So I am over the anxiety I had last week and now just ready to get the show on the road.  Even though I know I most likely still have a few weeks left.  I am totally sick of work.  Luckily I only have 2 weeks, 1 day and 5 hours left.  But it seems like they have decided to just annoy the crap out of me so I am really excited to be leaving rather than sad.  Things that annoy me:

1. I have had to move to the other side of the office, in the back, in a little cubby where I have to have my back to everyone and can’t see the front door so that there is room for both my temp and I when I train her tomorrow.  No more view of sixth street.  I have a window, but it looks out on an alley.  Also, I had to move everything myself on Friday.  Our sys admin helped me move my monitor, computer and printer, but everything else involved 10,000 trips across the office.  No one offered to help, just sipped their beers and watched the lady who is 8 months pregnant move all this crap across the office by herself.

2)  They are not having a party for me.  I’ve worked here over 2 years, but, as Tim pointed out, office managers never have parties for themselves because they are always in charge of organizing the parties.  One of the managers said he’d, “be sure they threw a shower for me”.  Obviously he forgot that promise.  I’m shocked.  Not.  This is the guy who can’t tell the other women in the office apart and admitted as much.  One has brunette hair a little past her shoulders and is named Deborah, the other has long blonde hair and is named Lisa.  They look nothing alike.  Also, Deborah dresses more like me, jeans, t-shirts, tennis shoes, and Lisa is always dressed to the nines: skirts, slacks, heels, etc.  They could not be more different looking. 

3)  Even though we have already hired a temp to start tomorrow, I have to interview someone else tomorrow because my boss wants to have a back-up lined up in case the first temp doesn’t work out.  This bothers me for a few reasons:  1)  I have a lot to do and taking an hour out of my day to interview someone is not really something I want to do.  Plus I hate interviewing people.   2)  I think it is very rude to interview someone else right in front of the temp.  I have been a temp and understand they are supposed to be treated like dirt, but I do not like to treat people like that.  I think it’s wrong.  I told my boss that I felt really bad about it and he basically said, “but you’d feel worse if this temp wound up not working” or something like that.  So as irrational as it is, I am ready to have this baby and not have to work anymore.  Even though if I did not come back tomorrow, work would be screwed because no one has a clue how to do my job.

4)  I came in this morning and someone had drawn on the easel in one of our empty areas (a large area that anyone coming into the office would see):  two hedgehog-like creatures sniffing each other’s butts with the caption “Sniff”, a horse’s ass, and a penis and a set of hairy balls peeing.  (Just the penis was peeing.)  I ripped it off the easel immediately of course and threw it away.  This perplexes me because, while I work with very immature guys, this seems below even them.  I’m not sure what is going on.  Very bizzarre.

5)  When I came in this morning, there was a dead fish floating on top of the fish tank.  Eww.  Luckily we employ people to maintain the fish tank and they will be coming out today to take care of the fish.  But still, eww.

We went to our baby care basics class yesterday and the instructor was so great about making everything seem easy.  So I think both Tim and I are much more confident in our baby caring skills now.  We also toured the hospital again, and realized we could be back there any day now.  That caused a little wide-eyed apprehension in us, honestly.  I also packed my bags yesterday, which I’d been procrastinating, because it means No Turning Back.  But I’m proud for having done that finally.  Although I’m still missing tons of stuff, which I need to go get this weekend. 

Due to baby overload, Tim and I took saturday off completely from doing anything baby.  It was awesome.  We went to breakfast, went to check out some thrift stores and look at houses in the neighborhood around South Congress, and then we went out to dinner at this fantastic new place called “The Veranda” in Northcross Mall where Hooter’s used to be.  It was delicious, I highly recommend it.  Then we watched The Purple Rose of Cairo, which is probably my new favorite Woody Allen movie.  It was so good, even though I cried like a baby at the end (hormones), and Snatch, which was basically a pale re-working of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.  So see Purple Rose, skip Snatch and watch Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.  It was a nice weekend and I really dreaded coming back today.  Oh well, I’m almost done!

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Comments

Kate

2006-02-28T00:58:35.000Z

You need a ticker to count down the time till you’re done with work.  Ugh.  Making you feel wanted and needed and sad to leave, right?  Blah.