
So I've got this job working for
Temple Hospital but it's not actually at the hospital it's down on City Line Ave. across from
Presidential. It's just a little office job doing filing and plugging things into excel spreadsheets. But for the most part I actually don't really do anything at all. I spend most of my time watching
movie trailers, reading
news articles and reading
opinion pieces from the liberal perspective as to reinfornce my own ideas and opinions. Mondays are the hardest because it's the only day that I'm actually in the office for a whole day. I usually stroll in late, around noonish I'd say, and if my boss isn't there I fill in my timesheet that I got here at 11. At that time I go get a sandwich from the deli downstairs and make it look like I'm "working through my lunch break" by eating and being on the computer at the same time. But while I'm on the computer I'm obviously watching videos and talking to people in
AIM. None the less there's a chance of actually having to do some work on Mondays because I'm there for so long that eventually someone will come over and ask me to do something for them. BUT! On Wednesdays and Fridays when I'm only in the office from 3:00-5:30, (or more like 3:30-4:30) people don't ask me to do things because it's the end of the day and they don't wanna do anymore work and they figure I wouldn't want to do anything either. What I realized recently is it reminds me of a
Seinfeld episode, as most things do, either the one where
Kramer keeps showing up at this office as though he works there but he doesn't at all and ends up getting "fired" from the job he never actually worked at in the first place... OR it reminds me of the one when
George goes for a job interview and isn't sure whether he got the job or not so he just starts showing up at the job, sitting in an office, waiting til 5 and then leaving. But along the way he's invited to various office celebrations with free food that he gladly partakes in. What's been happening here a lot lately is like I show up and screw around on the computer for an hour and then someone comes over and says "Maura it's
such and such's birthday, come over and have some cake" and I say suuuure... Last week there was an office meeting that had leftover sandwiches that I was invited to eat; just felt so funny to me to be invited to partake in these things when I come here 3 days a week and litterally do nothing at all! Yet everyone always thinks I'm doing something... I'm really sliding through the cracks of the organization here... So meanwhile, right now I'm at work and people hear me typing and assume I'm doing some task that someone at the office has given me to do, but here all along I'm just typing a blog entry. $10 an hour and a pretty sweet deal if ya ask me...