Personal Space

I don't know about most of you but I know I really hate it when my personal space is invaded. I'll explain, when I'm behind my desk working, sometimes various people will come to my desk because they need to find a certain work ticket that I am entering. I have all the folders of tickets on my desk so people will have access to them if they need them. I truly hate it when some one needs one and they come around my desk and stand behind it, right beside me, like 6 inches away for like 10 or 15 minutes!!!! So now I can't really do any work because they are totally invading my work space and I'm distracted and agitated because they are in my personal space. It's even worse when they are wearing some really stinky old ladyish perfume to top it all off. Don't get me wrong I'm not totally standoffish, I like hugs and being close.....but to a very select few people, not stinky co-workers I barely know!! And some of them, one in particular, don't ever seem to get the hint that they are interrupting my work and it would be nice if they just took the files back to their own desk or anywhere else to look through them there. I try to make suggestions to people, but in this office you have to be soooo damn careful how you talk to people because 9 times out of 10 they will take things the wrong way. I can't even get up and leave my desk while they are there because I cover the phones here. I have to think of some way to avoid this dilemma before it drives me bonkers, lol.

Why This Blog?

Ok, I finally have some time here so I'll explain the purpose of this blog.

I currently work for Flint Energy Servies as a receptionist The office I work in is a decent size for this areas, there are about 40 people in the main building. The biggest problem here is that too many of these people are women.....and they all treat eachother like sh#t. The tattling, the gossiping, the cliques....your basic grade school playground behavior. The worst part? It's allowed to happen ....it's even rewarded!!! You'd think in an office this small something would be done about it. My boss, the office admin supervisor (or Mrs. Doubtfire as some of us call her, she is also referred to as "The Warden") is a 64 year old cranky old bag. She is very set in her ways, everything has to be absolutly perfect. She has all her little "pets" that come to her with all their little tattlings, and then they get their cookie or pat on the head or whatever it is that they get and next thing you know your being called up to the office over some petty little thing.

That's really just part of the frustration of working in this office. I was tired of ranting about it on my regular blog, so I decided to create a whole new blog for all my work related rants. Any of you out there who work in a similar office or have worked in an office in the past will know exactly what I'm talking about here. SO feel free to share your rants about work as well.. We all need to get this stuff off of our chests and really there's only so much our significant other or family wants to listen to, lol. So rant away my fellow office workers!! We are all part of "Office Hell".