Does anyone know the Dilbert comic strip?
It's an office satire, about how nobody can get any work done, and their boss is unrealistically incompetent.
If you don't know, here's an example of how a Dilbert comic strip would go:
-I need to calculate the yearly budget.
-But in order to do that, I need the latest budget calculating program, which I don't have.
-So I have to buy the latest budget calculating program, but I can't do that until I know if it's within our budget.
-I don't know if it's within our budget, because I haven't calculated the yearly budget yet.
-So I need to calculate the yearly budget first, but I can't do that because we don't have the latest....
You get it, right?
That's kind of how I feel right now.
I have a day off from the bookstore, but I promised to work for my dad. My dad has an at-home office, which is a hopeless mess. I would LOVE to clean/organize it, but I can't clean it without him around, because despite the crazy disorganization, he claims to know where everything is. If I start reshuffling things, I'll probably "lose" something, and I get in big trouble.
If I start throwing things out that I think are unimportant, I get in even bigger trouble. So I can't start cleaning until he's home, and he and I are rarely home at the same time.
Since he isn't home to help me, I decided to not tackle the office, but work on his monthly receipts instead. But I can't find the book that I use to write everything in. It's somewhere here in his office. Looking for it would require a "shuffling around" of papers, which I can't do, because dad's not home.
ZERO PRODUCTIVITY MUCH????
May 15, 2008
May 14, 2008
Schnell schnell!
Work was good.
I'm done sticker picking.
I have a day off tomorrow.
I'm going to youth group now: ARK Night (Acts of Random Kindness).
No time to talk. Gotta go!
I'm done sticker picking.
I have a day off tomorrow.
I'm going to youth group now: ARK Night (Acts of Random Kindness).
No time to talk. Gotta go!
May 12, 2008
Wokin' Woman
I kind of have another job. For this week, anyway. We have a small bookstore in our town, and I've worked there now and again, helping out on the till. It doesn't get terribly busy, but the store makes most of its money through internet orders and church libraries - they buy in bulk!
When I helped out on Saturday, I learned that he (the owner) just got in a huge shipment, and it all needs to be sorted and sent out to those who ordered.
Part of that process involves taking off the old price stickers that are on every book. Most of them come off pretty easily, but all of them leave a sticky residue that needs to be cleaned off as well. Yay for a little product called Goo Gone. It's an oily product, meant for removing sticky residue off of things. It also claims to remove artwork from your walls that your child may have put there, and apparently it works for getting makeup out of clothes too!
So anyway, the owner has several bottles of that stuff, because they use it all the time.
But back to those price stickers. They ALL need to come off. So. For eight hours on Saturday, I ran the till (for the few transactions that there were), and I picked stickers off of books. Man, my fingers were SORE. And since we only just got started on Saturday, I went back again to today to continue helping. I PICKED STICKERS for EIGHT HOURS.
And I'm going back tomorrow, and the next day, until it's all done. Am I crazy?! Well, he needs help, and I need money. It's fairly quiet in there, and my mind does a good job of wandering, so surprisingly, I didn't get too bored. Although I definitely wished I had an iPod.
I'll probably be more than sick of these stickers by the end of the week, but I'm not in a position to complain about how I can make money at this point in my life. Plus, I'm taking a vacation soon.
Have I mentioned that yet? Well, I knew that as soon as I was done at my other job, I was taking off to visit Art. My plane leaves Sunday afternoon, and I'll be back eight days after that. I can't wait!
But anyway, all I wanted to tell you is that sticker-picking is my life, and I'm ending this blog to go spend time with my niece who is here, and sounding very cute in the other room.
When I helped out on Saturday, I learned that he (the owner) just got in a huge shipment, and it all needs to be sorted and sent out to those who ordered.
Part of that process involves taking off the old price stickers that are on every book. Most of them come off pretty easily, but all of them leave a sticky residue that needs to be cleaned off as well. Yay for a little product called Goo Gone. It's an oily product, meant for removing sticky residue off of things. It also claims to remove artwork from your walls that your child may have put there, and apparently it works for getting makeup out of clothes too!
So anyway, the owner has several bottles of that stuff, because they use it all the time.
But back to those price stickers. They ALL need to come off. So. For eight hours on Saturday, I ran the till (for the few transactions that there were), and I picked stickers off of books. Man, my fingers were SORE. And since we only just got started on Saturday, I went back again to today to continue helping. I PICKED STICKERS for EIGHT HOURS.
And I'm going back tomorrow, and the next day, until it's all done. Am I crazy?! Well, he needs help, and I need money. It's fairly quiet in there, and my mind does a good job of wandering, so surprisingly, I didn't get too bored. Although I definitely wished I had an iPod.
I'll probably be more than sick of these stickers by the end of the week, but I'm not in a position to complain about how I can make money at this point in my life. Plus, I'm taking a vacation soon.
Have I mentioned that yet? Well, I knew that as soon as I was done at my other job, I was taking off to visit Art. My plane leaves Sunday afternoon, and I'll be back eight days after that. I can't wait!
But anyway, all I wanted to tell you is that sticker-picking is my life, and I'm ending this blog to go spend time with my niece who is here, and sounding very cute in the other room.
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