Venting
The one part of my job that is not assistant like is getting to organize the tax clinic for this year. Every year, we host a tax clinic where I get about 80 volunteers to help low income individuals fill out their taxes. This year I got a hundred volunteers.
Anyways...I have to coordinate all 100 going to two different trainings, plus I have to do the scheduling for the whole clinic, and am in charge of booking approximately 1500 clients who will be using our services. The tax clinic is only a few weeks away.
In the middle of all this, my boss hands me a stack of files of volunteers to enter into the database and tells me that I need to start to do this. What?! You want me, right now, before the busiest time of the year for our whole department, to stop what I am doing to organize the next few months, and sit here and do data entry? for a database we haven't had for the past 20 years now there is a sudden mad rush to get it going? really? seriously? let's think about this one. or maybe let's not think and just expect the totally ridiculous and impossible.
there is no way i am doing data entry today. it's just not happening. I have too much to do. And if my boss complains once that I haven't done it yet, I will let her know about timing. Anyways, that's my rant for the moment. I swear it never ends.
Anyways...I have to coordinate all 100 going to two different trainings, plus I have to do the scheduling for the whole clinic, and am in charge of booking approximately 1500 clients who will be using our services. The tax clinic is only a few weeks away.
In the middle of all this, my boss hands me a stack of files of volunteers to enter into the database and tells me that I need to start to do this. What?! You want me, right now, before the busiest time of the year for our whole department, to stop what I am doing to organize the next few months, and sit here and do data entry? for a database we haven't had for the past 20 years now there is a sudden mad rush to get it going? really? seriously? let's think about this one. or maybe let's not think and just expect the totally ridiculous and impossible.
there is no way i am doing data entry today. it's just not happening. I have too much to do. And if my boss complains once that I haven't done it yet, I will let her know about timing. Anyways, that's my rant for the moment. I swear it never ends.