the extra person and the extra keys

I have severe deadlines to keep at the moment, thanks to A not keeping his…

Due to this, I managed to convince K to employ an extra person for a month to help me out. This might seem very nice, and indeed in one way it is. But considering I do two peoples job, really there should be two of us all the time.

K hired a friend of a friend’s wife who’s unemployed. She is lovely, C. Adorable and scatty and COMPLETELY ineffective.

Last week I asked her to update a list by checking one against another. She did. For two whole days. When I checked the list for something I noticed there were old facts on the list. Asked her if she hadn’t updated it? She said she had. I got out the old list. Nothing had changed to the “new” one.

Oh, she said, I must’ve forgotten to have pressed save.

Unfortunately this couldn’t possible be true as our computers save everything automatically every minute.

Today C did a few things, and then took a long lunch. She has no office of her own, so I’d pointed her in direction of H’s office, who was out today. After lunch I asked her to help me write out some of the 2000 labels I had to write this afternoon.

C went into H’s office at 1.30 pm. An hour and a half later I went in to see how things were going.

I can’t log on to the computer, she said and banged her hands on the key pad.

Well, I said, trying to keep calm, perhaps you need to phone the IT department or tell someone then?

Oh, she said.

I went in again half an hour later. She was still trying to print out label number one:

I can’t seem to get these keys to work properly, she said and banged on the numbers on the right hand side of the key board.

Use the ones at the top of the key board then? I suggested.

Oh, look, there’s some numbers there too, she smiled.

Different planets. Different galaxies. Or is it me?