What a day.

Payroll went well, as the nice people at ADP walked me through a another disaster. If you are using another payroll company, take your HR director by the collar and demand that you switch. (Before doing this, create impossibly difficult pay structures and burn all your notes so that they can't afford to fire you.)

Everything was smooth as could be until 4:15, right as I was preparing to leave, when my boss calls and tells me that I need to draft a sub-lease for a 3rd party that needs to spend some time in one of our properties. This needs to be done "yesterday, understand?" What am I, a lawyer? I spend a few minutes cruising Google, looking for free sub-let forms and realize that "they"'ve gotten smarter and require payment to d/l the simplest of contracts. Of course we couldn't spring for the $10 fee for the over $400/mo. on un-used space. It makes much more sense to put our competitor, who works approximately one-half hour away, in a nice hotel for 2 days, at $250/day, so that I can have the pleasure of doing his billing. For free.

So, I begin to hand-type the whole damn agreement, my eye on the clock, hoping to be out by 5. Nearly finished, I call my boss and ask for the pertinent details that have so far been unavailable ("Uh, I'll call before 4:30 with that information, he says), like who is sub-letting, considering that we aren't allowed to sub-let, who is approving this transaction, and, oh yeah, every other damn part of the deal, with the single exception of the rent per month. I call my boss at 5, asking if I can please have the necessary info before I'm late to pick up my son from daycare. "Oh yeah," he says, "I forgot to call you, I guess. We weren't sure if we could sub-let, so why don't you shelf this for a while."

Of course.

I manage to leave the office by 5:30, thankfully having wasted neither our company's nor my time.

One very, very small (unrelated) upshot, I finally found an (indirect) link on google to this very site. Looks like we're trading very poorly (not at all), but if we can eventually register with Google, who knows? See the damn thing here:

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