Take this job and...

[batskeets]

Okay, The Job is simultaneously going well and filling me with RAGE this week.

The good part is, my old department has had me shooting at a training for the past couple of days, and they've been great about planning their shot lists, coordinating the necessary resources and people, so it's all gone really smoothly. And I'm always happy to be shooting, of *course*! And, I'm also experiencing at least 72% less hate for hotel conference rooms, now that I have my lovely little pack of gels for the 430EX, so that makes me happy.

The bad part is, I had to arrive 90 minutes early to work today, in order to grab some of these shots, and y'all know how I feel about mornings. Between that and my crazy weekend, I'm pretty exhausted, so I'd almost rather be sitting at my desk than do all of this running around.

And, there's this an individual who had me set up some surveys to be used internally, and it's been a long string of, "add this person to the access list," "oops, this person isn't actually supposed to be on the list," "take down the survey," "oops, put it back up again," and all of these disorganized, niggling requests are REALLY starting to grate.

And, this is also a person who likes to jokingly comment that I must be getting annoyed by all of these requests. It would be so, SO cathartic to say, "yes, actually, it IS incredibly irritating, so would you please stop it and get your shit together already?" But, I think that course of action would get me fired pretty quickly. ;p

So, yeah. It's Wednesday. ALL DAY. Sigh.

Comments

[ghost-girl.livejournal.com]

Raging Sarah becomes enraged!!! :D

At least it's not Monday, though. I know there's an equal amount of fridays and mondays in the year, but man it does not feel like it. Mondays seem to outweight the fridays two to one for some reason.

[dawningday.livejournal.com]

If the person is already, even jokingly, acknowledging that they're being annoying, it might not be so inappropriate to let them know that they are making the work more difficult than it needs to be. I have used similar jokes with some of our tech folks as a way of bridging into "What can I do to make this easier for you?" Maybe you could use it as a similar bridge? Basically, what you wrote, minus the "get your shit together" ;)

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Well, I think only some of it is this person's fault; I know that at least one of the most irritating change requests has come through this person from someone higher-up. But! Still annoying. :p