Monday, July 20, 2009

"Great work"


So, even though I woke up thinking today was going to suck it was a very productive day. I was satisfied with my hard day of work. Getting things marked off my to do list. And to finish the day, my big boss, on his way out told me, that I, Joey, had done a great job getting all the boxes out of the big room and into storage. That's right. I got recognized for my kick ass job. And its the recognition that I wanted.

It was awesome.

UPDATE: As it was pointed out in the comments section, this complement would have never taken place without the help of Liz, Taylor and Rob. Thank you to each of you.

Feeling Defeated

For some reason, I wake up this morning feeling completely defeated. I am not sure why this feeling has occurred. If you have read my last post, you probably deduced that I had a bad day on Friday. But I justified that by telling myself: "We all have bad days. Its these bad days that make the good days so much better." I have to tell myself that or else I begin to think, what I am doing at this job? Why am I really putting myself through this? I take a lot of shit from people, and I just don't say anything. I am walking a fine line between achieving everything I want, and losing it all with one bad blow up. I want to keep it professional and all, but some days I just want to scream out "leave me the fuck alone." Which of course, I can't.

The main thing that I am realizing is that I am an assistant. I assist others. I do my job well and no gives me an recognition because, I am doing my job. When I don't do my job well, I get yelled at and then I feel bad about myself. So, I get no thank you for a job well done, and I get an ear full when I fuck up. How am I suppose to gauge my performance without any positive feedback. And without that positive feedback, I am constantly afraid I am going to be fired. (I have this idea that my bosses are conducting interviews for my job and I wouldn't even know it. Then I get sandbagged with the news.) And of course, when I mess up, I feel this need to fix it. I haven't quite learned how to separate work from my personal life. When I have a bad day, it rolls over into my personal life.

So, to wrap this all up this is it. I have a constant fear that I will fired, mix that with a bad day and no positivity on a job well done, I feel defeated.

But I am positive, hopefully the day will turn sunny and it will be a good day.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Holy Shits

Ok, I know I talk about poop on this blog a lot. We all do it because if we didn't poop, just imagine what people would look like if they didn't. So anyway, after my morning coffee and I need to do the deed, right? So, instead of going to the usual communal bathroom, located by our office manager's desk I decided to use my boss' executive bathroom. He is out of the office on vacation so the chances of him catching me in there are practically zero. So, I went in, dropped the deuce and then flushed, washed my hands and bounced. Well, three days later I went in to pee right? And guess what I found. A fucking floater. And this floated, over the course of three days had dissolved into a brown mess that smelled like busted asshole. In fact, it probably smells worse now, then when I went in and did the deed the first time. Over the three days it magnified in smell.
Upon seeing the site in the bowl, I quickly flushed it away and after the water disappeared, I realized that there was a brown film developing where the meerky water had settled. Oh fuck. This totally looks dirty and my boss comes back on Saturday. The chances of him using this bathroom are pretty high, I would imagine. And now he is going to know that we use his bathroom. And do you know who he would ask about this? That's right, me. And I won't throw anyone under the bus, so I will just deny, deny, deny. But hopefully, it won't come to denying. If I can get the brown films washed away, and clean the bowl, no one will be the wiser.

No one, except for a coworker, who at lunch today, I found went into the executive bathroom (because the communal one was occupied) and discovered my leftovers. I laughed it off saying, "I took care of it." and then admitted it was mine. The real question I should have asked was "why the hell didn't you flush it when you saw it?"

With any luck, this will all be cleaned up by tomorrow and my boss will never know. I will keep you updated.