What did I do?

[gurdymonkey]

1. I agreed to give someone a ride to Crown last week even though she gets out of work a full hour later than I do, thus assuring we have to make the run to Mendocino at the worst part of rush hour. Monday night she told me she may have to work late Friday because of a conference.

 
2. Two foremen screw up five new-hire packages between them, thus assuring that I spend this morning in a two-hour deep hole on payroll processing because of THEIR stupidity. I never got my AM break to go for a walk.

3. The fax machine and printer next to it both decide they need toner at the exact same time.

4. My partner had to leave work early  because of a  medical appointment so I ended up taking my break at my desk, which means no PM walk.

5. We have visitors from the Glendale office coming in tomorrow, and Oh, could you pick up breakfast for them? I have a feeling I can go whistle for reimbursement on it.

6. I spent two hours either on the phone or running around virtual chat with McAfee trying to resolve the fact that I wanted one antivirus product and ended up with another. After being bounced from Customer Service to Tech Support and back to Customer Service it still has not been resolved and I'm waiting for an email back from them about the situation.

7. People took a jackhammer to my virtual Zen garden. I tried to do something nice and they screwed it up and they don't understand why I'm upset.

Comments

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

The sad fact of our world is that if you make a thing of beauty, peace and reflection, someone will feel a need to stick their fingers in the pond and make ripples. People are incapable of simply meditating on the simple joys, they have to *talk* about them because what they have to say is sooooo much more fascinating than the thing itself.

People can't just *be* anymore. We had a lady in yoga last night who felt the need to announce to the class how *GOOD* it felt... to be in a resting pose, meditating.

This is a thing I used to call, "failing the concept". They haven't just failed to do the thing at hand, they've failed to even grasp what the thing is.