When Work Worlds Collide
Oh my god you guys! I am temping this week (I have the most awesome shit to tell you about this firm and this particular desk - look for a weekend post), and SO GLAD I got to work early this morning so I have time to tell you what I discovered this morning. Wait, let''s be honest here. I am so glad I got to work early this morning because now I can blog and am not worried someone will see this window open on my computer screen. Whatever.
Okay. So! Remember Apple? You must go click those links to refresh your memory, I'll wait. Great, you're back. So I stroll into work early this morning, figuring I'll take the time to call the dude at the temp agency who placed me here, just to check in, and I come upon Apple sitting at the reception desk! I was barely able to resist the urge to say the first two things that came to mind which were, "EWW!" and "What the fuck are YOU doing here?" and instead squeaked out a hello. That filtering concept really works, right?
Apple must have forgotten how much she hated me when we previously worked together, because she was all happy and smiley. We chatted for a minute or two, and she told me the office where we first met closed down at the end of March. Speedy moved to LA to work out of that office. Everyone else was laid off. It's hard to imagine, to be honest with you. I mean, Speedy was SO BUSY. He had TONS of cases. Of course, one attorney can't keep a seven attorney office opened through a slump, I know that. But this is a clear indicator to me that the economy is still falling, not picking up yet.
I hope Apple is not at that reception desk all day long. I walk back and forth in front of it multiple times a day, both to get to one of the partners I'm temping for and to get to the copy room, and I don't want to have to make phony small talk with her.
Okay I must go pretend to work now that it's 8:30 and I start getting paid to be sitting here now.
UPDATE: The Apple will be at the desk all day today and all week tomorrow. I gotta find another way to get to the copy room, stat.
Okay. So! Remember Apple? You must go click those links to refresh your memory, I'll wait. Great, you're back. So I stroll into work early this morning, figuring I'll take the time to call the dude at the temp agency who placed me here, just to check in, and I come upon Apple sitting at the reception desk! I was barely able to resist the urge to say the first two things that came to mind which were, "EWW!" and "What the fuck are YOU doing here?" and instead squeaked out a hello. That filtering concept really works, right?
Apple must have forgotten how much she hated me when we previously worked together, because she was all happy and smiley. We chatted for a minute or two, and she told me the office where we first met closed down at the end of March. Speedy moved to LA to work out of that office. Everyone else was laid off. It's hard to imagine, to be honest with you. I mean, Speedy was SO BUSY. He had TONS of cases. Of course, one attorney can't keep a seven attorney office opened through a slump, I know that. But this is a clear indicator to me that the economy is still falling, not picking up yet.
I hope Apple is not at that reception desk all day long. I walk back and forth in front of it multiple times a day, both to get to one of the partners I'm temping for and to get to the copy room, and I don't want to have to make phony small talk with her.
Okay I must go pretend to work now that it's 8:30 and I start getting paid to be sitting here now.
UPDATE: The Apple will be at the desk all day today and all week tomorrow. I gotta find another way to get to the copy room, stat.
Labels: Apple, City Livin, Floating, Speedy, Work
posted by Green at 5/15/2009 08:29:00 AM
3 Comments:
... the ghost of temp jobs past... ugh!
I have an idea, though. If she treats you the way she did at the last job, then the next time you ask her something, like when the mail goes out, go straight back to your desk and email her to answer "her" question about when the mail goes out, and cc the office manager and supervising attorney... let her stew on that for a while! Snarky, no?
I wouldn't recommend doing this more than once, though, and then you have to be prepared to never ask her another question, as she will undoubtedly give you bad information after that!!
EEEEEEK! I remember Apple! I can't believe she's there...is this the result of some sort of freaky fold in the space-time continuum?
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