Wednesday, September 1, 2010

September challenge - a post a day

My friend Angelica is doing a challenge this month - write every day, even if it's just a sentence.  I started working on my 90 day review at work this week, (crazy that it's already been that long, more on that later).  At the very bottom of the self-review sheet is a section titled "Employee Comments and Feedback".  This will be a true test of my supervisor's sense of humor, among other things.  Here's today's entry for the September challenge:

Getting paper from the storage room is the bane of my existence.  The colored paper and card stock has all been lumped together and shoved in a corner next to a bowl of rat poison, and every time I need more paper I have to ask someone for the storage room key and go rifle through reams of paper.  More often than not, what I need isn’t there and I have to settle for whatever I can find.  I look forward to the day I can order what I need instead of searching through moldering papers that are bursting out of their protective wrappers and curling in the humidity.  It seems like half the paper there is a bright orange shade that nobody will ever want to use.  It’s been sitting in there for over a year in the damp and mildew, (not to mention rats), and at some point soon I think we should cut our losses and start ordering paper instead of poking around a pile that Scott bought on eBay in an online bidding frenzy.  We could donate the remaining stash to the Montessori school or some other organization.  I foresee a day in the not too distant future where I’m lugging misshapen reams of paper from the storage room through the snow and wind; it’s not something I look forward to doing.

4 comments:

Richard said...

You rock.

AJ said...

" I think we should cut our losses and start ordering paper instead of poking around a pile that Scott bought on eBay in an online bidding frenzy."

I am laughing my ass off!

September challenge: game on.

Midtagessen said...

Look at you go girl..one a day for a month. I am impressed! Catching up on your doings...Love the rat poison next to the paper...what a work environment.

j.cro said...

I'm not on the computer as much as I used to be but I'll definitely be checking often for your daily posts. It's great to see you back here so much. I always enjoy reading what you've got to share.