Sunday, February 29, 2004

Puppy Love sings the blues

Puppy Love used Friday to mess around. She came into work on Friday hung over from her night of bowling and basically used the time to answer the phone, read Cosmopolitan, and regale me with all of her drunken stories. She slept so soundly that her beloved puppy Bailey's constant diarrhea couldn't wake her, and neither could her mother. Here are some of her stories:


Once she was so drunk at Bradford she sleepwalked down the hall naked into one of her guy friend's bed. She says nothing happened, because she trusts her friends, but still. And the night before Friday, she drunkenly filled out a bar application she didn't remember filling out. Shades of my father's last medical assistant there. Puppy Love also drank a bottle of Chardonnay every single night in Hawaii. Whether she shared it with a table or just drank it herself is not particularly clear. Oh, and Puppy Love is back with her boyfriend who's a recovering alcoholic, and is currently unemployed -- she doesn't think she'll be with him longer because she wants things and doesn't think he can provide them.


Puppy Love also chose this day to detail her complaints or gripes about her current job. She complained that Blondie didn't follow up on billing(wrong addresses), had her do stupid onerous chores, (like collect tons of EKGS), came in late to work all the time, got paid more as a part timer than as a full timer, and delegated all the crap work to her, like phone call answering. I agreed Blondie detested answering phones, but said no more. She also made it clear that as soon as she goes back to school and finishes her nursing degree (she hasn't started that yet), she's out of here.

I don't blame her, but I honestly don't know why she started complaining about this stuff and talking about her drunken escapades to me. Does she think I'll keep a secret? Does she subtly want me to prod the boss about a pay raise? Does she secretly want to be fired? I told some of this stuff to a friend, and his reaction was to want to send her to AA.

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