Office Disaster - Don't know what to do

[Secretary99]

I have just come back from the dry cleaners (almost in tears) as they have lost my dry cleaning. I put a suit in for dry cleaning last week but they cannot find it.

This puts me in big trouble as I’m wearing jeans (not office clothes) and whilst my boss is not in again until Monday, I have to deal with a client at 11am to sign some accounts.


I have only been working as a temporary PA/Secretary at this firm of Accountants in West London for the past five weeks. It is a tiny office and there is just the boss and me. She and I don’t hit it off and presentation is her middle name.


I am broke until Friday, so I cannot buy more clothes and I live about one and half hours away, so I cannot go home.


What should I do???? I could do nothing and hope the client does not complain or ever mention me wearing jeans and no one is any the wiser.


But, if the client did mention it to my boss then I could be fired instantly and the employment agency would not give me any further bookings.


But, if I telephoned my boss to explain now then I still might get fired. It is so unfair. What should I do?

[turast]

I'll say it again. If worry about your job is robbing you of sleep to such an extent that you are sitting at your computer at 3 in the morning asking for advice, then, inevitably you will be irritable and under performing at work the next (same) day. This is Einstein's definition of madness. Break out of this vicious circle. Rethink your life. Is this job really worth it? It sounds like complete purgatory to me. Take it from one who knows and cares. If you could just distance yourself from your job for a while, you would see just how petty and unimportant all the issues you have been raising really are in the great scheme of things. This kind of work stress is not sustainable and not good for you. FYI, your typing may be rapid but it is not accurate.