Dissapointment
July 25, 2009 thesassysecretary
Dissapointment. The only word to describe the day.
Little Boss was supposed to be on a business trip for two days. At the exact time his flight was to be taking off, he walked in the door at 8:11am. WHAT????? Why is he here? Why didn’t he tell me he had cancelled his trip? Was he trying to trick everyone into thinking he was still going on his trip?
Since Little Boss normally comes in at 9:00am, he is 49 minutes early. Geez, it’s going to be a long day!
By 9:03am, he’s looking for Captain Obvious, who’s normal start time is 9:00am. Little Boss walks over to Captain Obvious’ dark office and says “Captain Obvious isn’t here YET??”. Wow, Captain Obvious is 3 minutes late and he’s already throwing a fit? Yikes, not a good sign. So at 9:10 Captain Obvious strolls in, very surprised to see Little Boss there! The second Little Boss heard Captain Obvious’ door open, he was out of his seat and in Captain Obvious doorway!
And you wouldn’t BELIEVE what conversation they had! Yes, it was the weekly update of the computer program that Captain Obvious was supposed to have completed ONE year ago!!!! He JUST got there and Little Boss needs an update! It MUST be Groundhog Day, because I’m hearing the same exact conversation I hear EVERY week from the two of them!
By 9:16am, it was Little Boss’ first smoke break. He’s stressing hardcore, he usually has the first one around 10am! It’s going downhill fast.
Legal Eagle came back from a business trip and it was her first day back in the office. Which only means one thing: 2 hour gossip lunch with Little Boss to gab about all the drama that “we’ve” created, not Little Boss. Those two are 2 peas in a pod, they deserve each other.
Meanwhile, 2 days prior in the early morning, I had given two purchase order requisitions to Little Boss for his approval. I’m STILL waiting on them. But, I sent him a proposal that HE’S been waiting on, he immediately printed it out, signed, and brought it back for me to send back. UMMM, what happened to MY purchase orders I’M waiting for from you??? People need supplies!! The kitchen is getting bare!! WTH??? But then I remember, it’s HIS world and we just live in it! So I brought it up to him “Hey, Um, Little Boss? Did you happen to get those purchase order requests I emailed to you on Tuesday morning?”. “Oh yes” Little Boss replies, “but I just haven’t had a chance to look at them. I’ve been really busy!”. Ohhhh, you have, had you? Let’s do the math. Since I sent you those requests, you had 6 cigarette breaks on Tuesday, and at 10 minutes each, that’s an extra hour taken from work time. Yesterday was a busy day too, and you had 7 cigarette breaks, totaling 1 hour and 10 minutes stolen from work time. As of right now, you’ve had 3 cigarettes totaling 30 minutes stolen from your work day. Not to mention your two hour gossipfest lunch with Legal Eagle to b****h about how YOU run the show and how hard you work. It also doesn’t include the 45 minute phone call of BS’ing with a business associate about your favorite baseball team and their standings in the American League. OR talking about how much you need a vacation. Or how big your grandson is getting.
What conclusion have we come to? The 3 1/2 hours you’ve wasted on CRAP, when you could have take 30 seconds to look over the office supply and kitchen supply purchase request and gotten back to me with it. Don’t come crabbing to me when we freaking run out of your precious coffee you drink like it’s going out of style! I won’t be the one too blame! I try to stay on top of these things, and these are the obstacles I run into, but I’m the FIRST person he’ll blame if we run out, just watch!
So 4:05pm rolls around, and it’s time for IT Guru to go home. He stops by Captain Obvious’ office to say bye. Captain Obvious (whom I also thought was joking) says “Oh you can’t leave yet. You need to send out a mass email to our vendors before you go”. IT Guru’s like “Yeah right, see you tomorrow!” *chuckle, chuckle*. Captain Obvious says “I’m not kidding, I need you to do that before you go and you can’t go until you’ve finished that”. IT Guru came UNGLUED! He was SO mad! “WHY,WHY,WHY do you wait until I’m LEAVING to give me these things to do??? Why not 2 hours ago? And you know I can’t send that email out until you’ve updated the system. HAVE you in fact updated the system? So now I have to wait for you to update the system, THEN I can sen out your mass email, is that how it goes?”. So just before IT Guru explodes, Little Boss comes over to regulate. I use the word “regulate” loosely, it was basically a ticker tape parade for Captain Obvious. “Well, IT Guru, if Captain Obvious needs you to stay to and finish this update, then that’s what needs to happen. Whether he told you just now or two hours ago, that is besides the point”. Wow, nice pep talk. Can’t you see that this man is PISSED? Why can’t Little Boss just tell Captain Obvious to tell IT Guru sooner? Instead of making IT Guru look, once again, like a hothead???
When it was time for me to leave, I was standing in the lobby with IT Guru who is finally able to leave and he’s just standing there shaking his head. He was SO mad! He said “Wow, that Captain Obvious lives QUITE the charmed life! He gets away with EVERYTHING and I’m really tired of it!”. Poor IT Guru, no respect!
Who’s the kickaround guy in your office? Ours is IT Guru….
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