Going, going . . . .GONE!!!

Well, here we are, boys & girls - my last day in the place we call "Hell". As I mentioned in my last post, I have been hired as a graphic designer with a local printing company & start my new job on Monday (no rest for the broke!). To say I'm happy about it is the understatement of the century! Why? Well - allow me to elaborate a bit.

If you've read any of my profile (and c'mon - admit it - you know you have!), you know that I currently work for a "Large Retail Craft Store" in their corporate office. I took this job two years ago because A) I'd been out of work for almost a year at that point & needed a paycheck and B) I thought I could just post out to a different department within a few months of being there & be back in my chosen/trained profession. Little did I know, however, that my last day with the company would be in the same shit-hole department where I started.

See, the thing is, I had fairly high hopes for this job when I first started. Sure, I knew I wouldn't be doing the type of work I'm trained to do, but I thought it might at LEAST be interesting, considering the type of company & the type of products I'd be dealing with. Turns out, there are a LOT of extremely boring, mind numbing positions in a corporate office - and mine is at the bottom of the food chain, but the top of the boring scale.

All of this might be somewhat tolerable (given that each of us has our fair share of downtime, which allows for a lot of surfing time) - if it weren't for my micro-managing, overbearing immediate supervisor. I believe I alluded to her idiocy in earlier posts, so I won't insult your intelligence by repeating it here. Suffice it to say, I've reached my limit on being treated like an idiot by someone who hasn't yet figured out that a "reply all" email means we ALL got it & it's not necessary to forward it to the same group - NOR is it necessary to come and TELL me I got an email!

But I digress . . .

I don't know what I'm more excited about - starting my new job, ending this one, or being able to drink at lunch today with no guilt. ;-)