First day back to work

Well, I survived my first day back to work in 2 months.  I am really wondering how.  I arrive there at 6:00 this morning to find out I have received a brand new computer. Nice.  I call our IT to setup some of the forms needed for me to do my work.  Simple.  Then I find out we also got our Office upgraded from 2003 to 2010 and nobody seems to really know how it works.  For the next 5 hours (no, I'm not kidding) I got my email running, found out and fixed a co-workers dual monitors that were backwards, went through over 300 emails just waiting for me and finally got 1, yes I said 1 file, set up and a free label download downloaded, which IT had to do as admin and it took them almost 30 minutes.  The next 5 hours was all about trying to make the mail merge work again.  It didn't.  So in 10 hours, with approximately 50 files waiting to be set up, I managed 1.

Now there is something that needs to be said here.  The IT/ATAC position at my office has been opened 3 times in the last couple of years.  Until this last time, I never made it to the interview stage because "I was not qualified".  This last time it was open, without changing my application, I suddenly get interviewed.  But I didn't get the position.  The person who did was very upset to find out they were supposed to know something about computers.  ?????  So I continue to get the ones in my department working  without the additional pay, because I am not qualified to do it, just so we can do our work.

Whatever possessed me to even imagine things would be different?  And do you know that some people actually saw me at work for the last 2 weeks?  I don't know what they were drinking or smoking, but it sure wasn't me.

Let us know how your day went.  It always helps to lift the spirit to hear good things from other people.