Bitch

I am pretty low on the totem pole at my office. It basically goes Executives, Engineers, Designers, Draftsmen (me). And although I outrank the few other draftsmen on my team, I am still in the overall bottom tier.

So a lot of my coworkers think they can order me to do the shit work that they don't want to do. And by shit work, I mostly mean printing.


Here's how a typical conversation actually plays out:

Coworker: I need a set of these drawings printed.
Me: (pissed off in my head) ....Okay.


Here's how I fantasize this conversation in my head:

Coworker: I need a set of these drawings printed.
Me: Well, then I suggest you get pointin' and clickin'
CW: I don't have AutoCAD loaded on my computer.
Me: Well loading it will be great practice for you. All that involves is pointing and clicking too :)
CW: But I don't know how to print from AutoCAD.
Me: It's easy. I'd be happy to show you.
CW: Okay, thanks! I will gladly print all my own stuff from now on!!



Clearly...only in my fantasies.

I just don't get what the problem is though. For example, our engineers don't use AutoCAD. They use Visio. I know absolutely NOTHING about Visio. But oh wait...I do know one thing...I know what the effing print button looks like...yeah...the button with a picture of a printer on it...yes...that same icon that's used in pretty much every single effing computer application in existence...uh huh...it's that very same button in AutoCAD too...

So I don't get what the problem is.

How I would really like to utilize my amazing printing skills is to print out my job description from our company website. Then I would have a handy visual aide to point out to everyone who asks that "Print Bitch" is not on my list of responsibilities.

But I guess it seems easier to just do it instead of arguing...

Or...I could say that I'm busy, and delegate all that Print Bitch work to the few people that I do outrank :)