07 February 2007

shitty week continues

This week continues to underwhelm me. I managed to completely piss off the executive assistant here in the office. I apologized about five thousand times and wrote her an apologetic email, but she is still mad at me. She claims she’s not, but it is fairly obvious that she is. And the stupid thing is that it was dumb, dumb, dumb and she is completely overreacting. I said something insensitive and she blew it way out of proportion. You know, when Jeff and I had that big argument earlier this week, we hashed it out in literally 30 seconds and we are completely fine now. Completely. I have always hated those women who claim that they can’t be friends with other women, so I won’t say anything about that. Instead I will just say that some people are not quick to forgive and are fairly sensitive. I should probably work on understanding that a little more.

My actual job is fine, although the VP was looking for me earlier today. I don’t know what that was about. It could be good or bad, you never know.

Bear with me, I just have to process a little more of the executive assistant crap. I think I reached my breaking point with people needing help from me or constantly giving advice. I am continually peppered with simple questions about foundations. I honestly don’t mind answering them, but the constant interruption is not good for my writing because it makes me lose my train of thought. The other thing is that the questions could easily be answered by looking in our database – which we all have access to. They are not urgent questions and they tend to be shouted over cubicle walls. The whole thing is annoying and it has been going on for about two weeks now.

Also, everyone seems to be hot on foundations right now. It’s always, “Why haven’t we approached so and so” or “I used to know so and so’s third cousin five times removed, I think we should send a proposal to X foundation.” It’s absurd. The people gunning for foundations are the people who were hired to target individuals. They need to turn their attention elsewhere. I appreciate the help to a degree, but the chances are highly likely that they are not telling me anything new so I wish they would just back off and let me do my job.

Wow, I need to let off some steam, I think. I guess work is getting to me more than I thought. I’m dreading the pilates class tonight, but maybe it will do me some good.