Working troubles

The past 2 days have been terrible. My boss is out of town and of course things tend to go wrong when the boss is away. Our internet was down yesterday for 45 minutes, during which no one in our office could work. During that time I was on the phone with technical support for our fabulous ISP. Is it a requirement that the technical support people be complete dickheads? It seems everytime that I have to call technical support for anything, the person is a complete jerk. Is your computer turned on? As a matter of fact it is, you moron! They assume that we are all idiots. While I tend to agree that there are lots of idiots out there, for the most part I am not one. So after 45 minutes on the phone with technical support jack*ss unplugging and replugging and disabling and enabling things on our system, I was ready to be taken out back and shot. Not to mention that while I was on the phone I hear my co-workers going crazy like little children at a birthday party. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH PEOPLE? I was already pissed that the system was down and they could not work, but hey people let's not rub it in. I am sure the boss will be thrilled to learn of the 45 minute break in the afternoon.

So I got to work this morning and my fabulous office assistant was not here. She had 2 minutes to get here before she was officially late. She called about 35 minutes later to say that she was on her way. Yeah that is what I want to hear on Friday. No excuses for being late, just that she is on her way. Let me give you a little history on her. She is a young college student, extremely irresponsible, and ungrateful. Her parents have always been there to get her out of anything that she gets into. She has been here since the end of May. She has been late more times than I care to count. She occassionally goes to lunch in the breakroom and falls asleep, for more than her hour break. I am sick and tired of her and she has really started to get on my nerves and I am really a very tolerant person. So yesterday she took an hour and 15 minutes for lunch because she fell asleep. Then this morning she was 45 minutes late. When she got here she immediately got on the phone, personal calls of course. I forgot to mention she looks like something the cat drug in and smells like she had her last drink about 10 minutes ago. Well after she had been here about 30 minutes or so she disappears into the restroom. An hour and 10 minutes later a co-worker goes to check on her. At this point I don't care if she is okay or not. So when she finally emerges from the restroom with the telltale signs of an hour nap on her face, I told her to go home and call the boss on Monday. If he does not fire her it will be a miracle. As far as I am concerned she is already gone. I just don't want to work with someone who doesn't give a damn about their job. You know anyone that needs an office job, I am hiring again!