dianaschnuth

So, according to our boss, we can take our sick/personal days off as “mental health days” if we so choose.

Today, however, I called off for a “menstrual health day.”

OMG. I’ve never had to call off work because of cramps before. When I woke up at 7am this morning, I’d slept for maybe three or four hours, thanks to wracking fists of death in my girlie parts. I was exhausted and still in pain and ended up leaving a voicemail for my boss saying I wouldn’t be in today.

I then proceeded to sleep off and on until 1:00pm. Took some Midol, ate some lunch. I feel *much* better now.

So, I didn’t diabolically plan to have a four-day weekend… but I’ve got one now. w00t?

It?s nice working at the bank sometimes. When I get bored or distracted (and don?t want to go on the intarweb for fear of getting fired for unauthorized internet usage), I can open up my checking account and see all the checks that have cleared today. For instance, I know that my candle supply order should be filled soon, because my PayPal payment went through today. I can also tell that Snapfish tends to process my film and upload it before they even cash my check. My incessant peeking at my account also helps remind me to write all my debits in my checkbook.

So, I guess this job?s good for something besides semi-annual incentive pay and free premier checking.

I’ve been saving this gem in My Documents folder at work for a year and a half now, just because it was amusing to me. Finally, as I was looking through my files today while work was slow, I decided to zip this and send it to myself at home so I could post it:

Hopefully I’m not violating some sort of confidentiality something-or-other by posting a screenshot of our intranet. I just thought the main story title was amusingly ironic. Don’tcha think?

So, for the past week or two at work, I?ve been hunting down information on a particular account so I could complete a request that was sent to our department. I spoke with half a dozen departments to locate the file I needed, and no one knew where it was. Finally, I got an e-mail yesterday that said that the file I needed was MIA, so I had to jump through even more procedural hoops to complete this request I had sitting on my desk. I ended up getting special permission to bend the rules for this particular request, since the documentation I needed just wasn?t available.

I remember thinking, ?Damn, I should totally get a Gotcha! Card for this.?

Surprisingly enough, I just did. It?s good to know that my efforts aren?t going completely unnoticed.