You have no idea...
Aug. 13th, 2008 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
willow_25How hard I am trying to care about my job at the moment. Even a little.
This week has been a disaster so far, and doesn't look like it's getting better any time soon. On Monday one of our floor ended up in several inches of water, due to a broken water line in the kitchen over the weekend. Which the building didn't call to tell anyone about. Even though the water was collecting into the hallways that they patrol.
Just to emphasize the difference; my building management at my old office in DC? They used to have a list of 4 people to call for emergencies, and they would call 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4 until they got someone for a problem. I was number three; I got four calls I can think of over the years, so there might have been others as well. And they called for things like, 'hey, you have a door ajar; do you know why? should we close it?'.
So, anyway, the brand new carpet that was installed in January is shrunken/molded/still wet from the flood, we've had the insurance adjusters out (for that floor and the one below; since, of course, the water spread into another tenant's space), and the construction company that did the remodel came to check out the walls and floors, just in case other repairs were needed.
Sometime Tuesday, as I was manning bosslady's desk while she dealt with the suck, HER boss was cornered by one of the top execs, recently back from our European offices, who had a list of suggestions/complaints/questions about, of all things, the food. So in the middle of trying to find enough carpet to replace what was destroyed, or whatever else we were doing, we had to stop and talk about food.
This has been one of those weeks where all I can do is be thankful that I am not in charge here. There is NO WAY I want to be the one taking the lead on this stuff. I'm too young for all the pressure. Maybe when I'm 40 I'll be ready...
This week has been a disaster so far, and doesn't look like it's getting better any time soon. On Monday one of our floor ended up in several inches of water, due to a broken water line in the kitchen over the weekend. Which the building didn't call to tell anyone about. Even though the water was collecting into the hallways that they patrol.
Just to emphasize the difference; my building management at my old office in DC? They used to have a list of 4 people to call for emergencies, and they would call 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4 until they got someone for a problem. I was number three; I got four calls I can think of over the years, so there might have been others as well. And they called for things like, 'hey, you have a door ajar; do you know why? should we close it?'.
So, anyway, the brand new carpet that was installed in January is shrunken/molded/still wet from the flood, we've had the insurance adjusters out (for that floor and the one below; since, of course, the water spread into another tenant's space), and the construction company that did the remodel came to check out the walls and floors, just in case other repairs were needed.
Sometime Tuesday, as I was manning bosslady's desk while she dealt with the suck, HER boss was cornered by one of the top execs, recently back from our European offices, who had a list of suggestions/complaints/questions about, of all things, the food. So in the middle of trying to find enough carpet to replace what was destroyed, or whatever else we were doing, we had to stop and talk about food.
This has been one of those weeks where all I can do is be thankful that I am not in charge here. There is NO WAY I want to be the one taking the lead on this stuff. I'm too young for all the pressure. Maybe when I'm 40 I'll be ready...
