxes and pick-up vouchers for the check desk. She pouts; I jump with glee with my inner vengeance monkey because I don't have to type up 50 mailing labels because I don't have a computer. Nor will I make the effort to find one since mine is occupied despite additional duties being assigned that require the use of a computer. HAH! Passive aggressive is me, so deal with it intern girl. I coulda got those labels done in 20-30 minutes mind you. She’s been working on them for an hour and a half and messed them up twice. Ha! Ha! I know, I’m such a meanie. That's all for now. :)
T~M
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
The ride in wasn't pleasant due to every single intersection being backed up to a quarter mile or more or less, but mostly backed up to high heaven. Yay-ray. The extra half hour I gave myself to get in today was chewed up with traffic and morons that don't know how to drive in the snow. Morons exist all the time on the highway, but they seem to be more prolific on snow days. For example, my turn off the main road to get to work was back up all the way to a previous light. It’s usually four lanes and then a center turning lane to use for various places. THE CENTER LINE IS PILED WITH SNOW! Traffic is not only backed up, people are trying to get in the left lane from the right lane because it’s not moving at all. Then assholes from the left lane creep up through the center turning to get to the railroad underpass the cut back into the left lane. NOWAY! I made every single one of those jerk wads wait on me by pulling up just enough on the left so the folks in the right could get over for a few minutes since no one else was letting them get into the lane to get around the hold up. Then I went and by that time, center lane people are pissed because they had to wait. BOOYAH! Take that stupid people! C'est la vie.
Back to office crankiness, BIG STACK O' W-2s to be mailed out, only the addresses printed on the W-2s are not correct and require the use of a computer to make the labels to place over the mailing window in order to ensure they get mailed to the correct place, not the old address. I hand them over to the intern, she asks why I'm not doing them at the up front desk; lunch is in 15 minutes, I still have sorting to do for faxes and pick-up vouchers for the check desk. She pouts; I jump with glee with my inner vengeance monkey because I don't have to type up 50 mailing labels because I don't have a computer. Nor will I make the effort to find one since mine is occupied despite additional duties being assigned that require the use of a computer. HAH! Passive aggressive is me, so deal with it intern girl. I coulda got those labels done in 20-30 minutes mind you. She’s been working on them for an hour and a half and messed them up twice. Ha! Ha! I know, I’m such a meanie. That's all for now. :)
T~M
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Oh What A Winter Wonderland
Dashing through the snow, in my trusty 4X4. Dumb broad trying to tailgate me and I'm ready to go postal. Ok, so it doesn't scan perfectly to Jingle Bells, but that was the gist of the morning commute. Foot and a half drifts in the driveway between the vehicles. I looked like I was attacked by a dandruff machine just bebopping out to the truck to start it up. EEK! The usual morning commute time doubled if not slightly more. I drove in the left lane at a top speed of 35 or less, mostly less. I figured since the plows hadn't bothered with the left lane I might make tracks for someone to follow if they needed to do so. Stupid woman driver is up my ass like a hemorrhoid, I guess she wanted me to get twitchy and slam the breaks so she could ride in the truck bed or something. Stupid tailgaters! ARRG!
It's still snowing and blowing, campus is open, we're expected to come in even though everyone else in their right mind is shut down off campus. All of the school canceled, including Ivy Tech! LAST NIGHT! They preemptively closed last night! Purdue is still open. Nice. So I am taking my break at 11 and gonna scope out the horizons outside during lunch to determine whether or not I will just take my happy ass home and build a cozy fire in the fire place.
Been awake mostly since 2:30 this morning because my happy fat grey cat decided to howl and paw at the door until I got up and showered him with the spray bottle. Then, I couldn't get back to sleep until about 5:30-ish. Grrrrrr. He can't help it that he has no learning curve and enjoys getting sprayed with the water bottle at all hours of the night. If he wants attention, I'll toss him in the shower next time. Cat wash anyone?! Oy-vey.
At this point in the day, I have a small stack of sorting to do, the morning mail has finally showed up, and anyone who could do anything with it is not here today, so I'm not sure what the point of sorting the mail is at this point. One of my office mates is going to have a stack of sorted billing to input. The new billing systems sucks since the new cost center numbers are not matched up with old cost center numbers or funding groups! Signatures that i recognized for old cost center numbers don't have a department name included or any reference to the old stuff, so it's a one by one search in the old books to match up signatures and see if I can do a reverse reference. Way to go OnePurdue! You suck! You've cost me my temporary staffing gig on campus and now I have to look at another temp agency altogether. Grrr. Hey, I'm still here though, for how long, I don't know, the other temp has been here since October of last year. Fun-fun. I hope I can hang on that long. Break time over! 11:12AM
12:39PM HOME! They’ve sent us home until noon tomorrow where I get to come in and work 5 hours. Worked 4 hours today and now I am home counting my blessings and cursing stupid fucking drivers. It never fails that someone with four wheel drive gets cocky when the weather gets bad. I got a 4X4 so I could get to work without feeling like I was going to have a heart attack in my car. That and my car wouldn’t have made in or out of work today, too much snow and I woulda been stuck somewhere along the way in either direction. Idiot in his little pick’em-up truck with a plow blade on the front starts sliding sideways in my general direction and almost hit me on the way to home. Gives me the dirty look for being on my side of the road, not only my side of the road but close to the shoulder to make more tracks for others to follow since the snow is more than 6 inches deep! Dumbass! I flipped him off and kept going. Stupid people suck.
Anyhoo, that’s it. Been getting argumentative with idiots on a gaming server that only do what they want to anyway. Me thinks it’s time to remove myself from the activity of that list and just continue on with the few relationships I’ve built there, because the rest of it has become not fun. Whatever happened to fun? Damn that sucks.
Tammolly ~ Tired of stupid crap going on.
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
It's still snowing and blowing, campus is open, we're expected to come in even though everyone else in their right mind is shut down off campus. All of the school canceled, including Ivy Tech! LAST NIGHT! They preemptively closed last night! Purdue is still open. Nice. So I am taking my break at 11 and gonna scope out the horizons outside during lunch to determine whether or not I will just take my happy ass home and build a cozy fire in the fire place.
Been awake mostly since 2:30 this morning because my happy fat grey cat decided to howl and paw at the door until I got up and showered him with the spray bottle. Then, I couldn't get back to sleep until about 5:30-ish. Grrrrrr. He can't help it that he has no learning curve and enjoys getting sprayed with the water bottle at all hours of the night. If he wants attention, I'll toss him in the shower next time. Cat wash anyone?! Oy-vey.
At this point in the day, I have a small stack of sorting to do, the morning mail has finally showed up, and anyone who could do anything with it is not here today, so I'm not sure what the point of sorting the mail is at this point. One of my office mates is going to have a stack of sorted billing to input. The new billing systems sucks since the new cost center numbers are not matched up with old cost center numbers or funding groups! Signatures that i recognized for old cost center numbers don't have a department name included or any reference to the old stuff, so it's a one by one search in the old books to match up signatures and see if I can do a reverse reference. Way to go OnePurdue! You suck! You've cost me my temporary staffing gig on campus and now I have to look at another temp agency altogether. Grrr. Hey, I'm still here though, for how long, I don't know, the other temp has been here since October of last year. Fun-fun. I hope I can hang on that long. Break time over! 11:12AM
12:39PM HOME! They’ve sent us home until noon tomorrow where I get to come in and work 5 hours. Worked 4 hours today and now I am home counting my blessings and cursing stupid fucking drivers. It never fails that someone with four wheel drive gets cocky when the weather gets bad. I got a 4X4 so I could get to work without feeling like I was going to have a heart attack in my car. That and my car wouldn’t have made in or out of work today, too much snow and I woulda been stuck somewhere along the way in either direction. Idiot in his little pick’em-up truck with a plow blade on the front starts sliding sideways in my general direction and almost hit me on the way to home. Gives me the dirty look for being on my side of the road, not only my side of the road but close to the shoulder to make more tracks for others to follow since the snow is more than 6 inches deep! Dumbass! I flipped him off and kept going. Stupid people suck.
Anyhoo, that’s it. Been getting argumentative with idiots on a gaming server that only do what they want to anyway. Me thinks it’s time to remove myself from the activity of that list and just continue on with the few relationships I’ve built there, because the rest of it has become not fun. Whatever happened to fun? Damn that sucks.
Tammolly ~ Tired of stupid crap going on.
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Monday, February 12, 2007
What A Twist!
So I come in this morning, get here about 10 minutes early and run through all the mail I have in the inboxes of a few accounts. It's a dreary morning, I'm feeling kinda blah and that I've somehow been hit by mac truck and did anyone get the license plate number of that truck? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Clearly waking up and feeling kinda icky in the sinuses and throat was an indication of a bad day scenario. SO far so good though. I have been given additional responsibilities this fine Monday. It involves use of the computer and that means the intern is SOL for the time being. Yeah, that's right, temp girl gets her desk back! Granted, whims of the co-workers and managers are as fickle as the wind blows or something metaphorical or another.
Last week marked the informing of temporary staffing that after their current assignment is fulfilled, they are no longer in Purdue's temporary staffing department. NO MORE TEMPORARY STAFFING DEPARTMENT! I won't be getting another assignment unless I go through Manpower, which is renowned for ripping off temporary employees. So when they're contracted for $15 an hour or more, they only pay you $10 if you're lucky and still no benefits. I gotta set that up soon though, otherwise this is going to get ugly and fast, especially since I've finally got my direct deposit split for checking and a little bit of savings each check. Don't make me get all angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. Well, you'd probably laugh at my anger, because I'm told it resembles something between a pissed of wet cat and a fussy chipmunk at times.
So it feels warmer outside than it has been in a few weeks. We're talking a whole whopping 20 degrees here! It feels like it's in the 40's! It was below freezing for so long, I was forgetting what it felt like to not have the hairs in my nose freeze. That's pretty pathetic if you ask me. I suppose I should not complain about a little cold and snow when New York got nailed with 8 + feet of snow and counting. HOLY SHITE BATMAN! That's a lot of snow!
So this past weekend was Val Day and there were a lot of fencers there. Ran into a buddy of mine that I haven't seen since the last Val Day methinks. He says he still reads my blog to see what's going on with me. Hi Rick! Post comments are I'll poke you silly with a stick next time I see you. :) Lurking does me no good if I don't know you're out there dude. :)~ And unto everyone else out there who reads this, I enjoy comments and feed back. Except from Adam, because I live with him and I get his comments whether I want to hear them or not. =)~ Hee-hee. Kidding!
Alas, lunch is almost over here and I have to get some paperwork prepped. Perhaps on next break I'll post more or not. Nope, that’s it for me today…. Oh my how time flies!
T~M
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Last week marked the informing of temporary staffing that after their current assignment is fulfilled, they are no longer in Purdue's temporary staffing department. NO MORE TEMPORARY STAFFING DEPARTMENT! I won't be getting another assignment unless I go through Manpower, which is renowned for ripping off temporary employees. So when they're contracted for $15 an hour or more, they only pay you $10 if you're lucky and still no benefits. I gotta set that up soon though, otherwise this is going to get ugly and fast, especially since I've finally got my direct deposit split for checking and a little bit of savings each check. Don't make me get all angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. Well, you'd probably laugh at my anger, because I'm told it resembles something between a pissed of wet cat and a fussy chipmunk at times.
So it feels warmer outside than it has been in a few weeks. We're talking a whole whopping 20 degrees here! It feels like it's in the 40's! It was below freezing for so long, I was forgetting what it felt like to not have the hairs in my nose freeze. That's pretty pathetic if you ask me. I suppose I should not complain about a little cold and snow when New York got nailed with 8 + feet of snow and counting. HOLY SHITE BATMAN! That's a lot of snow!
So this past weekend was Val Day and there were a lot of fencers there. Ran into a buddy of mine that I haven't seen since the last Val Day methinks. He says he still reads my blog to see what's going on with me. Hi Rick! Post comments are I'll poke you silly with a stick next time I see you. :) Lurking does me no good if I don't know you're out there dude. :)~ And unto everyone else out there who reads this, I enjoy comments and feed back. Except from Adam, because I live with him and I get his comments whether I want to hear them or not. =)~ Hee-hee. Kidding!
Alas, lunch is almost over here and I have to get some paperwork prepped. Perhaps on next break I'll post more or not. Nope, that’s it for me today…. Oh my how time flies!
T~M
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Thursday, February 08, 2007
More Annoyances
To add insult to injury, I was moved into the cubby hole from hell the moment the intern walked in 10 minutes early. So I moved and prayed that I wouldn't go insane in a chair that won't adjust the height, banging my knees on the little table that feels like it was made for pre-schoolers to color at, and no FRIGGEN room to move without bumping into something with hands or feet. Throw in the fact that I've kneecapped myself on nearly everything within reached of this desk, I'm one happy camper. NOT! :(
I continued with my filing, since it was moved from the GREAT BIG EXPANSIVE DESK to dinky annoying crayon table where I feel like I am crouched over this damn thing like a scribing monk of doom. Grrrrrrrrr 45 minutes go by and all of my preemptive filing and checking and verifying for the intern so she won't have to waste her time on researching all this stuff before data entering W-2 information to get this ALL DONE before she leaves, she's nowhere to be found near the computer! Another 15 minutes go by and she still hasn't shown back up, but by that time I am walking my ass up to the front desk to sit there and file what needs to be filed in that area. (NOTE: It's colder than all get out up there. Probably 60 degrees and nearly impossible retain body heat. The desk is not ergonomically sound and uncomfortable. Again with the knee capping of myself on things that are within reach. :( It sucks.) So that's a short-term morning solution until 1 rolls around and that desk opens up for business with student and employee W-4 and international student help with their payroll and tax needs. 1-4 that desk is out of my reach. :( But hey, I managed to chew up enough time to come back to my regular area and file and fiddle and twiddle the thumbs until lunch rolls around.
I almost didn't get the use of this one for the simple fact that if you don't log yourself off of a station, no one else can log onto it for use. If you think you can be slick and just pull the plug and log yourself on after you plug the computer back in, guess again! Apparently it has been tried without much success. LOL It wasn't me thankfully, because that moron got YELLED at something fierce by several managers. Anyhoo, I come back from up front and find her checking e-mail and chatting it up on the phone about last night's whatever she did with her little friends. Dude, if I gotta give up prime real-estate for you to screw around half the time, I'm gonna get pissed off in a real friggen hurry here. The fact that I was desperate enough to log onto AIM and chat on my cell phone periodically just to get a technology fix was pathetic enough for me. Not to mention the fact that all the work she did the other day when she was here did not print correctly, nor was it verified if it was printed or not. So when folks came in to pick up their reprints and duplicates after 1pm yesterday, I had to deal with cranky people who wasted a trip because it wasn't done correctly. NICE! 8.50 an hour is not enough to put up with that kind of shit. Ugh. Oh well, I am going to finish eating lunch and then hit careerbuilder for more jobs in a bit.
I know, it's not the intern's fault and perhaps I am being mean due to stuff not going as ideally as I would have liked. It's a pain in the ass to move around and be stuck in a situation where you weren't consulted and then just told you were going to do something because there was a severe lack of planning on anyone's part! Ugh. She keeps coming by the printer to pick up stuff and trying to read over my shoulder. Perhaps I could just be annoyed by that. Right? RIGHT! She's a sweetie for the most part, so I shouldn't rag or fault her for management's lack of planning. Apparently she thinks it would be great to find my blog and read it too. Ummm, no, you wouldn't like me very much if you did find it chica. Not after what I've written this past week or so. I am fully aware of the fact that if someone were to find this blog and take offense at my ratings and observations, I would likely be fired for it. It's a risk I will take, because I would otherwise go nuts during my days here when there is nothing else to do. *sigh* Hope you're having a better day than me!
T~icked off~Molly
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
The Good Ol’ Days?
I heard from one of the crazy people I used to work with in one of the other offices. She's always had this look on her face like she's been startled or surprised. I mean she was wide eyed like she'd been drinking a case of Bawls every morning. Granted, I introduced her to Bawls when she first started working in that office, but she was spOOky looking from day one. She's the drama queen type that everything is a huge deal and if you poke fun at her she gets really offended. She exhibited the kind of paranoia that perhaps was almost justified at times, it seemed to ooze from her. She was a smoker that tried to cover up the fact that she smoked. So it was perfume scented ash tray woman. Not only was she perfume scented ash tray woman, she would turn on her desk fan and nearly choke me to death with that raunchy perfume of hers that she wore quite often. Just so happens that Purdue has a no scent policy. So that means scented lotion, perfume, and stuff like that. It was never enforced in that office until our HR lady explained her severe allergies and observed my complaints about ash tray woman's perfume. So she knocked it off for the most part. If the perfume had at least smelled good, I would not have minded, but it was nasty perfume. :( So she wants to go to LBC for lunch again sometime. Perhaps, just to humor her, I will go to LBC and catch up on the office gossip from over yonder! :)
Yesterday, we received approximately 4-6 inches of snow. The first real accumulation all season. I left work an hour early and came in a half hour early this morning in order to make up some of that time. I've got plenty to do today, so I can't complain much. It's when I will have to be moved over to the cubby hole from hell when the intern is here that will bug the shit out of me. :( Anyhoo, I drove home SLOW as I could. I got passed up by a Wal-Mart truck that continued to fishtail its way down the road probably long after I turned off to go home. It scared the shit out of me. I mean I seem to have this luck for doing nothing but driving in a straight line and going slow and have my vehicle decide it wants to take a merry-go-round detour. Or someone else's car decides it wants to take a merry-go-round detour and smack into me. It just happens in the snow, it sucks ass that it has been like that in the past it seems. So I took the car home with the heart rate doing 120 beats a minute or better, death grip on steering wheel, and praying I didn't wind up in the Wabash River or one of its draining fields. The usual 10-15 drive turned into 30 minutes and me cussing at assholes who pull out in front of me when if they had waited 15 seconds, there was nothing behind me for miles! A'rooo?! What's wrong with people and snow? Does their IQ drop to retardo levels once they get behind the wheel?! ARRRG! Therefore, this morning, I took the truck into work. I felt so much better coming into work. No worries about getting stuck on a hill. I didn't drive like a maniac, not like the stupid ass in a Mustang that was sliding and spinning out everywhere. I didn't dare pass him up, figured I was better off a safe distance behind him rather than near him. *sigh* People are so stupid sometimes.
Tammolly
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Yesterday, we received approximately 4-6 inches of snow. The first real accumulation all season. I left work an hour early and came in a half hour early this morning in order to make up some of that time. I've got plenty to do today, so I can't complain much. It's when I will have to be moved over to the cubby hole from hell when the intern is here that will bug the shit out of me. :( Anyhoo, I drove home SLOW as I could. I got passed up by a Wal-Mart truck that continued to fishtail its way down the road probably long after I turned off to go home. It scared the shit out of me. I mean I seem to have this luck for doing nothing but driving in a straight line and going slow and have my vehicle decide it wants to take a merry-go-round detour. Or someone else's car decides it wants to take a merry-go-round detour and smack into me. It just happens in the snow, it sucks ass that it has been like that in the past it seems. So I took the car home with the heart rate doing 120 beats a minute or better, death grip on steering wheel, and praying I didn't wind up in the Wabash River or one of its draining fields. The usual 10-15 drive turned into 30 minutes and me cussing at assholes who pull out in front of me when if they had waited 15 seconds, there was nothing behind me for miles! A'rooo?! What's wrong with people and snow? Does their IQ drop to retardo levels once they get behind the wheel?! ARRRG! Therefore, this morning, I took the truck into work. I felt so much better coming into work. No worries about getting stuck on a hill. I didn't drive like a maniac, not like the stupid ass in a Mustang that was sliding and spinning out everywhere. I didn't dare pass him up, figured I was better off a safe distance behind him rather than near him. *sigh* People are so stupid sometimes.
Tammolly
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Monday, February 05, 2007
Oh Joy.... NOT!
Grrr... Roar... And other explicatives I aught not say in the office. Here's the joy of being a temp at Purdue. I was informed that the intern gets to have my desk 3 days a week between 10 am to 5:30 pm. It's something like Tuesday, Thursday, and then Fridays are NOON to 5:30pm or something like that. My complaint is, my shit is at this desk, I have adopted this desk as my work space, not the kindergartner table they have crammed into one of the corners between the filing cabinets like a prison cell with poor lighting. My personal track ball mouse and USB extension cord is here. I don't want someone else using either one, they are MINE. I lose my happy quiet lunch space with the computer to check e-mail on lunch and type up my blogs that some folks actually like to read once in a while. Yeah, losing my desk at lunch pisses me off to no end; I lose it for break times on those days, so I won't have access to a computer. WTF? Apparently this is not uncommon around here. Ugh. I guess you can say I am fairly territorial about my stuff and my space. Besides, I went through the friggen effort to clean this area of food particles and other crap my first week here. I don't want to worry about someone else's cooties on the keyboard, phone, monitor etc etc. Did I mention I lose access to the computer and streaming music at my desk too? I'll be hooked up on the MP3 player more often than not then. Ugh. Yeah, this was not designed to make me feel happy today. Oh well, I have some other stuff to do.
So I am thinking now, they're running out of legitimate things for me to do and are looking for stupid things for me to stay busy with. They say they want to hang onto me as long as they can, but for some reason, I am thinking not so much so because of the whole getting bumped from my desk at least 3 days a week. Ugh. I am now sharing things to do with the other temp that trained me three weeks ago, so that's a scary thought. It's hard enough to feign busy with a computer at my desk, it's going to be hard to do so without a computer at my desk. Have I mentioned that there are at least two other departments on this floor without users for computer that just sit collecting dust since I have started working here? Perhaps it would be a good use of resources to put the intern there rather than bump me off my damn desk! Or let me go to another building where I might make more than 8.50 an hour doing much of the same thing or less. Blah-blah-blah-blah.
Almost forgot, scary thought. Sitting at a stop light with people in front of me, semi-truck decides blow through stop light and nail an SUV full of people. I don't know what he was thinking; he just flew on through the light and took this automobile out right in front of a bunch of people. EEK! Apparently everyone is ok, despite the fact the SUV got mangled, thank god for side impact air bags? I really don't know. Someone must have been looking out for them, that's for sure. It wasn't nearly as entertaining as watching stupid people sling up-side the right of a rig and have it turn into them. CAUTION! WIDE RIGHT TURNS! With pictures that show you what not to do. DUH! Not really the same thing, but hey, just thought I'd throw that in there. :)
Oh well, it's time for chocolate therapy.
T~Molly~Grumpin’
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
So I am thinking now, they're running out of legitimate things for me to do and are looking for stupid things for me to stay busy with. They say they want to hang onto me as long as they can, but for some reason, I am thinking not so much so because of the whole getting bumped from my desk at least 3 days a week. Ugh. I am now sharing things to do with the other temp that trained me three weeks ago, so that's a scary thought. It's hard enough to feign busy with a computer at my desk, it's going to be hard to do so without a computer at my desk. Have I mentioned that there are at least two other departments on this floor without users for computer that just sit collecting dust since I have started working here? Perhaps it would be a good use of resources to put the intern there rather than bump me off my damn desk! Or let me go to another building where I might make more than 8.50 an hour doing much of the same thing or less. Blah-blah-blah-blah.
Almost forgot, scary thought. Sitting at a stop light with people in front of me, semi-truck decides blow through stop light and nail an SUV full of people. I don't know what he was thinking; he just flew on through the light and took this automobile out right in front of a bunch of people. EEK! Apparently everyone is ok, despite the fact the SUV got mangled, thank god for side impact air bags? I really don't know. Someone must have been looking out for them, that's for sure. It wasn't nearly as entertaining as watching stupid people sling up-side the right of a rig and have it turn into them. CAUTION! WIDE RIGHT TURNS! With pictures that show you what not to do. DUH! Not really the same thing, but hey, just thought I'd throw that in there. :)
Oh well, it's time for chocolate therapy.
T~Molly~Grumpin’
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Vicious Squirrels
I just happened to see something that made me almost pee my pants I was laughing so hard. I suppose it if happened to me, I wouldn't think it was very funny at the time. Apparently this is not something unusual for this particular building, but then again, I've never seen it happen anywhere else on campus. Some guy went to throw his trash in the can stationed at the front set of doors outside. As he reached in to deposit his trash, a squirrel ran out and up his arm. I don't think I've ever heard a man scream like a girl quite like this. It's right up there with the time a buddy of mine screamed like a girl when a herd of deer decided to attack the car while we were stopped in the middle of the road waiting for about 20 of the bastards to cross over to the other side of the road. It was hilarious on both accounts though. It's not often you see something worthy of funniest home videos; I only wish I had a video camera for either event! :)
That's my funny for the day and I think that's all I have to say too! :) At some point I have to return to the psychotic animal featurette. Remind me sometime to finish off the Chicago squirrel and Pigeon story at some point.
Tammolly ~ Having a good laugh.
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
That's my funny for the day and I think that's all I have to say too! :) At some point I have to return to the psychotic animal featurette. Remind me sometime to finish off the Chicago squirrel and Pigeon story at some point.
Tammolly ~ Having a good laugh.
...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…
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