Got increasingly frustrated at work today. My boss left me with the job of pulling all the picture frames and the brackets that hold them off the wall and then putting them all back up again according to the new planogram (big fancy LD word...) .
I pulled them off, and he was going to put them up...... never happened. This left me to work on it today. It's been a 4 day job and it shouldn't have been. Brackets were breaking (causing frames to fall and break), more than half the new frames don't have assigned homes and the guys who sit at their computers and map these things out, don't actually live in reality and don't realize that just b/c it works on paper doesn't mean it will work in real life......it went downhill from there.
I explained to one cutomer this morning that I had a big project ahead of me and pointed to the piles..no, mountains...of frames stacked on the floor. He wished me good luck. Hours later when he returned he felt the need to comment on how it looked like I hadn't made any progress
(is it wrong to swear at customers?)
I was going to leave the finishing touches for the boss man to do in the morning.....then he called in sick. So that means I'm coming back in the morning to do it. I was soooo frustrated. I whined and complained all day. Then I had a rolo Mcflurry, gained a little perspective and headed back my Mt. Everest. I declared to the AVS guys that I was changing my attitude, no longer would I complain, instead I would view it as a challenge, the goal was simple...the frame wall would be done by 9am. (Hmmm... I might have to get there at 6am tommorrow.)
So I left with a new attitude, until at the end of the night when David called the all clear and said we were free to go home and then he added (jokingly) "Except Carolyn, who will be spending the night working on her planogram."
(Is it wrong to swear at coworkers?)