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please allow me to bitch for this entry.
I. AM. SO. CRANKY.
work has gotten me in such a foul mood today. it wasn't that anything new happened - i'm still in this workshop all day doing note-taking. not too exciting but usually it's not so bad. but today it just annoyed me beyond belief.
there's another guy in there helping me with note-taking. 'helping' is an ironic word to use here, i think. when i was the one helping last week, i think i did a good job and made the other notetaker's life a bit easier. this guy is doing the complete opposite. not only is he not very good at taking notes and keeping up with where i am in my notetaking, he keeps talking to me so i can't hear what the clients are saying.
the other person who got on my nerve today was this lady from our clients. i have several problems with her: a) she's really spacey b) she doesn't really know what's going on c) given a and b, she still feels the need to talk ALL THE TIME and d) she treats me like i'm just some secretary there to take notes for her and feels the need to talk to me like i don't understand the basics of excel.
an example dialogue from this morning:
her: ok, wait (pause for 10 secs) wait wait...i don't think this is, um, um, on the screen, is it?
another client person: we're not talking about the screen, just the process
her: oh ok
her: can you put 'process' up there?
someone else: who are you talking to?
her: i just want to make sure she (waves her hand over to me even though i already typed it in 5 min ago) got that
10 minutes later...
her: hey guys wait a second!! (pause for 5 sec) i just notice that this is not on the screen
another client person: we're NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SCREEN!
her: oh ok
repeat this dialogue every hour for the entire day
i hate to think that work matters to me so much that i can get so annoyed by it. and usually i can care less, especially with the prospect of going to grad school soon ahead of me. but today, for some reason, none of that mattered - i just had zero tolerance for inefficient people.
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