90 More Minutes

Even when I have no intention of working, I manage to find myself working. I suppose I walked into a situation in the office today, which had it not been for Kim, I wouldn’t have gotten myself involved in the first place.

I had only intended to go into the office briefly to meet with Kim, as she wanted to give me my Christmas gift and honestly, I had no intention of traveling to her house later today or even tomorrow to get that gift. I figured that I’d be in the office for no more than 20 minutes, chitchatting and shooting the breeze as we do, after retrieving said gift.

I left the house at 6:30am and got to the office just before 7am. Maybe I was speeding just a little, though speeding tends to be my normal anyway.

I would leave the office 90 minutes later, just before 8:30am. It was overtime. I figured, “Why not?”

Some people have no business working in that office, but as I’ve said before, the department has a tendency to hire quantity over quality. I’ve seen it. Kim has seen it. Stevie Wonder could see it. A lot of my co-workers suck. That’s just the way it’s been lately.

Without going into any of the details that comprised this morning’s mess (because doing so is just going to give me a headache and possibly make me want to hit something or punch a wall, like dumb people do), I’ll just say that Kim and I were left trying to clean it all up because the guy who was there pretty much had no idea what he was doing or supposed to be doing and he really screwed up.

We’re hoping that management deals with him and that situation in a timely manner and with some kind of repercussion. From what I understand, he constantly screws up and yet, nothing ever happens to him. Surely, he can’t be that difficult to replace. He’s not that important to where another, more capable and adept, body couldn’t easily step in and do his job.

The date on the calendar means nothing because it doesn’t matter. Something stupid can always happen in that office and the date and/or time of year are vastly irrelevant.

Today was just another example of that.