piratepete

Whoa an update! Sorry to be MIA so often lately but it seems like I keep having to get up earlier and earlier for work all the time, and just when things seem like they're going to go back to a somewhat normal state something else gets thrown into the mix. Fun Time Navy! All I've been able to tell myself all week is 96 hours. That's right this weekend is a 96 hour pass, freedom from work, freedom from the people I see at work, freedom from the piles of mysterious crap that show up on my desk with out any explanation. This in itself is an amazing feat because I've been the first one in and the last one to leave all week! I'm not talking about some paperwork that got tossed on my desk at random but weird shit like a computer printer (on Monday) no explanation just a big ass laser jet printer. Last week it was 8 exam tables, we're talking the big huge 300# bastards. They just showed up out of nowhere on a big 18 wheel truck. Now my storage warehouse area is crammed full of exam tables that I can not put to good use. The only thing I could come up with is that it was the end of the fiscal year and someone somewhere had extra money to spend or they would lose it, and then POOF! there were exam tables that were requested 3 years ago. WTF!!! We don't even have a loading dock or a forklift to take the stuff off the truck.
Tomorrow is my weekly run down to 29 palms and I always put out an email to everyone telling them to have everything ready to go by the end of the business day that needs to go down. Some people will stop by my office and tell me what they need, others will drop off random shit when I'm working somewhere else and hope that I can figure it out, and others will send vague emails... and I mean vague to the point of being weird.

Example: That printer on back desk the HP 2300 I tink.

That's it... What back desk, what printer, it may or may not be an HP 2300 where ever it is, and what the hell is it's problem, does it need more toner? Is it broken? Is it new or old? Do I have to take it somewhere or install it somewhere? I'm supposed to make heads and tails of this kind of crap all the time. So I've got to run off and track this person down because if I don't I know that they will show up and want impossible things done with or to this printer by the end of the day and they wont answer the email I send them. Turns out that it was the Laser Jet that showed up on my desk with out explanation. Ok now I have the what and where since I put the printer on a work bench (not a desk) and it needs to go down to 29 Palms for some department down there. Man I'm sure glad that it was perfectly clear, I mean you totally understood all of that from "That printer on back desk the HP 2300 I tink"

Ok enough ranting for a bit I've got a 4 day weekend to think about... Hmm I see a lot of sleeping in over the next few days.