Admin Life is Tough on the Body and Mind

Admin Gal is amused.  Very amused.  Did you know that her desk job is making her unhealthy?  MSNBC has a full article about how desk jobs are adding to the obesity problem of America.  How the sedentary life style of the working schmuck is the ruination of the nation!

Really?

Here Admin Gal thought that her job was just plain making her crazy.  If she didn't have to answer phones for perfectly capable individuals, maybe she'd have more time to get away from her desk. Perhaps, if Admin Gal didn't have to manage and manipulate the schedules of adults, because they have a difficult time assessing their own time management needs she'd have less stress.

So, perhaps the obliviot who wrote the article might have a point.  Admin Gal's desk job is ruining not only her mind, but her body too.

'C' is for the Crazy of the Calendar

Admin Gal started her job, not referring to herself in the third person.  She started as a nice, normal woman who had dreams and aspirations of world domination.

No where in her mind did she ever think she would get to know that the 'C' in Calendar really stood for ding-a-doodle Crazy.

Admin Gal can only do so much in the tersely worded instructional emails left in the dead of night, to engineer some miraculous meeting, over multiple continents, languages and, sometimes she thinks, species.

If the email says 'As soon as schedules permit...', she can only assume that is the intent of the message and plan accordingly. Any hidden subtext is just that...HIDDEN.

Calling Admin Gal, after the invitation has been sent to the appropriate parties, in a kerfuffle, saying that the meeting must take place as soon as humanly possible (in direct contradiction to your email), expect a polite freeze from your ever efficient Admin.

For Admin Gal does Crazy, but she doesn't do brain farts.

Copier/Printer Courtesy

If a print job looks to have multiple pages, common sense AND common courtesy says to leave it be until the job is done.  Ensuring the job will have no pages missing OR out of place for the person who must pick it up.

Unfortunately, common sense and courtesy seem to be lacking in the work place.  Bits and pieces of print jobs floating on counters like flotsam cast on the ocean.  To the person picking up the bitter pieces of this mess, this is a slap in the face.  An irksome job that demands retribution.

As an Admin, I do have some recourse.  I have an in with IT.  I'm going to get a code put on the color printer.  Limiting it only to mine and my boss's use.  We'll see how long it takes for the obliviots of the company to understand the one simple and finite rule...

YOU DON'T SCREW WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S PRINT JOB!