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i got yelled at at work!

my first time!

i'm so thrilled. i feel like i've been inducted.

basically, we (my office) is the "admin" and we have "professional staff" who are the advisors - counsellors of sorts for the students. they have these things called "accomodations" which are the special things they get when they do their tests at the service, like extra time, breaks, etc. the advisors meet with the students, fill out a form of their accomodations, and give it to us to enter on the database.

(**i think that the advisors should enter the accomodations into the computer database themselves, but some are a little...dinosauric and are afraid of technology. you know the type. the office luddites who think that computers are inherently evil and will eat data and make photocopiers obsolete. heaven forbid we should stop the paper trail.**)

anyhoo, these accomodations expire and the students have to meet with their advisors to get them renewed. the database, and the paper files, tell us if they are expired. i contacted a student to tell her that this was the case, and for her to contact her advisor.

so the advisor STORMS into the office and starts shrieking wanting to know WHY this student was contacted when her form PLAINLY states that they are NOT expired and DON'T LOOK AT THE COMPUTER, and we're just making more work for ourselves and now she's got THREE students lined up THINKING that their accomodations have expired.

my co-worker took the blame as i sat in awe of this torrent.

after the advisor left, my supervisor looked at the file and lo and behold, they DID expire. but it would really be no use to tell said advisor, since she'd just blame us for losing the updated form anyhow.

moral of the story - i didn't cry!

no, REAL moral of the story - DINOSAURS ARE, LIKE, SO EXTINCT, and COMPUTERS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD.