To: Gil
From: Me
Am stressed and nervous. Have a meeting at eleven to hear from Boss about how I did in last Friday’s meeting, and then a two pm staff meeting with my staff, and then tomorrow a one-hour meeting with Boss about my department matrix, and then 90-minute admin lunch meeting with Boss, and then Wed a two-hour High-Visibility Project meeting with Boss and then undoubtedly another meeting after that to say how THAT meeting went, and then my regular check in meeting with him on Thurs, and THEN another two hour High-Visibility Project meeting with him on Friday and of course the post-mortem on that meeting.
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To: Me
From: Mom
Hi, Gang—What are the days in November and December-Jan that Logan will not have school? The days that Dylan will not have school? And Daphne? If the same say so if not a breakdown of who and when, please. I would like to volunteer as much as possible to cover those days so that neither Gil nor Mindy has to take days off.
To: Everyone
From: Me
Oh, god, I have NO idea. Gil?
*faints dead away*
BTW, Gil—I may need to either work late or come in again tonight. Have a couple of things to deliver by tomorrow morning, and Boss has scheduled two more meetings with me on top of the three we already had.
To: Me
From: Gil
What do you want for dinner from the steak place down the street? On me.
To: Gil
From: Me
No thank you. You are sweet to offer. Am thinking it would be easier to go cliff-diving.
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To: Colleague
From: Me
Can you send me a couple of the dashboards for reference? Any two or three are fine. SoAndSo gave me a mega Board report that she wants me to make look “more dashboardy.” Alternatively, you could just come down here and kill me.
To: Me
From: Colleague
Here you go. Let me know if you need more…
To: Colleague
From: Me
More what? More abuse? More grief? More rope?
To: Me
From:Colleague
Or more sympathy, consoling, or succor.
To: Colleague
From: Me
MWAH.
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11.15.04 at 10:16 AM |
Crap, Mindy. sounds like you’re having a blast.
11.15.04 at 10:25 AM |
Or? More morphine; more single-malt; more high-precision shiatsu; 50% more hours in day ...
“I do not want what she’s having ... check please!”
11.15.04 at 11:12 AM |
Poor Mindy. Hugs, girl.
11.15.04 at 12:21 PM |
Hope it got better Mindy. If it gets rough, just slap everyone at work around a little bit. Then? Break out the want ads! Seriously…good luck.
11.15.04 at 01:48 PM |
Hah! My word is PROBLEM.
Because, yeah. I’m stressed out just reading your list of goodies. GINORMOUS hugs from me. If you are wearing your wooden shoes, go clop up and down the stairs a few times and pretend you’re Spirt. Uh, I mean Spirit.
11.15.04 at 01:54 PM |
Dashboards! ::shudder:: Status reports were always my LEAST favorite part of the job. So much work, and so little progress. I hope things get better soon. Can you at least order expensive take-out on the company’s nickel?
11.15.04 at 03:12 PM |
Dashboards are nasty things. I hope your meetings with your boss go well so you can stop stressing about that area of your life. Of course, it’s review season here and I’m trying to decide what’ll happen with me. :p
Hang in there! You have lots of friends out there.