"How are you finding yourself?"

I got in trouble at work today. I never get in trouble. I was sitting at my desk hunched over my iPod with my face about 5 inches from it and one of our senior supervisors walks over to me. I take off my headphones and she says, "So how are you finding yourself? Are you having any problems understanding the questions?" Hmmmm. "No, why? Am I marking them incorreclty?" I ask. "You're marking them remarkably slow." "Oh. Really?" "Everyone else is marking around 600 while you're only doing 200." I wanted to smack her because I knew she was exaggerating. Instead I replied with, "Oh, that is pretty slow. I guess that's no good huh?" "I don't mind if you listen to music but perhaps maybe you could uh...put away your diary (she was referring to my idea book, I write down random things I think of during the day). Maybe that way you'd be able to concentrate a bit more." "Sure, ok." I grumble through my best smile. For the rest of the day I felt like I was being watched.

Geez. Big Brother Pearson is watching me! Apparenly I'm the slowest marker. That must be an inflated statistic and must only apply to today. I was not going that slow. I talked to a team leader today about it. He wanted to know what Eniko (that was my supervisor's name) had said to me. I told him I'd gotten in trouble because apparently I'm working to slowly. He said it was true. The average person was marking 500 questions and I was only doing around 300, according to him. Then I say, "Well, Eniko said people were doing like 600 while I was only doing 200." "Well, yeah." Well, yeah? I knew they were exaggerating the truth. Well, you know what? Since EVERYTHING has to be turned into some sort of competition, tomorrow I'm going to be the fastest. I'm going to drink some coffee (yuck...) or 6 cupes of tea and click that mouse as fast as I can all the way until our tea break. Tomorrow I'll be the one marking 600 questions!

Watch out slowpokes.