The Week From Hell - DAY 2

TUESDAY: this was suppose to be the easy day. the day where everyone was stuck in the general session and i could relax a little. turned out not to be.

10 mins into the morning session, 2 people came out and said we had a problem. none of the tables had post-its on, which we were using for questions, etc. the hotel had removed them overnight after explicit instructions NOT to. resolved it by passing out the rest of our stash, which wouldn't have been so bad if there weren't 200+ people ripping plastic off post-its during a guest speaker...

at the same time, the incompetent one who was suppose to be helping me disappeared ("all the beer you can drink!" girl). i sent her to our onsite "office" to send 2 emails, and it took her an hour to come back. AN HOUR and NO EXPLANATION.

then that afternoon while consolidating materials i caught her lying to my face TWICE, all within 10 mins of each other. after emptying a large white box i asked her to set it on the floor next to the other empty boxes. she did it, but after folding it closed (i.e. tucking in the corners to secure it) and it took an obvious amount of effort to lift it.
me: what are you doing?
her (setting box on the floor w/some effort): nothing.
me (suspicious): thot you said it was empty? is there something in there?
her (staring me straight in the eye and obviously lying): no.

after emptying another box, i walked it to our pile and opened the large white box to put the smaller boxes inside (cuz when you consolidate, you consolidate your garbage too, right?). inside the large white "empty" box were piles of presentation handouts we were missing the day before. we had resolved that problem by getting more copies, but it was obvious i had a bigger issue on my hands.

and just to make things better... as i stood bent over the open box she DOVE underneath me (where i'm now looking at the back of her head) and said, "how did these get here?!"

OMG...

it was bad enough finding the missing handouts, but to get lied to like that??? all i could say to her was "wow" and stepped away. my inside voice was saying @#(%*&$%*!!!!!!!

a few mins later i returned and she fessed up. think she realized at that point she looked like an IDIOT. there was no yelling involved, but i think i'm now justified in constantly referring to her as incompetent...