Last Day at Work
Feb. 2nd, 2012 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebYesterday was my last day at work. My favorite part was sending out this e-mail to everyone in the office:
I never got around to making the cookies I had fantasized about making, so it was just bagels and chips. But that was enough to justify the e-mail.
I also enjoyed wearing all black (except for the red flowers on my black socks).
My least favorite part of the day was at 4:00 when I was told that the canceled 4:00 meeting was back on but my desk was still a huge mess. Fortunately, the meeting lasted only 15 minutes, and I still had time to clean some more.
Too many things were left unfinished, but I knew that would happen. That's part of why I left--there was never time to finish everything. But I got all my computer files moved to the intranet where they are accessible, and they are all in logical places there, and all but two small sets are fully filed in their proper places.
I also cleaned my desk. This is saying something considering that I had one of those nice L-shaped cubicle desks (big) and that much of it was covered in a one-foot-high pile of papers. There were a lot of old reports that had become superseded by newer reports, so those were easy. And there were lots of problems or confusions that I had been hoping to solve when I first covered them with the next layer of things, but after having gone uninvestigated so long, it was easy to officially give up on anyone ever doing so. I never ever want another job where I don't have time to catch up on everything on a regular basis (and with the cycle of the regularity being at least once a month, though ideally once a day). Well, but I will be wanting an income again, so we'll see what happens.
I accidentally left my sweater in the file cabinet, but I'm prepared to just lose that, though if I happen to be on campus in the next month (which could happen because of the awesome library but which might not because I would love an extended break from waiting for buses for a million years), then I will see if it's still there.
All evening I had a smile plastered on my face. At the mall where I met my friends for walking, one of the security guards was watching me much more closely than I am usually watched. My head may have been tilting from side to side while I was smiling, though at that point I was not also skipping.
Dear Staff,
Someone has left snacks on the table in front of Denise’s office. Illicit snacks. On a non-party day. The person who committed this heinous act should not be allowed to return to the office after today. Also, the snacks should be confiscated.
Yours,
Debbie
I never got around to making the cookies I had fantasized about making, so it was just bagels and chips. But that was enough to justify the e-mail.
I also enjoyed wearing all black (except for the red flowers on my black socks).
My least favorite part of the day was at 4:00 when I was told that the canceled 4:00 meeting was back on but my desk was still a huge mess. Fortunately, the meeting lasted only 15 minutes, and I still had time to clean some more.
Too many things were left unfinished, but I knew that would happen. That's part of why I left--there was never time to finish everything. But I got all my computer files moved to the intranet where they are accessible, and they are all in logical places there, and all but two small sets are fully filed in their proper places.
I also cleaned my desk. This is saying something considering that I had one of those nice L-shaped cubicle desks (big) and that much of it was covered in a one-foot-high pile of papers. There were a lot of old reports that had become superseded by newer reports, so those were easy. And there were lots of problems or confusions that I had been hoping to solve when I first covered them with the next layer of things, but after having gone uninvestigated so long, it was easy to officially give up on anyone ever doing so. I never ever want another job where I don't have time to catch up on everything on a regular basis (and with the cycle of the regularity being at least once a month, though ideally once a day). Well, but I will be wanting an income again, so we'll see what happens.
I accidentally left my sweater in the file cabinet, but I'm prepared to just lose that, though if I happen to be on campus in the next month (which could happen because of the awesome library but which might not because I would love an extended break from waiting for buses for a million years), then I will see if it's still there.
All evening I had a smile plastered on my face. At the mall where I met my friends for walking, one of the security guards was watching me much more closely than I am usually watched. My head may have been tilting from side to side while I was smiling, though at that point I was not also skipping.
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