The job that ate me

I've been meaning to post about my new job for a while, but keep wanting to put it all in one post and not having enough time. Which is for the best because, really, my new job kind of hates me, and there's no need to put all of that negative energy into the world in one melodramatic post, there just isn't. I will, however, give an example of an average day: today. My boss, otherwise known as Ms. Mood Swing (sometimes she loves me, sometimes she hates me, and it's more often the latter), gave me an 8.5"x11" poster to make copies of - colored paper, no white. For an old office bitch work pro like me, this should be no problem. We're talking about the girl that collects pens after all, making a simple xerox is like my calling. There was the slight stumbling block of not knowing where the colored paper was, but not wanting to upset anyone, I just milled around the copy room until I finally found it, way higher than I could reach, but I made do. This simple copy job, however, took me 40 minutes, because, as it turns out, the copy machine at our office really hates colored paper. This would not have been a huge deal had I not left it until the last 10 minutes of my shift, thinking this would be more than enough time for an office-quality copy machine. Which means that I got out 30 minutes late. Realizing that I surely did not have enough time to complete the ILaw homework I left for the hour in between work and class now, I decided to complain on my blog instead. Wow, am I really this whiney?

To top off the fact that even the machines at the office dislike me, the woman who acted annoyed with me on my first day for drinking the office coffee (like you have to last a few weeks or something to be worthy), seemed quite pissed that I was standing near the paper towels she wanted in the bathroom while trying to fix the earring that got embedded in my ear. I know, I am such an inconvenience, I cannot even stand myself. And yes, my bad karma and lack of skill are such that I actually managed to embed my earring in my ear. I think it's time to anoint a new Captain Awkward.