I’m experiencing a career low point.
The contract gig that I’ve been working for 2 months has not delivered as promised. Instead of writing, I’m being groomed to do business process analysis. You know who doesn’t give 2 shits about business process analysis? This guy.
And instead of being a business process analyst, I’m being treated like a glorified admin. You know, that admin who isn’t too bright? The one who cannot be trusted to make copies correctly?
Yeah.
I’ve got people arguing with me when I point out their text is grammatically incorrect. Clearly, I am not to be trusted.
Let us be honest: I am a decent communicator, whether that communication be print, online, verbal … or a combination of Spanish and pantomime.
That last one isn’t on my resume anywhere. But I guess it should be.
If you ever doubted my abilities, let me just tell you: Today, I discussed infertility with my Spanish-speaking maintenance guy pal.
Yes.
I had a random hallway run-in with Maintenance Mercury, my Freddie Mercury look-alike amigo. He showed me pictures of his family on his phone. He positively gushed about his 2 sons and young daughter.
Then he asked me if I have kids. Then he asked me why not.
First, I tried to explain in my faltering Spanish that I’ve only been married a year. In my fluster, I may have fallen back into my high school vocabulary and mentioned hay muchos libros en la biblioteca.
Maintenance Mercury showed me more pictures, then asked me again.
Somewhere in there, I realized that he is 1 of only a handful of authentic people to be found at Globotron, and I like him a lot. And I decided to just let it all hang out.
“No es possible,” I said. Then, I did what I can only assume is the international sign for “barren” - waving my arms in front of my crotchal region while shaking my head.
Then, Maintenance Mercury looked sad, and asked me if we’d considered adoption.
About this time, I realized that I was talking about my ladyparts, in fake-ass Spanish, with a near stranger, standing next to a busy elevator bank in some random office building. Yeah!
Then, I drew a chart tracking my hormone levels.
OK, not quite. Instead, I realized that I never thought to ask my high school Spanish teacher the Spanish word for “infertile.” Some things you just can’t predict.
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3 comments:
Wonder if your new pal has any leads on a job with FUN people. He must love you, working in an office full of nitwits. You are probably the brightest spot in his day.
who better to discuss this with?
Really- life is just full or randomness and moments that either make you spit nails or laugh.
I prefer the ones that make me laugh and think in that order.
so, if no kids, you can do like us, hmm? adopt a gazillion well behaved pets :)
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