We've been having problems with massive amounts of spam getting through the filters at my office. So our CFO (who more or less manages our tech stuff) got us an online thing to act as our NEW! IMPROVED! spam filter. Sent out an email to everyone with our passwords. Only there were no instructions and he neglected to send a link to the control panel. After I pointed this out, he condescended to send everyone the link. Now it turns out that the NEW! IMPROVED! filter classifies as spam some of the messages we need. Like our weekly e-newsletter. And our mass emails which, yes, are marketing stuff but people need to see them. So ... I get the job of forwarding these important messages to everyone in the office because most people haven't figured out that (1) they're not getting the messages and (2) how to whitelist those addresses.

Oh Toddson. Are you sure you don't work in academia?

I don't want to be doing any of the things I should be doing, so I am pretty much not.

Hard root beer? I don't know if my brain is ready for that concept.

Oh, good, Todd, I know that's what you needed, another thankless task.

I don't want to be doing any of the things I should be doing, so I am pretty much not.

Same. I was supposed to have a 4pm meeting, so I basically stopped working then. This is basically my slow week -- had a lot of deadlines around the 1st, more to come, but this week I'm just bracing for everything.

I don't want to be doing any of the things I should be doing, so I am pretty much not.

I need to write my annual review by tomorrow. Have I started it? Nope! Have I gotten a lot of other things done instead? Yep!

I have an 8pm meeting tonight and a 7am meeting tomorrow, which means I need to be up before 5am. I guess I'm just not getting sleep this week.

I finished my editing and have nothing until my boss sends me articles tomorrow, so instead of taking a walk, I just watched 2 episodes of 90210 on Hulu. This makes up for working until midnight last night.

I have an 8pm meeting tonight and a 7am meeting tomorrow,

Yikes!

I am in trainings for the next 2 days and should really be plowing through papers on my desk lest there is something important buried. BUT instead I just spent an hour scrambling for our GD wellness program that everyone including me in our office had ignored.

Last year to get the decrease in insurance cost one had to fill out a wellness survey and have a biometric screening. This year you have to do both PLUS earn 10 more "points" to qualify. Points earned by meeting certain standards in the screening, watching short seminars and taking tests, or logging healthy activities. All have to be done by 11/30.

IN ADDITION, this year there is a penalty for anyone who uses tabacco or who does sign an affidavit saying they do not use tabacco. As HR coordinator, but not actual HR employee or professional, in this field office, printing out, understanding, explaining to others, and the tracking some of this falls to me.

Normal days I do zero HR stuff and do this put everything else on hold.

I now desperately want a root beer float.