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I braved the ice and snow since I need a paycheck, and today's my long day at work. I'd already called in on Tuesday, so I figured I should go in today. Had to take a different way in due to trees down on <main road> and I initially turned the wrong way onto <other main road>. I knew then it was going to be a bad day. The parking lot at school (only a few blocks from work and I park there for free) was NOT plowed AT ALL. The college has been closed pretty much all week, but I was still preturbed that they hadn't at least cleared the parking lot. The snow stopped yesterday morning, so it's not like they didn't have time. On top of that, NONE of the sidewalks were plowed or salted either. Cue me nearly breaking my neck.
In my rush to get on the road early, I neglected to eat breakfast or grab something for lunch. There's a McDonald's on the way from the parking lot to work, so I figured I'd stop in. They're usually pretty quick. Except today. The ONE day I needed to get in and get out, they were slow. They were crowded, but even when packed, they're usually pretty quick. So I didn't walk into work until two minutes before opening, which was barely enough time for me to scarf down my McMuffin.
An Intermediate Publisher class was scheduled for this morning. Normally, I would have had all necessary handouts long before opening, but since I was running late, I obviously hadn't had the chance to check. So, I looked in the handout cabinet and a few handouts were in the corresponding folder. Not a full 16 like it's supposed to have, but a few nonetheless. That is, until I pulled them out and realized they were for the Intro class. Some yutz put the wrong handouts in the folder and I have ZERO of the correct ones. Fan-frikkin-tastic. Grumbling, I go to my computer to print out more. Except I've got a virus warning flashing at me. A quick scan came up with 34 Trojan programs, keystroke loggers, and other kinds of nasties that shouldn't be on the computer. Turns out SOMEONE DOWNLOADED A BS VIRUS SCANNER THAT WAS ACTUALLY SPYWARE!!! I can't do anything on the computer until Computer Services gets there to fix it. All the while of me running around trying to figure out how I'm going to get ready for class in time is this poor soul trying to file for unemployment online and he doesn't know anything about computers.
And no one even showed for the class after I busted tail to have everything ready. Thanks a lot.
Fast forward to lunch. I had my heart set on Subway since I hadn't eaten there for awhile and there's one right down the road. So I hop on over only to discover a locked door. But I'm puzzled since there's a customer inside. I catch the one employee's eye and she shakes her head at me. I nod that I understood, but I still hung around a bit because I had a question. Employee's friend pokes his head out and informs me that the store is closing and they are finishing up with the last customer. I ask my question which is are they closing just for lunch, or is this for the rest of the day. Of course, it's for the rest of the day. I sadly head a couple doors down to a Chinese place. Now, I love Chinese food, but I hate this particular place. They're slow and the food's not very good, but I'm hungry and desparate now since I didn't bring anything from home. I spent the remainder of my 30-minute lunch break waiting on my food and end up with no time to eat it. Thankfully, Awesome Supervisor is awesome and let me eat in his office since there was a staff training class going on in the lab and I wasn't needed.
I braved the ice and snow since I need a paycheck, and today's my long day at work. I'd already called in on Tuesday, so I figured I should go in today. Had to take a different way in due to trees down on <main road> and I initially turned the wrong way onto <other main road>. I knew then it was going to be a bad day. The parking lot at school (only a few blocks from work and I park there for free) was NOT plowed AT ALL. The college has been closed pretty much all week, but I was still preturbed that they hadn't at least cleared the parking lot. The snow stopped yesterday morning, so it's not like they didn't have time. On top of that, NONE of the sidewalks were plowed or salted either. Cue me nearly breaking my neck.
In my rush to get on the road early, I neglected to eat breakfast or grab something for lunch. There's a McDonald's on the way from the parking lot to work, so I figured I'd stop in. They're usually pretty quick. Except today. The ONE day I needed to get in and get out, they were slow. They were crowded, but even when packed, they're usually pretty quick. So I didn't walk into work until two minutes before opening, which was barely enough time for me to scarf down my McMuffin.
An Intermediate Publisher class was scheduled for this morning. Normally, I would have had all necessary handouts long before opening, but since I was running late, I obviously hadn't had the chance to check. So, I looked in the handout cabinet and a few handouts were in the corresponding folder. Not a full 16 like it's supposed to have, but a few nonetheless. That is, until I pulled them out and realized they were for the Intro class. Some yutz put the wrong handouts in the folder and I have ZERO of the correct ones. Fan-frikkin-tastic. Grumbling, I go to my computer to print out more. Except I've got a virus warning flashing at me. A quick scan came up with 34 Trojan programs, keystroke loggers, and other kinds of nasties that shouldn't be on the computer. Turns out SOMEONE DOWNLOADED A BS VIRUS SCANNER THAT WAS ACTUALLY SPYWARE!!! I can't do anything on the computer until Computer Services gets there to fix it. All the while of me running around trying to figure out how I'm going to get ready for class in time is this poor soul trying to file for unemployment online and he doesn't know anything about computers.
And no one even showed for the class after I busted tail to have everything ready. Thanks a lot.Fast forward to lunch. I had my heart set on Subway since I hadn't eaten there for awhile and there's one right down the road. So I hop on over only to discover a locked door. But I'm puzzled since there's a customer inside. I catch the one employee's eye and she shakes her head at me. I nod that I understood, but I still hung around a bit because I had a question. Employee's friend pokes his head out and informs me that the store is closing and they are finishing up with the last customer. I ask my question which is are they closing just for lunch, or is this for the rest of the day. Of course, it's for the rest of the day. I sadly head a couple doors down to a Chinese place. Now, I love Chinese food, but I hate this particular place. They're slow and the food's not very good, but I'm hungry and desparate now since I didn't bring anything from home. I spent the remainder of my 30-minute lunch break waiting on my food and end up with no time to eat it. Thankfully, Awesome Supervisor is awesome and let me eat in his office since there was a staff training class going on in the lab and I wasn't needed.
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