Today is going dreadfully slowly. I have caught up on all my paperwork and gotten up to date with my cases and now i am bored. I was rather thinking that it would take me longer to do all that. Hmm. Glen has tasked me with creating a financial trivia quiz thingy for the company dinner thingy on Friday which is about as fun as having a root filling (thankfully i don't have to go to the dinner - i'm on compassionate leave so i can spend some time with my Naidel, which is much more important than some business function) and later this afternoon i shall be given the powerpoint presentations for tomorrow's big monthly meeting to play with, which is actually quite fun. My head is buzzing with creative ideas and i'm dying to go home and paint my Adepta Sororitas army!!! I keep trying to sneakily draw or write, but someone always walks past my desk and catches me :( Oooh, a Yorkie, wonder how long thats been in my draw....
Went to see my new office on the First Floor today. I am extreemly pleased that i got the office that i wanted. I've been walking past it for ages thinking how great it would be to work in that room, and now i finally will! It's a smaller office across the corridor from the big office, its just about big enough for me, Glen and Mark, a filing cabinet or two and a sofa (though i haven't quite managed to convince them that a sofa is a good idea yet). It doesn't look like much at the moment because it is very empty and is being decorated, but its going to be really nice when its all fixed up. I am hoping to bagsy the desk space next to the window as it is quite a cosy little cubby hole and its nice and bright. Also it has a radiator next to it which will be fab in winter as this building is bloody freezing most of the time! There is a little bit of civil unrest with regards to my promotion, a few whispers of "She doesn't deserve it", "Why should she be given such a cake-walk of a job" and "Director's pet". Well, to all those people, i say the following:
1) I got the promotion because i work my butt off, I do extra stuff i don't have to do and go above and beyond the call of duty. I work from 8.30am and i tend to work until 5.30pm most nights, and i have been known to work until 7pm.
2) This job is NOT going to be a cake-walk. It is in fact going to be one of the hardest jobs going. I will be dealing with double the recommended capacity and will be doing extra duties that will make me a proper PA as opposed to an administrator. Its going to be very very hard.
3) I am far from director's pet. I was chosen because of my skills and working attitude, not because i get on with the directors. Granted the fact that i have a sense of humor and can get away with openly taking the piss out of them both is a plus, but its not why i was chosen. I have no doubt that i will get shouted at lots in the first month or so because i'm learning a whole new system and thus am bound to fuck it up.
There, so thats put paid to those comments. Office politics, eh?
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