Moanday...
Nothing went right today. Horrible people, bad things happened. Just a horrible, nasty, brutish day all told. Like a Hobbesian state of nature and I don't mean Calvin and Hobbes. They are funny this was not. I was never so happy to leave the office as I was today.
List of occurences:
-Witchy caller who took all of her issues out on me. I had to tell her to watch her manners and tone which she did not. This person was disabled and I am more than sympathetic but that does not mean she gets to haze me over the phone when I am trying to help her. So meh.
-Bathroom explodes. We have a huge toilet overflow in the bathroom. I am the facility manager on our floor and have to take care of facilities things. I report these things to our facility coordinator downstairs. By the time I figured out that we should turn off the toilet it was too late and the whole hallway had flooded. This is a lot of damage and not to mention unsanitary. The plumber informs us that someone had stuffed the toilet full of papertowels. Not a few of them but basically crammed it full of them. He could not get the snake down there. Soooo....this leads one to believe it was not a staff member but an outsider causing mischief. Bathroom is staff only but unlocked so anyone can get in there. We are going to discuss locking that bathroom to the public. There are accessible, public bathrooms in the basement of this building.
-Conference agenda wig out. I am sending people to a conference this week and we are waiting for the agenda. Usually we would have gotten it last week so we can research and prep the agenda items so our people do not go there and say DUH. Well, I email the contact at U**** and the agenda is not ready. She says "no matter what" she will email me a draft copy by the end of the day. I check my email from home at the end of the day as I leave at 4pm and it was not there by then. No agenda. We were already going to have to scramble but now we are going to have to SCRAMBLE. FUCK.
-Someone decides that since our office door is closed (shop vac in the hall to get the flooded hallway cleaned) that they can have fun with the door bell. Most people will ring it once and wait. It does take time for a staff member to get the door. Well this woman rang it over and over and then just pressed it continually. We are a DEAN's OFFICE. I would not do that at someone's home so I certainly would never do that to an office. I got the door this time and I was understandably pissed off when I opened it. I said, "We usually hear the first ring..."
I think you will agree that this was a moanworthy day.
Thank you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
laurahonest for the perfect blinkie of the moment.
List of occurences:
-Witchy caller who took all of her issues out on me. I had to tell her to watch her manners and tone which she did not. This person was disabled and I am more than sympathetic but that does not mean she gets to haze me over the phone when I am trying to help her. So meh.
-Bathroom explodes. We have a huge toilet overflow in the bathroom. I am the facility manager on our floor and have to take care of facilities things. I report these things to our facility coordinator downstairs. By the time I figured out that we should turn off the toilet it was too late and the whole hallway had flooded. This is a lot of damage and not to mention unsanitary. The plumber informs us that someone had stuffed the toilet full of papertowels. Not a few of them but basically crammed it full of them. He could not get the snake down there. Soooo....this leads one to believe it was not a staff member but an outsider causing mischief. Bathroom is staff only but unlocked so anyone can get in there. We are going to discuss locking that bathroom to the public. There are accessible, public bathrooms in the basement of this building.
-Conference agenda wig out. I am sending people to a conference this week and we are waiting for the agenda. Usually we would have gotten it last week so we can research and prep the agenda items so our people do not go there and say DUH. Well, I email the contact at U**** and the agenda is not ready. She says "no matter what" she will email me a draft copy by the end of the day. I check my email from home at the end of the day as I leave at 4pm and it was not there by then. No agenda. We were already going to have to scramble but now we are going to have to SCRAMBLE. FUCK.
-Someone decides that since our office door is closed (shop vac in the hall to get the flooded hallway cleaned) that they can have fun with the door bell. Most people will ring it once and wait. It does take time for a staff member to get the door. Well this woman rang it over and over and then just pressed it continually. We are a DEAN's OFFICE. I would not do that at someone's home so I certainly would never do that to an office. I got the door this time and I was understandably pissed off when I opened it. I said, "We usually hear the first ring..."
I think you will agree that this was a moanworthy day.
Thank you,
laurahonest for the perfect blinkie of the moment.