Grumble and Gripe

[wyntir_knight]

I officially hate Saint Jean Baptiste day. I understand that it's an important day in Catholic Quebec, and I understand that they get it instead of Civic in August, but the fact is that because of this holiday Government has ground to a halt (even though we're still open) and I'm working a nine and a half hour day with no breaks.

Half the office is gone for the Quebec holiday, leaving me as the only administrator. Since there's no one to take over for me on the phones (all the bilingual staff are gone) I get no lunch break and pee breaks have to be carefully planned. I'm paranoid that the phones will ring or a courier will show while I'm in the loo.

Eveything has hit the fan with EVERYTHING needing to be done today. Unfortunately the executive and administrative assistants failed to give me a heads up on Friday, so I'm in the dark. And then to top it all off, a woman bumped into me this morning and caused me to spill scalding hot coffee all over my hand. It's not red any more but it still stings.

I guess that this is a warm up for Canada Day, though. It will be worse on the Friday before because no one will be in, but I have to be just in case someone calls or a courier shows up.

Comments

[corradus.livejournal.com]

*hugs you and kisses yer mitt better*

[wyntir-rose.livejournal.com]

It feels all better now! :)

[lstarrunner.livejournal.com]

The drawback of being a temp - you have the crummy days when others leave. Do they at least pay you overtime for it? *hugs* Hope tomorrow's better and your hand's okay.

[wyntir-rose.livejournal.com]

Nope. I only get overtime if I work over 40 billable hours. If everything goes as normal for the rest of this week I'll have 39 under my belt. It sucks big time, but I can't record my lunch half-hour even though I worked through it.

And my hand is doing much better, thanks. We'll see how it is tomorrow when I take a shower.