Day two of working at my Dad’s office

I just realised I never explained what my Dad does. I don’t actually know.. that well. It’s Construction Safety, site inspections.. asbestos surveys but they also do training. What I really do know is that my Dad clocks up a lot of mileage on his cars.

I already knew I’d be:
a.) Doing some laminating today
b.) Visiting Staples for office supplies.

I must first however, rant about a stupid driver this morning. No wonder women get a bad name for driving, the amount of idiotic women drivers around just make the decent female drivers such as myself, look bad.

Firstly, I should explain something about roundabouts, since I know a few readers of my blog are American, and there is a very low amount of roundabouts in America. There are usually 1/2/3 lanes leading up to a roundabout, depending on it’s size. There are usually 3 exists (at least, in my area) but there can be several more. Generally, when there are two lanes at the roundabout you take the left one to go left/any exits appearing before ‘12 o’clock’ of the roundabout, including straight ahead… at least, that is what you’re taught these days. You take the right lane for any other. When you’re approaching the lane you want when you’re going right, you indicate left and move across to the left just after the exit before the one you wish to take.
Kept up? Okay then, so here is the Roundabout where Mrs I-Need-To-Retake-Roundabouts and I ‘met’.

Red: The left lane of the three lanes at the roundabout. Clearly showing where you go when you take the left lane.
Blue: The lane I took. The lanes are clearly marked with arrrows. Going straight ahead? Take the center lane.
Yellow: The lane the stupid woman took. You take the right lane when you want to go down to Beaulieu.

Idiot woman decided to take right lane, and go to the same exit I was. So I had to slam my brakes on, and then endure that patronising look old people give you the “I am older, I’ve been driving longer, you are 20 and therefore I am right, you are wrong” look. I always forget the fact I have a horn far too late, so I just gave her my best “You suck” face and carried on.

The next roundabout, thankfully the last on my journey to the office. Woman took the left lane… which all together now… is for going left or straight ahead!
BUT NO.
While I was taking the right lane to go right into the industrial estate, she decided to go LEFT and for some random reason TURN BACK towards the first roundabout.

What a freak. Seriously.
Oh and the first roundabout incident happened again with another idiot when I returned to the office after going to Staples.

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Laminating. Is. Slow. And. Boring.

Sally, who does the First Aid training, decided to use my Dad’s new slave (me) to laminate all her newly printed worksheets, so they can be used again. Sure thing, saving the trees is good.
Sadly there must’ve been an entire tree there. I spent a total of 2.5 hours of today putting paper into laminate pockets and watching them take a minute in the laminating machine. There must’ve been well over 150 sheets of paper
I had run out of pockets about halfway through, so more pockets was added to the list of supplies to get. After I ran out of pockets I had to go clean up after the 12 men who were doing training (led by a guy who REALLY needs to let up on the aftershave, it smelt like a mens locker room on the top floor ) had finished their first break.
I once again forgot about the dishwasher, so cleaned the mugs by hand :D… nabbed a few jaffa cakes since I was too tired for breakfast this morning (HTML made me tired yesterday.. or seeing what Frontpage produces made me want to slip into a coma), made some tea and went back downstairs.

After the list was put together, I was handed the company credit card (It’s not really a huge deal ) and off I went. Took half an hour to get there since it’s a fair bit away from the office. When I got there I realised I needed a pound coin to use a trolley. Did I have one? No. So I had to lump it with a hand basket.

I REALLY wished I had a pound My poor arms. My poor back. I dropped some of it halfway up to the checkouts. Bleh. Had to get help carrying it to the car. £165 worth of office supplies.. including large flatpack storage boxes,24 binders and three 100 piece packets of laminate pockets :P… among other things.
I decided to treat myself with a yummy Cajun chicken wrap from Boots (It’s right next door to Staples) which turned out to be over 400 calories, and then gave me some wicked heartburn. Grr.

Got back.. some of it was wrong. Doh
I ate my lunch, popped open my laptop to do more of the website, chatted to Brian for a bit… then was asked to do the newsletter. Two trees. over 550 sheets of paper to be sorted into 4 page newsletters, stapled, folded into envelopes, addressed with labels (which I’d bought earlier) and stamped before the postman arrived at 3.30pm. That.. really hurt my back, because the chair I was in didn’t have an adjusted back to it, and I have this thing about needing to be sat upright. Literally I think my car seat is just a bit under a 90 degree angle
When that was done, I breathed a sigh of relief. Oh wait…

More laminating ARdmlfmds.

After laminating, more cleaning… more choking on aftershave, hoovering, wiping and refilling. Then I got to go home ^__^

That was my day. Woo. Actually looking forward to tomorrow because my Dad won’t be there Haha, I kid… but I only have one thing to do tomorrow including finishing the website which is something I actually enjoy. I have to fill in a giant calendar and then on friday I’ll be shown how to use AutoCAD to draw in lots of stuff for a final print off of the company’s training schedule for 2008. Neat.

In online news, I made this cute search graphic for the Wiki (me and Ben are vamping it up!)