Wednesday, November 11, 2009

I'm sorry, so sorry

Run-down of the day:

5:45 A.M. Wake up, shower, get dressed.
6:30 A.M. Get in the car, program GPS, pull out of apartment parking lot.
6:37 A.M. Drive through McDonald's for hash browns and a desperately needed vanilla latte.
7:30 A.M. Arrive at training location in Dayton.
7:32 A.M. Get out of car, approach building, and find that training location is locked.
7:35 A.M. Call training location contact person. Leave voicemail. Get back in car.
7:42 A.M. Call training location contact person. Leave a slightly more frantic voicemail.
7:45 A.M. Get out of car to tell gathering trainees to "hang tight" while we try to get the building unlocked.
7:48 A.M. Get back in car. Call anyone I can think of--Shared Harvest, Meredith, training location contact person. Reach new level of panic.
7:55 A.M. Get out of car to tell more trainees to "hang tight" as they arrive for training. Get back in car.
8:00 A.M. Call training location contact person. Leave no voicemail because this would be the 4th one in half an hour.
8:05 A.M. Come up with game plan with Meredith.
8:25 A.M. Get out of car, tell all trainees the class will need to be rescheduled.
8:26 A.M. Apologize to trainees profusely, two of which are very upset and threaten to not ever be trained on the OBB.
8:28 A.M. Apologizing continues.
8:30 A.M. Apologizing ends. Trainees drive away. Call one no-show for the class to tell him the class has been canceled.
8:31 A.M. Get back in the car, program GPS, pull out of training location parking lot.
9:40 A.M. Arrive back at Shared Harvest.

Okay I think that's enough.

So yes--I was supposed to do a tax class today but we ended up having to cancel due to an inability to walk through walls--aka, the building and computer lab were locked. Instead of training, I spent the day getting caught up around the office and making a bazillion bajillion phone calls. For a great representation of these phone calls, please see Alex's blog.

3:25 P.M. Time to go home. Close enough.

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