Week 17

Are you ready for the newest update? Good, you can relax, it was actually pretty quiet this week.

This week I:

• Learned how to set up a WebEx meeting.
• Taught a third person how to do the mail.
• Called all the departments on the directory to make sure their number was right.
• Hunted down all the fax machines to check their numbers.
• Ordered business cards.
• Explained nicely that nobody is working on new hires because, if you recall, PeopleSoft is down, and we are not the lazy bums you seem to think we are. (Insert plastic-y fake smile here).
• Make up answers to questions that I know little about.
• Change lots of stuff like dept IDs and locations on PeopleSoft, which is finally back up.
• Cut all the bragging and fluff out of department announcements (reducing the text by half).
• Assign badge access (for some reason these requests always come in on Wednesday, the one day I can't access the website because I'm home. Why is that?).
• Sign up for a writers' symposium offered for Church employees. Yes!
• Submit a couple of articles for consideration.
• Send lots and lots of e-mails.
• Digitize some of our family history records. There's some interesting characters in our family. The guy who told his wife he came to Mexico because he dreamt about her? Yeah, he was actually wanted in Texas for cattle hustling.
• Ate a lot of junk food because the family left me a stash before they left for fall break. (Thanks, Mom).
• Finally dug some of my winter clothes out of the basement. I feel like I'm giving in to winter. I want it to stay warm! At least it has been nice and sunny.

For the first time in months, I didn't have to knock on someone's door to ask how to do something. I'm getting better at this thing! Or maybe people have finally figured out that I don't know and started asking someone else...

Also, after trying to track down phone numbers and fax machines, I got another taste of how big our department is. We have offices in three different buildings. If we put them all in one, we would take up seven floors; thats 1/4 of the Church Office Building! I guess that's why I spend so much time just fixing department numbers...