It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!

The season event of the century was held last week and all the important people were there! By that I mean the majority of the muppets were absent. It was a high dollar affair with everyone wearing the latest hottest fashions :) The absence of the muppets was caused by them not being able to bring spouses. I personally think it  was a kindness on the part of the company because my spouse would not want to spend the evening with the muppets and secondly if they had we'd would have had all the muppets and the spouses whom we shall refer to as the Fraggle rock group! Catering was up to the usual company standards but at least this time we were allowed dinner plates to eat off. The office as usual is full of Christmas spirit and good cheer............you can hear the moaning from almost every department, but in the background plays the annual serving of Christmas music...........Joy to the World! God rest Ye merry Gentlemen......because there are none in this office and quite frankly I feel if Mary and Joseph were to walk in right now they would probably be ignored!!!!! Happy Holidays!!!!!

Here We Go Again!

Well who would have believed it Floppy struck again! No not the bathroom this time.......the copier. How many buttons does it take to make one double sided copy? Well if you push them all eventually the copier goes into overload and starts pumpimg out blank sheets all over the place and yes you guessed it, what did Floppy say................"We need to call the maintenance guy!" I nearly lost it!!!! So I asked "Is that always your answer?" Needless to say we did not. I turned it off and let it reset itself and suggested that when something doesn't work you dont just keep pressing buttons.....mine or the machines. Oh the glamor!!!!!

Eat Your Heart Out Oprah!

Yes the job has reached such pinnacles of glamor we will now have star the likes of Oprah begging to be us, if only for the day! Yesterdays senario shows that this job has reached the top in everyway!!!! One coworker whom for reasons of privacy we will call Floppy comes out of the rest room squeaking for a plummer. It would appear Floppy and her bodily functions have stauffed a complete roll of toilet paper down the comode and it is now backed up and covering the floor!  And I mean everything........so pleasant! Did she think of the curtesy flush half way through? No she obviously just kept on going!!!!  More and more paper, enough to keep an entire village going for a week! How big was the job you ask- well it was........... I'll leave that to your imagination!Well after numerous plungings, a wire coat hanger and an entire bottle industrial strength drano the clog was shifted and Floppy squeaks "Thanks for helping"........................really? How old do you have to be? Yes we've all clogged the toilet but do you really call a plummer straight away? Was this in my job discription or is it just a side benefit of working with Floppy and the muppets? Like I said eat your heart out Oprah, my life is glamorous!!!!!!!! 

Taking responsibility

At what point does the responsibility fall onto the client?  There are calls from people wanting to know if we get notifications on dangerous traveling conditions in contries even though they didn't book anything with us.  Do you not watch the news people?  If you can't keep yourself educated on the country you are visiting then maybe you shouldn't be traveling there.  Another example would be:  Client's have gotten numerous invoices and now have documents and it is now only 2 days away from travel just to call and say "Oh I just saw that you need my legal name?"  YES!!!!! I need your legal name I told you that the first time!  Now let me work miracles and see if that tour company will change everything for you!  And no it isn't my fault.

Saturday!

It is 10.41am and I have been sitting here since 830am without a single call, walk in or customer. All the sensible people are home in bed, shopping or getting ready for football. Football the all important religion of the southern states. The muppets are not here today and nor is animal so with no customers and none of them it is quiet..............no it is dead!  As the morning moves along so they will appear, bedheaded and clad in their favorite fleece or jammies expecting us to stay just a little longer because they couldn't get their lazy butts out of bed and they have been meaning all week to make their insurance payment or check on those flights for Thanksgiving that were so expensive on line but maybe we could beat the price..

10c Hooker

There are days in this glamorous job of ours you can end up feeling like you are selling your soul or body for a sale! Yes this is how I make my living, and I love to make a big sale but sometimes it is so much like, well how can I put it? Bending over and taking one for the team!!!! Why is that I wonder? i somehow think that can be our own fault.....we are too willing to help and loose sight of our selves. Oh now I'm getting deep!!!!!!!!!! Bad week I guess....demanding clients and "the Animal" is off her meds again :)
Why do airlines give customers frequent flyer miles....? It's not like they make it easy for them to use them, in fact it becomes almost impossible. I think I can say I hate airlines :)

Bathroom Etiquette

Not really a post about our job but about work in general.  Who knew the bathroom was a place to conduct business while doing your business?   Not me.  Not sure if the person on the other end would want to know that as well.  Also I know there are those of us not myself but there are some who just don't wash there hands after they go to the  bathroom.  But on that one time you come out of the bathroom and you see a coworker standing there wash your hands!!!  YUCKY!!!  That's all for the personal grype for today.

Have a great day.