So now she wants to see a copy of my job description to have a better idea of my role

A very good sign! Maybe someone told her "And Susan will be your admin."

That's progress Susan!! At least she's cool enough to sense that she asked something that was a faux pas. And kudos that she wants to figure out what it is you do and stuff! Yay for progress!!!

(OK, I really should be doing work. no... really) :: sips more sugar-ade....er..lemonade ::

Sugar high BABY!

Put the sugar down. Now step away slowly.

OK, so this is a from a performance report from the stage manager:

Bobo lost some feathers from his loincloth. Repaired with hot glue during Chapter 10

I dunno, it just sounds painful... hotmelt glue gun...loincloth.... ow!

Put the sugar down. Now step away slowly.

But..but... it's so YUMMY!! (slurps straw as it's almost empty)

Maybe someone told her "And Susan will be your admin."

I don't think it was that, just that the program at her former hospital was structured differently, so she *expected* me to be in the same role as her admin back in Arizona.

We're going to meet tomorrow to go over things in greater detail. I'm going to try to draw clear boundaries, because I *do* do a lot of general admin-support work for the department as a whole. It's just to me there's a clear difference between booking rooms for classes and meetings or setting up HIPAA training for the new groups of interns and keeping someone's calendar or typing their letters.

Susan, this is a good thing. She was treating you clerically because she thought that was your role, and she's picked up that it's not, and she wants to understand better what you actually are there for. It's important to play a good defensive game tomorrow, but really, I'd take this meeting as an encouraging sign.

Kristin, that is the best email ever. So cute! I forget, how old are your students?

It almost makes me want to stop procrastinating and plan out my lessons for the week. Brings back some excitement. We had long weekend status here in NY (did other teachers get off, or were we rare in that luck?) and I'm having a hard time disconnecting from my weekend. I should be entering grades, at the very least.

Aimee, that tenant situation is a bit freaky. I hope that it gets dealt with in a satisfactory manner. Like the removal of limbs from people who threaten nice people with death, perhaps. Unless that's too cruel-and-unusual?

I agree with the class that the job description request is a good sign. And that keeping a personal calendar is very different from administrating group things.

As far as I know Meg is breaking up with the asshat. I'm assuming this apology is his hail-mary to get her back. I'm fairly certain he doesn't care if we respond or not.

And now that I think about it, the calendar issue may have come up the way it did because our Acting Director had asked me to set up a few meetings for New Director before she arrived so she'd meet the various important hospital mucky-mucks. Which again, to me, is very different from keeping a calendar day in and day out, but I can see why she, never having seen my job description, would've go the idea it was to be an ongoing thing.

Also the only thing that makes me think he meant each apology individually is that he took the time to change the salutation at the top of each one. If he knew that we knew that we were all getting the same apology he could have adressed it to "dear Meg's family" and sent them all at the same time.