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i work in one of the most dysfunctional offices.

really. i'm not just saying this because i dislike my job. i'm saying this because it's true.

for one, we do everything different than industry standard but we still try to claim it's industry standard. like our contract system. it's standard to have a 3 yr agreement with your monitoring company in our field, BUT our company NEVER enforces the contracts (or actually, we randomly enforce them... meaning, some customers are held accountable, and others aren't).

for two, i am in charge of collections, but i have no control. i want to disconnect an account for non-payment? nope, not gonna happen. my boss will override any decision i make, and tell me to spend countless gruelling hours calling these shit heads for payment. over the last year we haven't received a payment from some customers? oh well. continue calling for another year. we don't want to lose our delusional idea of "potential" customers!

for three, theres 2 employees, really. me and the scheduling/billing girl (she gets title--assistant office manager). the boss/president is here, but i really only feel shes here to enforce our duties to make sure we're not burning the building down and chanting demonic codes for lunacy. she just sits on facebook and talks about her husband, or her court case.

for four, the other employee has been out for a week, and i have been looking through her endless stacks of papers. these aren't meaningless papers, either. and i've looked through the calendar and she hasn't been billing regularly since SEPTEMBER. um, so where do you think your paycheck comes from? my collection ass? seriously. BILL BILL BILL. i have spent my last 2 days here by myself, as everyone is sick, billing away. i've billed at least 5k in jobs. hopefully we get paid but the standard is, if you wait longer than a week to bill for completed services, your chances of getting paid get slimmer and slimmer by the minute.

oh, and how i really found this out is the co only had $300 in the bank this morning when i came in, so i knew something was wrong....

i also have tons of disconnection notices from vendors--our cell phone co, our telephone co, TAX LICENSING?!?!, all of which are saying we haven't been paying.

is anyone in here paying attention and really give a shit about their job except for ME??????

ah well. whatever. i guess i get more hours now, since it seems im the only one prioritizing my work, and doing what is really important: GETTING OUR MONEY OUT OF THESE SCUM. seriously. i HATE customers who don't pay their fucking bills--and these people are all basically MILLIONAIRES, they can afford to pay $25 a month. greed.

"I think single folks without kids definitely get the shitty end of the stick when it comes to leave entitlement particularly and life generally."

I think anyone who says this doesn't know what it's like to be around kids 24-7.... Its REALLY EFFIN HARD. At least for me.

Bryan has the stomach flu. I think I have the swine flu. Or maybe he has the swine flu and it just looks like the swine flu-as it made me vomit too but not as much as him.... I sure hope he has whatever I have because, um, I don't want to be sick AGAIN kay??

And I have finals next week, so this couldn't have happened at a more convenient time @.@

Oh and Bella is teething and she's driving me mad. I can't stand to be around her. I would normally ship her off to my mom's but... well, with everyone in my house being sick i don't want to spread these diseases around more than I have to with work & school, and such.

Anyways that is what is going on with me. I'm still alive... Just nothing new has happened and anything that has happened lately has been so shitty I would feel bad burdening you with it.

Yes, this blog is just the gloss on the entire life of me at the moment. I am so busy as well, I don't even have time to do anything for myself. This sucks.

:(