A week without Pecker

I wait in complete anticipation for weeks like this week.

Pecker is out of the office and on the road. It only happens every six weeks so next week the next count down will begin. It’s not that I hate him, feel like he’s a horrid human being (though I have heard from others that he is indeed a horrid human being), or anything like that. It’s just that he’s beyond fucking annoying.

The way he answers the phone, the way he’s constantly spelling out his name (which is one of the easiest names of our department to understand he does not NEED to do it), and how fucking LOUD he is. HIS VOICE BOOMS across the entire department. If anyone around his area is on the phone he gets event LOUDER, as if he has to talk over them too! He already talks over the people he is on the phone to… it’s just an everyday aggravation. And now that we have all shifted cubicles thanks to a layout change… I’m even CLOSER to the source of the annoying noise that is his voice.

I’m just overall irritated by him.

But when he’s gone…. And the office is silent…. I hear other shit going on that pissed me the fuck off. Now, I’m not MODEL employee. But I get my work done, I don’t keep others from getting theirs done, and I’m nice to everyone. And yet, these women bug the living SHIT out of me. They come in at 7 am so they can leave early at 4. Phones are on from 8-5. So while the rest of us are here during that time and a little longer they get to be off the phones for a total of two hours every. Damn. Day. The rest of us work 730-5 or even 7-5 so that ONE day a week we can come in late or leave early…. These women, who are the RECEPTIONISTS, IE THE PEOPLE YOU SEE WHEN YOU WALK INTO OUR SECTION… are GONE for the last hour of the day. When they are here in the morning… they are sitting the aisle between their desk CHATTING. No work being done. I came in a few times at 7 to get work done before Pecker got in so I could work in the silence… but no, those two are chatting it up for up to an hour some days!!!! None of the bosses are here til almost 830 and they do knock it off once an authority figure gets here. But how fucking rude. You see that I’m back here WORKING and you’re seriously going to sit there and chat about someone’s wedding. You take fucking break together, which they should not since someone needs to man the front desk, talk about it then! ON TOP of them talking I have a ditz on the other side of my cubicle wall who will chat with Pecker and call her sister to talk and then her son to give him the weather report. I don’t think she even does WORK until 9 am… but she’ll be here at 7 so she can leave at 4… more time off the phones.

I’m just a little pissy today. Cause it seems like everyone is getting away with shit and my manager who I love dearly does not seem to want to lay down the law and enforce that this shit needs to stop. Get to fucking WORK. I realize we’re all state employees and work is not synonymous with that… but c’mon. There are three more of us here that answer the phones, work, get our shit done, and still have to make up for your lack of work… and it’s bullshit. I don’t get paid enough for this crap.

Thinking of switching over to the DOT since they’re actually honest about the little amount of work they do.