Lackluster
Today I started at my new job... therefore I should be all excited and shit, right?
Things will be different. I need to get out of this absolutely horrible, piss on everyone, absolutely bitchy mood that has seem to come upon me as of late. Please tell me I am not normally like this... that this is just my terrible way of coping with all the changes lately.
8:15am-- Didn't want to be late on my first day so naturally I show up like 15 mins early... which would have been ok if the HR lady didn't call off sick. So they weren't kidding when they said my boss didn't come in till about 8:30am. I wandered around then into the lunchroom to wait.
8:32am-- Steve (Finance Director) finds me first and takes me to my new home. Damn, the whole area in the cube is mine? Cool... my cube is almost as big as my old boss's office (and the walls aren't too much shorter, haha)
8:33am-- Some lady named Carol must have sat with these desks at some point in time. She left her nametags and a scarf and nail clippers (eeeew wtf?). Later I would find out that the cough drops are about 2 1/2 yrs old.
8:35am (I think)-- My boss has arrived. She commented that she didn't get a chance to clean out all of the desks (yes, I have 3). She's just as I remembered her: Short, petite and possibly more high strung than me. But she's cool, so far.
Like 8:40am to maybe 10ish-- Introduced to many people, got a refill on my coffee, discovered that my boss and I have basically the same glasses (thankfully, she only needs hers for reading sometimes though and I am putting my contacts in again someday), found out her train of thought can get derailed easily, people like to make fun of us accountants, the only halfway decent looking guy I have met so far is one of the IT contractors (we now have our own outsourced IT group and they sit in our buiding from now on I think,,, if that makes any sense), lots of people seem to not be in the office today...
10ish till like 11ish or so-- Learning payroll from the one chick was like watching someone else get a root canal and then realizing that I am next in line to have the same thing done to me... over and over... for the rest of eternity
11 to 12ish-- No recollection of what the hell I did. Cleaned out my desk more? Tried to get my new computer working? Listened to 8 different bosses drone on about mission statements? (just kidding-- had to throw in some Office Space-ish quote)
Noonish-- Steve was hungry so it was time for the three of us to head out to lunch. My boss asks if I like Mexican. I say yes then immediately hope and pray that she somehow doesn't mean Azteca...
Noon15ish-- We roll into El Rincon or something like that. Hey I recognize this area... We chatted over food about Christmas with families and how crazy people like to get drunk at work Christmas parties where spouses aren't invited and get in trouble with coworkers (don't ask how that came up, I offered no stories to the conversation about drunkenness and all the X-mas parties I've ever been to I had a sig other as a DD so no trouble for me)
After 1pm-- Back in the office. What were we going over again? Oh, it's time to open mail. This goes to blah, this to blah, do this with this and stick your head between your legs and hum the theme song to Gilligan's Island while reading this. What the hell is wrong with me, I am not normally this bitchy??!!?
2pm maybe who knows who cares till end of day-- My glasses must be the wrong f*ing prescription or made wrong or something cause my head is going to split open. So we type this number from this sheet into Excel because our system has no place to put this in. Not like it matters where we type it in anyway cause we still need to type it in somewhere. Might as well be Excel instead of the unbelievable archaic mainframe looking like other thing they call out financial ledger system. God Help Me.
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Please don't mistake this entry as me hating my new job, but rather as a feeble attempt at putting some humor to my new situation. The people so far seem to be friendly... Still waiting confirmation that others are knowledgeable (I know my boss is smart and throughout the day she seemed to forget that I just started working here at 8:30 this morning so I was not down with all the lingo or the people's names and job descriptions yet.)
And now my annoying husband is wondering where the cheese fries are. Oops, oh well. This was more important.
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Last song playing on the radio today pulling in from work... go figure
Rascal Flats- "What Hurts the Most"
"What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away"
Things will be different. I need to get out of this absolutely horrible, piss on everyone, absolutely bitchy mood that has seem to come upon me as of late. Please tell me I am not normally like this... that this is just my terrible way of coping with all the changes lately.
8:15am-- Didn't want to be late on my first day so naturally I show up like 15 mins early... which would have been ok if the HR lady didn't call off sick. So they weren't kidding when they said my boss didn't come in till about 8:30am. I wandered around then into the lunchroom to wait.
8:32am-- Steve (Finance Director) finds me first and takes me to my new home. Damn, the whole area in the cube is mine? Cool... my cube is almost as big as my old boss's office (and the walls aren't too much shorter, haha)
8:33am-- Some lady named Carol must have sat with these desks at some point in time. She left her nametags and a scarf and nail clippers (eeeew wtf?). Later I would find out that the cough drops are about 2 1/2 yrs old.
8:35am (I think)-- My boss has arrived. She commented that she didn't get a chance to clean out all of the desks (yes, I have 3). She's just as I remembered her: Short, petite and possibly more high strung than me. But she's cool, so far.
Like 8:40am to maybe 10ish-- Introduced to many people, got a refill on my coffee, discovered that my boss and I have basically the same glasses (thankfully, she only needs hers for reading sometimes though and I am putting my contacts in again someday), found out her train of thought can get derailed easily, people like to make fun of us accountants, the only halfway decent looking guy I have met so far is one of the IT contractors (we now have our own outsourced IT group and they sit in our buiding from now on I think,,, if that makes any sense), lots of people seem to not be in the office today...
10ish till like 11ish or so-- Learning payroll from the one chick was like watching someone else get a root canal and then realizing that I am next in line to have the same thing done to me... over and over... for the rest of eternity
11 to 12ish-- No recollection of what the hell I did. Cleaned out my desk more? Tried to get my new computer working? Listened to 8 different bosses drone on about mission statements? (just kidding-- had to throw in some Office Space-ish quote)
Noonish-- Steve was hungry so it was time for the three of us to head out to lunch. My boss asks if I like Mexican. I say yes then immediately hope and pray that she somehow doesn't mean Azteca...
Noon15ish-- We roll into El Rincon or something like that. Hey I recognize this area... We chatted over food about Christmas with families and how crazy people like to get drunk at work Christmas parties where spouses aren't invited and get in trouble with coworkers (don't ask how that came up, I offered no stories to the conversation about drunkenness and all the X-mas parties I've ever been to I had a sig other as a DD so no trouble for me)
After 1pm-- Back in the office. What were we going over again? Oh, it's time to open mail. This goes to blah, this to blah, do this with this and stick your head between your legs and hum the theme song to Gilligan's Island while reading this. What the hell is wrong with me, I am not normally this bitchy??!!?
2pm maybe who knows who cares till end of day-- My glasses must be the wrong f*ing prescription or made wrong or something cause my head is going to split open. So we type this number from this sheet into Excel because our system has no place to put this in. Not like it matters where we type it in anyway cause we still need to type it in somewhere. Might as well be Excel instead of the unbelievable archaic mainframe looking like other thing they call out financial ledger system. God Help Me.
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Please don't mistake this entry as me hating my new job, but rather as a feeble attempt at putting some humor to my new situation. The people so far seem to be friendly... Still waiting confirmation that others are knowledgeable (I know my boss is smart and throughout the day she seemed to forget that I just started working here at 8:30 this morning so I was not down with all the lingo or the people's names and job descriptions yet.)
And now my annoying husband is wondering where the cheese fries are. Oops, oh well. This was more important.
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Last song playing on the radio today pulling in from work... go figure
Rascal Flats- "What Hurts the Most"
"What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away"