The People Where I Work

[Mesha]

Since it's been awhile...

I thought I'd give an update of all the people you've 'met' already...

Teresa #2 has so much stuff at her desk now that we call her Wal*Mart.
Teresa #1 is engaged. Puke.
Paul is still hot.
Melissa's hair still looks the same.
Elwood wears pants more often, but now, every time he does, he also wears a cowboy hat.
Connie comes to visit so often that she might as well still work here.
Sissy has not gotten any younger.
Clarina is still pretty darn cool.
Crystal's heart no longer belongs to the boy bands... she doesn't even listen to the radio anymore.
Shirley does not work here anymore.
I still don't know what Patricia is saying.
Sydney still = sassy. She has recently become my personal advice columnist... she's great.
Scott doesn't work here anymore.
Richard is still a weirdo. He has a new girlfriend... I would love to hear some of the conversations on those dates...
Dr. Sowers has not grown.
We lost one crazy temp and got a new, crazier temp.
Mike is writing a movie script. It is not about The Bumble Bee Guy, thank goodness.
Jennifer is still our little investigative reporter... It's kind of fun to listen to her go on sometimes.

Today is the last day that I have to avoid Roseanne. Tomorrow is her last day here, but I'm off, so THIS IS IT!!


Coming soon: Charlie.

 

[Mesha]

Charlie

I'm not really sure what this guy's job is... I have never seen his office and I don't know his job title. He brings the doughnuts on Fridays and he yells at people. That's about all I have ever seen him do.

As a general rule, employees are not supposed to use the front entrance to the building. There are four employee entrances that require the use of security-swipe-card-things. One day someone forgot their card-thing and so they went to use the front door. Charlie happened to be in the lobby and saw them coming up the front walkway. He got up and held the door shut... When the person was pulling on the door, Charlie started yelling 'No employees can use this door! None!'. (My desk is right by the lobby so I had an excellent seat for all of this...). The poor girl that was trying to get in tried to tell him that she didn't have a card-thing with her but he just kept yelling 'No!! No employees through this door!'. Eventually the girl gave up and had to wait for someone to let her in through one of the other doors. Not long after that Charlie had a buzzer-type-thing installed so that the door stays locked and the receptionist has to buzz people in... Charlie reminds whoever is at the front desk every single day not to buzz employees through that door.

He's always asking people if they are cold. He'll come up to the lobby and ask the receptionist and he'll ask people in the hallways. I was covering the front desk one day and I was on the phone when Charlie came and stood in front of the desk. He waited until the conversation was over and then as soon as the phone was down, he blurts out 'Are you cold? You must be. Are you really cold?'. And it's not like he ever does anything about it if it is cold in the building... he just asks.