KRISTA OVERBY BEST FRIEND

I’m temping again after getting the cleat from the NFL.  So you know what this means?  Yep - it’s time for the much loved…Temp Rating System ™!

Just so you can remember - here is the rating scale:

1 = Hellish
3 = Are they serious with this shit?
5 = Fine, if you have no expectations
7 = Niiiice
10 = Are there any job openings?

And I grade the following perks:  snacks and drinks, chair, other admins, boss man, air tempertature, location, and extras.

Today I am temping at a place I’ll call Real Estate Whopper and here are the grades.

• Snacks and Drinks: 4 - Negligable - They offer water at three different tempertatures (Cold, Warm, and Hot) ohhhh, and the corportate standard pod coffees and teas.  And get this…they have a coke machine…a machine where they charge you 60 cents for a soda…um, hello Real Estate Whopper, most companies give you free sodas these days!  And if that wasn’t bad enough…it was all sold out!  No snacks at all.  Yesterday they had what looked like a stale tray of holiday cookies left over from some boring meeting, but who is going to touch those? 
• Chair: 6 - after raising the chair up to normal person height (the girl I’m temping for (Natasha) must be a dreaded mini person) it was ok.  Nothing fancy, although it does have a nice extra back support.  I bet Natasha had to pay for it herself.
• Other Admins: 9 - I’ve only been introduced to one and she’s pretty darn nice.  She showed me how to do things and is really pleasant - not much small talk from her, but who really needs that?  The cube walls are high and I can’t see anyone else anyway.
• Boss Man: 8 - What boss man?  There is no one here.  I have no idea why they even bothered hiring an admin for three days.  Yesterday I was given exactly 15 minutes of work…for the entire 8 hours and today it looks like I’ll get even less work.  I shouldn’t complain about that, it gives me more blog time, but I kind of like to be kept busy…it makes the day go by faster.
• Air Temperature: 6 - Yesterday everyone was complaining it was too hot in here, but I didn’t really notice.  Today it’s cooler because it’s SLEATING outside.  Seriously, sleating and hailing…it actually hurt to walk to work.  They are calling for 3 to 5 inches in the city.
• Location: 7 - I’m right behind FAO Shwartz, which would be cool if I were 10 years old…and that also means I’m right next to Bergdorfs which would be cool if I had MONEY.  All in all the location is ok.  It’s only about 4 blocks from the subway, so it’s manageble.
• Extras: 3 - Um, not really any extras.  Most of the websites I like to look at during the day are blocked.  WTF?  They block “Alternative Journals”.  Nazis!  I’m surprised they didn’t ask me to burn the novel I brought with me at the door.  I have no work to do and I have to listen to ex-jocks talk “money” all day.  Uck.  However, as I noted before the cube walls are high and not many people are around so I pretty much have my time to myself….hmm, I wonder if I could watch Lost from the computer…

Temp Friendly Average: 6.1 - I wouldn’t be upset if I was posted here again, but I wouldn’t look forward to it.

*Update - I just noticed, it seems Natasha is really covering her bases when it comes to spirituality.  Within her cube there are 3 pictures of saints (Our Lady of Guadalupe particularly - I’m not quite sure what she does, but Natasha seems to think she can help.  Ahh, after further research it seems Miss Guadalupe is in charge of making children get born…something tells me Natasha might be preggers).  There is also a Budda shrine.  I’m not kidding.  There is an actual shrine to budda.  It’s on a striped mat.  The Budda is placed in the middle and there are what appear to be bead necklaces around it, like the kind you get for showing your tatas to floats in New Orleans…who knew Budda liked those?  Around the necklaces are 8 smooth pebbles and to the right of Budda is a few leaves in water.  ABOVE the Budda is a dreamcatcher.  I’m not making this up! 
 

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