So done with today already...

[deathpixie]

Today started off promisingly - I actually got to work at 8:50, cleared up the work that had accrued overnight and headed off to my French class. Two hours later, I come back to utter chaos and destruction. Including:

Urgent phone call to Jane in response to a message she left;

That call made, I then was dragged to the Nook to set up the laptop/TV for a Lunch and Learn meeting, despite the fact one of my co-workers has been through the same introduction meeting I did about setting this stuff up;

Urgent phone call to a prosecutor who was appearing in a matter for us;

Meeting with Sonia about something to do with files (I don't know, I still haven't gotten to it!);

Completion and service/filing of a Counter-Motion for Alvin, to be done before 1 p.m. It was 12 p.m. when we started;

Approximately a gazillion emails to respond to.

Best of all, when I'm in the middle of transcribing an affidavit of service from my phone, I have one of my co-workers interrupt me to let me know the laptop has stopped working for the Lunch and Learn. Turns out the power cord unplugged and the battery is old and crappy. *sighs* So yeah, I might have been a tad snappy, since I had Alvin in my face about getting this motion done and people can't even use a fscking laptop properly. I don't mind helping, but I do mind when a) it's something retardedly simple and b) I'm insane busy, have already told people that's the case and there's any number of other people in the office who know how to use a laptop. But yeah, I'll have to make nice now for the sake of office harmony.

Therapy tonight. I have a feeling we'll be talking about my frustration about feeling "on call" all the time - even when I try not to be responsible for everything, I wind up being dragged into doing things.

Comments

[ferox.livejournal.com]

The fact that apparently no one can use anything that runs on electricity in your office is getting kind of ridiculous, dear. That's what you have tech people for. It is not your job.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

Have you introduced these folks to 'fire' yet? (Seriously, just. Ngggh on your behalf.)

[wordsofbane.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly convinced that there are many people in my job much smarter than I am. Not only do they know how to use technology, but they also know better to admit to anyone that they do.

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

When I was in IT, I had two favorite kinds of users.

1) The kind who admitted they knew nothing and therefore listened to every word I said like it was said from on high, took notes and actually did NOT do the things I said not to do, and DID do the things I said to do.

2) The kind that bribed me with coffee.

#2 was actually more common than #1, but #1 actually made me happier because they didn't break things.

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

There has to be a way to be able to say "I can't help you right now because I am doing (Very Important Task for the People who Pay me), but so and so can." - it's a no, but it's a polite no with reasons that will get them to go away?

[deathpixie]

That's pretty much what my therapist said. I fail at standing up for myself. Again.

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

No, you had a minor setback. No failing.