THE DAILY DIVERSION

I love the line off of the movie "Office Space"... "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays!"

When I hear it, it really does make me want to punch something. Today, however, is the perfect case. First and foremost, again, I haven't been able to actually work on any of my stuff this morning at all. It's just after noon right now, and I'm going to be starting my work.

Part of this is due to one of my co-workers. Luckily he isn't here in Memphis with me, otherwise I'd probably have already ripped his head off! All I'm really going to say about it is this... Some people take the simplest of tasks and turn them into the grandest of events. I need him to do one simple thing and I sent him a fairly simple email about it. It read like this "Mr. X, would you mind looking at a small sample of such and such when you are reviewing credit X and Y?"

Of course, I assume a person that's been doing this job for 20 years would be able to use his own discretion and get the information and take care of it. Instead, I got 15 emails on Friday, before I said "Fuck it" and talked to my boss. After discussing things with him, I sent out another email clarifying what we wanted. Problem solved, right?

No, my luck is never that good. Instead I get an email first thing this morning, and he thinks we're not looking at his stuff at all now. I'm still confused how he got that idea, especially when I mentioned him by name in the "clarification" email.

Round and round we go. It always seems this way, especially when I have a ton of shit to do!

After getting this email this morning and resolving the issue (or so I thought), we all get together for a staff meeting. We rarely have these because we're usually so busy that we just don't have time. We got some bad news. Not bad like we're losing our jobs, but bad enough. Some other departments are trying to push more work down on us, when it needs to go to a completely different department. Also, another division is trying to restructure how we do our jobs, when it's evident they have no clue what we actually do. If we were to do as they say, it would take us about two days to do what usually takes about a month. Wouldn't that be fun? It wouldn't be correct, or assess any risk, but it would be quick! We could get our entire year's worth of work done in about two weeks, then we could just sit on our asses and browse the internet for the other 50 weeks of the year. Hmm... maybe I need to reconsider my stance on this?

Anyway, today is just one of those days. I'm not going to let it be as bad as that day I had a while back though. I'm going to go home here in a few, grab a bite to eat, and just relax a little bit. I did one of my buddies over at Hilltopper Haven a favor this weekend, so I've gotta run over to the post office and mail it to him. I enjoy making people happy, even if it is just for a fleeting moment.

I had planned on posting "10 Things You Probably Don't Know About Me" today, but since it's gone the way it has, and since I'm short on time, that will just have to wait for another day. I only had a couple of things in mind anyway, so that will give me a little more time to think of things.

So, I'll close with my update to the "Rules". I hope you have a better day than I am having!