A random view into my office

I figure since you all can't be here to share with me the joys of my office I would try and randomly bring you episodes as I interpret them. Enjoy. Or mock. Or ignore. Whatever you want to do, for me it gave me 10 minutes away from my spreadsheet so I enjoyed writing it.

And in today's email in-box we find.....

Dear useless member of our team:

While looking through the database I came across a record that is wrong and decided to research what the rest of the file said. Upon discovering that the types of addresses were listed incorrectly instead of simply changing them from the simple drop down box in front of me I have constructed this irrationally long email explaining step by step what I did, what is wrong, and what I want you to do (which is go back into the record I am still probably in and change the types using that handy drop down box).

Sincerely,
Your Luddite supporting supervisor




....Okay, so maybe I am overreacting here from a simple email request (at least it wasn't printed out and brought to me this time), maybe it's time for me to let it go, but crafting these blog posts about it are just so much more fun!

Waiting

15 days ago I used one of those online application systems that allows you to apply for multiple jobs within an organization and I applied for 4 jobs. 5 days ago I received my first "Thanks but no thanks" email from them about one of the jobs. Specifically it said "Unfortunately after a review of your credentials and background, we have decided to pursue other applicants who more closely align with our position requirements." It was a rough read but a necessary evil (and to be fair I really wasn't very qualified for the gig they turned me down for, I just really wanted it because it had the word Library in the job title.

So now I am stuck waiting for responses from the rest of the applications. By rejecting me for one I know that their system is working and farming out my stats to hopefully the correct departments. I can only hope that the reason I haven't gotten a slew of additional denials is that maybe I am pseudo qualified for some of the other positions and am in the "to be considered further" pile.

In case you've never done this. Waiting sucks.

For this to work I need to stop telling everyone about it

So I find myself all over the Internet these days, blogging, tweeting, facebooking (is that a word yet?) and while I find it satisfying I also find I am missing out on one of the major attractions to this whole online personality game. The anonymity. Everyone who reads my rambling knows who I am. For the most part this is fine, and let's be frank here folks, there is not a lot of you out there. But there are most definitely rants I have and things I want to shout out into the universe that I could not have any of you know. There are the private thoughts that need to escape or you might explode. The 140 character version of PostSecret. It's what the damn Internet was made for.

But to do this I would have to go and create a whole new set of twitter accounts and neglected blog addresses under an alter ego, and I would have to work at actually keeping it alter. I'm not sure I can remember that many passwords. I'm not sure I can be that creative.

So I guess for now I'll just keep screaming these things inside my head. It's not as fun, but it is sort of working for the time being. And if I do get around to creating another me, I promise I won't tell you about it.