Men and multitasking

Just a quick note, since I am working.

A couple weeks ago, I spent half an hour trying to get my Outlook to send three emails with attachments totaling about 22mb. Needless to say, it didn't work. Keep in mind that on this particular day, I worked from 7am - 5pm with no break, and this was THE LAST HALF HOUR of my day. After my computer crashed, I rebooted, and my Outlook still would not send this file, I finally just saved the files to the work server. Then, I rescanned the entire 78 page file into a super compressed PDF (3 mb) and tried to send, and was still unsuccessful.

I approached my boss' desk and asked if he could just retrieve the 3 mb file from the server and send it, since I had been at work for a long time and was tired. His reply was, "Why are you dumping this on me? I'm on the phone!" Okay - he was on the phone to his dad, and I had just worked 10 hours with no break and spent half an hour fighting technology!!!! I basically told him that and then left.

FF to today - I am working on importing some data into excel which is necessary for me to do this report. My boss approaches me repeatedly and asks me to various things such as checking to see if we received all the confirmations for one of our clients, to print our own books out, etc. Finally, he asks me to print a something, and I say, "Do you remember how flustered you got when I asked you to send an email and you were just talking on the phone?" That was the end of interrupting me today.

I will happily multitask, with the caveat that you place things in a neat and orderly fashion on my desk. Do not "yell" at me from across the office, do not assume that I am not working on anything. Stand up, come in here, and put whatever it is you want done in my inbox with simple instructions and then walk away. And, for heaven's sake, don't get all wigged out when I ask you to do 2 simple things at once. You ask me all day, and I don't freak, do I?