Happy Holidays

Well, it turns out that the kid I was suspicious of in the last post totally got fired (or quit) the next day. It was so strange. The whole office went out to lunch and while everyone was leaving, my boss called this guy into his office and they were like, "we'll be right behind you." Once we got to the restaurant we were waiting for my boss to show up but before he did, one of my other bosses told us that "you know who" will no longer be with us here at "work." I was like, "what?" Apparently, everyone at the company besides me knew this was coming. I like to think I am on the up and up, with my ear to the ground to hear these kind of things coming, but this totally passed me by. Maybe I am not as well connected as I thought. And then it got me worrying about my job. I feel like any mistake will send me packing. This job has turned into survivor. I need to outwit, outplay, and outlast the other assistants. Oh, wait...I am the only assistant. Does that mean I could be replaced. What I have decided to do in order to preserve my job is to take on as many messing, unwanted assignments as possible. I volunteered to do the holiday card and gift lists. Not so hard right? Well, there was a reason the job was still available. It has turned into this mountain of paper work and no one will sit down and tell me who they want on the list and what gift they receive. If I could take the AMEX and just purchase gifts from Harry and David and sent it to people, that would be fine. But i have to do research into gifts that are not common but cheap. Its very hard. That is probably what I should be doing now. I'll let you know how it turns out.