Ecogrooviness at work

[twirlgrrl]

Well, howdy, everybody! I have a bunch of new LJ friends, thanks to the fabulous and amazing slinksgirl, and I should be writing a bunch of dazzling new entries to welcome everyone to my super cool LJ, but I am BEE-HEE-HEE-HEEAT. I am so tired that I feel like I'm walking uphill with every step, and it makes me weepy.

This morning I had a meeting in Santa Cruz (1.5 hours away) and I was up at 5am preparing for it. When I got to the meeting and passed out the agenda packets, this one doctor totally bitched me out in front of everyone because I had pressed the wrong button on the copier without noticing and not only were the copies single-sided instead of double-sided, but the machine had inserted an entire blank piece of paper in between each page. So instead of 6 pages long the agenda was 24 pages long. The doctor didn't stop talking when I said it was a mistake--nooo, he gave the whole room a giant lecture on how reducing and reusing was even more important than recycling because recycling uses so much energy and blah blah blah, and OMG it was all I could do not to dissolve into tears at the table. I wanted to explain how the mistake got made and apologize more and explain how I've been cutting the agenda down to a smaller size every month and how ecogroovy I normally am and that I taught a bunch of my friends how to recycle back in the day and how much I care about the planet and how I'm a dirty tree-hugging hippie but of course that would have been silly. So I just sat there feeling stupid while he went on and on and on. Awesome.

Of course I pulled it together and the rest of the meeting went great but yeah, I need a nap. Hope you are all having a better and more energetic day than I am.

Comments

[thexphial.livejournal.com]

Oh man, don't you hate it when some piece of technology gets you in trouble? Apparently our work fax machine ate the consent forms I sent to the daycare we were supposed to screen this morning and I got chewed out by all the people who showed up only to find that there were no kids to screen because they never got the consents. Stupid machines.

[simplifying.livejournal.com]

Like you did it on purpose. He sounds like a bit of a dick.

[aubreym.livejournal.com]

Wow, what a douche. How could someone think you did that on purpose? Sounds like he was a bit of a power-tripper.

[yellowdusk.livejournal.com]

Cruel.

[ninjalie.livejournal.com]

:( I make so many mistakes like that, it really sucks when people jump down your throat about things you already know you fucked up lol.

[alexisyael.livejournal.com]

Even if you had done that on purpose (and that's with a HUGE stretch of the imagination), berating someone like that during a meeting is a) incredibly rude and b) a waste of every single person there's time and c) stupid. That info could all have gone in an email after, or privately asked about afterwords.

Sounds like he was having a shitty day or else is just an ass. BLAH!

BUT: Santa Cruz is awesome otherwise, isn't it? I lurve it soooo much down there :D

[annabeliss.livejournal.com]

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