April Fool 2010

I had meant to keep up with my blog better than this, and cover more subjects than just document centers, but ever since I walked into work a week or so ago and saw this sign on the door (posted there in haste as my co-worker had run home to a sick child), I have had no time to think! I was just extremely grateful that my co-worker realized that although my shift supposedly starts at 10:30 A.M. that I realistically would not have arrived and gotten myself up and running until at least 11 A.M.! And I also think this is perfectly in the spirit of April Fool's Day. I'm an April Fool every day!

Also in the spirit of April Fools, we are up to Jan. 19 in my niece's cute calendar (see my post of March 6, 2010 entitled "Just Another Saturday in My Whole New Life") and I am completely stumped by this calendar page. I can't figure out what they are talking about.

And I, who consider myself such an expert on document centers, have come to fear that I won't be able to keep up in them much longer. It seems that lately we have gotten requests that far exceed the skills in our document center. I just sent an email to one of our regional doc centers to thank them for saving my butt on many occasions. I told them I am in awe of their skills, they were my heroes, and I wished I had an autographed picture of all of them. I've sent them stuff that would have been hours of work for us in our center, working on it in shifts around the clock, and they would get it done in 20 minutes. And today our manager had to search far and wide to find someone to do an Excel job with formulas. She finally found out that our accountant could do it! And we are getting documents in now with algebraic equations! And documents in Spanish or Chinese, which no one in our center speaks, nor do we have keyboards to accommodate those languages. Someone in Orange County wanted to know if we could do handwriting analysis?  Denver wanted to know can we translate Korean?  My job has become find out who knows how to do the job more than having the ability to do it myself. Which is not at all scary.