  Annoying Tuesday Morning Times like these, I feel even more motivated to resign from this hellish job. Annoyance # 1) Work Area I arrive, as per usual, around 9 am this morning at work. Last week, in anticipation of the 50 new associates arriving, I had already carved out my own table in the "in-charge's area".
This meant cleaning and clearing out files that have been there since the beginning of time...At least in the beginning of my Firm's stint in this building. I also took the liberty of placing my stuff, to mark my territory so to speak, since I was one of the first to actually realize that tables will be rare for the coming months. The other people who have done so before me, have also marked their territory. I had half expected, that they would extend the same courtesy to me, as they have to their "friendly friends" with whom they say defensively to anyone who approaches their "friendly friends" area, that it has already been taken. I was wrong. But that didn't make me lose my temper. Instead, I decided to make my territory even more clear. I put my name on the table. In BIG BOLD LETTERS. And guess what? This morning, I find another in-charge working in my area, without even offering to apologize for the fact that, well, that is my area.
She didn't even give me a second look. And the space beside me, which was empty, was "saved" for one of the friendly friends. And the other table which could have been another area, somebody placed files on the chair, on the table and on the floor... so obviously, I cannot work there. F***. So instead, I had to find a new place to work. Only to find out later that another girl was able to clear the table with files and work there....
Double F***. Annoyance # 2) Professional Peers Same girl who claimed my work space, comes up to me, and says, quite casually that she wants to get my staff to continue working for her account. I ask, through clenched teeth, until when. And guess what again. She wants to use my staff until the end of my own forecast (estimated completion date of my account). She wasn't even going to offer me alternatives... until I told her, quite simply, No. And then, since I empathized with her, I suggested extending my staff's forecast next week to be able to accommodate both our clients.
And she acted as if she expected me to fix that!!! As if she had any right... any f***ing right. Annoyance # 3) Resource Management Currently, our audit group has 61 associates, 20 senior associates and 2 supervising seniors plus an array of managers, directors and partners. The other group has around 80++ associates and god knows how many other superiors. We share one area. This area has 17 desktop computers. Of the associates, I'm estimating optimistically, that around 40 for both groups have laptops, of which, possibly 20 belongs to our group.
That means that in our group alone, there are 41 staff level auditors who have no consistent access to computers. These people are the ones that do the grunt work of investigating and examining and most importantly documenting audit issues. And all the partners and the IT can say, is that the associates DON'T NEED IT. It's not even industry average.
In the 3 other big auditing firms, 2 being bigger than us, and the other one being smaller than us, laptops are provided to EACH ASSOCIATE on your SECOND DAY OF WORK. Did I also mention that there are only 3 printers servicing the audit area? 2 of which are notorious to jam. WHAT THE F*** WAS I THINKING OF WHEN I ENTERED THIS PLACE? And the many other small things that I'm just too frustrated to write about right now. What was I thinking? God, please help me find a better job... I don't think I'll remain sane in this current one. 
