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What An Astronomically Horrible day!

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I HATE AOL email first of all!! Most annoying program ever invented. I refuse to use it anymore! I am going to configure Outlook Express to import it before I commit hara-kiri!

What a frustrating day! I worked by myself which was actually a good thing. My boss left me a list of things to do and I had to develop a system first in order to accomplish it efficiently. It took longer than I hoped, so I started worrying that I was taking too much time. By the time I finally started attacking the list of things to do, it was almost time to go home! I felt so anxious at one point, I was afraid I was going to lose my lunch – which I actually never got to eat because it spilled into the carpet and it took me 20 minutes to clean it up. When I wasn’t feeling sick, I started to feel like crying. I started to worry that she would be annoyed at me for accomplishing so little.

For the first time in my life I really see how S can be a hindrance to efficiency, especially in a long term project. It’s absolutely frustrating to me how her little projects do the same work over and over, when if she had prepared ahead of time, several steps might only need to be done once. What an enormous amount of time I feel like I have been set up to waste with the system the way it is! Incredible. Not only that, but just the mere frustration factor of going through the same pile of papers OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAArgh!

Oh and did I tell you I HATE AOL email?! I hate the “old” folder where it automatically moves mail to after I’ve read it… maybe… sometimes… I don’t know… accidentally… did I read that yet??? Has this already been taken care of??? Let’s both do the same work! THAT should cut down on efficiency!!!

I stayed an hour and a half past the time I was supposed to go home because I wanted to get to a good stopping point and feel like I accomplished something. The urge to cry hit me on the way home. I decided to give in to it, but not to much avail. As soon as I got my friend Roger on the phone and asked him how to get Outlook Express to download AOL email, I bawled my head off like a blubbering idiot.

I really see the contrast between S and N now, and I must say until this moment I have been jealous of S types, mostly because they tend to get a lot more done than I do, but man! I appreciate my gift for what it is!

I’ll tell you what. I’m worth what she’s paying me.

 

Salomé

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Well, you ended on a positive note, anyway!

Screw the system. Tell her what the inefficiencies are and how you are going to fix them for her, how much it's going to save her and that you want a raise. Sorted!
 

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Thanks for the encouragement, but I don't want to get fired! :blush:

And I'm already getting $12/hour which is really excellent in today's economy and considering the fact that I don't have a college degree. Granted it is part-time and they don't have to pay for health benefits and such.

And I would never dare talk to an ISTJ that way! :shock: But after I get my feelings out of the way and I calm down, I will make sure I inform her of how things are going to be done differently. :newwink:

You know, she has the same type as my mom, but she seems so much more pliable than my mom, even though there's not much age difference. She has several times told me I can do my job any way I want to. She's not a control freak like my mom is.

Thanks for your comments. I like that you come and visit my blog. :hug: How are you doing? Any better?
 

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Yeah, well don't listen to me. I'm unemployed! :)
 
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