A Rant

So I'm technically on vacation right now...but that doesn't mean that I haven't been doing work every single day since I left the office. Actually, I had to go into the office last Friday and I'm going to have to go in this afternoon too...so you can't really call it a vacation. Why do I have to keep going into work? Well, that would be because it appears that I'm not just doing my own job anymore. Nope. I'm now doing the work of my own position plus TWO other heads of departments' jobs as well. To say that it's getting on my nerves is a serious understatement.

See that picture? Substitute me for that guy (and give him a MacBook) and that would have been what I wanted to do about 10 minutes ago. Instead, I turn to my blog to rant about how unbelievably frustrating it is to be the one forced to pick up the pieces when other people aren't doing their job correctly.

Perhaps the problem is that I care too much? Knowing that a new student is going to be in a difficult situation if I don't do someone else's job is too much for me - I can't just ignore it. So my poor mother hears me yell and complain on the phone...my dog anxiously jumps up on my leg because she can't understand why I'm literally banging my head against the table...and I'm left with a pissed off attitude that I can't shake and which will ultimately ruin my entire day.

I end my little rant with this statement: I didn't sign up for this crap and I sure as hell am not getting paid enough to compensate for the headache that my job has become.