Have you ever been having a pretty good day, getting work accomplished, feeling like things are going well, and then WHAM some crap hits you like a truck and destroys your good productive mood?
I got down to job 2 early this morning. The early train was actually on time and even a little ahead of schedule (if you can believe it). I sent some emails and made some copies for my meeting later day. Then I went and entered a bunch of grades in the computer lab. I got an email from the secretary that the food for the meeting had arrived, so I went to get it. We bring the food down to the computer lab and the computer tech guy is there and barks at us "what are you doing? what's going on?" I tell him that I have a meeting in there later today at 2pm and he grumbles that he had planned to work in there all day. I mentioned that I just needed to put a couple of things on the computers for the class and he gets really mean and yells "and just how are you going to do that? you don't have adminstrative authority. only I can put things on the computers, we don't want other people doing that." I try to be apologetic and say that I didn't know. And now I just feel like crying. It was really embarassing being yelled at in front of the secretary and the professor I'll be working with, and there was no reason the computer tech guy had to be so mean. And now I don't know what to do about the big file I need to put on the computers. I'm afraid that if I just wait until the computer guy's not around, he'll find it and come yell at me some more, but the students can't do the lab I planned without that file on the computer. And of course our meeting is scheduled to be in the lab and if the computer guy is in there I can't really talk about this file without him knowing and so on. Now I feel sick to my stomach and crushed and incompetent.
Comments (4)
You are not incompetent! computer guy was having a bad day, or is just a grouchy computer guy. can you burn the files to a cd for the students? or maybe you can post it on a server somewhere and have them download it? (I know you said it was big, so maybe not)
just think about Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy, from Saturday Night Live. That's what that dude is being like, and it's lame.
(And I can say this because I'm a computer girl sometimes!)
Hope your day gets better!
Posted by Carrie | January 31, 2007 12:32 PM
Posted on January 31, 2007 12:32
Yeah! You're not incompetent! And you *should* mention the file at the meeting, because it needs to go on the computers, and if he's not letting you install it, he needs to do it. Now!
Posted by Cordelia | January 31, 2007 2:24 PM
Posted on January 31, 2007 14:24
A strong woman never lets a man intimidate her. Don't let a computer geek get you down. Many men still try to intimidate women - don't let it happen to you! If you do, it will be hard to succeed in the working world. Women don't have it as easy as men.
Posted by Cheryl | January 31, 2007 4:17 PM
Posted on January 31, 2007 16:17
Computer guy sounds like a jerk. You have NEVER come across as incompetent!!! I hope things got better. Don't forget how well the conference went - reinforcers are not that common, so value the ones you get. :)
Posted by Terby | January 31, 2007 5:37 PM
Posted on January 31, 2007 17:37