So far it's been a lousy week at work.

I am trying to maintain a good attitide but petty annoyances coupled with possibly psychotic behaviour from my esteemed coworker have made me less than happy at the office.

Friday

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Spent the morning looking for a job jacket that was never written for an addition to a multi-part job when someone could have just written it up and printed it out in five minutes for the press room.

9:30 p.m. Boss1 comes in and tell me I worked 1.2 hours overtime last week and wants to know just what I was doing. I am surprised I could have actually been busy enough for the extra time. I told him I can't remember what I was working on and he could delete that time from my paycheck.

10:00 a.m. CSR gives me a rush job with no information in the jacket or ticket. I have to go to his office and get him to fish for the client's fax on his desk.

10:50 a.m. I could not send email to a client because my machine couldn't find the server. Checked the preferences and quit and restarted the mail app. Nothing worked until I rebooted the machines.

12:45 p.m. Had a moral-adjustment lunch with Boss2 at the reopened-under-new-ownership Asian buffet (including sushi b bar). Came back and annoying co-worker stayed out of my up close personal space the rest of the day.

Monday

8:00 a.m. My preferences have been changed in QuarkXPress when I open it and every palette window is open. Closed windows and changed preferences back.

I could smell cologne from across the building as I walk in. Just annoying. Better than smoke and sweat.

On the up side, the CSR tells me hot hot job I was supposed to get out in the morning is now not going to happen after all so I have one less thing to worry about today. There is a new hot job for a different client with files coming from two sources but none of the files will be in until Tuesday.

Tuesday

8:15 a.m. I came in to find the older computer that I turned off with everything else last night already on. Nothing else is running.

The new hot job only has files from one source in today and only half of that is approved to print. Spend most of the morning with nothing much to do so I went to lunch early in the hope that more work would come in later.

Got back from work and the job that had been killed is alive again and the other vendor has left a message for me wondering where it is. CSR does not remember telling me twice that Boss2 told him the job was dead. I made a series of phone calls to Boss 1 & 2 and the client and vendor, get the files uploaded by the outside party providing the layouts, and send them onto the other vendor through their FTP site - another reason I love the internet. All is well and proofs & prints are lined up to happen.

The other thing my coworker did today was to resume invading my personal space by just hanging out in my office for a weird pause and start talking about how many leftovers from his father's day dinner he was still eating on. Then another pause. This was neither work related nor something I can relate to, other than food. I suggested some leftovers can be easily frozen, like baked beans and meats, while others would have to be eaten because they don't freeze well. Then another odd pause. I don't know what was going through his mind. I felt kinda sorry for him and creeped out too.