Dead End Job by Reinke Ingrid

Author:Reinke, Ingrid [Reinke, Ingrid]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10: Shit is Whack

When I got into the office Monday morning, I didn’t really know what to expect, and even though I was still in a happy daze after my date with Rocky, I had a feeling that my morning was going to rapidly disintegrate into utter chaos. Considering Ari’s imprisonment, I was well aware that we were now missing not one, but two principles, and regardless of the emotional state of our group’s employees the deadline for completion of the merger documents was still that coming Friday. I woke up early enough to do my makeup and cover up my black eye at home, and I mentally prepared myself for eight hours of pure hell.

Even though the office was deceptively quiet when I arrived at my desk at 7:55 AM, immediately upon sitting down I discovered that I already had eight new voicemail messages and over one hundred unread emails. Most of them highlighted the week’s merger deadline and frantically requested that I divvy up the work left behind by the two principles and send out the new staffing report. Although it was one hundred percent typical for Elaine to push her management responsibilities off onto me, I knew without a doubt that this was going to be an especially monster task. Not only did I not really have a clue which projects and files Ari and Sarah were even working on, the onslaught of emails from our group made it clear that no one else really did either—especially not Elaine—the one person who should have had the most insight and ability to give direction to the rest of the group. In fact, I was sure that over the last few months both Sarah and Ari held extensive meetings with Elaine giving her their latest progress reports, during which she paid absolutely no attention to what was being said. She was clueless, and her solution to the pressure she was getting from upper management was to simply dump the work on someone else, then alternate between hovering and freaking out until it was done to her satisfaction.

I saw no other option besides both physically having to dig through boxes of files and accessing and sorting through both Sarah and Ari’s email inboxes trying to find clues on the status of their various projects, which without help was going take hours if not days to accomplish. To make matters worse, I opened my calendar and found that I had multiple meeting requests dotting my day’s schedule: one with the office’s Administrative Manager, Chelsea Minton, one with Emily from HR, and one with Dr. Michael Castro, the new grief counselor. Plus, I had a weekly billing meeting, a budget discussion with Elaine, and a conference call with the Administrative Assistants out of the Denver office. There was no way in hell I was going to get all of this done in eight hours.

By 8:40 I’d managed to type up some emails and send them off to our IT team, requesting access to both Sarah’s and Ari’s inboxes, outboxes and network drives.

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