All Night Mambo!

Sweet Jesu! I have to get out. Out I tell you!

Today, my boss handed me a list of meetings for the next six months. She wanted me to schedule the conference room and send out the Outlook invites.

I panicked. I started to get all tense. I couldn't focus. I wanted to cry. Just thinking about being here another six months almost made me lose it. I *have* to start looking for work. I can't keep sitting on my laurels, or I'm gonna freak the fuck out on my co-workers when I least expect it.

The thing is, I have to hard a time focusing at work to job search on the sly. And when I get home, there's enough to distract me, to make me feel like it's not all that pressing.

Any bright ideas on getting me of my ass? (Aside from - quit whining and do it.)

Yes, as a matter of fact, even after more than six months, still fucking new!

Sweet Jesus! I am so pissed right now. I can't believe how fucking stupid my co-worker is! Christ!

So, this week we sent out about 200 orders. I've been busting my but helping the lead field phone calls and emails and making notes in the database. So yesterday, we snag this chick to help us with follow-up.

Her task is simple: Here are 100 orders. Here's a report showing order status. There are also notes being updated on the database in real time. Please call on any order that doesn't show confirmed reciept.

We even have a conversation clarifying procedures and what is required - including, if there's a note in the database referencing the list manager, then you don't have to call. Her deadline for completion was today.

I spend yesterday calling on my 100 orders. Mostly I checked the database, and checked vendor websites for info. I had about 30-40 actual phone calls to make, probably even less. By the end of the day, I had a pile of maybe 20 max I had to leave messages for. I also sent follow-up emails.

So this morning, I work on finishing up. I check my handful of email responses and actually had to only call back on four. I was done by 12:30.

This afternoon at 3pm, the genius girl is bitching to her boss that she still has this pile of follow-up phone calls to make. She asks me if I'm done, can I help her. Sure, no problem. But Lord Almighty!!!! She handed me 20 orders.

I heard her make maybe four phone calls today. She spent most of her time on personal calls and doing something else. (I'm guessing work for her boss). Most of our vendors are on the East Coast, which means, you have to call *prior* to 2pm.

A few of thes have some kind of paperwork attached. Paperwork signifies that someone has had to do something to the order! If were messing with the order, then, the fucking vendor has recieved it!!!

That and I just found notes from her in the database showing that she called on orders that had already been handled.

My Note: 7/7 - Per LM: Pricing - Base #75/M, Zip $8/M, 60% net w $8/M RC, Can you use 3490 cartridge.

Her Note: 7/8/04: TCF w/Sarah Linney and confirmed receipt of order.

Hey Chica! It's a note from the day before, that doesn't indicate to you that maybe you don't need to waste your time calling?!!!! *aaargh!* I busted my ass to try to save everyone time and effort and you just fucking ignore ALL OF IT!

I hate stupid people. *grumble*

Do they not teach that in school anymore? Or do people just think that now that they're grown-up it doesn't apply to them!!!!

Jesus these people are stupid. *argh* Right now at work, we're trying to get people to give us industry standard information. How many names on your list are in each state. Otherwise known as state counts. We do this twice a year, and yet, people fail to do this correctly.

Some people send a total number. What part of I need state counts, sounds like a freakin total???!!!

Other people start giving us the third degree. Well what do you want it for? It's a fucking standard request in this idustry. We have to know how many names you have available before we can figure out how many names to order. It's your job to give me information. It's not like you work for the Pentagon! Christ!

And then, part of this little excercise is asking them to provide these counts on our web page. Now I admit, our web page could use a design upgrade, it has a billion features no one uses but damn! How hard can it be? I asked for state counts. You go, you log in, and for some fucking reason they choose "clearances" from the menu, as opposed to "state counts" and then send an email telling us we're cleared to use their list. How does any of this jive with I need state counts.

*GAH* People are stooopid.