Leelee's Blog.

Meetings, do in fact suck. I'm prone to these worthless things twice a week. One with management and one with my co-workers (which is usually less formal). Every monday afternoon, I have 45 minute meeting with my co-workers where we discuss the schedule for week and the upcoming events and discuss our "problems" that we feel needs to be addressed. Friday afternoon, is where I meet with my supervisor, our sales exec's assistant and the boss. I'm supposed to give updates and such about our vendors/customers and "we" (meaning me) has to come up with shit I shouldn't be in charge of. Add this with my part-time school career...If it weren't for good pay and an actual easy job, I'd be out of there.

 

The meetings serve zero function. What I say in those 45 minute meetings could have been said in a quick email or memo.

 

That's weird about your family, my family is strange as well. They like me, I'm one of the good ones. The fact I'm not in debt, living in a trailer-park and I have a job that doesn't require me to say "Would you like fries with that?" makes me a popular person within the family. They mean well and they don't drive me nuts. So I am content with being the quiet and non-trouble making seed.

 

March Madness, right now is just left with teams that make you go "Um? Who, wait I didn't pick these guys and I dont like them". We'll get LSU/Memphis and UCONN/NOVA and the country will go "Uh..."

 

The committe is great at making week one perfect but forces us with boring generic final 4 teams.

I not only have useless meetings to attend (at least most are lamely catered with coffee and bagels), but am required to meet with a designated higher up once a month as part of a gay ass mentoring program where you have to talk with this person for at least half an hour about the job. On top of all that, we have to turn in PDP's next month (personal develpment program) for ourselves to our supervisors. Basically, it's our eval's, but they make us write everything out for them and the sup tells us whether he or she feels we are doing what we put down in the PDP earlier in the year.

 

I fucking hate work and plan on calling in sick the next 2 mondays.

 

My brackets are done, but at least Duke is out and I got to watch a thrilling UCLA/Gonzaga game. I think Memphis/UCLA is going to be classic.

This may seem to come from no where, but I definately see trauma in your past. And trauma growing up has a profound effect on who we are as people later on in life. I think you should see someone and work on the issues that you obviously have, because you definately do not seem like a happy person and there is no reason you can't be happy.

You think you have lame ass meetings ? Ok. Come see one of my meetings. Ridiculous.

 

It's like a scene from Office Space. I'm the lowest ranking Marine in my section. There's another LCpl (senior to me), two Cpl's, a Sgt, a SSgt, a GySgt, a 1stSgt, a 1stLt, and the Captain.

 

It's like this:

 

Captain: "Come here Kelly. Ok, I know I've told you before, when you do the morning report, you need to highlight Marine officers red, and Navy officers blue. It's confusing otherwise."

 

Me: "Yes sir, I didn't mean to let it slip up like that sir, it will not happen again, sir."

 

Then, like five minutes later:

 

1stLt: "Come here Kelly. Ok, I know I've told you before, when you do the morning report, you need to highlight Marine officers red, and Navy officers blue. It's confusing otherwise."

 

Me: "Roger that sir, it will be done correctly from now on."

 

Then, maybe a few minutes later:

 

1stSgt: "Come here Kelly. Ok, I know I've told you before, when you do the morning report, you need to highlight Marine officers red, and Navy officers blue. It's confusing otherwise."

 

Me: "....good to go 1stSgt."

 

Then, as soon as I step out of his office:

 

GySgt: "Come here Kelly. Ok, I know I've told you before, when you do the morning report, you need to highlight Marine officers red, and Navy officers blue. It's confusing otherwise."

 

Me: ".................yes Gunny........"

 

A heartbeat later:

 

SSgt: "Come here Kelly. Ok, I know I've told you before, when you do the morning report, you need to highlight Marine officers red, and Navy officers blue. It's confusing otherwise."

 

Me: "Check SSgt."

 

Then the Sgt and Cpl's come to me at once and sounds like they all say it at the same time:

 

Them: "Come here Kelly. Ok, I know I've told you before, when you do the morning report, you need to highlight Marine officers red, and Navy officers blue. It's confusing otherwise."

 

Me: "Yes, I know...I fucked up, it WILL NOT happen again....ok?"

 

Then the dumbass LCpl who was standing right behind them butts in:

 

LCpl: "Come here Kelly. Ok, I know I've told you before, when you do the morning report, you need to highlight Marine officers red, and Navy officers blue. It's confusing otherwise."

 

Me: ".....shut the fuck up."