Jesse, that is AWESOME!

That's awesome, Jesse.

It makes me want to continue over-withholding, even though in theory I don't believe in that.

I'm not a big boss, but we have an admin assistant for our whole group. The couple of times I've gone to her to ask her to do something for me has felt so awkward.

Our division has a fantastic, kick-ass admin, who gently mocks me when I come to her for help because she KNOWS that I only do that as a last resort. The last time this happened she said, "Cupcake, I know you're a self-reliant princess of darkness, but that's what I'm HERE for. Stop trying to fix this stuff on your own, you don't know the loopholes."

I love our admin. I need to buy her another bottle of wine.

My favourite not-admin-but-does-the-stuff-better-than-you person is the IT finance lady. I'm supposed to be minding the billing and stuff for our project, but in the end? Just ask her how stuff works and how to get invoices approved and paid and stuff signed. It is so much simpler than trying to do it all myself.

My main interactions with admins is "Please get me a spot on this calendar" or the even better "Can you work with these three other admins to get me a time when these four hoity toity honchos can meet with little old me?" Because that's impossible for mortals to achieve.

Yay, Jesse! Next step: STAY out of credit card debt.

My dead washer and dryer are GONE!!! I found a place called unwanted.com that picked them up for no charge and they do their best to recycle. Other places I had called charged big money, so I'm thrilled to have them gone for a $15 tip.

I have decided against buying a new set for now and will be renting a set from our management company. We are likely going to move next year, so I'm going to tuck my laundry fund away and see if I need to buy at that point. Brand new set is due to be delivered on Friday!!! No more laundromat runs!

Just ask her how stuff works and how to get invoices approved and paid and stuff signed. It is so much simpler than trying to do it all myself

If only! I use our finance database so infrequently that I need to be hand-held through it every single time. Except it's harder and harder because after each reorganization we lose the one person who knows the system best. We're now down to one admin for an office of 25 people, and my boss just announced that we should be changing the toner and formatting our letters for signature ourselves, that Admin has more important things to be doing.

Congratulations, Jesse! I got out of CC debt about twelve years ago, after carrying it for three or four years, and ever since then I've been pretty obsessive about keeping it paid off. It's just too frelling dangerous. Of course, I've been regularly-employed for the last twelve years, too, which certainly makes a difference there.

I never really made enough money to support my lifestyle until after grad school, and at that point, I had new debt from being in grad school! Now I'm good -- I haven't spent money I don't have in years, but I have been slow to pay off the existing debt.

In fact, I just ran to find finance chick, and luckily bumped into her in the hallway (she sits near the cannibal, and I'm exhausted and vaguely ill and achy and don't want to shoot the shit) and she solved the one remaining issue with the project that was worrying me.

One of the contractors here came to me to ask an etiquette question about a group lunch she'd been on. Why the fuck would you come to me? I am officially the least seen offsite with co-workers (I am going to ask to take half day today because I feel so awful, which will mean missing another lunch), and her and I have never had an actual conversation before.

Sometimes I feel like my antisocial signage is too subtle. But I can't work out how that can be.