My rant for week ending 4/2/2010

So today was my first day back at work in a couple weeks. It was kind of weird but not. It was like starting a new job and you know almost everyone. It was kind of nice to get back to work and get out of the house and have something else to think about all instead of worrying about my family member that is or was on drugs. She claims to not have ever been on them and claims to not be on any now. (But that is a whole other story.) The first 45 minutes I spent at work in the lobby waiting for the lady that needed to release me back to work to get there. She then gets there and faxes the appropriate paper to the corporate office, which meant I had to wait another 15 minutes until she decided to let me go to the call floor until she heard from corporate. I’m thinking we are getting somewhere. I can go be productive or at least try to be. I get out on the floor and since I have been gone all my passwords need to be reset. My supervisor had to email yet another person in the corporate office to get my passwords reset. Meanwhile, I am talking to people trying to find out what I have missed, of course most of it was gossip, but hey it gets us all. I was also looking at the internal memo board to get caught up on the policy and procedure side of things. This went on for what seemed like forever. I finally was able to log into my computer systems and was ready to go to work. I pick up my headset and put it on and…..nothing. It isn’t working. So, I let my supervisor know, because we aren’t supposed to fix these things our selves. She calls the IT person and tells him what is going on and she says “He’ll be out in a minute”. Twenty minutes later I decide I am going to do it myself, I need to get back to work. So I take the headset and amplifier from another bay, and of course, here comes the IT guy. I’m thinking “haha I fixed it myself” well come to find out I didn’t and I had to move to another seat. Which really irritated me because I actually had a seat now, I actually felt like I belonged and I had to move. Not to mention I had to sit next to someone who didn’t smell to well. I am not the type to complain, I would just deal with it. And I did. But I was on the IT guys butt to fix my seat. Finally, he did and I was able to move back to my seat and actually do my job. I’m feeling pretty good at this point; I am able to get to work. I have been off work for a while and the time that I was off, I so wished I could have been at work instead of dealing with what I was dealing with. It was so nice to be back at work even after everything I dealt with to ACTUALLY get back to work.