i normally give people the benefit of the doubt at work. however the past couple of weeks i have not exactly had the easiest time working with certain people. the project i was working on involved gathering all the data for a big review meeting. i’m talking documents from different departments involving several different people being responsible for various things. i had a deadline of one day last week, and people were notified 2 weeks in advance. i even kept a spreadsheet updated daily with a list of who owed what. and you know what? i still did not get everything on time. and not because people didn’t have time to do the work, but that they were too lazy. they feel their other projects and assignments are more important than the information they owed me. and i’m talking about working with other adults who know exactly what’s going on. i suspect engineers have a bad rap in social situations because of just this kind of behavior. its just frustrating, and helps convince me that i should get a job back at my old job location, which i will hopefully be able to apply for later this week.

also, another donna story. i was building a linked webpage for all the information i was collecting. my boss wanted a hard copy of all the presentations. so she asked donna to print everything out. all the documents were in pdf format, all she had to do was go down a list and hit ‘print’. you know what? she couldn’t do it. she ended up printing things to multiple printers, mixing everything up, then promptly freaking out and complaining she couldn’t do it at 4:00 pm! so i had to stay late to help her get organized and make sure everything was done. i really don’t know how she keeps her job. i know she probably makes more than my sister, and i know my sister would be capable of printing things and keeping them organized. did i say she had all day to print these things? i don’t trust her to do anything. its not the first time she’s screwed up a simple task, and as i said today, i shudder to think of her getting a big responsibility that one of the bosses thinks she can handle and she screws that up. i’ll be standing off saying “i told you so”.