Little Joys
Oct. 1st, 2002 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy house cleaner came today and the house smells wonderful plus I have clean, ironed sheets to look forward to tonight. And the closet doors are gone!! Yahoo!!
Plus I even got lucky on the RFP front. The guy in charge of pulling it together reread the requirements and learned that it's due on Thursday and not Wednesday. So today I had tons of time to draw up a skeleton doc all formatted nicely and ready to have the answers plopped in. I should have most of those answers by 10 a.m. tomorrow and have all day tomorrow plus half of Thursday to get it all right. This is pretty much a miracle - about 10 times the amount of time I usually get for the task.
My boss - the one who's out with the new baby - is one of those perfect people. She's young and energetic and cute and talented and always on top of the world and very nice and friendly and kind. The opposite of me. I'm pretty competent but not young or energetic or cute or talented or nice or friendly or kind. In a meeting today a couple of the guys said 'I thought you were supposed to be like Jodi while she's gone.' I told them 'no fucking way!' My job is to make them ever so glad to see her when she gets back. They thought I was doing a great job of that.
Plus I even got lucky on the RFP front. The guy in charge of pulling it together reread the requirements and learned that it's due on Thursday and not Wednesday. So today I had tons of time to draw up a skeleton doc all formatted nicely and ready to have the answers plopped in. I should have most of those answers by 10 a.m. tomorrow and have all day tomorrow plus half of Thursday to get it all right. This is pretty much a miracle - about 10 times the amount of time I usually get for the task.
My boss - the one who's out with the new baby - is one of those perfect people. She's young and energetic and cute and talented and always on top of the world and very nice and friendly and kind. The opposite of me. I'm pretty competent but not young or energetic or cute or talented or nice or friendly or kind. In a meeting today a couple of the guys said 'I thought you were supposed to be like Jodi while she's gone.' I told them 'no fucking way!' My job is to make them ever so glad to see her when she gets back. They thought I was doing a great job of that.
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Date: 2002-10-01 05:39 pm (UTC)Now you're cracking me up. Good one!
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Date: 2002-10-01 07:10 pm (UTC)*blinks in amazement*
I don't even iron my clothes. I let the dryer do that. It's amazing what a damp cloth can accomplish...
Who can possible take young, energetic, cute, talented, nice, friendly AND kind for more than five minutes without wanting to pinch their cute little head off?
Not me. :) But of course, I won't.
In real life anyway.
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Date: 2002-10-01 07:41 pm (UTC)2) The very sad thing about my perfect manager is that she really is that nice and good. And she's wonderful to work for. Ordinarily I would totally agree with you about perfect people. Of course, she did do this whole baby thing without even consulting me and it is a great inconvenience to me and it is all about me... so maybe not so perfect...
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Date: 2002-10-01 08:14 pm (UTC)does that woman have a relative who lives in North Georgia???? damn you are lucky!
I told them 'no fucking way!'
Re: I told them 'no fucking way!'
Date: 2002-10-01 09:15 pm (UTC)I see it as a luxury to be old enough not to care about climbing the corporate ladder, to know what you are and what you aren't and to be able to act accordingly.