The fact that my boss is on vacation for my first week of work and then in Ethiopia for a management meeting during my second week means that I spend a fair amount of time idling trying to decipher her broad instructions for me while figuring out how the office works.
Things I've discovered so far:
- No pencils, pens, sticky notes, paper clips, or tape. Lots of hand sanitizer and newspaper clippings about Clinton.
- The power or phones go out in the office at least once every 3 days. You just sit around until it comes back on, which might be a few minutes or days depending on if its just a short circuit or if the construction down the street physically cut the phone line on accident.
- Because I'm lowest in the office hierarchy, I'm given the wheely chair that has a wheel missing. This means that if I don't align the wheels just so and lean the wrong way, the whole thing tips over. Many close calls so far.
1 more hour of work and then busting out early today! Charmaine is having dinner at the convent across the street, so I get to mooch of her early ride back to the house. Hurrah! Productivity must go up tomorrow. Am setting up an intranet for our poor, resource-strapped office.
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re: the chair thing - HILARIOUS! what's so funny is that as the lowest on the chain here, too, i also got the squeaky chair! it makes SO much noise its embarrassing to move. I literally just sit as still as possible all day to not draw too much attention to myself.
there was an episode about this on The Office (US) - the ended up pawning it off on the temp... shame.
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