Complaining About My Job-How Trite
23 April 2003-11:59 a.m.
I just want to say that while I don't hate my job, it becomes less fun everyday. And it seems as if my bosses are trying to take the fun out of even the fun parts of my job. *sigh* Oh well just give me a year and I can go to grad school.
Why do people come up to my desk and just stand there? They don't really make any noise so unless I look up I won't notice them. And even if I do look up right there in front of me are all our handouts. They mosey over and look at all the handouts, when what they really want is my help. But they don't ask me anything. *exasperation* Why won't they ask?
Let me also state here that NO we do not have all of our summer reading club stuff ready! Give us a break! The calendar and all the information will be out by May. Plenty of time. You can't freaking register until the last day of school anyway! You are not going to miss anything I swear! Myself, I have all of my vacation and plans made through September because I have to in order to accommodate you, the public! I have all of my programs named. I don't actually have content and I'm sure I'll be unhappy with them when the time comes but since I have to have a calendar down by the second week of April telling you what I'm going to be doing in August I don't have much choice.
My friends look at me funny when I tell them "oh a trip? I need to know almost six months in advance please, that's how things work at the library" I just had a grown woman drop a list on my lap. "take a look at this, it's the weekend schedule for July through January, tell me if you see anything that needs changing." How the hell do I know?
Argh. I didn't want to get up today. I don't want to be here. I'm hungry. I wanted to teach the new girl about the diecut machine and all the cool stuff we have. She's coming in at one. I made the mistake of telling my boss. I told her the new girl came down earlier today and we were talking and she's going to come back at one. And my boss says "oh I better go to lunch now so I can be here at one" and I say "yeah I was thinking about going now. Oh we both can because fellow-coworker is here." Boss "she needs to make playdough" meaning "you'll have to wait." then she wanders back here a few minutes ago to tell me other coworker can teach new girl, so we can get everything done. what is she talking about? Does she mean we can both go to lunch? Because no we can't, one of us still needs to be out here on desk. Does she mean that we can teach new girl and I can go to lunch at one? yippee. How is that good for me? I'm hungry now, and I wanted to teach new girl, cause she's fun.
I'll just go fix our extremely violent puppet show now.
Edit....has she gone to lunch yet? No.