Clueless, Anyone?
Jul. 14th, 2004 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pheliskougraOur dentist was going to give a mini-seminar to the kids of my co-workers... so, she requested our datashow projector, to give a power point presentation as part of the mini-seminar.
Upon arriving at the auditorium, I learned she needed also our notebook, camera, and projection screen. I left the datashow there, and headed back to my dept. to get the rest of the stuff. 10 mins if that much. I dropped by general services to ask for some help carrying all the suff over. When I got to my office, she had already called asking if I was expecting her to make the datashow work on its own.
*RE*
Well, then I grab the electronics, the guy from services picks up the screen (a roll-down canvas / fold-up tripod kind...) and we head back. The screen is an old, half-broken-down thing. We had been keeping it set up, because after folding and packing, it would be a nightmare to set it up again.
So, since setting up the screen is a nightmare, I start with it... no kidding, we have to use liberal amounts of string and ducktape to make it stay as it should. There I am up on the stage, struggling with the screen, taping and tieing it standing and unrolled... a co-worker comes over, and asks me whats wrong, the dentist is upset because I am there playing with the screen and wasting time.
I feel really like asking "what, she thinks I am jacking off behind here?"
Fsck it, nevermind, I set the damn thing up, connect and turn on all the equipment (after replacing a few cables. why NOBODY but me seems to be able to keep the power cables where they are supposed to be? they think electrical machines are able, since electronic, to magically suck power from an outlet across the room?). Ooh, missie "I am a doctor" is too good to flip the 'pages' of the power point presentation. SO, I have to run the camera, the notebook, and take dirty looks every time I am not able to magically guess when she wants to advance to a new 'page' of the presentation.
[Interlude]
I dont think, a mini-seminar on dental health, for kids aged 5-12, should be presented with the use of medical terms... I looked at the kids, most were not understanding what she was saying up there. They mentioned it to us, HR people, later, that "that woman speaks too weird".
[End Interlude]
After the mind-numbing event is done, I repack all the stuff, and carry it back to HR. I barely arrived back, and she is on the phone again, saying she needs our digital camera too.
Oh, joy, now I have to go play photographer for her? Not a chance.
Hissy fit, and pouty half-threats, how cute. Well miss, too bad for you that I have a dental plan that is NOT the office one.
MY boss backs me up on that. Its NOT my job.
Upon arriving at the auditorium, I learned she needed also our notebook, camera, and projection screen. I left the datashow there, and headed back to my dept. to get the rest of the stuff. 10 mins if that much. I dropped by general services to ask for some help carrying all the suff over. When I got to my office, she had already called asking if I was expecting her to make the datashow work on its own.
*RE*
Well, then I grab the electronics, the guy from services picks up the screen (a roll-down canvas / fold-up tripod kind...) and we head back. The screen is an old, half-broken-down thing. We had been keeping it set up, because after folding and packing, it would be a nightmare to set it up again.
So, since setting up the screen is a nightmare, I start with it... no kidding, we have to use liberal amounts of string and ducktape to make it stay as it should. There I am up on the stage, struggling with the screen, taping and tieing it standing and unrolled... a co-worker comes over, and asks me whats wrong, the dentist is upset because I am there playing with the screen and wasting time.
I feel really like asking "what, she thinks I am jacking off behind here?"
Fsck it, nevermind, I set the damn thing up, connect and turn on all the equipment (after replacing a few cables. why NOBODY but me seems to be able to keep the power cables where they are supposed to be? they think electrical machines are able, since electronic, to magically suck power from an outlet across the room?). Ooh, missie "I am a doctor" is too good to flip the 'pages' of the power point presentation. SO, I have to run the camera, the notebook, and take dirty looks every time I am not able to magically guess when she wants to advance to a new 'page' of the presentation.
[Interlude]
I dont think, a mini-seminar on dental health, for kids aged 5-12, should be presented with the use of medical terms... I looked at the kids, most were not understanding what she was saying up there. They mentioned it to us, HR people, later, that "that woman speaks too weird".
[End Interlude]
After the mind-numbing event is done, I repack all the stuff, and carry it back to HR. I barely arrived back, and she is on the phone again, saying she needs our digital camera too.
Oh, joy, now I have to go play photographer for her? Not a chance.
Hissy fit, and pouty half-threats, how cute. Well miss, too bad for you that I have a dental plan that is NOT the office one.
MY boss backs me up on that. Its NOT my job.
