Its Only 365 Days
7: AHHHHHH!
DAY 7/365
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
Yesterday was THE most stressful day culminating the most stressful week I've had in a long time. I went in on Tuesday for the 5am video shoot, so that meant I got to leave at 2pm, so I get home and then I get the phone calls: the office has been pepper sprayed! So of course, I call everyone like what happened. Turns out our AM was playing with my co-supervisors key chain not realizing that the purple face thing on it wasn't a laser pointer, but a canister of pepper spray so he pushes it, sprays it in my other co-supers face, she screams then it was like a spiral effect...people came running, the fumes hit them, they started wheezing and coughing, then they couldn't open the doors because our offices are on the floor with the baby area so they had to open the roof to vent the stuff as our windows do not open (to prevent one from committing suicide).
Normally with an apology, everyone would have laughed about it and been done with it the next day, except my manager had just had this meeting with my AM b/c my co-supers were feeling like he treated them with disrespect...so can you imagine, you just had that talk and then you pepper spray them...the both of them...I mean it has to be the worst timing ever.
So we start getting emails, and they start having closed door meetings, and everyone was freaking out. My AM who is honestly a good guy, went into seclusion to deal with the emotions of knowing he may or may not be fired by 5 (b/c you know they fire you at the end of the day). We all huddled around him, and we were watching from our building out the window to the admin building to see if the HR director was coming over to get him. If you see her out of her office, you know its bad. But 5 rolled around, then 5:15, then 5:45 and no one came, so we all breathed this sigh of relief.
So Thursday was still ripe with tension. I felt so numb from the day before because it was just 8 hours of waiting and watching and seeing my AM completely distraught, and we just couldn't work. then there was more tension because its like an us vs. them situation. My AM, L, and I are good friends mainly because we've done everything together, been through every work storm, been through break ups makeups you name it, and we are the triangle of trust...anything we say dares not be repeated outside of the triangle, but the two newer ones have proven that they do not understand what the triangle of trust means, so its not like we dont' hang out iwth them or sociliaze or work well with them, its just whenever we need to talk something deep, we don't bring it up in front of them. So the pepper spray super came to work and was avoiding the 3 of us all day, went to our manager and closed the door and completely broke down in tears b/c she thought she was going to get my AM fired and she knew that if that happened, even though completely not her fault, it would put a huge strain on me and L's relationship with her, then the one who got sprayed directly in the face wasn't talking either...it was the longest day EVER of the longest week EVER. So at 4:29, I clocked out and left so fast the dust was flying. I just want things to go back to normal....
7: AHHHHHH!
DAY 7/365
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
Yesterday was THE most stressful day culminating the most stressful week I've had in a long time. I went in on Tuesday for the 5am video shoot, so that meant I got to leave at 2pm, so I get home and then I get the phone calls: the office has been pepper sprayed! So of course, I call everyone like what happened. Turns out our AM was playing with my co-supervisors key chain not realizing that the purple face thing on it wasn't a laser pointer, but a canister of pepper spray so he pushes it, sprays it in my other co-supers face, she screams then it was like a spiral effect...people came running, the fumes hit them, they started wheezing and coughing, then they couldn't open the doors because our offices are on the floor with the baby area so they had to open the roof to vent the stuff as our windows do not open (to prevent one from committing suicide).
Normally with an apology, everyone would have laughed about it and been done with it the next day, except my manager had just had this meeting with my AM b/c my co-supers were feeling like he treated them with disrespect...so can you imagine, you just had that talk and then you pepper spray them...the both of them...I mean it has to be the worst timing ever.
So we start getting emails, and they start having closed door meetings, and everyone was freaking out. My AM who is honestly a good guy, went into seclusion to deal with the emotions of knowing he may or may not be fired by 5 (b/c you know they fire you at the end of the day). We all huddled around him, and we were watching from our building out the window to the admin building to see if the HR director was coming over to get him. If you see her out of her office, you know its bad. But 5 rolled around, then 5:15, then 5:45 and no one came, so we all breathed this sigh of relief.
So Thursday was still ripe with tension. I felt so numb from the day before because it was just 8 hours of waiting and watching and seeing my AM completely distraught, and we just couldn't work. then there was more tension because its like an us vs. them situation. My AM, L, and I are good friends mainly because we've done everything together, been through every work storm, been through break ups makeups you name it, and we are the triangle of trust...anything we say dares not be repeated outside of the triangle, but the two newer ones have proven that they do not understand what the triangle of trust means, so its not like we dont' hang out iwth them or sociliaze or work well with them, its just whenever we need to talk something deep, we don't bring it up in front of them. So the pepper spray super came to work and was avoiding the 3 of us all day, went to our manager and closed the door and completely broke down in tears b/c she thought she was going to get my AM fired and she knew that if that happened, even though completely not her fault, it would put a huge strain on me and L's relationship with her, then the one who got sprayed directly in the face wasn't talking either...it was the longest day EVER of the longest week EVER. So at 4:29, I clocked out and left so fast the dust was flying. I just want things to go back to normal....