My Mumbling Thoughts

Ah, the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. It's the time when everybody packs up the SUV, makes sure that the batteries are charged on their iPods and heads out onto the open road to go and do family fun vacation things.

OR go to work like me.

Yes, I'm stuck at work with a very small handful of people who actually have work to do, so needless to say I look a little out of place. I'll be honest, I only came to work for one reason and one reason only: Vince is here on a business trip and doesn't leave until 3pm. If we weren't going out to lunch I'd probably still be in bed watching the morning news and eating cereal.

The upside of it being ghostly quiet in the office is that I can turn up my music really loud and properly listen to it, and the number of times that people walk behind me and shake the back of my chair is cut in half. Before it used to bother me, but now I'm used it. I like to think that it's a nasty habit that people feel they must do in order to continue walking in the hallway. If they don't, then perhaps they'll be left walking around feeling like they're missing something. Their day simply won't be complete unless they stop by and shake my chair. I'm such a nice person.

This week I was given my PDS which is basically my annual review. It was not what I was expecting. I was expecting to see, "Sam is so great, we love her work, and even though she does the little tasks, it sure does make a difference and we appreciate her hard work." Instead I got "basic contributor." It was also said that I needed "close supervision" and that I get "easily flustered." Why don't we try something along the lines like I'm never at my desk because I'm too busy running around doing everyone else's bidding and the moment I sit down I'm being called or IMed saying that there's yet someone else downstairs who needs to be escorted. I get "easily flustered" because I can never get in contact with the people that I need to get in contact with and yes, that is extremely frustrating when you've been trying for THREE WHOLE DAYS. Easily flustered. Kiss my ass.

I disputed the whole thing and attached my rebuttal to the back of my PDS form.

I was also given my KREs (which are just my new tasks for the upcoming year) and it looks like I have a lot of cleaning, organizing and walking to be doing. When did I turn into the gopher for our office? It just feels like I get all of the shit jobs that nobody else wants and that's not exactly the route that I wanted to take. Not that I care too much about it all because in just four short months I should be stepping onto a plane to begin my new educational career and after that, fuck 'em. I'm going to do a kick ass job at all of my "minor" and "basic" tasks and everybody is going to love it, just like they already love my cubical.

Besides, I'm not too concerned about what SuperAdmin or Le Bitch thinks about me (they were the ones who wrote up my PDS). All of the worker bees love me and I know how they feel about the work that I do. I support all of them and those are the only reviews that really matter to me.