I'VE BEEN SO HAPPY

Yesterday I finished a second day cleaning 20 years of grime out of my new office space and one point had one of those happy realizations that this is a great move for me. I almost broke out in song.

I can breathe again. Do not take this for granted. It's important. This is the first benefit, but then I had flash of realization was that this also takes me away from a few constant irritants that have annoyed me almost daily for the past 3 years:

1. I'm no longer imbedded amonst the Sales group. They're fine people, but not my type and I get edgy overhearing their unfocused wavering and cave-ins to stupid and unrealistic demands of our Valued Customers. I also do not do well among Marketing people. In business I fit better among Accounting and Engineering types.

2. I'm no longer the last admin flunky in the area to do phone coverage and or take care of copier, fax, or postage machine issues after our part-timers, flextime workers and people who find an excuse to leave early disappear in the afternoon. This is a daily occurance and sometimes I'm appalled by the excuses and also the laxity of management about it all. Of course it's always the same people who do this over and over.

3. I will no longer have the daily dose of bile rise up watching sales engineers and managers making twice my salary look helplessly at a jammed (or sometimes unjammed) copier and then over to me, the innocent bystander in the office next to the copier. I realize I don't have male body parts or an engineering degree to my credit so I'm your target of convienence. Go cram it, dinosaurs; your mama moved to the office down the hall and she ain't moving back to serve your sexist asses.

4.  Our office Loud and Constant Talker is no longer going to be an omnipresent irritant from 10-ish until she leaves due to one excuse or another. Loud Talker never shuts up and management never tells her that perhaps she needs to work quietly....or at least work.

I like and respect the two engineers that I room with now. More on that later, due to AOL entry limitations. Yay me, I'm happy!