Yes, it was radishes (and more red peppers) and a 3 Musketeers. Today was that kind of day. Thankfully all the annoyances were minor, but they were still annoyances and therefore, you know, ANNOYING.
I catalog books, and the books I work with are brought up from another department and placed on my incoming shelves. There are four of them. There is a new shipment every Thursday. I don’t usually get all four shelves cleared off each week, but that’s not a big deal because the weekly shipment is not very large. Just 100 books. So last week I cleared off one shelf and about 1/3 of a second shelf. I’ve been doing it this way for months (years, actually), and one empty shelf is almost always all they need. If that! So it should be plenty of room for the incoming shipment, right? Only I got an email on Friday from the person in charge of bringing up my books, saying that there wasn’t enough room and if there isn’t going to be enough room would I please inform her ahead of the shipment so she doesn’t waste her time. The whole thing was kind of snarky, I thought[1]. I replied that there was an empty shelf plus part of a second shelf, is that not enough space? Apparently not! She wrote me back, saying that this last shipment was extra large, because it contained a bunch of multi-volume sets.
Do you see anything wrong with this picture? If the shipment is larger than normal, shouldn’t she be warning me that she needs more shelf space than usual? And anyway, I’m not psychic! Usually one shelf is all they need for any one week’s shipment. Why would I worry about clearing off more than that if it’s not normally needed?
So I ended up emptying the entire second shelf, which she said would be sufficient. I double-checked the shelves before I left today, to see if she’d brought up the shipment. And yes, indeedy, she did. One shelf’s worth, as usual. What. The. Fuck. I give up.
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1. To be fair, maybe she wasn’t being snarky. Maybe it was all in my head. I often can’t tell with this woman whether it’s her or me.
red paper boat 