Day 348 - ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!

Oh my gosh! If I strangle my boss will someone provide me an alibi??????

All last week, she's been whining at me about the fact that I haven't finished this client's stuff yet, NEVER MIND the reason I haven't finished it is because I've been:

a) Hooking up her new printer and installing all the software
b) Teaching her how to use said new printer
c) Surfing the web looking at office supply stores for the best photo paper etc and ordering it for her to pick up
d) Showing her how to load and print pictures on said new printer and new paper
e) Surfing the web for label templates, downloading and transferring them to her computer for use
f) Showing her how to use the template so she can print her labels
g) Finding out that the template is off because her computer uses a Word module in Word Perfect and not the actual Word program
h) Setting up my printer to handle the labels since my computer has Word and showing her how to use my printer
i) Trying to fix her digital camera
j) Commenting on EACH AND EVERY FRACKING CHRISTMAS BASKET SHE MAKES
k) Reminding her of stuff she needs to do, both business and personal
l) Looking up store hours, locations etc

This is in addition to my ACTUAL job of:

01. Doing payroll
02. Doing source deductions
03. Taking a billion phone calls and doing stuff for clients
04. Teaching the new worker
05. Sending out a billion emails
06. Collecting the mail
07. Opening the mail
08. Filing the mail
09. Advising her of anything that needs dealing with that comes up in the mail so she can ignore it so that I have to remind her ad nauseam.
10) Doing Gst
11) Doing Worker's Comp
12) Doing Contract Labour Reports and Contract Payment Reports
13) Doing corporate tax returns

I would have had this particular clients work finished a month ago if not for the fact that she kept pulling me off to do all the useless crap in the a - l list. Today after complaining once more about how long I'm taking and I guess I'll have to send out their Christmas basket without their finished year end and taxes and TELLING the client this mind you, she decides she needs more paper for labels. SHE TOOK THE BOX WITH HER AND LEFT.

Fifteen minutes later she calls me to ask me what size the labels are. I am understandably confused. Don't you have the box with you??? Oh no. I left it in the car. I THINK this is the point at which, like a cartoon character, smoke poured out of my ears. While I'm clinging to the last of my composure with my fingernails and teeth, I can hear the Staples clerk in the back ground trying to be helpful asking her if any of the boxes look like the one she bought before. She, however, is asking me... What's the code number of those labels? I'm grinding my teeth. Never mind, she says, do they look like they're 2 and 1/2 by 1 inch????

Through clenched teeth I say, I'm pretty sure the code number is 8660. Are you sure that's it??? Just look at them and tell me if they're 2 and 1/2 by 1 inch!!! I finally snap at her. I DON'T KNOW! I'D HAVE TO MEASURE THEM! THE CODE IS 8660!!! Fine, she says and hangs up. I spend the next two minutes ranting. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND TAKES A SAMPLE WITH THEM AND THEN LEAVES IT BEHIND WHEN THEY GO TO LOOK AT THE PRODUCT??????

And she wonders why I'm never finished anything >_<