the office

This shirt has nothing to do with the post - I just think it's funny. My friend actually wore it to an interview. Yes, she got the job.

I haven't worked a full week since the end of October. Even with these short weeks, there still is no shortage of things that drive me crazy at the office.

Here are just a few of my complaints this week:

I'm split between 2 secretaries...who also work for 5 other people. This makes no sense. It also makes no sense that with 2 people covering my calls and my calendar, I have missed more appointments, phone calls and messages than anyone else in the office.

Last week, I asked a certain someone to send out a letter. It had already been typed, signed and the envelopes were done. Instead of sending it out, she put the letter on someone else's desk where it sat for 5 days until they came in again. Now, I don't ask a lot of my staff, but COME ON! How lazy can you possibly be? Or how stupid? Did she really think I wouldn't find out?

People who spend all day making personal phone calls drive me crazy. (First, see above.) And I mean ALL DAY LONG. From the moment they walk through the door to the second they leave at night. By the way, someone should be more discrete. I know who you're talking to. And I don't think your husband would approve.

3 stalls and 95 women... you do the math. this just doesn't work!

The self review. Why make me engage in this pre-review torture? My opinion doesn't count. If it did, you'd ask me questions that are actually relevant to who I am and what I do. My review isn't even with the guys in my department - you know, the ones who actually work with me. I don't even think those guys weigh in on my review. So why bother?

You know how you go to college and gain the freshman 15? Yeah, my office is kind of like that too. Forget about trying to lose weight when you work here, it's impossible not to gain a ton of weight with all the crap people are always bringing in. And you can't avoid it. Even if you stay away from the kitchen, the stuff sneaks its way into your office anyway.

The people in the mailroom are LAZY. They give me all the mail for everyone who's name starts with the letter J. Is it really that hard to take 2 seconds to read the full name? Despite what they think, Jaime, Jim, Jay and Jules really are 4 different people. Stop wasting my time. I can't bill for reading their mail...

And my personal favorite: The powers that be decided that we're all so untrustworthy that they are going to run credit checks on us twice a year. Yeah...can someone please tell me how intruding into my personal finances has any correlation to the likelihood that I'm going to rip off my clients by stealing from the trust account? or why these credit checks would serve as more of a deterrant than, i don't know, the loss of my license to practice?