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Today was heavy on the cat-herding aspect of my job. I've got eight different eight-person committees that all have to meet before January 30. (I would have nine committees, but one's hung up waiting for somebody to agree to be on it.) Just to make it interesting, there are at least two people who are on multiple committees, and I can't have committee meetings on the day of the CAD, P&R, or SOP meetings.
Besides that, tomorrow is the January SOP meeting, which is pretty much my baby. That means that I was making 35 copies of several different documents all day when I wasn't herding cats. Of course today the copier, in its infinite wisdom, decided that it really didn't want to make more than about 7 copies at a time before the blank-paper feed got ahead of itself and decided it was jammed. (It doesn't really jam when it gets ahead of itself; it just thinks it's jammed because the top sheet of paper isn't lying flat.) Anyway, I spent a lot of time persuading the copier that no, it really wasn't having problems.
However, we did have pizza for lunch today, to celebrate the fact that the office is now fully staffed. The last permanent person started today. Now all we have to do is have a staff meeting to talk about exactly who's in charge of what, and who can yell for help from whom when they need to. I wonder if we'll ever get to that point, because so far our staff meetings have been concrete (who's on the search/eval list and where, and what's the major concern for next week) rather than abstract.
Besides that, tomorrow is the January SOP meeting, which is pretty much my baby. That means that I was making 35 copies of several different documents all day when I wasn't herding cats. Of course today the copier, in its infinite wisdom, decided that it really didn't want to make more than about 7 copies at a time before the blank-paper feed got ahead of itself and decided it was jammed. (It doesn't really jam when it gets ahead of itself; it just thinks it's jammed because the top sheet of paper isn't lying flat.) Anyway, I spent a lot of time persuading the copier that no, it really wasn't having problems.
However, we did have pizza for lunch today, to celebrate the fact that the office is now fully staffed. The last permanent person started today. Now all we have to do is have a staff meeting to talk about exactly who's in charge of what, and who can yell for help from whom when they need to. I wonder if we'll ever get to that point, because so far our staff meetings have been concrete (who's on the search/eval list and where, and what's the major concern for next week) rather than abstract.
