Thursday

Yesterday was a marathon day at work.  The only problem was that it should have been a 5-K run.  We were tasked with accounting for more than 10,000 binders.  When I got to work, most of the floor was covered with rows of binders standing on end so that the number on the spine could be read.  But there were still other binders to be recorded, and there was no more room to spread them out.  In fact, it was difficult to walk across the room.  I asked I thought was a simple question - how do I know what is in this area of stacked binders?  It took an hour to get an answer that I could understand and to get a definite assignment.  And, as usual, as the day wore on, we got conflicting information about what to do.  Arguments broke out, and people were shouting at each other.  After 5 o'clock, the AMFO came into the room to tell us that we had to be done today.  It was at that point that he found out that we were wasting a lot of time moving binders around unnecessarily.  So, we cranked it into high gear and got the job done before we left for the night.  (We had two regional people in the office yesterday.  Having one regional person is not a good sign; two is really bad.)

And our LCOM told us that we would go back to overtime as soon as she got permission from Dallas to begin.  She wants to go back to work as long as you can stand it until we're done. 

In the midst of all this, we have one person in our boat who continually tries to start trouble.  The kind of person who asks you loaded questions.  I just deflect her questions and basically ignore her.  But now we've got another clerk in who is more subtle in her approach to people, and she seems to be egging the first one on.  Things are going to get even more interesting.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.  ~~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg