Apr 26, 2017
You know what my favorite thing in the whole wide world is? Meetings that could have been emails.
Especially when they last for an hour and a half, but only FIFTEEN MINUTES was actual business.
Kill me.
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You know what my favorite thing in the whole wide world is? Meetings that could have been emails.
Especially when they last for an hour and a half, but only FIFTEEN MINUTES was actual business.
Kill me.
Open-office floor plans are the literal bane of my entire existence.
My boss just decided to clean our Keurig-style coffee maker by running vinegar through it a few times. This would be great, if the coffee maker wasn’t stored in my office. The smell is OVERWHELMING.
Sitting in that awesome “I can’t do my job until you do your job” limbo. SUPER fun.
A couple of months ago...
Office Manager: I’ve scheduled the staff retreat for [day that I am usually at my internship].
Me: I’m usually at my internship that day, but I’ll see if I can reschedule.
My immediate boss: It would be great if you could reschedule so you can be at this meeting.
Today, two days before the staff retreat, after I have rearranged my schedule at work and my internship to be able to attend the retreat...
Big Boss: Aubrey, you don’t need to attend the retreat on Thursday. We’re mostly doing 5-10 year planning, so if there is something else you would like to work on, that is fine.
Me: *fumes silently*
I woke up with a migraine today, so I already feel physically like trash. Top that off with it being my long day at my internship. I love my internship, but Wednesdays start out with supervision and I really haven’t connected with my supervisor yet. I don’t know how to read her and I don’t have a clue what she thinks of me, so I always leave her office feeling emotionally and mentally drained. Giant rambling vent session under the cut.
Today, I brought the wrong copy of my learning contract for her to review. (Cue me feeling like an idiot.) Then she told me that I missed an intake yesterday. I told her it wasn’t on my schedule, and she conceded that it wasn’t. (So OF COURSE I would have missed it.) I’ve been trying to tweak my schedule so I don’t have too many hours but am still here all the times she wants me here and it is so frustrating! We are supposed to do 315 hours at our internship each semester, which means I should be doing around 18-19 hours a week for the summer. I built my schedule around when she wanted me to be here, but that put me at around 24 hours a week. I was going to cut my Tuesday hours, but then she scheduled me to work with her and a client on Tuesdays. So I cut my Tuesday down to only include the hour that I need to be here for a client, which still has me a few hours over every week. But it was at least a start, right?
Then she tells me that we need to cut down another one of my days so that I can be here more on Tuesdays to increase my visibility. The thing is, it would be great to cut down my Wednesdays, but she scheduled my supervision time before she even asked me what my schedule would be here. I *have* to be here from 11am on Wednsdays (11-12 for supervision) until 9pm (co-therapy with another therapist). Best part: everyone leaves the office for an extended lunch from 12-1:30 on Wednesdays, so I basically spend an hour and a half doing reading (and venting on Tumblr) I could easily do at home.
(Oh, and don’t even get me started on the 60 HOURS of reading and online trainings she wanted me to do before my internship even started. 60 HOURS that I would not be able to count toward my total internship hours. That I am still expected to do during the limited free time I have during my internship.)
I just don’t know what to do. I’m trying to balance my 20 hour a week job with 20 hours a week here (with them being closed on Fridays) without completely losing my mind, but she keeps changing her expectations. She had asked me before to be more available during the evening (which I really can’t do). Now she wants me more available during the day. What am I even supposed to do?
I mean, honestly I just want to sit here and cry, but I know that isn’t going to help because I certainly can’t be all red and puffy with running mascara during peer supervision with everyone in 25 minutes. *deep sigh* Thanks for listening to me vent. You all are wonderful.
Do not tell me “look on our shared drive for a document called ABCD” and then, after I spend hours digging through digital folders trying to find it, inform me that the document is actually printed off in a folder in your old office and I should have been looking for something called 1234. That is not how things work.
Wedding registries frustrate me SO MUCH.
A $200 sheet set? An $880 down-filled comforter? Over $1,000 for bedding!?
ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME!?!?!
I love these people (we’re related, so that kind of goes with the territory), but I am just sickened by the price of the majority of their registry items.