Go Jesse go!

Go, Jesse! Wooo!

I don't think it occurs to anyone in my Department that they can look at other people's calendars and see who's scheduled for when.

Like, how about you don't double and triple-book me for meetings? Why wouldn't you look at my calendar to see when I'm available? Why am I making the effort to update my calendar if you chuckleheads aren't even going to use the tools we have that can SHOW YOU WHEN ALL NECESSARY PEOPLE ARE AVAILABLE?!

Oh yeah, that one, too. A lot of my coworkers don't keep their calendars up to date, so I get the asking if I'm available, but to book me when I am already booked? NO. I just reply all the time "My calendar is up to date. Feel free to find an available time."

Most of the time people schedule meetings like reasonable human beings, but every once in a while I run into someone who schedules meetings like they live in opposite world.

Don't get me started on having to book meetings. I have encountered so many ways people (and whole offices) can be dickish about it.

People who never keep their calendar updated.
People who don't respond to your meeting requests at all.
People who just book off weeks at a time, so you can't book any meetings with them.
People who accept every meeting even if they can't make it, but don't tell you until the last minute.
People who can only stay for part of the meeting, but only tell you when you arrive at the meeting.

Special mention for the ED who told me what I could and could not discuss with his staff in a meeting I called.
And to the floor that doesn't make it's meeting rooms available to book.

Wow. At least my cowokers use the meeting system correctly. Unless they forget to invite my group.

This afternoon/day/week is never actually going to end, is it?

No Lee, unless you're like me, in which case it will end abruptly right in the middle of the realization that there's still a boatload of work to do

I'm guilty of the calendar thing, but in my defense, it's cause they haven't made the system play well with macs mail. So I remember about 50% of the time to go to the web exchange server and add the meeting to that.

Today was another fucking Day. I just spent an hour working because I missed something because I got too clever for my own good and too damned busy. Of course, it got detected at 3:30, when I was due to leave-or rather, they finally brought me into the loop then, rather than YESTERDAY. When I could've saved them about 30 emails in the chain. And it's a month's old oops, which shoulda been noticed then, not now. Jeez, guys. I fucked up, but y'all aren't impressing me either.

And I've got another hour this weekend at least, but I'm taking Monday off, to burn my final CSWTFE holiday. Whoo!

I think I'm done with cleaning (that somehow got autocorrected to "meaning" which might also be true?) for today. Progress has been made. I'm not going to go into detail because the current status of my house is embarrassing and the progress is incremental, but it is real progress, so. I don't think I have it in me to make a real attempt at a seder tonight, I'll just slap some horseradish on a matzo, drink some pomegranate wine and call it in a night. If Elijah stops by I'll pour him his own.