Wah!

Okay, so I'm feeling lonely and out of sorts today.

Not to mention I was supposed to finish at 4:30 and my schedule says 5:00.

Oh, and I'm supposed to be working activations but the systems wouldn't let me on, so they got me back in customer service until I got the new passwords. Now I have the new passwords, but I'm still in the customer service queues. Bah.



Paintball has been cancelled, and I have mixed feelings about it. I'm disappointed, 'cause I won't be seeing my friends, and I'm relieved because I won't be exhausted tomorrow. (I'm also vaguely relieved because Poms was going to be there and I haven't seen him since I broke up with him and it would probably have been awkward: ConflictAvoidance!Girl strikes again!)

But I really did want to see fearsclave & co.

*mopes*

Wah!

Okay, so I'm feeling lonely and out of sorts today.

Not to mention I was supposed to finish at 4:30 and my schedule says 5:00.

Oh, and I'm supposed to be working activations but the systems wouldn't let me on, so they got me back in customer service until I got the new passwords. Now I have the new passwords, but I'm still in the customer service queues. Bah.



Paintball has been cancelled, and I have mixed feelings about it. I'm disappointed, 'cause I won't be seeing my friends, and I'm relieved because I won't be exhausted tomorrow. (I'm also vaguely relieved because Poms was going to be there and I haven't seen him since I broke up with him and it would probably have been awkward: ConflictAvoidance!Girl strikes again!)

But I really did want to see fearsclave & co.

*mopes*

"... at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel..."

*curls up under desk, sticks thumb in mouth and ignores coworkers*

Am miserable, and am going to wallow now. Read no further if you're not in the mood for self-pity.

This bites. Due to a scheduling glitch I have to work half an hour later than I thought I would have to. I'm also working customer service on an activations schedule. This won't mean much to anyone except me, so let me explain: customer service have MANY more tasks than the activations department. So we get time offline to do all this administrative crap. Activations doesn't get that. So I have to take time off my own breaks to do it, or else get in trouble with my supervisor. Naturally, I'm not even paid for this, it's just expected of me to go above and beyond without getting paid.

It also means my stats have gone to shit, which means my supervisor will be breathing down my neck. Equally it means that I'm more stressed out and have even less time to de-stress, like during my lunch break.

Then I spent 40 minutes with a woman screaming at me on the phone. I managed to get her calm enough to get through to a supervisor, but by the end I just wanted to either strangle her or sit down on the floor and cry. I mean, she was shouting at me and would not for a moment believe me when I told her that the reason I couldn't change her file to meet her demands was that because her rate plan already coincided with what she was asking for.

I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but customer service is a damned lonely affair, and incredibly stressful (the latter I know I've mentioned). The lonely bit comes from being surrounded with people that you can't really speak to because you're all speaking to clients who essentially are either really mad at you or else don't really consider you much more than an organic answering machine.

So on especially stressful days like this it's nice to have someone online to talk to, except that today everyone seems to be either working like mad and unable to talk, or else they're just simply not there/not answering email.

So yeah. I'm lonely and stressed out and overtired and basically feeling like crap. Hence the self-pitying moan above.

"... at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel..."

*curls up under desk, sticks thumb in mouth and ignores coworkers*

Am miserable, and am going to wallow now. Read no further if you're not in the mood for self-pity.

This bites. Due to a scheduling glitch I have to work half an hour later than I thought I would have to. I'm also working customer service on an activations schedule. This won't mean much to anyone except me, so let me explain: customer service have MANY more tasks than the activations department. So we get time offline to do all this administrative crap. Activations doesn't get that. So I have to take time off my own breaks to do it, or else get in trouble with my supervisor. Naturally, I'm not even paid for this, it's just expected of me to go above and beyond without getting paid.

It also means my stats have gone to shit, which means my supervisor will be breathing down my neck. Equally it means that I'm more stressed out and have even less time to de-stress, like during my lunch break.

Then I spent 40 minutes with a woman screaming at me on the phone. I managed to get her calm enough to get through to a supervisor, but by the end I just wanted to either strangle her or sit down on the floor and cry. I mean, she was shouting at me and would not for a moment believe me when I told her that the reason I couldn't change her file to meet her demands was that because her rate plan already coincided with what she was asking for.

I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but customer service is a damned lonely affair, and incredibly stressful (the latter I know I've mentioned). The lonely bit comes from being surrounded with people that you can't really speak to because you're all speaking to clients who essentially are either really mad at you or else don't really consider you much more than an organic answering machine.

So on especially stressful days like this it's nice to have someone online to talk to, except that today everyone seems to be either working like mad and unable to talk, or else they're just simply not there/not answering email.

So yeah. I'm lonely and stressed out and overtired and basically feeling like crap. Hence the self-pitying moan above.

This curious substance, "food" you call it?

Am beginning to enjoy preparing "real" food instead of just KD. Heh. Never thought the day would come. Am making garlic pasta with shrimp: simple to make, yet v. tasty.

My friend AC called today out of the blue. He's coming back from Toronto tonight, but only has time tonight to see me as he's leaving for New York the 26th and everyone is doing family stuff tomorrow and Wednesday.

So he's going to call me when he gets into town, probably around 9-ish so we can go for coffee. I'm actually kind of nervous. I haven't spoken to him in eight months or so, and the last time I actually saw him was over a year ago. I hope we haven't changed so much that we won't click the way we used to. We used to be able to finish each other's sentences.

I know he had changed a lot two summers ago after he started working in Toronto. Suddenly he became a lot more money-focussed and commercial, and I remember having little in common with him, but now that I've joined the working masses as a corporate drone we might have more to talk about now. I think that's good.

I'm looking forward to it in any event.

Must go tend to food. I'm starving! O_O

This curious substance, "food" you call it?

Am beginning to enjoy preparing "real" food instead of just KD. Heh. Never thought the day would come. Am making garlic pasta with shrimp: simple to make, yet v. tasty.

My friend AC called today out of the blue. He's coming back from Toronto tonight, but only has time tonight to see me as he's leaving for New York the 26th and everyone is doing family stuff tomorrow and Wednesday.

So he's going to call me when he gets into town, probably around 9-ish so we can go for coffee. I'm actually kind of nervous. I haven't spoken to him in eight months or so, and the last time I actually saw him was over a year ago. I hope we haven't changed so much that we won't click the way we used to. We used to be able to finish each other's sentences.

I know he had changed a lot two summers ago after he started working in Toronto. Suddenly he became a lot more money-focussed and commercial, and I remember having little in common with him, but now that I've joined the working masses as a corporate drone we might have more to talk about now. I think that's good.

I'm looking forward to it in any event.

Must go tend to food. I'm starving! O_O

Just f*cking great...

The migraine which has been lurking all day has now decided that it's going to develop into a full-blown brain-splitting monster.

I hate stress.

I didn't even eat anything which would trigger it today.

Only one more day until Christmas Day, and I can sleep in and be cosy at home with my parents. Yes, that'll improve things.

Now, to avoid the projectile vomiting that's threatening... *wanders off to make soothing tea*

Just f*cking great...

The migraine which has been lurking all day has now decided that it's going to develop into a full-blown brain-splitting monster.

I hate stress.

I didn't even eat anything which would trigger it today.

Only one more day until Christmas Day, and I can sleep in and be cosy at home with my parents. Yes, that'll improve things.

Now, to avoid the projectile vomiting that's threatening... *wanders off to make soothing tea*