Work

So...I share an office with three other women. I have to say, I'm incredibly fortunate. The ladies I work with are wonderful, and incredibly smart. How often is it you get that much estrogen in one room without some sort of drama from time to time? I'll tell ya...not very!

Well, the office we are in used to be a hallway. They converted it to an office to add work space to increase the coding staff at the hospital here. They still need to add to the staff some, but that's beside the point right now.

Since the office used to be a hallway, there are TWO speakers in the ceiling for the intercom system. Those damn things get LOUD, depending on the person who is paging over the system. It's so loud, that we have to pause our conversations in the office, which is really a nuisance when we're asking each other for advice. And heaven forbid we should be on the phone. I was in the middle of a phone conversation today when somebody started paging over the intercom, and had to apologetically ask the person to hold because I couldn't hear what he was telling me.

About three weeks ago, someone from the maintenance department was in our office checking on something else, and I asked him about disabling the intercom in our office. Most offices don't have speakers, so I didn't really see any need for us to have them. He kinda laughed me off...guess he thought I was kidding. A day or two later, our supervisor was in our office talking to us about something. The intercom went off, loudly, and her eyes got big. I asked her that day about putting in a work order to disable it. She sort of hemmed and hawed, and again, laughed me off. I don't know why people think I'm kidding about this crap.

Last week, we had a bit of an impromptu meeting in our office. For some reason, our office tends to be the gathering place when our supervisor wants to get everybody together. Again, the intercom went off, and one of our other coworkers who isn't usually in our office said something about it. I said that I had said something to two different people about it. Right about that time, our supervisor walked in, and I mentioned it to her again. She said "yeah, I need to make a call about that." Ya think?

Today, Maintenance was in our office to see about disabling the speakers. Lesson learned...if we want something done, make the request in front of everybody.

Oh well...at least something good has come of my experience in this hellhole. My coworkers will have one less aggravation to deal with.