Today: Greeks behaving badly.
Apr. 27th, 2012 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularYeah, yeah, "Greeks behaving badly" is more the rule than the exception hereabouts.
Got a call on my cell phone while out grabbing a bite of lunch - a certain colleague in the firm (star of past rants in this space) needs a translation done. About one page, as soon as possible. This wouldn't be a problem except for a few factors:
1) I'm already working a high priority task for one of the partners.
2) That high priority task has pushed aside another translation I've been grinding away at, which the person who gave me that one is already starting to ask about.
3) My work computer's been giving me problems all week, to the point where it locked up completely yesterday in the middle of yet another emergency top-priority task. That led me to ... er ... kick the thing. Which crashed the hard disk and left me calling for the IT guy. He got it back up and running, and told me to keep the tower away from the side of my desk to keep up airflow and prevent it from overheating. If he noticed the dent in the side of the machine, he didn't say anything about it.
4) I've got partners in the office shouting. Again.
5) I finally got that message from the associate. Well, I got *a* message. Without any attached letter to translate. I immediately shot back a reply that the document needing translation was missing. No response yet.
So it's back to Priority Task #2 for me, dealing with yet another bunch of yahoos who seem to have that whole "rules were made to be broken" attitude tattoed on their hindbrains, waiting for the next tantrum to blow up in one or another of the offices of the partners who never seem to close their doors when they get their scream on, playing my iPod loud enough to drown out the voices (which is probably loud enough to cause hearing damage), and basically one disaster away from screaming at the entire office to shut up and let the people who aren't shouting get on with their work.
And next week there's more protests coming. May Day, labor and such, traditional marches and whatnot. Plus upcoming elections, in which I'd seriously vote for Bill the Cat if I knew how to write him onto the ballot.
Is it Friday yet?
Got a call on my cell phone while out grabbing a bite of lunch - a certain colleague in the firm (star of past rants in this space) needs a translation done. About one page, as soon as possible. This wouldn't be a problem except for a few factors:
1) I'm already working a high priority task for one of the partners.
2) That high priority task has pushed aside another translation I've been grinding away at, which the person who gave me that one is already starting to ask about.
3) My work computer's been giving me problems all week, to the point where it locked up completely yesterday in the middle of yet another emergency top-priority task. That led me to ... er ... kick the thing. Which crashed the hard disk and left me calling for the IT guy. He got it back up and running, and told me to keep the tower away from the side of my desk to keep up airflow and prevent it from overheating. If he noticed the dent in the side of the machine, he didn't say anything about it.
4) I've got partners in the office shouting. Again.
5) I finally got that message from the associate. Well, I got *a* message. Without any attached letter to translate. I immediately shot back a reply that the document needing translation was missing. No response yet.
So it's back to Priority Task #2 for me, dealing with yet another bunch of yahoos who seem to have that whole "rules were made to be broken" attitude tattoed on their hindbrains, waiting for the next tantrum to blow up in one or another of the offices of the partners who never seem to close their doors when they get their scream on, playing my iPod loud enough to drown out the voices (which is probably loud enough to cause hearing damage), and basically one disaster away from screaming at the entire office to shut up and let the people who aren't shouting get on with their work.
And next week there's more protests coming. May Day, labor and such, traditional marches and whatnot. Plus upcoming elections, in which I'd seriously vote for Bill the Cat if I knew how to write him onto the ballot.
Is it Friday yet?