First if any of you bloggers out there know how I can get rid of the extra spaces in my Church Chuckles "gadget" so there isn't so much space between it and my pictures, PLEASE let me know. I've tried a couple of things and nothing is working.
These two instances I'm going to share could only happen to me and I wish Mike was here to share them with because he would laugh and laugh and laugh.
After seeing "One For The Money" we all walked out of the theater together and I wasn't really sure which aisle I had parked my car in - it didn't help that I had also pulled through the space I pulled in so I could head out. I knew I was down the aisle a little, so as we walked I used my panic button on my key chain and "heard" my car - in the next row over. So I said good-bye and headed over a row - and couldn't find my car - anywhere. Great. So I once again used my panic button and "heard" my car - in the row I had just walked through to get to the row I "knew" my car was in. The sad thing was I had to keep the panic button going for a few seconds to find my car in the other row because I hadn't walked down far enough - talk about embarassing.
Then at work this past week my manager has called me her problem child and you'll find out why. If you've read my Facebook post from this week you already know. The software system we use (GPS) to do our quotes was kicking me out maybe every fifth quote but it got to the point it was kicking me out during every quote. Luckily it kicked me out when I went from the first screen to the second screen and only wiped out a couple of pieces of information I had entered but still that was a pain. My trainer gave me the name of someone to call and do a live meeting through our IM system. I installed the live meeting but found out I couldn't access the live meeting function in our IM system (it was greyed out). I was told to call Tech Support. Well....I found out my phone didn't make out going phone calls. So how do I call someone to fix my phone, so I can call Tech Support to fix live meeting in our IM system so I can have the lady see my computer screen to try to fix GPS so it won't kick me out? WOW. Somehow - I honestly don't remember - a phone person called me and told me he had done something behind the scenes to my phone - oh ya my manager had to request the fix. The phone guy told me to call out and then call him back to tell him if it worked. I called out - didn't work - called phone guy back to tell him. Phone guy asked if I could call out again and he would watch my line as I called out to see if he could figure out the problem - ok. I called out - didn't work - called phone guy who said, "did you call out?" Yep. He said he didn't see me even pick up my line to call out but he saw me call him and "I've never seen this before." Aren't I the lucky one :) So a phone guy had to come to my desk to fix my phone, so I could call Tech Support to give me access to live meeting so I could communicate with the lady to see why GPS was kicking me out. We think we know what I'm doing to get kicked out (copy and pasting the template number I need to use - which shouldn't kick me out) but we don't know why................ Baby steps.
The kicker is both the trainer and my manager asked if I was dialing 9 (for an outside line) then 1 (since Tech Services is an 800#). I'm like, "yep". And they both proceeded to come to my phone to try to call out too. I don't blame them I'd probably have done the same thing. It was while my manager was at my phone that she said I was her problem child. And then when we met in the bathroom later in the day - she also said she was blaming me for the bank of lights that weren't working over some of the toilets. She said the light had worked just fine before I started......... I told her I had big shoulders. Actually I used the one stall that is the darkest due to the lights being out and found it quite relaxing.
We learned part of Dental coverage this week - yep it will take over a week to learn Dental. We did some practice quotes Thursday afternoon and one was a doozy that fried both Christi and my brains at the end of the day. When we started Friday morning to finish our quotes I IMed Christi and told her it was a Pizza Hut day for lunch because I deserved a pizza after a couple of the quotes we had just done and she agreed. And while at Pizza Hut in Corporate 1 I got a punch card. Only six more pizzas to go for a free one - knowing me and how cheap I am - that will take a while.
Because even our trainer was fried after working our quotes and she didn't want to start the last part of Dental Friday afternoon we did some fun things to see how observant we were - from the Highlights web site. Highlights the magazine for kids - yep we went to the web site and did the hunt for things in the picture and some what's different between the two pictures. That was a nice way to end the week.
