Brain Freeze

It's pretty incredible to me that people can be so friggen stupid.

I work with this guy who makes Forrest Gump look like a rocket scientist. We share an office and I swear that my IQ is slowly dropping from being in such close contact with him. He's constantly asking me the most inane questions. I've even had to redo his work multiple times because he's totally incapable. But here's the worst part... the guy can't use Wite-Out! WITE-OUT. It's so simple! It's even the tape kind that you just spread across the page. It doesn't have to dry or anything! He can't do it! I watched him struggle for about half an hour before I finally just took it away from him and did it myself.

The worst part of the whole thing, though, is that while we're still on the same level of the work ladder for the time being, my boss likes him more. She's actually offered him a promotion for a job that I wanted. He turned it down because it would have required that he move out of the Seattle area. Pretentious snob. I would have taken it in a heartbeat! Bah. Alas, I was rejected. I wasn't even good enough to get the job after he turned it down! The WOI (Wite-Out Idiot) not only beat me, but he beat me at a game that our boss didn't even want to consider me for. It certainly makes a girl wonder how others see her.

Soon after this work drama, the power at my apartment went out. Thusly, I was forced to reset my alarm clock. It seemed simple enough. I've done it before. The next morning I was awakened by a coworker who called to ask me where I was. It was 9 am. I should have been at work by 8:30. Yikes. I chalked it up to a late night and kind of forgot about it. That was a Friday. The following Monday, the same thing happened. The same coworker called. Only then did I realize that the time for the alarm was set correctly, but the actual time on the clock was wrong. What a fool. The WOI must be affecting my brain waves more than I realized...