So Christmas came and went and now, life can return to normal. I know that "normal" is relative, but for me, this means that stores won't be crowded, traffic around town is considerably reduced, and I won't be forced to socialize with others, especially at work. I've never been fond of work parties or really, even the people I work with. Being forced to socialize and attend parties where these people are going to be is always something I had dreaded in years past. For whatever the reason, there were absolutely no such parties to speak of this year. I don't question why these were not a thing and really, I don't care. I'm just glad that I didn't have to be around these people, at least no more than I actually needed to be.
Work never seemed to let up during the month of December and I stayed busy, even during this past week. Just like I couldn't explain the lack of holiday parties at work, I have no idea why things never slowed down in the office. Yesterday, I had been saddled with having to complete someone else's work, being that this particular worker has been on some kind of leave of absence since the summer. At least, I think she's been out since the summer. The reason why I'm not too clear as to how long she has been gone is because I don't care for this worker and now that I think about it, I've never conversed with this woman. I had figured that since she'd been gone this long, there was probably a good chance that she wouldn't be coming back at all. I don't know if I'll be that lucky, but for the time being, I had been tasked with finishing up some of the work that she had left neglected, dating back to well before she left the office several months ago.
She's hardly anyone who I would consider to have been a good worker. Maybe I'd refer to her as "serviceable", but as far as I'm concerned, she is not impressive. I can't even admit that she does the bare minimum. If anything, she is a glaring example of how the department's desperation just to keep bodies employed is very much alive and well. This worker does not offer much more than that and I mean that, not only as an employee, but as a person in general. Quite frankly, she sucks and so does the quality of her work.
Yesterday and even for a few hours today, I found myself re-writing a lot of the work that she had done. Truth be told, her writing is not impressive and in fact, it's quite bland. As much as I didn't feel like doing her work, such rewrites were necessary. Her writing, while mostly grammatically correct, isn't good. I guess this is one of those instances where management lets me do my thing and when it comes to redoing other workers' work, this is where I absolutely shine. I take their poorly built foundations and use my words to construct something that is truly beyond anything that these people could ever assemble. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I know that I write well and that the majority of the people in that office don't and frankly, their lackluster efforts show. If I wasn't rewriting her reports or correcting her bad grammar, I was filling in blanks and empty spots in her paperwork. Her work wasn't even completed, not even on a basic level. I told Morie this and she agreed with me wholeheartedly that the work that she had done, which I was now going over and otherwise redoing, was indeed quite shoddy. Morie doesn't care much for that worker either, but because she is in a supervisory position, she can't readily call that worker or her efforts "garbage". Thankfully, I can.
I suspect that finishing up those corrections and making those improvements on her work will probably take me a few more hours. I may continue those efforts tomorrow, though I don't intend to overdo it. I don't intend to bust my ass on a Sunday. I have already worked wonders with the work that I've already done. What's a few more hours, especially when those hours will be overtime? I will milk this for a few more hours, though I know that in the end, I will have run circles around that worker and her substandard efforts will be put to shame.
This wasn't exactly how I had intended to end the year, that is, having to do someone else's work (due to worker absence or ineptitude), though I'm hoping that this is not something that I'm going to find myself doing a lot of in 2026. The department has brought in a lot of new people just in these last three months, so as has been the case for much of the past few years, I am not confident that the people who have come in are going to be of much quality. What I can almost guarantee is that the majority of them coming in are not going to write well and in fact, I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that most of them probably dislike writing and it's going to show when the time comes for them to start the writing part of the job.
I have little faith in the people that they're bringing that I question the extent to which they'll be able to put together a decent sentence, or that they'll even know what a subject and a predicate are.
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