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Dot's Diary: Where's my motivation?

I've had quite a hard time at work recently, not because I have had loads to do, but I am finding it really difficult to get motivated.

When I first started this job I saw it as a challenge and I really wanted to improve the office and make it a better place for everyone to work in, but people seem to like working in a complete dump so why try and give them anything different? I wonder if other office managers have the same problem? Or am I doing something wrong?

I got a new house rabbit recently and it lives inside with me and my flatmates. I bought it a beautiful new home with a lovely soft floor, nice big litter tray and a cosy snug bed. This rabbit could not have it better but it has decided to sleep in the litter tray and poo in his bed!

Sometimes no matter what you do, people (or naughty rabbits) will do whatever they want so what's the point? Of course, I know I can train my rabbit, it's just a shame that people aren't as easy.

Of course my job isn't just about making sure people are clean in the office but it seems to dominate it sometimes! Another aspect of this job that seems to rule me completely is talking to Orange about our company mobile phones. They have been driving me crazy!

I've have been trying to order some new data cards which allow our staff to connect to the internet remotely. My IT manager told me which ones he would like and sent me a link from the Orange website so I was 100% on which ones they were. I rang Orange and tried to get the order number for this particular model and I was told that it didn't exist. I was told this while I was looking at the Orange website so I was a little confused.

After battling with one of the Orange representatives for about half an hour they finally found the model I was after - the confusion came because the medium business enterprise division of Orange calls it by a different name and I was looking at the small business enterprise site. You would have thought that they could have just all called it by the same name, but then I guess that would be far too simple.

I think as an office manager, you can sometimes feel very lonely and a bit desperate because everything feels like a battle at times. But then if an office ran smoothly by itself what would be the point of having an office manager!

And I complain bitterly about the people here but all it takes to cheer me up is for someone to bring me a nice cup of tea and ask how I'm doing and I'm back to loving them all again. I won't stop training my rabbit not to poo in my house, just like I'm not going to stop telling people at work to tidy up after themselves.

HR Zone, 2-May-2008
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