You can now reach me at deathspiral@travelcompany.com
So, for those who don’t know/haven’t guess, I work in travel. We’ll just call my company Travel Company but you could probably figure it out if you paid attention. Travel Company is a privately owned, small tour operator that runs group tours to weird places. Being a small company and being as how the nature of our business is strange anyway, I have become sort of used to doing a random assortment of things for the office. Technically, my job function is internet marketing, but I spend a lot of my time doing data entry for hotel pricing, sending out visa kits for people going to Turkmenistan, calling our Moscow offices trying to get information out of them despite not speaking a word of Russian, looking up airfare, etc. I’m your girl friday.
The problem is, of course, that I am both competent and quick (when I’m not skyving off to write in Sad Sigh), which means that my job load just keeps increasing. And it seems like every time we have a staff changeup, I get a new email address (when the IT guy left I became techsupport@travelcompany.com; when the person who did our data entry got too busy to do it, I became database@travelcompany.com; when we decided to start a FAQ project, I became FAQ@travelcompany.com, etc.). So when 3 people were laid off two weeks ago, it did not surprise me that I was given another email address to deal with some of the overflow workload left by them.
What did surprise me was that I finally counted up the number that I answer every day and I now have 6 email addresses at work. 6. 6!!!! That essentially means I have 6 different job functions at a company where every job function is super varied since we are small and weird.
So, I guess feeling like a schizo is just part of the hazards of the job. Write to me! Really, pick any working email address @travelcompany.com (obviously, not our real domain) and it’s probably me! There are only 13 employees now. There’s like a 46% chance I’ll answer.
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Can you bring me back some goat meat next time you’re in Uzbekistan?