3 wishes

Today I asked my lovely coworkers if they had three wishes what would they be. Steph thinks for a while and gives me a list. Then after hearing our wishes she submits a change in her wishes. First on her list Steph says, "I want a magic house."
After laughing and then laughing and then crying laughing she refuses to tell me the reason. Then I receive the following email:

Dear Tamara,

I thank you for the opportunity the explain my wish. My intent in sending this email is to hopefully allow you to see the wonders of a magical house & cause you to use one of your wishes for one too.

Reasons I would like a magical house:

1. Self-cleaning

2. Five star magical pantry & kitchen

3. Magic doors that lead to wonderful places like Hogwarts, the Shire, and Barnes & Noble.

4. Magical mirrors (inserted after requesting and explanation of this one, "They are the windows to the world")

5. Magical rooms like the one in Spy Kids.

Regards,

Stephanie

Frustrated...

Today I spent the whole day trying to sort out the billing for one stupid job.
Wouldn't you know it I am off by $100 dollars and cannot figure out where it is coming from. I want to scream at the stupidity of it all.
I have wasted my whole day on something that should have only taken me 1/2 an hour but instead people like to make up fancy ways to mess up the billing. What ever happened to communication and letting the accountant, the one that actually bills the client, know about changes to the contract?
Ugh. Nothing Sees Candy can't fix.
Oh and PS apparently I blog about work now since I am out of topics. One more day...

Ma Baba Babo nit noy ka

my dog is a little crazy. That’s what that means in Thai. And she is.

On another note my boss had a nice little chat with Jenni today when she came to pick me up. He asked her all kinds of questions about how she liked Thailand and if she had been anywhere else in Asia.

He was delighted to hear she had been to China, his homeland, and very interested in Burma. And then proceeded to tell her all about how his Dad grew up in Burma and then moved back to China at fourteen and how there used to be a very large population of Chinese in Burma…I have never heard him talk so much like that. He is usually really quick in his conversations with strangers but he was just so interested in Jenni’s travels. Even going so far as to tell her she should take me to Vietnam next time I am over there.

Oh Jaydubsies, what are we gonna do with you tho.

Lunches

At work we often have lunch presentations. Free food equals no grocery shopping. I like that.

What I don’t like is some of the weird food we get. Like today there were sandwiches. Innocent enough sounding right? Wrong.

They were some kind of nasty. I cannot even guess what was on them. One was supposed to be salami and I am here to tell you it was not.

I know beggars can’t be choosers but can’t we just have Pat & Oscars?

Scammer Buddy

Last week we got an invoice from some random company for toner for the copy machine. We didn’t order it but it was a scammer company. Today the guy called me and I gave him the run around (I am good at that…) until he finally told me he was calling about a past due invoice.

Dude, if you are gonna be a scammer and you want to get money from unsuspecting companies you might want to tell them right off the bat that you are inquiring about an unpaid invoices otherwise they might think you are actually trying to scam them, which you are.

Anyway I have always been really suspicious of callers that don’t tell you what they want right away. Isn’t it sad that people are so dishonest in this day in age that you can’t trust them?

Well anyway long story short I looked the company up on Better Business Bureau and found that they have been graded F. Also some other people have complained about the exact situation that is going on with our company.

So in my excitement to be able to rip someone a new one who actually deserves it I called the idiot back. He didn’t answer.

Well Buddy, you have just given me more time to think of something to Zing you with later because if those other companies are right we are gonna have a long and prosperous/ dysfunctional relationship. Talk to you soon.

Laters,

Tams

The Office

I discovered last year the office is completely dead on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I literally was the only one there until about ten today and the phone rang one time.

This year however I learned something new, if I plan to leave early I should always come in and leave before my boss gets there. When there are only a few people in the office he gets bored really quickly and thinks of a billion things for you to do.

Randomness: 90210 + Work does not = much work done

First a confession:
Kim, my roommate and I have been watching 90210 college years for a few months now. 2 one hour episodes back to back and no commercials thanks to DVR. We enjoy giving each other that all knowing look every time Brandon is given a stupid line (happens a lot more often then I remembered) or when something else tragic happens to Donna or Kelly. Seriously if their characters were real they would be some messed up girls in need of serious counseling.
And tonight:
Tonight I needed to catch up on some work so I set up my computer in the living room thinking I would just listen to the show while I work. Not so my friends.
Despite my ability to listen to music and whatnot during the day while working (at work) apparently I cannot listen to tv.
(side note- nothing to do with this at all but my dog Sam is curled up on my new couch and SO cute. I have the cutest dogs ever. done.)
I had this simple spreadsheet I wanted to set up tonight but I can't seem to make much progress on it. The formula's have told me I am false about a dozen times now and I am thinking seriously about yelling at my computer for not having a number keypad. I have never been able to do the numbers on top. Ugh.
And HOW am I supposed to work when Donna is being stalked by a psycho and David is making stupid decisions that make him unavailable to save the day? (note to self: never scream like Donna does unless I really do want someone to kill me ie. Kim)
Well anyway back to trying to at least finish some of this task. Peace out yo.

Lists

Do you ever create lists for yourself and then set out to do them but get bombarded with things you didn't expect and don't actually end up checking anything off your list? Such was my day today.
I went in early to catch up on some things and didn't get to any of them. I came in to a voice mail from someone who has an office in New York (hence the reason their was a vm already at 7am) asking questions on something I sent like ten emails about, two weeks ago.
Of course now that they have time to work on it it is of the utmost importance and must be dealt with immediately (note sarcasm).
Whenever this happens I always end up feeling as though I accomplished nothing during the day. My to do list is still there and I get overwhelmed by how its grown and then, I zone out.
How does that help me to accomplish my tasks? It doesn't.

That is what it is for...

Conversation this morning when I answered the phone at work:
me: Good Morning, Joseph Wong Desgin
Guy: Is Bert in this morning?
me: I am sorry, Bert has not come in yet this morning. Would you like his Voice mail?
Guy: Yes, So I can leave a message for him to call me.
me: One moment please
In my head: Uh Yeah dude. That is kinda what Voice Mails are for.

Why do people insist on telling you they are going to leave a message for someone when you have just asked if they what to be transferred to Voice Mail. A simple yes would be okay. I already know that is what will happen. And furthermore why do people insist on telling you the reasons they are calling when they have already said they would like Voice Mail? Dude, I really have no need to know that. But thank you for taking forever to tell me that when you can clearly hear the phone ringing in the background.

DHL=Dog House

Someone is about ready to get the smack-down.
I hate DHL and their opinions that if another company decides that our company should pay for unauthorized shipping, its okay for them to create an account for our company (without telling us) and bill us.
No-sirey-Bob.
Don't basically tell me I don't know what I am talking about you insolent fool.GAH!

Ducks parading down Fourth Avenue.

We tried our hardest to save the poor little duck that thought it would be okay to parade down Fourth Avenue in front of our office. But alas, a duck who will not listen to not only Brenda or Al or myself just has a death wish. So after nearly causing several accidents (of which I could not peel my eyes away from) the poor little duck was struck by an SUV and all we could do was walk away. So sad.
Why did that little duck have to be so stupid?

The Day is redeemed

Just called an Engineering Company, was put on hold, and to the delight of my ears the hold music was the MacGyver Theme Song. There is hope for the world and this day.