Rough days
July 1st 2008 09:47
We’ve been having a tough patch at work. There’s a sort of crisis going on in relation to my boss which is causing ramifications throughout our office. Far more paperwork is being processed and reproduced and copied and recopied and printed and so on than seems natural. In fact it ain’t natural; if it wasn’t for the crisis, we’d be getting on with some real work.
The number of times I’ve started something only to have it interrupted within minutes has become beyond counting; it isn’t the fault of either of my two ‘bosses,’ but it’s very stressful all round. We’ll all be very glad when the problem goes away, which hopefully it will very soon. Though we’re not exactly holding our breath either.
And now the technical stuff has become infested by gremlins. My boss’s new computer won’t send or receive email; the printer’s been threatening to go on strike, and finally did today, and wouldn’t accept the replacement cyan cartridge, which was ultra-frustrating. I finally emailed myself home some stuff so I could print it out here! Even had to download a program in order to do so with one of the items. Pooh!
The cartridge issue arose because, even though I’d ordered a new one, it’s been delayed, and won’t be here till at least Friday. In the meantime, we want to print. I got the cartridge refilled, but the printer didn’t like that and it seems as though it might be an issue of the cartridge having a faulty chip in it. Good grief, cartridges with chips in them! Whatever next? Will we have to sign up with authorize.net to get a replacement cartridge verified or something?
Finally in the last hour of the day I had a bit of space to do some work – surfing the Net as it happened, but it was legitimate work (!) A haven of peace for a little while.
The number of times I’ve started something only to have it interrupted within minutes has become beyond counting; it isn’t the fault of either of my two ‘bosses,’ but it’s very stressful all round. We’ll all be very glad when the problem goes away, which hopefully it will very soon. Though we’re not exactly holding our breath either.
And now the technical stuff has become infested by gremlins. My boss’s new computer won’t send or receive email; the printer’s been threatening to go on strike, and finally did today, and wouldn’t accept the replacement cyan cartridge, which was ultra-frustrating. I finally emailed myself home some stuff so I could print it out here! Even had to download a program in order to do so with one of the items. Pooh!
The cartridge issue arose because, even though I’d ordered a new one, it’s been delayed, and won’t be here till at least Friday. In the meantime, we want to print. I got the cartridge refilled, but the printer didn’t like that and it seems as though it might be an issue of the cartridge having a faulty chip in it. Good grief, cartridges with chips in them! Whatever next? Will we have to sign up with authorize.net to get a replacement cartridge verified or something?
Finally in the last hour of the day I had a bit of space to do some work – surfing the Net as it happened, but it was legitimate work (!) A haven of peace for a little while.
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