Frog and Goat

Happy Friday! Today is an especially good Friday because next week is Spring Break for most of the schools in the area. And, you know what that means–less annoying people at the office. Thank the maker.

Yesterday morning there was a message on my office phone from a manager at work asking me to explain something to her that has a)been explained by me and my boss and b)has been well documented. I left her a brusque message because she is a)stupid and b)annoying and c)told me in the message that she already had the answer from my boss but was just making sure that it was true. AND, she wrapped up her message with the “I guess you’ve left for the day” crapola because I didn’t leap onto the phone to answer it when she called. That’s what voice mail is for you numbnut–for when people are away from their desks and can’t take your mind-numbingly stupid questions. Wouldn’t you know she called me back and asked me the same question again? I’m hoping she’s going to be doing something next week with her, I’m sure they are embarrased, children.

And, since I can’t stop heaping it on her, she asked me in a meeting a couple of weeks ago if I was still working for our client. Like in their office and on a project for them. I didn’t quite know how to respond because all I could think was you are a fucking idiot–I’ve been coming to work full-time for the last 4 years at our in-common organization when would I also have time to work for them? And so the blood vessel in my forehead burst and I just blinked at her and said No. Then I proceeded with what I had to say to the rest of the group who have actually been paying attention for the last 4 years.

A course that I worked on was supposed to “go live” today. I got to work and checked both places where people should have been able to access it and the course was not there. I sent an email to the people who should have done their jobs and then waited until after 9 to be able to see the course on our website. The person at our client site who will upload the course into their learning management system also sent an email asking where’s the course because it’s not where you said it would be. Great, our client thinks we haven’t done our job.

The person in charge of elearning at my organization comes in and sees the emails and makes some joke about was I up all night waiting for the course to go live. I said no but I am a tad ticked off that the course isn’t there. He looked at me in disbelief. Yeah, I should never be in charge because when we say we’re going “live” on a day the day starts at midnight as far as I’m concerned. When I asked about whether or not we could run cron jobs he didn’t know what that meant. He’s in charge and he doesn’t know basic terminology?

Then I asked myself why I even care. I care because we said we’d do something and then we were late and lame-assed in our completion of it. And, that’s why I can’t be in charge. Because I give a damn about doing what we said we do when we said we’d do it.

Must stop fist of death.

It’s hard not to be cynical when things like this happen:
Saturday night at 8:30 we turned off the lights for an hour to add our voices to Earth Hour Day. Sunday morning we discover all the change in both vehicles had been stolen sometime Saturday night/early Sunday morning.

Our cars are parked right next to our house. We live in a neighborhood in the sticks. We reported it to the sherrif’s office just so they’d know–not that we expect anything to happen.

We put up a sign out at the road that said Thanks For Stealing. That’s one way to get people’s attention. Two people stopped by yesterday to find out what happened. One is the guy we refer to as the mayor (so we know the message has gone out to the neighborhood). The other was a guy who was also a victim–same MO.

Damn kids stay off my lawn.