New job is terrible so far

[lipbylipby]

I am sitting at my desk deep within the bowels of the United States Postal Service main headquarters, spending my day trying to look as busy as possible while I wait for approvals to various pieces of software needed to do at my new job. My desk is a dreary little cubical that’s actually in a walk way to another cubical. Yesterday the guy next to

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[villagecharm]

Jesus, this sounds like a dark parody of office work. Hope that other job comes through.

[microbie]

Yikes. I hope you and Sangeeta are able to get out of there.

joy

[cosmicbandit]

Yep you're working for the government. Why are government workers so bad? Because middle management is made of crappy people who grind their workers to dust. I'm crossing my fingers that you get the other job. Good luck.

[fyremaven]

Wow. You just gave me flashbacks to when I worked at McDonnell Douglas in the early 80's. Once I left there I pursued my career (for the past 22 years) of nursing, and it's night and day differences always delight me. Sure I may get bloody at work but I can wash it off. The stuff that happened at Douglas was stuff that stayed in your psyche for years!
I hope your new contract comes through so you can get the heck out of Dodge. And poor Sangeeta can be told of her fate.
Hang in there.