"Actually that's one of the more interesting ones," she replied. Kat was working on an announcement to go out to Company staff. I expressed some words of sympathy somewhere in the range of "announcements must suck" to which she responded,
"I still think you have the crap job."
Some would take offense to this kind of comment, but I laughed because it's true. My job, as it was explained to me after I started, was created by taking everyone else's most time consuming and annoying task and assigning it to one person. It hasn't killed me yet.
This week I decided to try to get out of jury duty. It was a dream opportunity, but when I thought about it, it could also royally screw me out of some well deserved vacation time. I'm considering going somewhere in April/May. I really couldn't see my department being very willing to let me take off right away after coming back from serving on a jury for a month. So I got my boss to do up a "please excuse Jill from jury duty" note. I think I may have to post it on the fridge or something so that when I am feeling defeated I can be reminded of how important I am. Here's what it says:
We request that Jill B@rr0tt be excused from jury duty.
Jill is the only staff member who co-ordinates the required review of a wide variety of advertising and promotional materials that Good Wooden Leg advisors across the country must have reviewed and approved. This approval process is required by federal and provincial financial services industry regulations.
It would be impossible to temporarily replace her expertise with contract staff, and her absence for any extended period of time would compromise our advisors' ability to meet regulatory requirements for advertising and promotional materials.
That's some pretty strong language. I especially enjoy the part that calls me impossible to temporarily replace. Crap job or not, I am an important piece of red tape. That helps me sleep at night.
Kat I owe you ;)
6 comments:
Crap job?! I LOVE reviewing ads at Jetsgo. Then again, I have my very own copy of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" and dubbed it 'a deliciously entertaining page-turner'.
I can't tell you how pleased I am that you're using my expansion of the acronym for GWL, "Good Wooden Leg".
There's nothing like a little corporate one-downmanship to make the day go by smoothly. ;-}
Kat
Kasia you have to be kidding me, even our career paths have similarities?
I also own Eats, Shoots and Leaves" but haven't found time to read it yet. I do get pretty excited about semi-colons though.
;)
Vince I love Good Wooden Leg. I keep waiting for an opportunity to make a crack about not having a Good Wooden Leg to stand on. Maybe if I ever go on a rant about disability insurance I'll find a way to fit it in some how ;)
I remember the first time I called it Good Wooden Leg, you balked at the new name of your company!!! I can't find that post anymore, and you probably noticed me hitting random posts in your blog.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure that I've figured out who my stalker is...
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