Okay, so Bernie sent one of his emails a few minutes ago, asking for "updates" on the things he talked to me about yesterday.

As usual, 25% of these are things he could get the answers to himself if he'd just send the person responsible an email instead of telling me to send it (along with detailed instructions on exactly how he wants everything worded and I am not an idiot and I am not his secretary), 25% of them are banking/financial things I can't do because I'm not an officer of the company, 25% require me to wait for someone else to take action first, and the remaining 25% are incoherent, in that I can't even figure out what client he's talking about, much less what it is he wants me to do.

I thought I'd cured him of that.

Maybe I'm just cranky because I know I haven't been that productive today and I feel guilty and defensive, and it's warm and sunny outside and I'd rather be out there?

I dunno. Basically, his idea of my job duties seems to be "running the company" which isn't really how I understood it. I wouldn't have signed on for that job description even nine months ago, when DiamondGirl was still here and Buehler had Sassy still around to help him, we had PoodleBoy doing reports, and Moe was around for high-level tech stuff.

Now that Bernie has decided that PoodleBoy is too expensive so I should do all of the reporting and Buehler has let Sassy go so I'm doing the occasional project for him and Moe has joined the ranks of people who won't work with Bernie any more and DiamondGirl was let go because "we don't have any tech work" (which turned out to be code for, "let Anne do it!"), and Bernie has gone from coming in four days a week to coming in two days a wee and we have three free-lancers that Bernie has specific expectations from but he won't talk to them directly but tries to funnel everything through me?

I'm finding that being office manager / bookkeeper /email blast provider / free-lance worker supervisor / account executive / customer support / mail clerk / network troubleshooter / technical support / receptionist / collections agent / housekeeper / HR department is getting to be a little more than I can actually keep organized from week to week.

Later Update: His expense account is out of balance, so he spent the day going back through all of his expense reports for the year and changing and "correcting" things. He just resent all of his forms--and no, he did not mark any of the changes. So now I have to go back through his expenses for thow whole year, line-by-line, to see what he changed.

TGIF