My big beef of the day...

Today I have a beef with my work. I have beefs often but today it has me really peeved. Quick background. I used to set up our special talks and events. At some point, that job was taken over by someone else because I couldn’t juggle being a sales pig along with marketing person, events coordinator and head field trip human. Fine by me, I didn’t need the extra stress.
Today’s big beef is all about an event that is scheduled to take place tomorrow. OK the real big beef is all about me being selfish. No one has taken responsibility in setting this thing up. We have people coming, expecting a slide show AND dinner. I’ve gone the extra mile and made a reservation list (since no one thought to make one) and checked our stock for plates, forks and the other things one would need to serve dinner. I made a list of what we would need. Do you think anyone went out and bought the stuff? HELL NO! When we got a new office person, I was removed from our Sam’s membership to put him on. I gave him the list. He is supposed to be in charge of that stuff. Did he listen to me? HELL NO! Did the woman who booked the event check on anything? You guessed it…NO! So tomorrow, on our busiest day of the week…whoever is working (see me raising my hand) will end up doing last minute clean up/shopping/find the chairs and see if we have tables/pestering the boss who happens to have a severe case of “I can do it…. yet never gets it done” about cooking for the dinner. When the co-owner and I heard about this event, and how it was supposed to go down, wee said it was a bad idea. If they were going to insist on having it then we should have it catered. Every other time our owner/boss has had something to do with preparing the food, she has been at least two hours late with it.
Do I sound aggravated? You bet. I think what also has me pissed about it is I scheduled myself to have a week off which included this glorious event day. Turns out said boss lady has suspended all vacations because the store doesn’t have enough money to pay for vacations right now. So, not only was I not supposed to work that day…now I KNOW I’ll be covering someone else’s incompetence. I never have had much patience with incompetence. Even less now. Did I mention I’m pissed about this whole deal? My wonderful husband (who has real issues with the way I’m treated at work) says to just let the proverbial shit hit the fan. It’s not my problem, let those who planned it suffer. If I weren’t so sure it would all fall back on me and hit me in the face I would do it.
Well there you have it, my major bitchfest for the day. Now I’ll go back and work on that rant about Wal-Mart……oh you don’t even want me to go there……