First day of the new semester, and everything's already gone straight to hell. Let's consider for a moment the fact that my department relies on me to keep eight websites running, and that I also provide administrative support to the dance department, and that I also provide administrative support to another academic department. Let us also consider the fact that in the past two weeks, I have racked up 10 hours in overtime and have still not managed to get everything done. Add to the mix the fact that I have to design four posters for upcoming campus events, none of which I have been able to get done yet, and that they all need to be completed by tomorrow. Let's also talk about the part where I get paid a pissdrop $12.50 an hour for being a goddam web developer and graphic designer. Now, when I stock the copier outside my office with toner cartridges, and put a note on the fucking toner box (on a lime green sheet of paper, no less, pasted on all six sides of the box (top and bottom included) that essentially says, "hey. if the fucking machine runs out of toner and you use the last of these toner cartridges, let katy know so she can bloody well order more" and then the toner runs out, and no one tells me, and then it's the first day of classes and the fucking machine runs out of toner, and there are angry primadonna professors running around like this fact is the end of life on this planet, my boss deigns to send me a scathing email "reminding" me of my "responsibilities to this office." I'm thinking that perhaps she should consider the fact that I have singlehandedly turned every goddam print piece and web site that comes out of this office from a pathetic piece-of-shit waste of paper and/or server space into something that actually looks professional and befitting of a large university. Double-majored B.A. from a prestigious college, self-taught myself shitloads of computer programming, self-taught knowledge of graphic design, and I get slapped for a fucking copy machine. I am positively livid (in case that wasn't apparent).
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