oy vey (aka the 5PM MST cannot come soon enough thread) →[More:]
I dig my job.

what I do NOT dig is the day when everyone else in a decision making capacity has abandoned the site or is otherwise tied up in meetings, and yours truly becomes the nexus for the OMG CAN'T WAIT shit that is both time-sensitive and client facing.

getting ahold of anyone after 3PM here is dodgy at best. what drives me bats is when I call down the admin foodchain and get nothing but voicemails too.

so... yea. Boss is gone and I just bashed together a cover letter for a Very Important Contract and sent it out under some other director's signature, basically pulling most of the content out of my ass because OMG IT'S THE DELIVERY DATE.

Boss, via txt message from an offsite meeting: "go ahead and sign for [Director], since he's not here and on deadline it's not your fault if it's wrong."

which is why I love my boss. But seriously, peoples.

Tangentially, my label maker is also apparently on the fritz, which makes me sad.

might I solicit whuffles and a martini, not necessarily in that order?