gawd, so glad work is over for the day.
a couple of weeks ago, my desk (along with cathy's) was moved into another room, separate from the rest of my department, as we switched places with another department to make more room around the printers. i'm next to e.c. now, and they have to have it dark (to fix color and such), so i had to get a lamp for my desk. it looks all creepy from a distance, but i was getting a headache from being around the dim light and reading cr's so tyra had to order a spiffy light from staples for me.
i don't mind being in there really...i can put headphones on to avoid the meaningless and constant drivvle of the e.c. girls, and basically just sit there and get my work done without being bothered. well.....usually.
today was a particularly frustrating day.
first, i walked into the room where my desk is this morning to a bunch of clanging and maintenance guys with wheelbarrows. they've been doing this for days, apparently because one of the processors used to be in this corner, and it leaked chemicals onto the floor. enough to actually form a trench in the floor. yeah, that makes me feel safe. so they've been digging up old pipes and generally making a large, smelly mess all week. today was finishing day.....they cemented the whole thing up. and it stunk. and it was loud. and it meant a bunch of fat, sweaty, malodorous men kept walking back and forth behind me...back and forth, back and forth, back and forth...allllll morning with their wheelbarrows filled with cement. yay for funky maintenance guys.
after lunch, i was literally bombarded with cr's. way too many fucking cr's. and i'm the only one entering them, so it's a little overwhelming. especially when you know you're only working six hours the next day in order to shop for wedding dresses with your mother, and you get stopped every two minutes by people asking you questions or asking if you could "enter this cr right now cos it has to ship today even though it's three in the afternoon and there's no way in hell teehee" then there's getting paged up to rita's desk then to scott's office all trying to figure out this other screen they're putting on the vax that doesn't work or even come CLOSE to working yet and you're still expected to clean every cr out before you leave....................yeah. wee.
i got reasonably caught up before rita wanted to see me. she's the supervisor of the data entry department...order entry. i do cr entry. so we use a lot of the same types of screens on the system. right now there are two "steps" to cr entry...first is to enter it on the vax (old system), second is to flag the frames on the digital system (new system...how it will be printed). the super i.s. tech people are trying to finish this little pop-up screen that will come up on during vax entry where we'll enter the frames we need and what size print we need and that information will automatically download to the digital system, eliminating the second step of entry and making things a lot faster (supposedly..). as with everything else in that place, there are still quite a few kinks. and TODAY of all days is the day they decided to see if the screen was even halfway ready yet....while i'm buried in work and don't really have time to sit there and fart around on one "test cr"... so i went up to rita's desk, and ended up in this discussion with her and one of the i.s. guys.......
...the thing about talking to rita is she's extremely thickheaded and completely dumb to anything going on outside of her department. it's like she has magical blinders attached to her brain that see and process nothing but data entry and all that affects data entry.
so it's basically like talking to a fucking wall.
i try to explain the difference between a proof set and a 4x5 set. she insists that 4x5s are proofs too because that's how they enter them. i oblige and say that i understand that, but they aren't printed as proofs, the rest of the lab processes them as 4x5s and sees "proofs" as proofs with watermarks bla bla bla bla she brings i.s. guy into the debate who immediately takes my side... and it literally takes the both of us explaining the same damn thing at least thirteen times before she finally relented and acknowledged that we need a proof/watermark, 4x5/no watermark function on the new pop-up screen.
iyiyiyiyi....
so then i returned to my desk, annoyed, flustered, tired, ready to stick a sharp object into someone's throat.
and there were more cr's, yay!!
which made me feel like this...
*siiiiiiiiiiiigh*........whatta friggin day. i'm glad it's over. and that tomorrow is only six hours. even though tomorrow is a whoooooole other story, heheheh.
ah well...i'm home now, so a-ok.
