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01/21/2003 Entry: "In which the weblogger reveals what a suburban whitebread wussypuss he really is."
So yesterday I forgot my badge to get into the office at work. No big deal, I do this about once a week. I probably have my own personal temp badge waiting for me at the main reception desk. So I work until 6:30 or so, and find I can't turn in the badge because the receptionist has gone home. Whatever.
I get home, and my little badge thing I'm supposed to wave in front of the swipper thingamabob isn't working. People are behind me in line waiting to get into the garage. It's eerily similar to a recent escapade. I have to get out of the car and ask the people behind me to backup because my badge isn't working. Someone else swipes their badge for me, and it works. Whatever.
I get to the lobby and there's a sign by the mailboxes: "It's been brought to our attention that some of the badges aren't working. Please come to the office at your earliest convenience to have your badge recoded."
So I get up the next morning, and putz around a bit because the office doesn't open until 9:00AM, and when I go down there nobody there. The office is closed on Tuesdays. Un-blankityblank-believable. So not only have they not dealt with the unworking badge problem for Monday night, but they're ignoring it all of Tuesday as well. Plus, I get to work late with nothing to show for it.
Ah, yes back to that temp badge... The receptionist is in by the time I finally get to the office, and I hand in the badge. He types away at his console, activating my normal card again. Only my badge never gets activated. I have to wait for someone to walk by the door to let me in. Again at lunch it's not working. I go back to the receptionist, and they tell me some server went down and anyone who had a temp badge yesterday didn't get their badges reactivated today.
So, alas, none of my security devices are working. I had to duck into the garage behind a car like a thief to get into the building tonight. I have to go into work late again tomorrow. Hopefully someone will actually be in the office to get the apartment badge cleared up. And then when I get to work, I'm hoping the work badge will be fixed as well.
This is the longest post in ages and it all about being locked out of a couple buildings for few minutes. I am such a suburban whitebread wussypuss. Ughh.
