Stereotypes Can Be Fun!
9/8/07 15:01![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
telarynSo we had a preconstruction meeting today for the painter. Our project is a “LEED” school, which is an acronym for something that I always forget. Basically it’s a fancy way of saying we’re trying to build an environmentally friendly school.
You know…green. (side note: based on the numbers coming in for all this environmentally friendly work, the green that’s going to end up associated with this school is so totally not grass).
Anyhoo, the School Board’s painting consultant was here. And he had documentation for everyone. That needed copying.
Did he do this himself in the ten minutes he was farting around before the meeting? Oh no. Did he even ask *me* to do it in the ten minutes or so he was farting around before the meeting?
No. He waits until we’re all seated, then gives me *one* of the packets he needs copied. Doesn’t even ask, just declares that he needs it copied, and stares at me until I get up and take it. When I finished (it was a nightmare…pages kept randomly sticking together), he hands me another one.
Then another one.
The superintendent told me that he and the APM were taking bets at the fourth time we did this go-‘round how long it was going to take before I unloaded on the guy. I never did…I’m a professional, and he is of an age where I understand his thought process. I’m the only woman in the trailer – therefore I’m the secretary; I make the copies.
What amuses me is that my guys and I understand each other so well already that it would never occur to them to pull something like that.
Unless it was to get a laugh. Of course. :)
You know…green. (side note: based on the numbers coming in for all this environmentally friendly work, the green that’s going to end up associated with this school is so totally not grass).
Anyhoo, the School Board’s painting consultant was here. And he had documentation for everyone. That needed copying.
Did he do this himself in the ten minutes he was farting around before the meeting? Oh no. Did he even ask *me* to do it in the ten minutes or so he was farting around before the meeting?
No. He waits until we’re all seated, then gives me *one* of the packets he needs copied. Doesn’t even ask, just declares that he needs it copied, and stares at me until I get up and take it. When I finished (it was a nightmare…pages kept randomly sticking together), he hands me another one.
Then another one.
The superintendent told me that he and the APM were taking bets at the fourth time we did this go-‘round how long it was going to take before I unloaded on the guy. I never did…I’m a professional, and he is of an age where I understand his thought process. I’m the only woman in the trailer – therefore I’m the secretary; I make the copies.
What amuses me is that my guys and I understand each other so well already that it would never occur to them to pull something like that.
Unless it was to get a laugh. Of course. :)
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