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more fun at work
Sep. 29th, 2011 07:15 pmThings were going swimmingly today, despite an idiocy with the weekly statement*, until I went downstairs to bring up tobacco, half-and-half, and some other coffee supplies... and discovered that the junk room was partially flooded.
Ick.
PM thinks it's a leak from a sewer pipe that has caused problems before -- and the standing water certainly smells rank -- but the workman who came in to take a look at the situation said he couldn't find evidence of the water falling from above, and wondered if it might not be groundwater seeping up from below... which would actually be very possible, since Ithaca got drenched last night. (Cascadilla Creek was running two feet higher than normal when I walked in to work this morning, just a seething brown roaring rush that had battered down and covered almost all the scrub and grasses that line the edges of its concrete channel.)
Hopefully the workmen will identify the source of the water and fix it tomorrow.
*The problem with the statement is that last week, someone at the office misread a shortage form as an overage and charged us when they should have credited us. I asked to have the error fixed on the next statement, and it was. The logical next step is to then credit us for the original shortage, right? WRONG. The office does not work by your puny earth logic. I wrote a rude note about that, thought better of it, and wrote a polite note that should, I trust, still get the point across and get the credit onto next week's statement.
Every time I think, "Oh, we've had four weeks without errors on the statements; maybe they've finally learned!" something egregiously stupid will show up on the next one and I have to start the cycle of corrections all over again. It never fails. *sigh*
Ick.
PM thinks it's a leak from a sewer pipe that has caused problems before -- and the standing water certainly smells rank -- but the workman who came in to take a look at the situation said he couldn't find evidence of the water falling from above, and wondered if it might not be groundwater seeping up from below... which would actually be very possible, since Ithaca got drenched last night. (Cascadilla Creek was running two feet higher than normal when I walked in to work this morning, just a seething brown roaring rush that had battered down and covered almost all the scrub and grasses that line the edges of its concrete channel.)
Hopefully the workmen will identify the source of the water and fix it tomorrow.
*The problem with the statement is that last week, someone at the office misread a shortage form as an overage and charged us when they should have credited us. I asked to have the error fixed on the next statement, and it was. The logical next step is to then credit us for the original shortage, right? WRONG. The office does not work by your puny earth logic. I wrote a rude note about that, thought better of it, and wrote a polite note that should, I trust, still get the point across and get the credit onto next week's statement.
Every time I think, "Oh, we've had four weeks without errors on the statements; maybe they've finally learned!" something egregiously stupid will show up on the next one and I have to start the cycle of corrections all over again. It never fails. *sigh*
