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Rough Week

It’s been a hell of a week. Doesn’t help when both your boss and supervisor are at a conference either. It’s our Director of PR and I left to manage the department while they are gone for the week and it’s been a rough one.

The one thing I looked forward to was my boyfriend’s Pharmacy Formal this past Tuesday. It was great. Dancing, mingling, drinking (of course), and just an amazing night with great people and my lovely boyfriend. 

The rest of the week, well, let’s say there have been better. First, one of my cardigan’s got a sticker on it that was washed and dried into. So spend most of Monday night using nail polish remover to get it off so I can wear it at the formal. (which thankfully it came off). Using the remover ruined my nails so I had to redo them, twice. 

Tuesday at work was just hell. Things were going terribly wrong. Rebates for events were not taken care of and no one bother to checked them and then I have to take matters into my own hands because no one else is going to do it. I hate to blame people but there are some people who just shouldn’t be doing anything anymore. You talk to them and things go in one ear and out the other and I get that I’m not the boss of anyone here, but I work for someone who is the boss and whatever he says to me has to get done. People here tend to wash their hands of things. After that fiasco, I tried to go to Target and got lost going a different way, so I tried to use the GPS on my phone which froze. I had to reset my phone, then it locked up into airplane mode, then stopped recognizing my sim card. Also I burnt my hand on soup. It was just a bad day. 

But I got to spend my night having so much fun and so many needed drinks. And I got to spend part of the Wednesday with my boyfriend after the formal. 

Now, I’m back at work. Seems like some people are on edge and are annoyed. I get that it hasn’t been easy and I’m sorry this was put on your shoulders but your department is running this event, not mine. This is what my department deals with all the time and we end up taking over and coordinating things. Sorry but not this time. No one is completely blaming people but you feel those piercing eyes and light conversation with and undertone of frustration. Someone said to me, “Did you enjoy your day off?” It threw me off. I get that I took off during this busy week, but I got approval for it a month or two ago. I didn’t know this was going to happen, so don’t blame me for all this extra work you have to do. You aren’t the only people who work. 

It just gets a little annoying when you try and try to help as much as you can, but sometimes you have so much work on your plate to get done that you can’t keep track of everyone else’s work too. We might be the “fun” department, but it’s hard work and time consuming to keep this fun. 

I’m done ranting for now. Waiting for shipments and approvals and trying to get another event’s collateral ready to go.

:3

So…I’ve been guilted into posting again. :cough: Brandon :cough: And I guess I’ll make a quick debut back into the world of blogging.

Quick updates:

I got to work around 9:20AM and didn’t leave till 9:10PM so I think saying I’m “busy” is and understatement.

My boyfriend, Michael, and I got a hedgehog named Quilliam Spiker III Esq. He’s adorable and such a grumpy gus. Always pokes me ><!

Besides that, everything has just been easygoing and laid back. Can’t wait for the summer and just for this next month to move along.