Andrew left to go home for Christmas. I am now alone with the dog, and I have to be at work today and tomorrow.
Today and tomorrow are the perfect representatives of "corporate machine."
I have NOTHING to do, not even a hint of anything to do, as all projects are suspended until the new year because the company has an annual closure the last week of December. AND YET I am required to be here 8 hours each day.
Bring your dog to work and watch him eat through the company's walls. </horrible>
He came with me yesterday and the day before. I mercifully let him stay home this time, where he can roam around and eat the walls of the apartment, rather than dragging him into my office where he is tied to a chair and gets to watch people walk by but never play.
How else are they supposed to suck your soul and keep on schedule?
What schedule?
Seriously. It's going to take 1-2 weeks to get started in January. My tasks for this week (week, mind you): label the 10 chairs as belonging to the marketing department and get them up off the floor so the cleaning crew can shampoo the carpets over break.
I'm sure that requires 32 hours of manpower.
<_<
This is why I have trouble insisting on higher pay, even though it is rather low for my job description: how on earth can I justify a raise when they're ALREADY paying me too much to do nothing?