my job, so glamorous
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edenfallingAssorted work tasks from the past two days:
1. Yesterday I finished the updated floor plans for the 5th floor of Building 1 AND finished the updated floor plans for Building 2. I am not sure if I my next floor plan task should be cleaning up the last straggler apartment plans for Building 1 or working on floor key plans for Building 3.
...When I put it that way, I think I will finish Building 1 before I begin tackling Building 3, because I will undoubtedly have to do some individual apartment tweaking in Building 3 as I go along. (The previous employee who built our existing apartment floor plans for Building 3 used the 3rd floor as a template, which is fine for that floor and the 2nd floor, but produces significant discrepancies for the 1st and 4th floors. I have fixed some of those issues, but I'm dead sure more remain to bite me.)
2. Returned to my key inventory project. Today I spent only a little time actually inventorying keys, because I spent about an hour rationalizing the key storage system for Building 4. Whoever set up the storage system for that building decided (gods only know why) that all keys for each apartment should hang from a single label tab, by means of a central key ring with a bunch of subsidiary rings attached to it. This put A LOT OF WEIGHT on an individual break point, and also created a thicket of tangled metal that was nearly impossible to catalogue or count.
Also also none of our other keys were set up like that, so from the bottom of my heart, I would like to ask my predecessors what the actual fuck they were thinking.
Anyway, I dug up some old plastic label tabs and spent some time separating keys into "apartment A," "mailbox A," "apartment A bedroom 1," "apartment A bedroom 2," and so on. Then each apartment got its main key hung on a single hook (with the mailbox keys on a subsidiary ring because they are small and light), and the bedroom keys hung by their individual label tabs on the next hook over.
I had to move a few other things around, but that entire rack of keys is now much more legible and also FAR less likely to have a plastic label tap crack from excessive weight and spill keys all over the floor.
3. This morning Ms. Rise-and-Shine called me (she was working from home on account of ongoing medical issues) to ask me to type a printout into MS Word so Company Owner could edit it. I looked at the document, and it was the same exact file that Company Owner kept me late last Thursday to convert from a PDF to a Word doc. Apparently he forgot I'd done that and also somehow managed to lose the file in his bizarrely organized computer.
I dug up my email with the converted file and forwarded it to Ms. Rise-and-Shine so she could double-check that no formatting had been lost in the conversion. She then forwarded the Word doc back to Company Owner and asked me to tell him to check his email when he came into the office around 3pm, which I did.
Company Owner desperately needs a full-time personal assistant to keep him on track, but fat chance of that ever happening. *sigh*
4. Tonight I moved four tax returns from "missing documents" to "as soon as you give me your direct deposit information I can upload this," but alas, I wasn't able to actually finish anything. Hopefully tomorrow all the clients in question will have replied to my messages!
1. Yesterday I finished the updated floor plans for the 5th floor of Building 1 AND finished the updated floor plans for Building 2. I am not sure if I my next floor plan task should be cleaning up the last straggler apartment plans for Building 1 or working on floor key plans for Building 3.
...When I put it that way, I think I will finish Building 1 before I begin tackling Building 3, because I will undoubtedly have to do some individual apartment tweaking in Building 3 as I go along. (The previous employee who built our existing apartment floor plans for Building 3 used the 3rd floor as a template, which is fine for that floor and the 2nd floor, but produces significant discrepancies for the 1st and 4th floors. I have fixed some of those issues, but I'm dead sure more remain to bite me.)
2. Returned to my key inventory project. Today I spent only a little time actually inventorying keys, because I spent about an hour rationalizing the key storage system for Building 4. Whoever set up the storage system for that building decided (gods only know why) that all keys for each apartment should hang from a single label tab, by means of a central key ring with a bunch of subsidiary rings attached to it. This put A LOT OF WEIGHT on an individual break point, and also created a thicket of tangled metal that was nearly impossible to catalogue or count.
Also also none of our other keys were set up like that, so from the bottom of my heart, I would like to ask my predecessors what the actual fuck they were thinking.
Anyway, I dug up some old plastic label tabs and spent some time separating keys into "apartment A," "mailbox A," "apartment A bedroom 1," "apartment A bedroom 2," and so on. Then each apartment got its main key hung on a single hook (with the mailbox keys on a subsidiary ring because they are small and light), and the bedroom keys hung by their individual label tabs on the next hook over.
I had to move a few other things around, but that entire rack of keys is now much more legible and also FAR less likely to have a plastic label tap crack from excessive weight and spill keys all over the floor.
3. This morning Ms. Rise-and-Shine called me (she was working from home on account of ongoing medical issues) to ask me to type a printout into MS Word so Company Owner could edit it. I looked at the document, and it was the same exact file that Company Owner kept me late last Thursday to convert from a PDF to a Word doc. Apparently he forgot I'd done that and also somehow managed to lose the file in his bizarrely organized computer.
I dug up my email with the converted file and forwarded it to Ms. Rise-and-Shine so she could double-check that no formatting had been lost in the conversion. She then forwarded the Word doc back to Company Owner and asked me to tell him to check his email when he came into the office around 3pm, which I did.
Company Owner desperately needs a full-time personal assistant to keep him on track, but fat chance of that ever happening. *sigh*
4. Tonight I moved four tax returns from "missing documents" to "as soon as you give me your direct deposit information I can upload this," but alas, I wasn't able to actually finish anything. Hopefully tomorrow all the clients in question will have replied to my messages!
