At long last, ultimate power has fallen to me! True, it has only taken fourteen long years of faithful service and the temporary absence of most other higher ranking employees with signature authority, but finally I have been named the acting department head. For the next two days. (Never has the term “power vacuum” been more significant ….)
Just had the plumber go tripping through, measuring things and looking at the ceiling tiles in an alarming way. Apparently, they need to run cooling water over to the vault on the opposite side of the floor and they can’t use the water source over there ’cause the water is more pure over here. (Hey, that was my take away from the conversation). The term “impending disaster” suddenly seems very signficant as well ….
I hope you had fun with those 2 days!
Day One was a day of various management mysteries which I had to look into in my role as Nancy Drew, Amateur Detective. First, there was the Mystery of What the Plumbers Are Up To and then there was the Mystery of the Missing Truck that Supposed to Be Delivering a Bunch of Important Records to Our Warehouse. Once those jobs had been fully investigated, Day Two was a lot more relaxing. In the future, if I’m asked to play Acting Dept. Head again, I’m definitely asking for out-of-class pay. 🙂