That's it!

Here's my past two days in case anyone cares...I more or less just have to vent.

Yesterday I went to get a sandwich from the deli across the street. They make a mean wrap...anyway. I walk in, things look pretty typical, 3 people behind the counter, and about 2 people in line. (This is where my troubles begin) All of a sudden the bell rings as a group of what appear to be 8 Asian tourists walk through the door all led by a rolly-polly gal in a green blazer. A shriner leprechaun? Who knows but what I do know was that she was in charge of this parade. I've just placed my order and am standing near the corner waiting patiently for my sandwich when one of the Asian senior citizens asks me if I'm in line for "tickets." I knew right from the get-go this wasn't going to be good seeing as I work at a grocery store for years and sold Lottery tickets and knew how long and how much those elderly drove me up a wall with their inability to place a proper bet, but had no problem spending their entire social security check in one fell swoop. Luckily (well I guess its all in how you look at it) they weren't there to buy Lottery tickets but train tickets...oh yeah! So the Leprechaun yells back how do we want to pay for this...of course silence because their hearing aids must have been on low, so Lucky decides well we will pay seperately.

UM NO YOU WON'T. Ya well they did which resulted in mass confusion and me waiting an extra 15 mins for my sandwich. So long that the guy who made the sandwich didn't even realize he had made my sandwich and asked me if he could help me. To which I responded "Ya I'd love to pay for my sandwich..."

That was yesterday....fast forward.

Today was when I was supposed to have my annual review. Today would mark the 7th rescheduling due to a number of conflicts...hey not much that can be done and I get that...but now I'm just dying to find out what's going to be said seeing as its now been over a week since its initial scheduling. From the looks of it, it will now be at some point next week...we shall see. I bet you're all wondering how I started my day though. Well I was supposed to have a Drs. appt but of course dumbass forgot to delete the old entry of the doctors visit and went to the previously scheduled dates appt. Traveled into Boston for no reason other than the ride, wasted $9.50, and just about half a day. So what did I try and do....well get breakfast of course since I hadn't eaten anything all day figuring I would have blood work, don't want to throw those numbers off! I find Dunkin Donuts....seems like a solid answer to my grumbling stomach. They recently got Flatbreads and Iced Tea...sounds delicious and even somewhat healthy...PERFECT. I stand there and pick out my Flatbread...Turkey Sausage. NOPE sorry we're all out, how about Veggie, to which I responded "That sounds FANTASTIC." Felix was confused, too bad I didn't know the Spanish translation. I ate my cardboard Flatbread with a smile on my face, but hey, the iced tea was just delicious.

I get back to work, do my catch up work seeing as I lost half a day with the wonderful train schedule that for some reason had me waiting about an hour for the next train home. Now of course I'm getting hungry so I walk over to the same deli as the day before, no ones there obviously because its 2pm. Get my sandwich and I'm out...things are looking up. Didn't buy a drink because I know we have water back at the office. I walk up to the water bubbler....OF COURSE ITS EMPTY.....wtf why not...anyone else want a jab? Luckily there are more than one in the office.

TGIF

Bye

Almost forgot

On the way down to CT again I caught another humorous road sign:

Caution
Depressed Storm Drains

You would be too if you got run over all day. You can laugh now.

Just another day

The weasel is making cameo's like nobody's business, not sure he does much of anything. He likes making a lot of noise. Just so we're clear he's the guy who thinks he's funny and is really loud in order to draw attention to himself but the person that nobody likes. He's slippery...that's a good adjective for him.

Oh and by the way G-Man has made about 30 trips to the Munchkin box today....there's only 25 in the box. Of all the people here...he's the one that could use them the least.

Oh its her birthday!

It's a P-Point's Twin bday today! That means cupcakes for everyone...well not really, especially if G-Man sees them...and believe me he already has! I'm not sure who was more excited for the 'extra' sweets today....G-Man or the Twin.

It's only a matter of time!

Got Munchkins today with our coffee for the group. I strategically placed them on person away from him. I'm just waiting for G-Man to pounce on them...I know what he's doing, he's just waiting for someone to pop that box open and its on.

Come on are you serious!?

As you can see by the end of this post, its pretty much the end of the day. G-Man has already had one donut....but thinks he's sneaky and gets up and approaches the box of donuts. There's one left...a jelly donut! Oh he's all excited. So what does G-Man do....cuts the donut in half of course! Just before cutting it I.B. (off by one...do the math) says "Ay G-Man, in Mexico we would say 'Stop stuffing the Pinata'" The room bursts out laughing and G-Man is mortified. To make him feel better the PITA Fidget (different from PITA previously mentioned) goes and cuts the half in half. Now seriously who is gonna eat a quarter jelly donut that two different people have touched!

Hey...there's donuts out there!

G-Man has been behind closed doors for quite a while today in meetings. All of a sudden he came out of the office he was in like a bat out of hell and charged the closed box of donuts....well guess what. There was a boston creme with sprinkles left! He literally inhaled that poor thing.

Things only continue to get better

Last week as a result of UAT we had another office where we took care of training. I went to visit cause there was a cutie in the class...not gonna lie. Anyway this office is literally a good half mile away from where I'm supposed to be located. So today I'm starting to get bored/in need of a break so I decide why not go to the bathroom on the other side of the building just for kicks. So I make my 15 minute journey down there to find what you ask? G-Man just finishing the washing of his hands. Now some of us may say 'Thank you' for using that bathroom and not fogging up our room causing the fire alarms to go off. Now that I think about it as you make you way down that hall the smoke detectors are blocked off due to construction, probably why he went down there and the rest of us didn't have to be evacuated. If you hadn't already guess G-Man is rather large and I swear he does nothing all day other than surfing the net, which has been proven on at least two occassions by management here. LOVE when that happens.

I'm still baffled though as to why G-Man was so far away from here, maybe he just had the same idea as I did, to get away, but I think it was an attempt to make the others in the room he was doing 'work' when in reality he was just going for a nice LONG walk. He really aggrivates me. Speaking of people that aggrivate me...

There's this Asian kid whose always struting around the cafe downstairs. Thinks he's the shit with his shirt unbuttoned and his hair all greasy. Hey kid, I'm not impressed, get a life. I'm convinced he probably uses about 90% of the products this company produces on himself.

Ok so final thing I swear. Now I always volunteer to go and get the coffee for the group and like the good people we are, we always offer to buy for the 'other team.' Now things are awkward enough, yet they continue to add to it. Like seriously, who orders Latte's from Dunkin Donuts. Oh hey here's another idea, why don't you offer to go and get the coffee one of these days! Yes this would require you to stop surfing the net and take a break from Power Point for about 5 minutes...I know hard to deal with.

I have a serious question

G-Man....what size shirt is that?

Boost! mobile reference

Do you remember those Boost mobile commercials...you know the phone service that was like Nextel's competitor for a while that was the pay-as-you-go alternative...ya well they went out of business, yup bankrupt. But again looking around the office today I thought of a reference towards it and if you knew the location of my current client and the situations surrounding the working environment you might actually find this comical.

Hey G-Man....where your belt at?

This client is amazing

I almost forgot to mention that the women at this company, I guess if they're my age you could call them girls, are simply amazing. It's truly what helps me wake up in the morning and get my ass to work.

Girl in the room today is looking fineeee.....too bad she's married!

My job puts the 'fun' in dysfunctional

Now in no way is this a description of my actual job, but what actually goes on around me on a daily basis. Today there was a meeting with the CFO of the client and needless to say the room was empty for a good portion of the morning. Of course before the meeting there was an impromtu visit by the CFO to say hello to everyone. Now my teams stays seated while he comes in because there really is nothing to be discussed with him, other than hello, good morning, how are you....the basics. Within 10 seconds of the CFO walking in the room the "other team" members were up and about - in hopes of brown nosing some more...you know, more than the usual. The best part about this was that "the other team" members were completely ignored and then the CFO made his way down stairs to take part in his presentation. It couldn't have been scripted any better.

Shortly thereafter another guy walks in the room, he thinks he's a big shot but if you ask me all he does is follow around the CFO and make him happy, in one meeting he even translated for the CFO in the sense of "What he meant to say was...." Give me a break dude, that's not gonna get you anywhere in life. For those reasons we'll refer to him as Weasel.

Anyway...he walks in the room and puts salt on the fresh wound, walks right over to G-Man from the other team and catches him AGAIN surfing the internet (two days in a row!), oh it was just classic. Then the little Weasel sits down next to G-Man to further discuss and look into just what exactly is so important that he must be surfin the web during billable hours. Well he's looking for an apartment of course! How important is that!? I bet you his bill rate is something lie $300/hr. Maybe its time they perform a cost/benefit analysis on the importance of them on this project...they seem to be really good with Microsoft Excel anyway, may as well put their "skills" or lack there of to work. The way that it was left between G-Man and Weasel was "I'm still not paying for you on Friday's." This was the first attempt by their team to actually be on site for a Friday, I know this is a huge undertaking by them, because I'm sure they are usually on a beach somewhere...although G-Man...I'm not so sure that would be such a good idea for.

Did I mention for the most part my team gets along great with one exception....every so often we fight like a married couple.

Just another day! At least I can say I have fun at my job!