construction at work

I hate when they remodel things, my client had to move from one room to another in the hospital this last week. And the dust and stuff drive me crazy.

It is hard when you have a schedule and you are used to working efficiently with your tools well organized and then all of that is disrupted but management expects you to carry on as if nothing happened. Once a long time ago, a boss I had fired his secretary and I was the receptionist, so he decided I could great customers and handle the switchboard and run the radio communications center for the company's fleet of cards AND take dictation at the same time. Well, I was young then, and needed the job and tried my best, but one day while he was trying to dictate a letter and the phones were ringing off the hook, a whole stream of ants started across my desk and across the paper I was writing on and there I was brushing the ants off the page and trying to write with 12 calls holding on one line and 2 on the radio and this moron just kept talking like I was supposed to be able to take down his letter with all this going on. I wasn't even a stenographer. Duh. So I yelled at him! He had been some high ranking mucky muck in the military before he retired and started that business so he wasn't used to a woman yelling back. Usually he was the one yelling at people. I demanded to know how it was that he could NOT notice that there were filthy bugs crawling all over me and why he didn't have the courtesy to stop dictating and help me out. Well, he said it was MY fault for keeping candy in the desk drawer. I NEVER put any candy in the drawer and never took any to work and never ate any, so I said, "Excuse me" and walked out and never went back. What an imbecile!

Yes. It totally messes up my routine when things are out of place or changed around. I hate that.