When you've been bored out of your mind for the past six hours, with nobody even asking you for so much as a photocopy, and are approached at 4:55 p.m. with something that needs to be done immediately:
When somebody is coughing and sneezing and really should just go the hell home already:
When the email comes in that _____________ (insert name from above), will be out sick today:
When you've spent the past three hours copying and pasting text from a PDF into a Word document and fixing all the words that came over like this: I !0\/e My j0b..`\ And you are finally finished:
Only to have them tell you, "Never mind, we didn't actually need that."
And then later, when the initial rage has passed and you realize that yes, this is really your career:
When you've worked here for 10 years and somebody asks you, in all seriousness, if you know how to fax/fed ex/scan something:
The few seconds after someone with an absolutely ridiculous name calls in and you're debating how in the hell you're going to announce it over the PA system:
And that moment when you realize it's 5:00 on a Friday (even if we don't get Columbus Day off):
See ya.
