I’m out. Deliberately Avoiding Your Call.

You probably don’t really care but I’m going to tell you anyway. If you read earlier this week, you’ll know that Corporate America and I started off on the wrong foot this week. Usually, incidences like this are few and far between. However, it seems as if all the stars were in line causing cluster fucks left and right. If you’re interested in the details of my week, keep reading, if not…have a great weekend.

First up, it turns out that our long distance company decided that one of the phones in our office didn’t need long distance services any more and shut it off. No thanks, no notice, no kiss my ass. They just shut it off. You’d think it would be easy to turn it back on. We are a major corporation after all. Turns out, not so much. First, the tech I spoke to was Ms. Pissy Pants. She gave me instructions to check the service (and because it’s my job to take instructions and carry them out, I wrote them down so I wouldn’t forget). When I came back to give her the information, she got all snotty and said “I told you to get the time too.” When I told her that isn’t what I wrote down from her instructions, she had the gall to call me a liar and said “Why wouldn’t I tell you to do that. I need that information. This is my job and I’m really good at it so I know I told you to do that.” Basically implying I was an idiot and couldn’t follow instructions. I didn’t argue, I made up times and got off the phone ASAP. Some people just aren’t worth the trouble.

Turns out, she handed the problem over to someone else, and when they called her back on it, she didn’t return the call. So, much to my dismay, I called her again today to relay the information and she yelled at me telling me she wasn’t getting in to a he said/she said match. Again, that she was good at her job and wouldn’t ever ignore someone’s calls.

Methinks this woman has issues I don’t even want to know about. We might get long distance back sometime next week. We might not. Stay tuned.

The second incidence occurred when some documents the boss had to sign were sent to her boss for approval, as per the instructions I received. I then get a nasty call from some woman asking me why I’m in the middle of all these contracts. I shouldn’t be involved at all.

Um, HELLO?!?!? I’m the boss’s assistant. Yes I should be involved. Do you really think she’s going to deliver all those documents herself? If you do, you’re a moron.

I know, in the grand scheme of things this is all trivial. But I’d just like to take the opportunity to say, sometimes I really hate working with all women.

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