I meant to go to work today after my dentist appointment this morning, but in the end, I just did not feel like it. Today's dental visit was for a placement of a permanent crown and then for yet another cleaning. I had been walking around with a temporary crown for the past two weeks. The temporary crown did its job, but it made chewing gum somewhat of a challenge because it had an unusually long point on one of its corners and the gum would constantly get stuck on that point. Today's cleaning would also be the third cleaning to which I had been subjected in the last two months. Indeed, this is all very routine as far as my dental health goes and I am not complaining.
When I had told an old friend of mine that I was looking forward to going to the dentist rather than spending the day at work, she told me via text message:
The fact that you have picked the dentist over working in the office is telling
I guess she wasn't wrong.
It looks like things at work have definitely taken a turn for the worst when I'm giving the impression that I'm more excited to visit the dentist than I am about going to work and languishing in the office. Truth be told, enduring a cleaning and having a permanent crown put in are not crippling, nor even remotely draining to where physically going to work afterwards would have been completely out of the question. But yes, in the end, I opted to stay away from the office today in an effort to maintain my sanity.
Things in the office continue to get more bothersome with every passing day. I don't want to call things in the office unfair, but it seems that management is more than willing to bend the rules rather than tell someone "no", when "no" is exactly what they need to hear. Management is apparently looking to appease its workers, rather than deny their request for an extended vacation and explain to them exactly why such a request is being denied.
Kyra is one of the more useless workers in the office. In my work group, she is the second worst worker, behind the departing Gurney. Gurney will finally be gone by the end of this week and I will one of the few who will be celebrating his departure. He's just awful and I'm glad he's leaving. Kyra needs to leave too and I'm not talking just through a vacation. She needs to transfer or leave the department entirely.
For as long as I've worked for the department, the powers that be have almost never approved vacations that extend more than a month, unless there are extenuating circumstances (usually something medical or a family member is dying - something damn near catastrophic). With the way that workloads are, when people leave, whatever work that would have gone to the vacationer, ends up being dispersed to everyone else who is still working. Understandably, if you're on vacation, no new work would be assigned to you. Some people get upset with that influx of work. Some don't. Years ago, a person going on vacation had to have all of their work done before they left, or they would have had to make arrangements for someone else to pick up the slack and finish their work for them.
Kyra hasn't completed the work that she already has and she has way too much work to just divvy it all up amongst the rest of the work group for everyone else to finish. Still, she had the gall to ask Morie to approve her request for vacation, a vacation that would run about five weeks. Morie told her that after October, vacations are not to exceed two weeks because of the coming holiday season and because typically, management will not allow anyone to be gone that long. This would effectively be a:
No, you can't take that long of a vacation. Try again, next time by following the rules.
As has been the case by many of the "new school" of workers in that office, whenever they don't get the response that they want from their immediate supervisor, all they have to do is take it up with upper management and upper management will give them the answer they want.
That's exactly what Kyra did.
In true bitch form, she brought this to upper management and just like that, her month-long-plus vacation was approved. Fuck whatever authority Morie thought she had and it's not as though Morie was wrong with her rejecting Kyra's vacation request. Any supervisor in that office, as well as throughout the department, would have also denied that kind of vacation request. So now, Morie looks like a fool and it's all upper management's fault. I think in some way, Morie effectively lost whatever power she thought she had because rest assured, not only will Kyra run like a bitch to upper management again when she needs to, but I'm willing to bet that other workers in the work group will follow suit and do the same fucking thing in the event that Morie should rightfully tell them "no".
So, Kyra will be gone for just over a month. That means that the corner of the office where I sit will be so quiet and peaceful because she won't be there talking loudly and laughing needlessly. Indeed, the nuisance that Kyra is will be gone and the office environment will be that much better because of it. In her absence, this also means that Nessa, Gloria, and Vonda will all be given the work that should have gone to Kyra. Depending on how the work piles up during this coming month of November, Nessa and Vonda could turn on Kyra. Gloria already despises Kyra, so there won't be any changes in that relationship.
I just took today off and I will admit that I did so for probably the dumbest of reasons. As I write this, my mouth and teeth feel fine. My head doesn't hurt. Physically, I'm okay.
If anything, I'm upset that Kyra felt the need to essentially give Morie the middle finger and start whining and bitching to upper management all because Morie had told her that she wouldn't approve a five-week long vacation. I told Gloria this morning that in the end, this creates a bad precedent and one that I think other workers will follow, if they aren't already.
Sure, I'll be back in the office tomorrow, early as I do. I won't be one of those apparently entitled workers who will bring the silliest of shit to upper management. I have way much more respect for Morie than to go over her head the way that Kyra's dumbass did.
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