It's The End Of The World!!

Ohmigod. It's 8am and the breakfast for the Executive meeting is 15minutes late.

It is the end of the world.

Now that I'm in charge of ordering all food for the meetings, the blame falls right at me. So instead of calling Kathy and having her freak out, I decide to take charge of the situation, and hope I can fix it, quietly. I was hoping that if no one knew there was an issue, no one would freak out.

I call the catering company and locate the problem. They never sent me a confirmation email for my order, therefore....it was never officially ordered. This was probably why Kathy was nagging me to call the company the other day to make sure everything was all set for today. Whoops. Well, if she didn't give me all her work to do, maybe I would have remembered to do that. Maybe. I sort of remember definitely just deciding not to call...

I hang up after after speaking with the caterer who told me she would scramble around like a crazy lady to get me food asap. I should have food within 20minutes. Seriously? that's awesome!

Feeling pretty awesome about the whole situation and how I handled it, quickly ended when the phone calls and emails starting coming through. The end of world was happening. How could I expect the all mighty executives to STARVE? I mean really now, these are executives after all!

"Where is it? Why is it late?"
"You did order it, right??"
"Where's Kathy, why isn't she in yet?"
"Do we need to go next door to Panera and get food?"

The VP of HR even decided to email my boss directly, asking what the issue was with breakfast. She of course, forwarded his message to me with a big "?" as her email message. Thanks Don, I *realllllly* appreciate that!

Mind you, the meeting starts at 8:30am. The food is just asked to arrive early so that we have plenty of time to set up. Kathy comes in and is majorly freaking out. I get chewed out about how I didn't call for confirmation, and this is why we do that, because we can't have this happening to our executives.

Seriously?? I have no sympathy for these people. They can wait 30minutes for food. If this meeting was for all us "regular people", no one would have freaked out. What makes them so much more important?!

The food arrives before 9am and was rushed upstairs. Thank goodness. Our poor little hungry executives probably all passed out from hunger.

Later, around 11 when I went to clear out the breakfast food to prepare for their lunch, I noticed there were bagels and muffins left over. Guess they weren't so hungry after all.

Jerks.