I'm such an idiot sometimes!
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mandolinOkay, stupid rant ahead.
Like I said, I was MIA from work most of yesterday afternoon because of the picnic. I get an e-mail in my mailbox inviting me to a co-worker's birthday lunch "tomorrow" - which I initially take to mean today.
So I put out a request to carpool with someone willing to be back by 1 pm. I have a meeting.
Three hours pass. No one replies. Which is weird because there's always someone willing to carpool.
Bored, I check the calendar, wondering if I can run an errand beforehand or if I should forget about it.
The calendar shows it on SATURDAY.
No wonder no one replied, I figure, and decide that I might as well just go run my errands and be back to meet people at the cafeteria.
I go out. Run errand that I would have been able to leave for earlier if I knew the lunch was Saturday. Takes annoyingly longer than expected. Get back, go down to cafeteria. No one is there.
Back to my desk. I look at the calendar again.
The organizer scheduled it at 11:40 pm on Friday to 1 pm Saturday - instead of the 11:40 am - 1 pm Friday that it was supposed to be. Her retraction e-mail only said, "Oh, I meant 11:40 am," so I took it to mean 11:40 am on Saturday. (But we have never, EVER, had a birthday lunch on a Saturday. Ever. Someone with common sense would have processed this, but me? No.)
Guess where everyone was?
It was 12:30 pm when I discovered this, called her on her cell and tried to find out what was going on, came off as a bitch, then wished co-worker a happy birthday.
I now have 20 minutes to inhale my lunch and get ready for the meeting.
GAH!
I need chocolate.
(EDIT: No, wait, said meeting is Thursday. So I probably ruined the birthday lunch by causing a scene for absolutely nothing.)
I'm an idiot.
*wanders off*
Like I said, I was MIA from work most of yesterday afternoon because of the picnic. I get an e-mail in my mailbox inviting me to a co-worker's birthday lunch "tomorrow" - which I initially take to mean today.
So I put out a request to carpool with someone willing to be back by 1 pm. I have a meeting.
Three hours pass. No one replies. Which is weird because there's always someone willing to carpool.
Bored, I check the calendar, wondering if I can run an errand beforehand or if I should forget about it.
The calendar shows it on SATURDAY.
No wonder no one replied, I figure, and decide that I might as well just go run my errands and be back to meet people at the cafeteria.
I go out. Run errand that I would have been able to leave for earlier if I knew the lunch was Saturday. Takes annoyingly longer than expected. Get back, go down to cafeteria. No one is there.
Back to my desk. I look at the calendar again.
The organizer scheduled it at 11:40 pm on Friday to 1 pm Saturday - instead of the 11:40 am - 1 pm Friday that it was supposed to be. Her retraction e-mail only said, "Oh, I meant 11:40 am," so I took it to mean 11:40 am on Saturday. (But we have never, EVER, had a birthday lunch on a Saturday. Ever. Someone with common sense would have processed this, but me? No.)
Guess where everyone was?
It was 12:30 pm when I discovered this, called her on her cell and tried to find out what was going on, came off as a bitch, then wished co-worker a happy birthday.
I now have 20 minutes to inhale my lunch and get ready for the meeting.
GAH!
I need chocolate.
(EDIT: No, wait, said meeting is Thursday. So I probably ruined the birthday lunch by causing a scene for absolutely nothing.)
I'm an idiot.
*wanders off*
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Date: 2004-10-01 12:46 pm (UTC)