New at Work

So… first on the list of news is our new “new-girl” at work. I have high hopes for this one. She’s a bit odd (just like the rest of us), and incredibly organized in her own fashion, and catching onto most everything I’m throwing at her rather adeptly. I think she will be a good fit… so long as she stops trying to shake my hand every evening to thank me for putting up with her. lol I’m gonna have to call her the Hand Shaker.

The Hand Shaker has been with us for a week and a half now. Last week saw a full concentration of training. That could be another reason why I’m burnt out at the moment… you never quite realize just how much information is bumping about in your head until you start to download it. This week has been a little more lackadaisical… she’s starting to work on some of her other duties and catching up with me if I do some new things she hasn’t learned yet… while I’ve been savoring keeping my thoughts to myself (and saving my voice) while I work. I can only take so much concentrated interaction with another person all friggin day.

So that’s pretty much it for work. We’ll see how the new dynamic works. If nothing else pulls her away (as happened with the LAST “new-girl”… now the new Office Manager) she should be able to help distribute my typical workload a little better. As she’s learning and creating her own work-guides, I hope to update MY office procedures guides so that all of the support staff can fill in as necessary (such as when I’m gone for two weeks in October). My guides are so old and I’ve incorporated so many changes to procedures that it’s a bit of a mess right now, except for what’s in my head. Well, okay, that too.

Unfortunately, these procedures updates are one of my “backburner” stuff I just can’t get motivated to work on. Mebbe this afternoon. Or whenever.