My supervisor is out today, so things are a little bit more relaxed in the office. I actually have time to post! It's not that I have significantly less work to do today -- when I came in there were a number of things for me to do in my inbox -- but that in the absence of her calling me into her office every three seconds to do some other task or xerox some files or deliver some envelopes to some other department I can actually work on things and knock them off fairly quickly. Even doing a simple one-line log entry can take fifteen minutes when someone is hollering for you before you can even finish writing a letter. And I took three trips to deliver some papers to another office today, but had my supervisor been here that would've been at least eight trips. See, rather than waiting for several deliveries to pile up before sending me over -- they all go to the same place -- she'd have me running over there after every one, because it has to be done right away. It really doesn't. They'll get there. Jeez.

Another thing I find kind of odd is that a lot of the tasks I'm assigned to do are totally unnecessary. For example, someone will take the time to handwrite an entire document and then request that I type it verbatim -- but if you were going to take the time to write out all of that, why not just type it to begin with? I can understand the need for that back when computers weren't the rage -- typewriters do make things more difficult, since mistakes aren't easily corrected with a tap of the backspace key and spell checkers are nowhere to be found -- but now? I don't know. I think a lot of it stems from the fact that some of these people have been here since the typewriter days and continue to do things the way they've always done them, but still. Get with the times, man.

Alright, that's all I've got for now -- but maybe I'll stop back in for another post before the day's out! 😉 Ja.