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Bet you are all wondering where your beloved Alice has gone.

Nope it wasn’t into a rabbit hole.

Okay, here is the skinny. On Monday THING 1 appeared and had not yet received her check. So, after much convincing I got the OKAY from my superiors to do a check by center as long as she signed a document saying that she would indeed give us her check when she received it from the payroll place. So as I am getting all of the wonderful gross income info and deductions and what not I have a very irate woman sitting in my office glowering at me everytime I walk by to answer a question awaiting an answer from the Vocational Rehabilitation Gods. After I get the OKAY, and the check had been typed up I had to go and get a second signature on a check from a board member. Boy, that went over about as well as a woman in white gloves eating a ketchup popsicle… THING 1 was PISSED! When she wants her money she wanted it then and now…. I explained to her that I had to get a second signature on the check or the banks would not accept them… so I went, got the signature from the board member and on the way back was stuck in 20 minute traffic. Needless to say I got back with in a skosh over a half hour. She was actually waiting for me outside in the parking lot (oh dear god the woman knows my car and license plate). She walked up to my car, where I had the windows down because I don’t have A/C ‘cause the blower motor went out, put her hand out and said gimme my god damn check. That did it, I told her that I had to photocopy the check as well as the document she had signed, that got her going again and she was whooping and hollering and screaming and cursing. Finally I just couldn’t take it anymore. So I stood up right next to her and told her what for… I NEVER had to do the check by center… I NEVER had to do anything at all, we could have made her wait for that check to come in the mail. I think that the words had no impact, I think that when I got up into her face me as 5”8” and her as 5”1” 110 lbs she actually may have gotten a little bit immtemidiated and backed off. So I made my copy and she left.

She never even thanked me.

Tuesday, my co-worker had to go to the ER, she was bleeding badly internally so it was just me and another woman doing timesheets.

Wednesday, my co-worker was still out. We got timesheets done (last minute) then I had a meeting with the City Planning and Zoning where we have to invoice them for 22,534.36 for reimbursement to our centers for Ramps we have built. This is also another glorious aspect of my job as the paper pusher from hell.

Things I hate about my job:

We laid off 5 people because of Medicaid cutbacks (which is how we run our center)

We had a girl quite the ramp projects… so, to save face we won’t hire anyone else so now I am doing it again… I am now working 70 hours a week.

If I make a mistake I have 3 bosses on my ass about it.

If I need directions I have 3 bosses I can’t find.

We have a board of directors that are only doing it as a resume padder…. They don’t even seem to understand the function of what our center does.

The board doesn’t understand that they are OUR bosses boss.

Hmmmmm… must right up a grant invoice now. Yippppppeeeee.