Peace & Quiet is all I need but I can only give you bitching

I'm normally able to get the guys out and on the road by 8:30 to 9:00. Today was the exception. If you haven't read back far enough before, let me explain. Our business is owned by Partner and I, and our business partners, a married couple who we do indeed love. Partner's work partner 'A' had his hardrive die a few weeks ago and I dealt with the whole de-install, ship it back & reinstall, but just haven't had time to deal with going through the whole reload of his back up. I finally gave up and called our tech guy to come in to deal with it. Good thing I did, it was ugly.

I picked the wrong f'ing day.

Usually I'm alone in my office for 90% of the time. It is heaven. With the exception of the phone calls from customers and the guys reporting in. Normally, I have peace.

Today, Computer Guy was in to fix A's pc at 8:30. Unfortunately both Partner and A decide to hang out at the office for most of the day. So Computer Guy is working on A's machine leaving A useless and wandering about the office, prone to offer ideas on how to improve things. Lovely.

I wanted to take him out back and bludgeon him at 9:30 am.

Partner was no help. He's got his own needs and doesn't seem to recognize that you are actually working even though your sitting at a pc and not hanging duct work.

They don't seem to notice that there are multiple lines ringing on the phone and I can only really juggle two at a time.

HELLO !

I shield them from work all the time because we really have more that we can do as a company. That ends tomorrow. They'll both be out giving estimates with much more frequency next week and well into the future.

Don't mess with me - I'm the office manager, and I can make your life hell.

And by the way, get out of my office.


UPDATE: Partner has two new jobs to bid next week, and A has one, so far. There's always Friday. Now if I could just start assigning shit to the Book Keeper I'd be a happy man.