Grrr

Right, so, my current place of employment is really starting to get to me. There are a certain few people that just irritate me beyond words...one of them is The Supervisor. Now, I know I've ranted about her in the past but lately she's been particularly bad.

The Supervisor's deal is this, she's lazy and things only get accomplished once her ass is on the line or a situation has reached a crisis point. Even when things get to that point she usually tells somebody else to do whatever it was that should have been done days, weeks or months ago. She's a lousy supervisor and an even worse manager. How she keeps her job I really don't know. She never comes in before 9:30 or 10:00am and then, when she is here, spends half the day yakking away on the phone on personal call after personal call. What really gets me is that when certain other people in the office make mistakes, she lets it slide but if I make the slightest mistake, she's on me so fast I can't believe it. Can we say favoritism? I think these other people get away with it because they kiss up to her whereas I just come in, do my job and go home. I am not her friend. I do not want to be her friend. I do not think we should be friends. Clearly I am in the minority and am suffering for this. The Supervisor has never gotten back to me about whether or not I can have that one day off to go to DC which annoys me since she said she would. We had a customer/client that was irate about a certain situation last week, she called The Supervisor, had to leave a message (because The Supervisor was, of course, not here). The Supervisor just sent around a lot of emails once she became aware of the situation, let one of the other employees call to placate the client and take care of the situation and The Supervisor NEVER EVEN RETURNED THE CLIENT'S CALL! Her response was that the other employee had taken care of it. Well, wait a minute, if you're supposed to be the manager, and part of your job is keeping clients happy, shouldn't you follow up on something like that? I mean, the client was REALLY pissed. It's just a good PR move if nothing else. God.

The other person that has been getting to me lately is someone who I thought was ok when I first met her, for now, let's call her the Ice Queen. She seemed like a hard worker, was friendly etc. Apparently I must have done something to piss off the Ice Queen because she hardly even speaks to me when I address her. I just get these sort of grunts in return which seems so stupidly childish to me. I haven't a clue what I did that made her mad, we hardly even really work together. She works in one section of the office doing one thing and I'm in a different part doing something else. One day I was asked by another employee to help the Ice Queen out since she was swamped. I went to her area of the office, she gets up, leaves and then my phone rings. It's the Supervisor, she says "the Ice Queen does not want your help, you can go back to what you had been doing." Ouch. It wasn't the fact that I didn't get to help, I could care less about that, it was the way The Supervisor worded it. "does not want your help". Yeah, that stung. So, between the Ice Queen and The Supervisor, it's getting a bit miserable working here. I really need to get out of here.

In music: probably going to see the Maypops tonight at the Firefly Club which I'm pretty psyched about. There was a big article about them in the A2 News on Sunday so I'll be interested to see what they're like. Continuing my musical explorations I just added some more stuff to "the list of music I *should* listen to" (which is the acutally the title of my playlist:) :
The Clash
Taking Back Sunday
Idlewild
Hard-Fi
The Ramones
The Smiths

Working on this...also thinking of starting my own podcast, but I need to get more info on it first. I hope today gets better, I started out by oversleeping, getting a pissy email from The Supervisor, having to work with the Ice Queen and being desperately in need of coffee (see: oversleeping). Aargh, aargh aargh.
Ciao,
Sasha