Well, Ruthy! What a day!
Made for an easy, although boring day, I bet. For you?
It was a royal pain, sis. My manager walked up to me at 4 o'clock and said "We're gonna need you to stay until the systems come back up because those payrolls for --- MUST RUN! Even if it's 8 o'clock!"
Well, what could I say? I just nodded and sent up a silent prayer that the system would come back quickly or that we'd be informed that it wouldn't be up at all. It was answered, thank God!
So afterwards, she walked up and said "We're gonna need you to come in early tomorrow to run those payrolls, OK?" I responded with "I'm sorry, but I have to take my daughter to school and won't be in until 8:30."
*sly grin* It felt SO good to say that. :-)
The stupidest part of the day was when everyone was sitting at their desks playing solitaire and I decided to play with a regular deck of cards I had in my desk. Before you know it, there were 4 of us playing rummy, getting up every few minutes to check the phone line. It was fun for a bit, but the manager didn't like it.
For some strange reason, management doesn't mind you individually wasting time, but when it becomes a group thing, all of the sudden it's an issue. It's THAT kind of stupidity that drives me nuts.