Did I go to college for this?

Yesterday, the dreaded Monday monster decided to rear it's head and it's victim was....you guessed it...yours truly. For some reason, despite my efforts to organize and predict future breakdowns to my nicely crafted system, my coworkers always manage to get ME in trouble.

The stories goes like this......since I graduated from NYU, it is presumed that I am a mini Einstein, thus, I can handle the tasks of 80 workers at once and within a 9-5 time frame. While I'd like to think NYU had nothing to do with the fact that I couple common sense with time management skills, I rarely correct people that attribute my work success to NYU because it cost so much to attend that school.

Yesterday, however, my intellect came into question for reasons beyond my control. In medicine, timing is everything.....if you are late for an appointment, you ruin the day; if the doctor is late, that ruins my day (as a receptionist dealing with disgruntle patients) and most of all, if someone messes up medical paperwork that ruins the entire offices day....why?....because the tyrannical Mr.Goldstein quickly turns into Mr. Hyde

In the midst of his rant....he proclaims that with all these college educated people working for him, why isn't his system for lab work working? Of course he doesn't think it is working because he doesn't know how the system he devised is actually running.

In my mind I am thinking----Well, Dr. Goldstein, it is working. Due to my NYU degree, I have learned to ask questions and investigate before drawing conclusions....after calling the lab to confirm what time the specimen in question was completed, it makes sense that no report was ready because it hasn't been run yet.----however, I verbalize the following:

"I don't know what happened, but I will talk with the MA who checked the labs and confirm with the lab what time the specimen was ready"

Dr. Goldstein replies, "yeah, well, that always seems to be the answer. With all this education around here why are things NOT WORKING."

Surprisingly, I didn't get upset, but rather began to ponder......Alyce, why are you working here? Is this what you doled out thousands of dollars at NYU to become? The worker bee for some crazy doctor?

NO......but yet, I am still here......devising a plan to take over NYC...with my three best friends.