Tag: Meg rants

That sound you hear? Is my head thunking gently against my desk.

Just – it should not be hard to check a damn spreadsheet, one that someone has compiled themselves, twice a year or so, and make certain that everything is on track. It should not be hard to look, go “this student should have returned for this semester and hasn’t” and freaking process a withdrawal. I should not be coming behind another department and cleaning up their mess by doing their damn cross-checking myself when I had already sent them a message earlier in the summer specifically asking if this needed to be done for anyone. I should not be going down a spreadsheet line by fucking line to see if they’ve fucked something up over there by not sending me a notice or just plain old not goddamn checking their own data. And everyone over here wonders why it is that the head of the department is so incredibly fed up with their admin assistant – gee, I wonder fucking why!

We have procedures in place for a reason and if this shit isn’t done properly, guess who gets hit with the crap that rolls downhill? I’m done. I’m saying something to my boss on this because I’m not taking the fall when these people’s fucking incompetence blows up in all our faces.

Ugh. I started out today by being late to work because they’re slowly closing pretty much every road that leads to the place I work or doing construction on it and I didn’t realize that one part of my route was going to be obstructed. I’ve continued with a crick in my neck that’s been there since yesterday and that makes moving my head a little painful. I’ve spent part of the day with everything looking closer than it is bc that’s what my head does when I’m this tired, and on top of it the database I work with has managed yet again to screw something up such that I check it, everything looks good, and somehow by the time it gets to my coworker to get checked over, it’s wrong. My desktop fan gave up the ghost about an hour ago, and I’ve gotten next to no writing done save at lunch because I’ve been snowed under completely. I’m currently letting my phone charge for the next hour because with my luck, this day will culminate in my car dying on me on the way home or something similar. 

In short, I’m tired, I’m frustrated, I hurt, and exactly nothing has gone right today.