Welcome to my morning. I've been having a good month. It was my birthday last week, I spent the weekend celebrating it with friends, and yes, I hated that it was Monday, but I was prepared to make the most of it. Until about 10 am this morning when I'm called into an unexpected meeting where I learn that my firm is outsourcing my whole department and my position is being eliminated at the end of the month. Now I'm sitting at my desk, a desk where I'm expected to pretend that nothing has changed, and I'm trying to decide what I want to do now.
On the one hand, maybe this is a good thing, and my next job will be better and more suited for me. But, on the other hand, I'm back at square one. I've got to make some decisions and make them fast. There's a SLIGHT possibility that I could be hired on by the company that's taking over my job. But, that's no guarantee, and I'm not sure that I want to even try for it. I do plan on going to some of the temp agencies I've used before to see what they have available, yet I'm petrified that they're going to say "sorry, would love to help you but we have nothing available."
I'm just stunned and needing to think through my next plan of action.
I am hoping to all hell that the cure is that since I'm still using a tester machine, I've got a crazy ass machine that needs to blow too damn much fucking air in my face to prove that it's blowing too damn much fucking air in my face. I'm hoping that this means when the Vadar Mask technician adjusts my permanent machine, she'll be able to fix the friggin problem. You damn sure better bet I'm going to let her know what's happening because at this rate, I'm thinking that the cure (or treatment) for my apnea is just as bloody problematic as the sleep apnea. If I'm not sleeping because my apnea wakes me up, then why is my not sleeping because my suck machine is acting up is going to be any better?
Oh, and the mask, yeah, though I'm adjusting to it, I just know that I'm going to really be less appealing to future dates and boyfriends if they have a sleepover and have to deal with sleeping with Darth Vadar all night. Yeah, that's hella romantic. This, my friends, is another reason why I'm losing weight. I just wish I could find a solution for my weight loss issue that doesn't include time. It takes time to lose the pounds and fat in a healthy weight. And in the meantime, I live with either Apnea or Vadar mask. Which should I choose?
But, you know, not everything is pissy with me today. I got my first review up on Prism Comics, found HERE for an awesome comic called Pride High. This is by far not my first review. Nor is it the only review I've done that's worth getting notice. I first started my review career for a defunct site called CB Review. Now, I do reviews for the most awesome WHATEVER comics store and site. The site's going through some growth and updating, so there's not much there. But trust me, Whatever is an awesome site. The store is on Castro in San Fracisco, and I have to give a huge shoutout to the store and its owner, Rich (
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whatevercomics). Whatever is my home away from home, and I'm happy to have found good friends through that store. The main reason my Prism review has gotten my stoked is because I do feel this review is one of my better ones, and Prism is hopefully going to give me the most publicity that I've gotten so far. It's Thursday night, and I'm happy to know that I only have a half-day at work tomorrow due to my follow-up appointment with the suppliers of my Vadar mask. The weekend's almost here and I'm super excited because it's almost time to play!
But, now one of my clerks has gone on maternity leave. This leaves me with three clerks and enough work to keep five clerks busy. I've had to pick up a lot of new cases. I've had to find a way to divide the other cases between the three remaining clerks. This isn't an easy task because there's one clerk that knows what he's doing, but he's set in his way. He doesn't really want to take on more work even though he has. I don't worry about him as much. My other girl clerk makes me wonder what she does with her time. She's often behind on her filing even though I'm sure that it's not because she's swamped but because she doesn't want to do the work. Then there's my newest clerk. I swear, I'm not sure that he's cut out to be a file clerk. Hell, Im not sure that he's competent enough to do any sort of work. He has a problem with listening. You'll ask him to help you find something, and he'll find the wrong thing because he'll see a word that's in common with what you're looking for and think that's what you want. For example, today, someone asked for the Special Interrogatories that were served on our client. He found the RESPONSES of the special interrogatories, and because it said special interrogatories, he thought that's what they were looking for. Sigh.
So, then there's the maturnity leave clerk. While she was in the office, she knew that she was going on leave and swore to me that she was working hard to get things updated so she didn't leave me backlogged. Ha! She might have done some stuff, but she did some things wrong, and the stuff that she left behind was so messed up even though she said that it was all sorted and ready to be filed away. I found some volumes of correspondence that she created where the folder is so full that you could see the paper just bursting from the seams. I had to break it apart and create two or three volumes out of what she had tried to stuff into one. It's very frustrating.
However, today is new comics day, I'm only working a half day on Friday and that's just a day away. I'm going to look on the bright side and not declare today a bad day.
The following is a list of the comics that I picked up this week. I'll update this with a short review as I read them.
MARVEL
Avengers/Invaders #1 (of 12)
Mighty Avengers #13
Secret Invasion #2 (of 8)
X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead
Young X-Men #2
DDP
Spooks #4 (of 4)
IMAGE
Dynamo 5 Annual #1
Gemini #1 (of 5)
DC
Infinity Inc. #9
DARK HORSE
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight #14
VIRGIN
Stranded #1
VERTIGO
House of Mystery #1
Wow, this was a mostly Marvel week for me. I blame Secret Invasion. :-P
On to the reviews.
INFINITY INC. #9
This book is mostly hit or miss with me. There are some things that I like while there are others that I don't. I like how Mercy is portrayed in here. I like Erik/Erika. And, if I understood her, I think I'd even like Lucia. However, I'm not crazy for Natasha, and that whole thing with Gerome feels like it's been done so many times before. This doesn't have a very superhero feel to it, and while I typically don't mind non-superhero stuff, I'm just find this book to be okay. It's not terrible, but it's not great either.
DYNAMO 5 ANNUAL #1
I really like that Dynamo 5 has been around long enough to do an annual. In today's market, it's often hard for a book to be successful past it's first few issues. Of course, this is Image, so books rarely get pulled before they've had a chance to find an audience. I'm also hearing that Dynamo 5 has quite a few fans, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised to find myself reading an annual on this title. The first story is a reprint, but I didn't mind because even though I've seen it and read it before, I'm a huge fan of Noble Causes. If this reprint gets people interested in Noble Causes, then that's such a good thing in my book. The second story seems to be set close to the time that Captain Dynamo (the father of the Dynamo 5 kids) dies, and I liked seeing more of how unhero-like Captain Dynamo was. The third story is about the first few weeks of Dynamo 5. The cool thing about this story was the reveal towards the end of who it was the kids had been fighting. The last story is a story about Dynamo 5 having to decide whether or not they want someone to reveal their secrets to the world. It was a nice character piece on just how far a person is willing to go to protect their loveones from danger because of the superheroic life they choose to lead. The only thing that was a drawback for me on the last two stories was the art. I wasn't really crazy about it. But then again, I'm picky about my art.
MIGHTY AVENGERS #13
Secret Invasion has begun, the skrulls are making their plans known, and this issue is a tie-in that explains what Nick Fury's been up to since before the heroes began to realize that the skrulls had a plan. In this issue, Nick needs to be sure that he gathers a team of super powers that he can trust and will answer only to him. So, what does he do? He goes after children of old heroes and villains who no one even knows have developed powers. His thinking is quite sound. If the heroes and general public aren't aware of these children, then how could the skrulls know about them. So, this issue was about how this team comes together. It's interesting because these children are mostly new characters we've never seen before, but Brian Michael Bendis has found a way to give them connections to known heroes and villains without being retcons of what we already know about these heroes and villains. As for the art, normally I'm not a fan of Alex Maleev, but for this story, it fits and is actually pretty.
YOUNG X-MEN #2
When I heard that New X-Men had been cancelled and is essentiallly been replaced with Young X-Men, I was intrigued. Then I read the first issue which I had some issues with. Why would Cyclops bring this team together? What purpose would be served by putting together a ragtag team of former students when there's so many capable veteran X-Men to choose from? and so on. Then the reveal of who the villains of this first arc, the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, rubbed me the wrong way because I just couldn't see it. So, going into the second issue, I was wary. After reading the issue, I have to say that I'm impressed. It was an interesting issue with a cool last page reveal. And, as for the new Brotherhood, I have a feeling that not all is what we're being led to believe. There are a couple of things that happened in this issue that lead me to believe this book ties in to the Secret Invasion happening, but I could be wrong. I kinda hope I'm not though.
SECRET INVASION #2 (of 8)
Ididn't want to like Secret Invasion. For the longest time, I've had a grudge against Brian Bendis for what he did to my beloved Avengers. I've read stuff he's written, and it either didn't make any sense to me, bored me to tears, or felt so wrong that I wanted to scream. So, I read Secret Invasion #1 with reluctance. Oh my god was I not impressed. In one issue, Bendis managed to give the reader so much stuff to think and talk about that my comics chat group is still talking about the things that happened in last month's issue. I couldn't wait to read #2, but like in the past, I usually like the beginning of the story and feel that it fades quickly after that. I was expecting this to happen here as well. I was again wrong. The second issue wasn't quite as meaty as the first one, but it certainly gave me plenty of stuff to enjoy and think about. There was a fight between heroes where each side thought that the other side were skrulls. The reader was thrown for a loop wondering if one was made up of skrulls or if there was a mixture of skrulls on either side. The battle was great, the dialogue was great, and the reveals that we got this issue were also great. The art isn't my cup of tea, but it didn't detract from the story, which to me is good enough.
X-FACTOR: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
I really liked this issue. I'm usually in that "Eh, he doesn't really interest me much" group when it comes to Quicksilver, but this issue was well written and actually made me feel joy when what happens happens to Quicky. Yay, Pietro!! There's "Cameos" by some of the closest to Pietro: Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Luna, Crystal, and even Layla Miller (okay, maybe she's not someone closest to Quicksilver's heart, but there's a reason for her "appearance"). I didn't even feel let down that X-Factor's skipped a month to bring us this One-Shot.
AVENGERS/INVADERS #1 (of 12)
I admit that I wasn't planning on getting this because I never got into the Invaders. I know peripherally who they are and that they're older than sin having fought in WWII (I'm being facetious, I know they're not quite as old as sin). However, I had it on the recommendations of a friend that this first issue was quite good, and he was so right. What really hit it out of the ballpark for me was the dialogue. Usually I'm not a fan of Comic Books being funny books, but the banter happening here, mostly done brilliantly by Spider-Man, I was almost rolling!!! Even Bucky's teasing of Namor by calling him Subby was funny. This was filled with action, and I'm loving how the heroes of today are reacting to the Cap of yesterday. Here's the man they all adored, and he's back. It's powerful stuff. I can't wait to read the next issue.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #14
This one is going to be so hard to review without spoiling what happens, so I will just say how I feel about the last two pages with one long "NOOOOOOOO!!!" Dangit, I had an issue with this story arc from that first issue where Buffy went muffy, and the second issue didn't really make me like the story any more. Sure, it was cute to see Dracula and Xander flirting with each other, but it wasn't until this issue that I felt this story was any good. See, Drew Goddard, the writer of the "Wolves At The Gate" storyarc (issues 12-14 and on), is not my favorite writer, and it's so hard to do the Whedon-Speak, but in this issue, he got Whedonesque on us and made me chuckle. My favorite line was by buffy: "Who's grasping Carolina's what now?"
Maybe it's time that I rethink my blog purpose.
- Mood:
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But, it was still a fun time.
Having said that, here is what's going on with me.
The diet (or lifestyle change) is still going on. I have made some progresses and also some setbacks, but I am not giving up. I was weighed again today, and I've lost a pound in a little over a week. I've also cut my soda down to about 99% less that what it was before. I'm to the point that I really don't like soda that much anymore.
So, because of my hellish bout of the flu last month, I'm seeing my doctor who's ordering tests on me. I spent nearly an hour today breathing for a pulmonary specialist. I also was given a little machine to wear tonight to study my sleep so that I can find out whether or not I have sleep apnea.
Tomorrow is administrative appreciation day, if you're in the administrative field, then let me say "Happy Admin. appreciation day" and congratulate you on the good job that you do. If you're a boss that has an admin assistant, please don't forget to show your assistant how much you appreciate them tomorrow. Take them out to lunch, buy them something nice, and let them know that the work they do doesn't go unnoticed.
- I've also been diagnosed with high blood pressure that means I have to watch my sodium intake. That right there is going to be a real bear for me to do. I'm completely shocked at the amount of sodium used in things. I need to find out from my doctor or the nutritionist what my target sodum intake should be because I'm a little freaked out when just a single serving of oatmeal has at the least 170 mg. of sodium in it. That means if I eat two packets of oatmeal, I'm taking in over 300 mg. of Sodium. I'm not sure if that's acceptable or not. Still, my nutritionist said that for someone trying to manage their weight Quakers Instant Oatmeal is acceptable, even two packets for a meal is fine. Then again, she might not have checked my chart when she said that and notice that I have high blood pressure. I have a meeting with her again in a few weeks, I'll have to remember to bring that up with her.
- I haven't started my exercising yet for a couple of reasons. I've only in the last couple of days gotten over my nasty flu bug, and I felt I needed to spend the weekend resting up. I didn't do much this weekend because I was trying to rest and hope like the devil I've managed to build up my immune system enough to stave off another bout of the flu. The other reason is because I'm doing gym research. I think I've pretty much decided on the gym I'll be using, but now I'm waiting until I get paid again in case the gym enrollment fee is more than I can afford right now, you know being the end of the pay cycle and pay day being only a couple of days away and all. I'm not totally broke, but if the fee is more than a couple hundred bucks, then I'll need to hold off.
- Nothing much happening with me besides this. Like I said, this weekend was about resting up. I did get out to the movies a couple of times though. Saw the new Prom Night, it was okay, and 10,000 B.C., it was meh.
It all started because I made a promise to myself when I was a teenager. All my life, since I was six, I've been chubby. I never dieted, never exercised, and quite honestly didn't really care. But, I had an uncle who weighed at least 300 pounds, and he was HUGE! Well, at least huge to a little kid. I told myself that I would never weigh 300 pounds, and that if I ever did, I would go on a diet.
Well, guess how much I weighed last week when I went to my doctor's with a respiratory problem. It was 303! That was a real wake-up call for me. I knew I was overweight. I knew that it was affecting my health. But, for whatever reason I always brushed it away and decided that it wasn't important as long as I didn't weigh 300 pounds. Now, I'm at that critical point where I'm seeing how much I weigh, I'm having respiratory problems which is likely due to the amount of strain I'm putting on my heart and lungs, and I'm realizing that I need to take action now.
On Tuesday, I started a diet. I knew that a big part of why I have gained so much weight is that I drink and ungodly amount of soda. I know that soda is riddled with calories, so that was going to be the first thing I decided to let go of. Instead of picking up my usual 1-litter bottle of either Dr. Pepper or Mountain Dew in the morning when I got my breakfast, I chose to pick up a 1.5 liter bottle of water instead. Instead of stopping off at McDonalds for a combo meal, I picked up a pre-packaged thing of oatmeal. It came in a cup, and the cup had two servings in it, but I only ate one servings worth, or half of the cup. At lunch, I went for salad instead of whatever else I thought about getting. But, by dinner, it was getting so very hard. That's probably where I failed the most. I still stayed away from the dark meat products, but I had white rice, asparagus w/tofu, and yellow chicken curry for dinner. This has become the routine for this week. I'll do good with breakfast and lunch, but by dinner, I'm not doing as good. I'll still try to go for water instead of soda, but I'll eat the same portions that I'm used to eating. This is what I really need to work on.
Now the next step is to join a gym and get an exercise routine started. I have a couple of gym options that I'm considering. There's 24 hour fitness, which is conveniently located close to work, but they have those big windows where people on the street can look up at you and watch you as you work out on the treadmill, stairmaster, or exercise bike. I don't know if I can deal with that. There's club one, which is attached to the train station so there's no annoying windows for people to watch fatty trying to work out, but they're the more expensive gym. And then there's gold gym in the Castro where all the castro muscle bunnies go to work out. That's the big problem right there with Gold's. If I'm not ready for lookie loos to see me work out, I'm definitely not ready for the gym bunnies to look at me and judge me. But, then again, Gold's has an awesome promotion going on that makes joining their gym cheap and easy. Also, maybe seeing the perfect bodies will be a motivation to keep me going. We'll see, but I sure could use some advice, Rich. ;)
As much as I like to think I'm pretty experienced and know stuff since I'm in my 30s and all, there's one thing I'm a complete noob about. Dating. Back in college, I dated a few girls because I was trying to live the straight lifestyle and all that, but even then I wasn't very good at it. Then because I took so long to come out of the closet, I felt like it was too late for me to really get out into the dating scene. Coming out was more about me being true with myself and not making excuses anymore. I never tried to get into the dating scene. I figured that if there was someone out there for me, then it would happen without me doing anything.
I've had some close calls and crushes in my life. I've also had a string of encounters that never really went anywhere, but as far as having a true relationship, I'm staring at six years since I came out of the closet and not a single boyfriend to show for it. I know that the problem is me, but I need now to discover what the SOURCE of the problem. Is it because I'm as hideously ugly as I think I am? Am I just more friends material with nothing that a potential boyfriend would find attractive enough to date me? Or is it what I suspec the most that I intentionally either keep people at a distance or shy away from the situations that could turn into something more serious because I'm actually afraid to be in a relationship.
Yeah, I think that last scenario has a lot of truth to it. I've known for some time that my family really messed me up when it comes to relationships. I've seen my mother bounce from husband to boyfriend to husband all my life. Even now, I'm pretty sure that she's married to her current husband not because she loves him but because she doesn't want to be alone or is afraid to care for herself. I don't really sense any feelings of love coming out of their relationship, especially not from my mom. I've never really seen my mom ever have that glow about her that tells you she's in love. And, in ways, I feel that I'm afraid that if I do find someone that wants to be with me, I'll wind up like her. That I'll stay with them out of a sense of not wanting to be alone than because I love them, and that I'll secretly resent the relationship for making me feel trapped. I'm also afraid of actually BEING trapped in a relationship with someone I don't love.
I know I'm picky. I have ideals that to be honest are not very realistic. I want a person that's almost the exact physical opposite of me, but I feel that if I were to find someone that's my physical ideal that I'll be too paranoid thinking there's no way they want to be with me to ever pursue or enjoy the potential relationship with that person. I also want to be with someone who has ideas and goals for their lives. I don't want someone who comes home after a long day at work, turns on the tv and stares mindlessly at the screen until it's time to go to bed. I want someone who knows that even if they're in the perfect job they want, there's always something that they could be doing to improve themselves. I want someone who's not averse to spending the evening learning about a new culture with me, or someone who's able to carry on a conversation. I want someone who still finds learning something new exciting. I want someone who'll go to the movies with me, but who'll also go to the museum or to the zoo. I want spontaneous things. I want to go out with friends and have my partner want to go out to dinner with friends together.
I know that the only way I'll discover if there's someone out there that would be willing to date me and see where things go is to go out and meet new people, but I'm kinda at a loss. I've recently broken through my nervousness about going out to the bars alone, but so far, I've either met guys that I'm into but aren't interested back, or I've met a few guys that are more looking for the random hookup than anything else.
I know these things take time, but isn't there any way that I can speed things along? ;)
I had a really bad cold that knocked me out for a couple of weeks, so I've been tring to get back to good health and feeling like myself again. Honestly, no offense to anyone intended, but that meant that the very last thing I wanted was to try and compose a journal entry.
Now that I'm back, it's like, what do I have to say to get caught up. Really not much, the two weeks that I fought with my cold, I'd manage to go to work, then exhausted I'd veg out until it was time to go to sleep and get back to work. The weekends were for vegging and staying out of the rain.
But, I'm going to try and catch up on my journal entries.
Middle of the road.
Probably the healthiest place to be.
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2- Tend- Don't ask me why, but I prefer that you TEND to your injured, than for someone who TENDS to do something a certain way.
3- All But- Maybe it's because I can't get my brain to wrap around it. Like when someone says, "He all but broke her nose when he hit her." So, wait, did he actually break the nose, or did he come CLOSE to breaking it? Confused.
More to come
- Spent most of the weekend (Well, all of it actually) at home doing absolutely nothing. I've been fighting a virus or something and aside from the general "Oh, I want to die!", I had zero energy to do anything. Thank goodness I had three days to do nothing but rest and recover.
- Yesterday, I had forgotten about a comics creator mixer/meeting thing that was happening at Whatever, so I had planned to go straight home and veg out. But, I had promised Rich I would go, and I'm glad I did. Though I don't know how much I will be contributing to the mixer/meetings in the future, it was nice to meet new people and find out what they're working on.
- Now it's Wednesday, new comics day. I'm eager to get out of work and get to Whatever. I want to see how Messiah CompleX turned out. I have a feeling that this crossover, like so many of Marvel's books lately, is going to be all hype with very little substance since I've been unimpressed with 90% of the story thus far. There's only this one issue left, and I feel that they have so friggin' much to wrap up. I have a feeling that we'll get maybe about 50% of the actual story wrapped up leaving the last 50% to be wrapped up over the next year or so forcing us to pick up various books that we might not have to get the story we were promised in Messiah C. Yeah, I'm a cynic when it comes to comics these days. I really can't help it. Hush, Rich
whatevercomics, I know what you're going to say, but you're also always telling me that you appreciate my honesty, so let me be cynical, damnit! - You know how sometimes you feel that you've invested so much work into a project that it would be the end of the world if you got so stuck that you couldn't finish it? Well, that's coming close to how I'm feeling about Fairy Dust. At first, I thought I'd try to rewrite it, and
doctodd even helped me put together a new outline, but I'm not liking the rewrite. It feels too much like work, so I might put Fairy Dust aside for now and start to working on other projects percolating in my head.- I have this interesting novel/short story idea bouncing around in my empty noggin about a couple of supernatural beings who work for the SFPD as a way of promoting good will between the human and supernatural communities. My main character, still needing a name, is a shapeshifter who uses his abilities as a sketch artist since he's able to listen to a victim or witnesses description of a suspect and morph his body to match their description. The story I've got running around in my head involves the death of his supernatural partner, I think a psychic demon and the ways that the main character must deal with his partner's death while investigating the person that killed him. I'm not putting my thoughts together as coherently as I want, but it also has to do with MC being forced to work with a new partner, the sister of his dead partner who suspects that there was more to the partnership between the MC and her brother than the MC is letting on. But, since it's still percolating, I'm not sure where to go with it, yet.
The biggest things that have changed from the beginning to the end of last year is that I started off still at my old firm (That I'd been working at for seven years), and I was still living with my old roommate. Money was always tight, and my roommate went from having a crappy job to having a great one. It was a relief on one hand that he got the great job because I was worried about what would happen to him if we had to move, which was always a possibility since we'd gone from having four roommates to only us two. We needed at least one more roommate to make living in our apartment affordable, but we weren't having luck finding someone that we felt comfortable living with.
So, when he found a better job, for a split second I thought, "Great, now we don't have to worry so much about getting another roommate." But, that lasted only a split second when I discovered that his new job was as an apartment manager where he would need to live on the premises. By May, I was back to being stressed out of my mind and having generally no friggin clue what I was going to do. When I moved out at the end of May, I didn't have any firm plan, and I had to do the temporary housing deal. It sucked. The only things that made June bareable for me was that I had my birthday and a friend came up from out of town for a weekend.
I was nearing despair when I found the place where I live now, which is 1000% improved even over where I lived before because this new place is an in-law meaning that I don't have to live with anyone anymore. I got a really (really!) good deal, and it meant the world for me because I got into this place totally on my own, which is something that's never really happened for me before. Everywhere else that I've lived has been because I knew someone or a friend asked me to move in. This felt wonderful to find a place on my own.
Then the next thing that needed to change was that I needed a better paying job. I didn't expect it, but my new job (better pay and everything) came through within two months of moving into my new place. The first two months were trying, but the nice thing is that now I've managed to lower my stress level from about a 14, to generally a 3 or sometimes 4. That's a huge improvement for me.
Now the new year, I plan on getting into gear and getting a couple of writing projects completed. If I can at least get Fairy Dust off the ground, that's progress, but I want to finish FD as quickly as possible because I have a couple of other story ideas floating around in my head.
So, the new year is here, time to start afresh and see where things go. Happy new year, everyone!
It was another cold day here in SF. I mean, I don't say Brrr much, but today I was going Brrr every time I had to go outside. I'm glad I picked up some gloves and a scarf because I totally used them today.
I so didn't want to work today. It felt like the hours were just creeping by because I didn't make myself too busy. There were only a few things that really needed my attention, so I took care of them. There are some other things I could have been doing, but I'm waiting until I have a chance to talk to a couple of people who weren't available before I get to working on them. So, for now, I just took care of things that were brought to me and waited for the end of the day to come.
The only thing that happened, and it's not a big thing, was that I feel sorry for one of my clerks. She's not only a file clerk, but she's the relief receptionist. This means that she has to cover the front desk whenever our receptionist isn't there. Monday, since it's New Year's Eve, we're closing the office early. We have to work 5.5 hours, then we can leave. The office is officially closing at 3, which means that if a person came in at 8:30 and took an hour lunch, they could leave a 3. Since most of my staff, including the clerk that covers reception, comes in at 9, we have to stay until 3:30 to satisfy the 5.5 hours with an hour lunch break. But, we have the option of, with approval from your supervisor, which I'd given to all my clerks, they could skip lunch and leave after working 5.5 hours, meaning leaving an hour early. For my 9:00 clerks, that means they can leave at 2:30.
Except for the clerk that's a relief receptionist. See, the regular receptionist is taking advantage of the leaving early thing and is leaving at 2. That means that my clerk has to cover the last hour. That means she doesn't get to leave at 2:30 like I'd already told her she could do. I personally don't think it's fair, but this is one of the areas I really can't control. I may be the one to make decisions when it comes to her time as a file clerk, but when it comes to her other duties as a relief receptionist, she answers to our office manager. I feel bad because I told her she could leave at 2:30, and now she's being told she has to stay until 3. I guess she'll be taking at least a half-hour lunch because it would totally be unfair that she have to work 6 hours of the 7.5 hour workday when the rest of us only work 5.5.
Well, I guess that's not really something I have control over. I hope my clerk is okay with the situation and doesn't feel too gipped by it.
Oh, and I know that
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