i fail...

[pennie_dreadful]

...at this job.  Suddenly they have so much stuff for me to do!  Type this, scan that and email it to me.  Well, I typed successfully.  I attempted to scan.  The scanner does not want to work.  I have done everything in my limited reservior of technical knowledge to resolve the issue myself.  This included checking the connections and restarting the computer.  I went to Microtek's tech support, and it told me to do pretty much everything I've already done.  I really, really wanted to avoid bugging the IT guy.  Since he has a way of making everyone he "helps" feel like a doofus.  Not to mention he's a pretty busy guy already.  I left him a message and hopefully he gets back to me before I leave the office, task undone.

But!  There is good news.  Up until now I have been 4 hours short of full time work, even though I work five days a week (only open a half day on Sunday).  I have just been informed that they need me to keep working weekends at residential.  So I am now working five and a half days a week, Mon-Thurs at commercial, and Sat-Sun at residential, which adds up to a total of eight hours of overtime every pay period.  I win.  And because of this happy developement I will be reinstating my allowance, wherein I allot myself thirty dollars of every paycheck to waste on whatever I want (books, usually, sometimes CDs, DVDs).  I was denying myself that small pleasure in the somewhat fatalistic certainty that I will not find a job and therefore needed to save every wad of cash I coud get my hands on.  No more!  And guess what?  "What?", you may ask.  Tomorrow is padaaaaaay!  And I already know what I'm going to get.

Comments

[impeccablesimon.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry you are having difficulties at work. Today my computer was down from 8 AM until noon-fifteen, our industrial strength baler (which bales thousands of pounds of cardboard and paper per day) broke down and will not be working for at least another day, and our front end loader (garbage truck which we use to pick up paper from our 200 or so containers at businesses and churches) is broken.

We had a pretty crappy day today as well.

But tomorrow if payday for you, and I want to know what you are going to purchase.

:D

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

I know for sure I want the new Death Cab album, and I'm thinking I'll get a book by Carol Berg (I've been meaning to check out more of her work), and Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. I've read good reviews of that one.

Or I may get another CD if I just happen to see one that I've been wanting. However if I tried to think of one now I would draw a blank, my memory works that way. There aren't many bands that are "automatic buys", where I keep up with all the new stuff they release. But the list of bands that I hear on the radio that seem worth checking out is never ending and so vast I can't keep track of it. Same with authors, come to think of it.

And I have to run errands in town tomorrow anyway, so I don't need to feel guilty over making a special trip.