Overtime

At work today, I dragged aluminum cans out of the trash and into the recycling. My hands are covered in soda now and are super sticky. I'll do it all again tomorrow, of course. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, everyone in my department took today off except for me. Every single one. Not one of them thought to mention it to me and I have to cover for all of them. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, I conducted training on stress management and visualizations for relaxation. I seated the hearing impaired up front so they could read my lips. At the end of the session, they said it was hard to follow the visualization when I asked them to close their eyes. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, my wife and I were trying to improve our small resale business with new window treatments. Apparently, nobody told her how well tape measure works. We made three trips back to the store. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, our computers were down and I needed to balance some checks. First, I used a calculator. Then that broke too. Suddenly, I was adding on paper. I'm currently waiting to have to use an abacus. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, I discovered that work can be a lot like home when it comes to waiting for the cable guy. We're getting cable in our break room. The range- 1-6. My shift was supposed to end at 3. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, guys working on a telephone pole were outside our Burger King. They wear spikes on their shoes to climb the poles. Those spikes also seemed to pierce our counter seven or eight times. I'll have to repair it now. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, I decided to spend my workday categorizing all the customers we have by the way I describe them (eg, Fat Guy 4, Mustache Lady, etc). It took a while. Then I realized I had to do actual work before I left. It took half as long. i'm dumbemployed.

At work today, it felt very much like a Monday. I register potential customers at a gym. Today, they all stayed potential. They weren't sure if they could "commit" to a gym. It's 45 bucks a month people, not a marriage. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, I had to set up roach traps around the restaurant, including under some of the booths. Yes, it's as gross as it sounds. But the bad part was that I had to clean up the corpses too. Please, don't eat anywhere off of Route 45. For your own health. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, I actually requested a doubleshift, since I'm trying to pick up hours to be able to take the weekend off. My boss smiled and wrote in on the schedule. Guess when he gave me a doubleshift? Saturday. Thanks. I'm dumbemployed.

At work today, we broke through the glass ceiling and finally hired a woman to work construction. One problem: we didn't have a porta potty on our construction site for her. That meant I was stuck spending half an hour tracking one down. I miss the glass ceiling. I'm dumbemployed.