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The new job!
| Wed, 05-19-2004 - 7:52am |
As some of you saw with my post yesterday I am not sure about the new job. I guess it is unfair to make a desision after only one day. I will give it a few weeks and see how things progress. I will say I was not overly impressed with the office itself. Its the back half of an old house and the carpets are run down, he has ALL his files in those cardboard boxes because he refers to them all the time. There must be 30 boxes against the wall, under tables, and under the desk. The phone is on his desk, but when he is there he answers it. But when he is not I do, hence the around my desk, through the doorway, around the client chairs, and around his desk. Banged my elbow going through the doors in a hurry. The front half of the office allows the gals to smoke, and even with their door closed and mine you can still smell it. With our door closed it feels very cut off from the rest of the world. Not many phone calls, or visitors. I thought his manner was not the greatest. He showed me some things for about45 minutes and got me started on work, then he left. He was gone from 10 to 3 and considering all his stuff is new to me, I was feeling slightly over whelmed and no one was there to help me. But I did get it all done and I thought I did a good job, he was hard to read, so I do not know. Lunch time he was gone and I did not want to leave the office open and unattended so thank goodness I brought a yogurt and a diet soda. Ate at my desk, and then went back to work. My girl friend popped in for a few minutes and she was surprised with what he left me to do. Then the postage, he is cheap. He had me weigh the letter and put the exact amount on it. Then when I was leaving he asked me to drop it off, but one of the things was a certified letter which required me to go into the post office. I missed Katie coming home and well lets say it was not good. She expected to meet me home. I will tell him that from now on if he needs me to stop at the post office I need to give myself 15 minutes and I will leave at 3:15. No reason to start doing this on my time. Aunt Flo showed up yesterday, which I am sure makes my mood not the greatest so I will give it time. Hubby cleaned up the entire dinner and kitchen last night and he made me tea this morning. I guess he has learned to read me better then I think. Well today is my Steve office day. I need to get dressed, dry my hair, do the make-up, and get these lunches made. Hope you all have a great day and thanks for thinking of me.
Deb

The cig smoke might(*) bother me after a while if I couldn't escape it. The job I had for 7+ years had smokers, including the boss, but the smokers were in their own section separate from me. When we moved to our own building, I and another non-smoker were on a different ventilation system even. Can't say the same for the ladies in the Payables area who had to put up with it. I say "might" bother me because I did grow up in a home with a smoker (my dad), and have put up with coworkers who smoked before. To read the anti-smoking literature, I should be suffering some pretty serious side effects from the second hand smoke, but despite being around it most of the day for all those years, I'm healthier these days for doing something on my own. If it's not filling my office or space, I can probably tolerate more than I believe. Still, wouldn't want somebody puffin' right next to me - that'd be overload.
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So sorry to hear the fist day on the job was so disappointing. I guess you have to make sure ask about smoking these days before taking a job. I am so surprised your boss is so unorganized. I always thought that keeping things in a filing cabinet made it easier to get at it than rummaging through boxes to find it. Good for you for standing up for yourself about getting home in time and not doing work related stuff on your time.
Hope things get better. Good luck!
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