let's see...how did this day start? with an annoying co-worker who prints a gazillion page document and doesn't come to pick it up off the printer, plus the printer is out of paper. i'm wondering what's going on with printing my document and reboot, etc. to find out the freakin' printer is OUT OF PAPER again!! i lost it and stomped into his office and told him he needed to come load the printer and get his crap off there asap. so there we are arguing in the middle of the room about who fills up the printer. he walked off mumbling his usual mumble about how folks are out to get him...blah, blah, blah. what-the-freak-ever, jerk!
i wound up loading the printer again and finally was able to get my printed documents. we made up, so to speak, but i made my point that he should use the big copier/printer/scanner to print the huge files he has to print. sure he only prints occassionally, but 9 times out of 10 if there is a huge doc on the printer and it's out of paper, he's involved.
i guess what i get tired of is the guys around our office act like the "women" should check for everything. for starters, they can't wipe up their spilled coffee from the counter in the breakroom. and goodness gracious if they should walk 3 little steps to the trashcan and discard their empty cups/creamer cups/50 empty packets of sugar. they will put an empty coffee pot on a burner that is still on and walk away! hello, smart guy, it will burn up the pot even if there is nothing in it.
and don't even get me started on them making a pot of coffee if none is made or the pots are almost empty. they will look towards the nearest female and ask "are you going to start a pot of coffee?". a couple of them have tried that with me. i told them i would talk them through making a pot and then they would be able to do it in the future...lol. in all fairness, there are a couple of guys who come in earlier in the day and they manage to make some pots of coffee. part of me wonders if they would do it if a woman was in the office at the same time....
i also bowed up a little at one of the higher ups. as i've said, we're supposed to implement a new software package this year by august/september time frame. things are not looking good because the consultants have run into some roadblocks here and there, caused mainly by our i.t. group. well anyway, he asked me if i had been testing. before i could stop myself, i popped off we haven't had anything valid to test. i explained i was waiting on the go-ahead from the consultants and had checked with them on friday afternoon. nothing was ready yet. he said there was an email that went out this afternoon (while i was at lunch) that said we could start testing. i talked to the lead consultant and he finally had some stuff we could test. we're going to start in the morning and try to go through the tasks again. part of me is hoping this will come together b/c it will be a good thing to have under my belt. the other part of me knows the support calls are going to be crazy! i don't even want to think about it.
today i talked to my bosses about meeting with the surgeon on friday to discuss gallbladder surgery. they are pretty much in agreement with me to go ahead and schedule it. they are concerned that i might have an emergency and have to be out longer. at least this way, it's planned and will hopefully be minimal time off. so i'm going to see if i can get it asap. then i can be on the way to recovering and get that knee surgery towards the end of the year.
well, i'm going to go now. i feel better now that i've ranted and got everything out of my system. tomorrow will hopefully be a better day.
kisses....
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