2004-07-28 - 11:50 a.m.

do you know what's truly awful about this office?

at least, my side of it?

i've gone absolutely haywire just thinking about it.

not only do i not do quotas well, i also don't do, ah, the office politics well.

i was just thinking about this, because alana has just had her birthday. her entire side of the office has given her gifties. no one from this side has.

and i know know know JUST KNOW that when my big one rolls around in a few months, there will be no big hullabaloo, even if it is a traditionally enormous birthday.

make no mistake: i didn't come here to make friends. i am perfectly okay with not having my co-workers celebrate my birthday.

however, i am not okay with the knowledge that no one here could give a flying crap whose birthday is when.

here's the rub, though: i ache for an office that is formal enough that there are no personal jokes made; that crassness is not tolerated; that you work when you work and you play when you play, and you do not spend all day bandying about with your friends on the telephone.

i don't know. it's difficult to want part of one and part of the other, i know.

there is a distinct lack of *kindness* in this business. it's that that is most disheartening.

i'm locking this diary, folks. things are heating up, and my boss is one of those googler types.

 

 

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