PAPERWORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have decided that I should buy stock in the largest paper companies..
My daughters started back to school today.. so I am sitting here on the computer tonight.. chatting with a few people I know.. and my spouse comes in... her arms loaded down with two folders spilling over with papers.. and I'm thinking... she's picked up all the work they did last year and is going to show me some of it.. she "plops" it on the bed... and says.. this has to be done tomorrow...
My first thought is to go hire a secretary... I mean come on.. this is the digital age.. the age of the computers... this mountain of paperwork heaping on my bed weighs more than a computer...
I keep staring at it... ...tomorrow?? ...done by tomorrow?... are they nuts??
so.. I pull myself away from my conversation and decide that the next few hours will be devoted to this.
...page after page... I lumber through ... looking up phone numbers.. of emergency contacts.. doctors.. cell phone numbers... social security numbers.. bus numbers.. my home number.. my work number... my cell number.. my blood type... the number of times I masturbated last year... I'm not quite certain that last one was on there.. but I couldn't swear it wasn't.
little by little, I churned through it... I was certain I was gonna run out of ink by the time it was over.. and I had just opened a brand new ink pen. then it seemed like I was answering the same questions over again... wait... I hadn't opened the other folder yet... WTF ... it IS the same questions.... why do they need to know it all over again.. but at least this paper is a nice shade of blue.... haven't they ever heard of CARBON paper... I am pretty sure that has been out since at least the 60's...
I have decided that the people in school administration are a bunch of sadistic bastards who are even as of now.. laughing their asses off at how much paperwork they can get the parents to do... and little beknownst to us... it all gets incinerated except for that little card they put on top with name.. homeroom.. emergency contacts.. and my signature...
There were at least 6 more papers of various sizes and colors that asked the same info... it makes no sense... I mean these people are in the same place.. if not.. haven't they heard of a PHOTOCOPIER?? it would make my life much simpler. I am feeling right now that I want to drive over to head of the school board and slice his fingers with some of the papers that have already given me a couple of battle scars for the night. So... 3 hours later.. and I finally get it all moved over from blank to done... and if I had qualified for free or reduced meals, that would have been another 8 pages to fill out..
This year was even more than last year... if it gets to be more next year, I AM going to hire a secretary. It's just wayyyyyy too much Paperwork!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My daughters started back to school today.. so I am sitting here on the computer tonight.. chatting with a few people I know.. and my spouse comes in... her arms loaded down with two folders spilling over with papers.. and I'm thinking... she's picked up all the work they did last year and is going to show me some of it.. she "plops" it on the bed... and says.. this has to be done tomorrow...
My first thought is to go hire a secretary... I mean come on.. this is the digital age.. the age of the computers... this mountain of paperwork heaping on my bed weighs more than a computer...
I keep staring at it... ...tomorrow?? ...done by tomorrow?... are they nuts??
so.. I pull myself away from my conversation and decide that the next few hours will be devoted to this.
...page after page... I lumber through ... looking up phone numbers.. of emergency contacts.. doctors.. cell phone numbers... social security numbers.. bus numbers.. my home number.. my work number... my cell number.. my blood type... the number of times I masturbated last year... I'm not quite certain that last one was on there.. but I couldn't swear it wasn't.
little by little, I churned through it... I was certain I was gonna run out of ink by the time it was over.. and I had just opened a brand new ink pen. then it seemed like I was answering the same questions over again... wait... I hadn't opened the other folder yet... WTF ... it IS the same questions.... why do they need to know it all over again.. but at least this paper is a nice shade of blue.... haven't they ever heard of CARBON paper... I am pretty sure that has been out since at least the 60's...
I have decided that the people in school administration are a bunch of sadistic bastards who are even as of now.. laughing their asses off at how much paperwork they can get the parents to do... and little beknownst to us... it all gets incinerated except for that little card they put on top with name.. homeroom.. emergency contacts.. and my signature...
There were at least 6 more papers of various sizes and colors that asked the same info... it makes no sense... I mean these people are in the same place.. if not.. haven't they heard of a PHOTOCOPIER?? it would make my life much simpler. I am feeling right now that I want to drive over to head of the school board and slice his fingers with some of the papers that have already given me a couple of battle scars for the night. So... 3 hours later.. and I finally get it all moved over from blank to done... and if I had qualified for free or reduced meals, that would have been another 8 pages to fill out..
This year was even more than last year... if it gets to be more next year, I AM going to hire a secretary. It's just wayyyyyy too much Paperwork!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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