draaaaama queens

What fun. Nothing quite like drama queens on a Friday! Early registration for summer and fall classes ends today, so I’ve had about ten zillion calls and walk-ins this past half hour, wailing because they can’t register. And waaaahhhhhhh, it’s 4:00 on Friday, Last Pre-Registration Day!!! Generally they can’t register because they neglected some vital task. Like meeting with their advisor, which they had three weeks to do. That was the case for the last little drama queen, who, boo hoo, tried for WEEKS and WEEKS to meet with her advisor and she’s never there and she never answers her phone calls and she never answers her emails and can’t I give her the advising code so she can register pleeeezzzzzeeee????? Ummm, NO. I send her off to the chair of her department who of course comes rushing in with her a few minutes later and has me find her file (this is all K’s job, dealing with these stupid files,  but she left at 3:30 today) and ta da,  Little Mz. Drama Queen actually didn’t show up for two appointments with her advisor. NO SHOW!! Right there in her folder. He gave her the number anyhow, and hoped she wasn’t lying to him. Gee, I’m sure she wasn’t! No chance of that!! That’s exactly why I’ll never ever EVER give them their code.  

Even better, though, is the office drama. Which is giving me an ulcer. Insane Boss and New Person J are just about in an all-out war now. Yesterday Insane Boss wanted to find something on a spreadsheet New Person J keeps. She stood over J, complained about how she isn’t able to find things she needs, demanded J find a better way to maintain this spreadsheet, told J she doesn’t trust her to keep accurate data (tried to modify that by adding "I don’t trust anyone, which, frankly, just made it worse) and then said "I AM your boss!!!"

All right in front of me, and loud enough that one of our office worker students heard the whole thing too. I’d been attempting to ignore them because I was trying to do something that required some concentration, like I’ll ever get THAT in a million years around here, so I had them kind of tuned partway out until voices started getting raised. Later on, J told me that she is absolutely furious about it, and was not coming in today. She’d planned to take a half day off then decided she wasn’t coming in at all. If she just quits, I’ll not be one bit surprised. Insane Boss has driven J completely over the edge by micromanaging her. And she’s already made an enemy of K by insinuating that K was not keeping an accurate comp time sheet. K is STILL outraged.

So J is furious, K is furious, and Insane Boss keeps getting crazier, more paranoid, and more micromanagery.   And I think I have Middle Child Syndrome, as I just try to stay out of the line of fire and make everyone happy.

This morning New Boss comes swooping in, doesn’t say hello to anyone, and took an hour to figure out J wasn’t here. Then she said, "Well, you’ll have to look up everything for me!" When I stared at her in disbelief, she said, "Well, I guess most things can wait till Monday."

Later on she tells one of our student workers that they need to come upstairs where she is having a meeting at a quarter of 11, and see if she needs anything. Not, "if I need anything, I’ll call you and you can run it up!" But, "Come to the meeting at this pre-set time and see if I need anything!" K and I were aghast – she’s like this total prima donna.  

 Boy I miss Dr. Airhead.

And now it’s nearly time to go. I don’t know how I thought I could actually write anything with this madness going on around me.

Oh, but duuuuuudes – go check out  this diary  –  funniest.read.ever. Especially if you have had your fill of all the mommy diaries that seem to have taken over OD of late. This is absolutely hysterical. Falling Dog had a link, and I’m not quite convinced it isn’t her in disguise- but you MUST see it!! 

And happy Friday!