Ahhh, just when I was needing a holiday.

It's Labor Day weekend as you all know.  I can't believe that I've already been back at work for a month.  Sometimes I think it would be much easier on me to work a normal work schedule like the rest of the world.  You know what I'm talking about, no 6 week break during the summer.  Just work straight through with one or two week vacations spread out over the year.

I think I've mentioned that I get bored during that 6 weeks of lazing around the house in the Summer, I run out of projects and 'To-do' things.  But then once I get back to work and it all hits me squarely between the eyes and I'm putting in 10-12 hour days up there, I get to thinking... what the Hell?  Being a bum at home is so nice. 

The adjustment from overly calm to jump from the water tower stress levels can't be good for a person, mentally or physically.  For two years now I have been classified as the Office Manager.  I'm thinking that's kind of tongue in cheek, if I'm supposed to be giving people direction on their duties and make sure they do that duty, why are they able to go whine (or pawn their work off on someone else) to someone higher up the chain and then not have to do what that Upper Chain person had me tell them to do?  Do you see what I'm saying?  What exactly do they want me to do, inventory office supplies? Check, check, done!  I guess my idea of Office Manager is not at all what I thought it was.  Maybe it's my idea of work ethic, you do what is asked of you and don't whine to anyone unless you have a blog and can whine to people you don't know.

I was told they answer to me.  But yet....   Maybe I need to go to a Dale Carnegie 'How to Win Friends and Influence Others' course.  I tried learning Spanish, I even write better in Spanish than I speak, so when I give the janitor a diagram of how I would like for him to set up a meeting room, he should be able to understand it.  Right?  Verdad?

Maybe I should start treating him as if he's a Kindergartner, I have 3 years of KG experience under my belt.  I thought I was giving him the KG directives when I labeled every table on the diagram - mesa, and every chair - silla.  Every door, every stationary land mark in the room... labeled in Spanish.  Explained "No es el salon de Communidad! Es el salon de Multipurpose!!!  El salon GRANDE!  No en el salon con cocina, no salon de Communidad, otro salon. Comprende?" (I even had a translator standing by to assist and answer questions.) To which he said "yeah, I got dees!" and patted me on the shoulder. DON'T touch me.....  you're creeping me out!

I generously gave him two days to complete the re-arrangement of tables and chairs in this room, two whole days.  He couldn't do it!   He handed it off to the night girl, ella no hable Espanol!  Besides, she has ALL her night duties to take care of, no time for your day duty.

I never give out difficult tasks, they aren't anything like brain surgery or re-building a computer.  They are easy jobs, I think chimps could do them hey... I think the circus comes this month, so I just don't get it when these jobs don't get done, especially when "you got dees!"   

I write the room number on boxes of where I would like them delivered, yet I track the boxes down to other classrooms and the teacher tells me "they were in the hall for two days and we were told to take what we wanted out of the hall before the janitor took it to the trash..."   Glad some people follow directions she taught Kindergarten for 7 years.  Makes me wonder about those lost shipments from last year.

And then there's the inability to see that something needs to be cleaned urine in the boy's restroom floor, or picked up broken glass and trash in the parking lot, or locked a room full of cleaning supplies, we'll let the health department explain that to him, heaven knows I have already tried.

It's tiring, so I'm enjoying this 3 day weekend.  I've gotten that off my chest, ommmm.  Hope I didn't give you any negative vibes with my rant.  Like we tell those little kids at school with anger issues... "just write it out, use a pencil instead of your fists."  Not that I would use my fists, I do have to knit you know.

Speaking of.... check out the almost finished project.  I would have finished it Thursday night but I was too stressed and stopped after sewing it all together.

I'll block it today and get it in the mail to my Mother-in-law just in time for her birthday and hopefully some cooler weather.  We're only supposed to be in the low 90's today!!!  It's time to put the top down on the Miata and not have to worry about my hair bursting into flames.

Have a great week, hope it's a short one where you are.  Starting week after next,  I may start making every other week a short one.  It's 'use 'em or loose 'em time!