Band of Idiots

this week has been so friggin busy at my jobs. YUCK i say. in the name of balance, i was out tues night taking capoeira, wed i was so brainfried, i just relaxed, thursday went to the valley for a totally fun dinner party. so to get in my 2nd job, i was getting up early before work (which i DON'T do very well, by the way), coming in late to work, working through lunch, and then subsequently working late. i kept rushing from one job to another. ALL work all the time. and it wasn't getting all done.

at the looney bin, by friday i was so stressed i was convinced that if i wasn't leaving in 4 months to travel, i would have to quit this job. i feel like i do everyone's job's there. we have full rack of 8 balls. what does adam carolla call it? a band of unemployable idiots. and lucy fur is back full time, which completely BLOWS! the boss had cut her to 2 days a week, then when we got sold, i guess he pitied her, or i donno what the reason, but he told her she could have 1 last month of full time. but now the rumor is that the new boss offered her a job, but he doesn't know where to put her. because at least my boss advised him to keep her away from the money.

damn tho, we had a mere month of relaxation without her. when i pull in and see her car, i cringe. she makes the whole atmosphere tense, like you can't relax. she's either wildly bitchy or in this over-the-top, i wanna be your best friend, chatty mood, clomping around the office, popping up everywhere in her wild red lipstick, like some nutcase on crack. can we say BIPOLAR? not to mention, she's taking the bookkeeping software from me all the time, leaving me incapable of doing any of my work. and for what? she never does ANYTHING!!! the thing that i do best is manage my work and my time so it all gets done, but when she constantly sits on the books, that throws off my whole schedule, wastes my time and takes the one thing i do have any control over away. i didn't realize how much productivity she cost me until she was gone for a while, and i was free to manage my own time without her interrupting me. now that she's back it's impossible to get it done, and collections are suffering.

so friday, she takes the books from me at least 4 times, for like a half an hour at a time. meanwhile, i'm looking at the AR report, and she has NINETEEN accounts that she "sold" dbas to but never collected the money. so what IS she doing? so i mark them up and show them to her. later, she charges one that i had pointed out has a credit card on file. i'm still house cleaning the classifieds. it's taken me a month to match the ad copy with billing info, or to guestimate how long each has been running when i can't find billing. it's a testimate to how very fucked up they were that it took me a month to figure them out. on friday, still, i was going back through old runhseets, dating back years. i found ads in there that have been running since 2003!!!! christ! the 4 pages that he has been running of ads, is now down to 1 and 1/2, and still shrinking.

i call one rep and remind her to get a new cc, call another to hound him about collecting his outstanding money, give lucy-fur her list of 19 unpaid ads, catch 2 ads that shouldn't be running but they are on the runsheets anyway; in the middle of this, lucy-fur calls the art dept, asking to put this ad in the paper. i intervene and say, 'no way!'. they didn't pay from the last time.

i mean, christ, does ANYONE there do their damn job? it's unbelievable!

the job itself is so not stressful. so do-able. but it's doing my job and everyone else's that stresses me out.