"Coffee machine in finance is down"

This is the email chain between Bill and Jim (the office manager). Remember that fact, Jim is the office manager. He makes more money than both Bill and I.

Bill, being a darling friend, send this email to me so I could get a good laugh. And as I shared with my friends (aka people I don't work with), we can't decide if it's hilarious or so upsetting that Jim is, in fact, this dumb. Enjoy!

From: Bill
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 09:03 AM
To: Jim
Subject: Coffee Machine in Finance is down

Good Morning Jim, The coffee machine in finance is currently not working. Its says on the machine, check water source call 000-000-0000. I’ve looked in the back, the water hose is still contacted to the machine. I’ve un-plugged and plugged back in, nothing seems to fix this machine. Would you like me to call this in? If so, where can I find the number to call?

Thanks Bill

Jim's response: "Yes please"

From: Bill
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:04 AM
To: Jim
Subject: RE: Coffee Machine in Finance is down

Good Morning Jim, I don’t have the service number for WB Mason coffee machines, could you please provide this for me or tell me where the number is? Thanks Bill

Jim's response: Do we still need a service call for this?

From: Bill
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:35 PM
To: Jim
Subject: RE: Coffee Machine in Finance is down

Yes we do…I do not have the number to call. Id be happy to make the call if you provide me the number. Can you send me the number? Thanks, Bill

Jim never responded, and Bill ended up googling the number, which maybe he should have just done in the first place, but whateverrrrrrrrr, it's the office manager's job to take care of this stuff. Bill was just helping out.

Now you are all smart people, was Bill's email hard to understand? Of course not! Not only was he straight forward, he was beyond polite to this guy!

Now how do I get Jim's job? He literally does nothing all day, completely ignores emails and works about 4-5 horus a day!

MUST BE NICE!!

On a personal note..

It's been a year. I can't believe it.

Sorry everyone, today's blog has nothing to do about work, and all about my personal life. I feel that since it's been a year, talking about this is just no longer allowed. I can't bother my friends anymore about it, because I can only imagine they're sick of hearing about it.

But... he's still on my mind.

I spent the day distracting myself, trying not to think about it. I worked out, then I worked out again. I cleaned my bathroom, my kitchen. Painted my nails. Downloaded photos off my camera - and even thought about posting them online. But being the girl that I am, I just can't get myself to stop thinking.

One year ago today the love of my life walked out on me, and I've had a broken heart ever since. To much to everyone's amazement, including my own, besides a few texts here and there to finalize moving out of our apartment (I moved out 5 days after the break up), we haven't really talked or even seen each other since that day.

I begged. I pleaded. And he left me.

And the only person to blame, still, after all these months is myself. I've become a negative person due to my job and ultimately it's the reason he left me. I made myself determined to get a new job, and even though I'm rarely at the reception desk anymore, my title is still "Receptionist". Besides "advancing my career path" and "building my resume" (as my boss likes to put it), all this job has done for me in the past 5 years is gotten me dumped.

Luckily I have amazing friends that put up with me, and all my negative ways. But God damn, that break up really fucked me up. (Sorry for the language, Mom!) I've convinced myself that I am a negative person, and now I just use it as an excuse for everything. I've always joked about not being a people person, but now I believe it. I keep telling myself that I just need to quit, but I literally wouldn't be able to afford my apartment. And what would I do when I quit? Would I be happier? Would I be able to get a job? Would I end up in another admin position?? The sheer thought of that happening makes me cringe. My college degree will be nothing soon. Do I care? Of course I do, I worked hard for that degree. But do I even know what I would want to do if I was able to pick any job??

I'm broken. I don't know how to fix it.

I've been dating since I was 16. From boyfriend to boyfriend, from long term relationship to long term relationship, I've always had a boyfriend. I can't believe I've been single for a year. I thought taking time for myself would have me focus on making myself a better person. Have I done that? I'm not so sure. I think the only thing I've accomplished in the past year was getting myself my own place, and being a great friend. No matter what I feel towards myself, I know for a fact that I am a good friend and I thrive on that. I have my girls. What more does one need? My sister and her husband are having a baby, my friends are all in relationships, moving in with boyfriends and getting married. I live off their happiness, and I think I'd be lost without their exciting news.

I just don't have the desire to date at all. I joke about it, talking about my future rich husband, but I dunno. I just can't seem to get over him. My ex, as far as I know, has moved on. As he should...I just wish I was able to as well.

Here it is midnight, and I'm awake, driving myself crazy with this. Why do I still think like that? Does he read my blog? I doubt it... Does he think about me? No... Should I just focus on my friend's wedding in September, with all the fun single guys and just get over him? (haha, I can hear you all saying yes!)

I didn't want to bother my awesome friends with my glum day, so lucky for all your blovers, you got stuck with it. I know it's not my usual post, and I feel silly even posting it, but sometimes a girls gotta vent. So let me go get a good cry in, listen to Adele's "someone like you", only to be followed by Sara Evans "Little Big Stronger", and get this out of my system. Ruby will be back with fun blogs, making fun of all the crazies that you all love reading so much :) I even have gained a new follower ;)

So until then... <3

IMs, Fights and Kidneys

An "IM convo" (really, it's just me going off on a tangent) regarding a "fight" Bill and I were in. Enjoy!

Ruby: Bill and I are in a fight!!!
Ruby: he was yelling at me for not restocking the fridge and since we serve drinks for people in meetings, he had to give people warm drinks

Ruby: um....

Ruby: who cares...

EM: lol get over it bill!

Ruby: and he's mad because he was doing the lunches since Kathy was out

Ruby: wah wah wah
EM: what a boob.

Ruby: so then!!!

Ruby: he ordered the regular lunch we do at reception, and ordered someone's lunch wrong. He said buffalo when clearly the sheet said BBQ

EM: ohhh good one

Ruby: and normally it's like, whatever who cares...but it's the THIRD time he's done it!

Ruby: so I called him out on it and he's like "DAMN, you are in a MOOD today!"

Ruby: UM well dont spaz on me for forgetting to stock the fridge when you cant even order food right!

Ruby: He made some comment about wanting to kick me in the kidneys and walked away.

...That might be one of my new favorite sayings! haha! Why punt a taco when you can kick a kidney!? LOL!!

$1,000 Reward

I swear these things only happen to me.

A local florist walked in and dropped off some flowers. After Nora came down to the reception and picked up her flowers, I realized there was a card on the desk. At first I thought it was a missing person flyer, because I saw "REWARD" but nope! I burst out laughing... Ohhh, it's the simple things that make me smile.


Um... anyone know a 50+ woman who is in 1/2 way decent shape that wants to marry this guy?? I could use an extra grand. Hahahahahahaha.

Winna Winna Chicken Dinnah.

The Beeping is Back

The same alarm that has been going off randomly, was going off again today. The construction guys took pity on me and tried to help me out to make it quieter.

Honestly, why find a way to turn off the alarm when you can just do this and "mute" it.

It's covered with insulation, cardboard and tape. Thanks, Construction Guys! And yes, I'm being sarcastic. Stupid alarm, I hate you!

(You knew I jinx myself when I said, "Hooray! Short Week!" in my last blog!)

It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar

I know Ive been slacking on blogging, and I apologize! Summer is here and my life has been non stop lately. Let me catch you up to speed of what happened last week.

The day after my last post, the security alarm decided to go off. For no good reason. In fact, no one knew how to turn it off. It only happened in the lobby, so apparently the only person it was bothering was me. How fun!
And it wasn't just a tiny little beep, it was a beep that lasted about 2 seconds, and went off after every 6 seconds for 5 HOURS. Yes, you read that correctly, I listened to the most annoying sound known to man for 5 hours.
Now, if I was the CEO of the company, or if this sound was going off in the office where a lot of people heard it, you know that they would have been ALL over this to get the sound to stop. Who cares about the receptionist, right? Grrr........

On Tuesday the part time receptionist was sick. While normally I would cringe at this, because then we have to scramble to change every one's schedule around to find coverage for the phone, yesterday I was jumping with joy. Now, I don't want anyone to feel sick...but this meant I couldn't go back to "help" Kathy. I literally was stuck at my desk all day long, doing only receptionist duties. My sister couldn't even believe it when I told her how happy was to just be answering the phone, and only that. I was also surprised at my reaction, but you don't know how good it feels to not have to do someone else's job and just do your own. I *almost!!!* caught up reception related jobs that I have been putting off (you know, things like updating the phone system, adding and deleting extensions, things like that), but I decided against it. It's not very often I get to not be busy with work, and you better believe I took full advantage of it!

On Wednesday, someone called to speak to someone in HR about the Full Time Receptionist position at the corporate office. Um...a what what?! That's MY job! Am I getting fired?? And if I am, can they please do it soon?? I need to get working on my tan, while collecting unemployment asap!!! Unfortunately not, the posting is for the afternoon receptionist, and they say full time because it's going to be a position for 30 hours a week. Oh joy, this means they can cover my lunch break, and I can get off the board to assist Kathy whenever she effing needs helps. Damn. I really wanted to collect unemployment all summer...

On Friday the security alarm went off AGAIN. I walked in Friday morning - after a night out meeting up with my girls, to the same beeping that happened days earlier. Luckily Bill read my mind and brought me an iced coffee when he got to work. The solution for fixing it? Putting duct tape over the system to mute the noise. I suggested just ripping it out of the wall, or taking a bat to it. While the sound was "muted", it was still a very persistent annoying sound that EVERYONE heard when they walked into the lobby. This time it took 4 hours to fix. I'm such a lucky girl.

I'm sorry I didn't have any fun stories to report, but I will try to be much better about my blogging. I noticed I'm up another follower, and I couldn't be happier!

Hope you all had a great 4th - and hooray! It's a short week! :)

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.