So ever since Evan told Vin he thought I called out of work because I was tired of coming to work and not doing anything, I've been getting asked to do some pretty weird things. I didn't notice until today, but it was like my boss forgot how to do things for himself over the weekend. My boss was still an intern when I interviewed for my job, so he's pretty new to this whole thing and probably used to doing things for other people, not having other people do things for him. And this is why I thankfully never get sent out on errands for things like some kind of coffee from Starbucks that I can't pronounce, or $20 packs of cigarettes.
I was pretty tired today and decided fairly early this morning I was going to work slowly this morning, especially because I don't have much to do! Around 12:30, Vin sent me a bunch of seperate lists of TV ratings and asked me to combine and organize them. Okay...done in 5 minutes. Next? Then he asked me to open his mail, which I thought was pretty weird because I didn't even know he GOT mail, and here he comes over to my desk with a huge stack! So I opened all those, and sorted them out by producer or songwriter and put them in their respective binders. Then he sent me to the mailroom twice, oh how I love riding the elevator all day! After that he asked me to listen to a CD someone sent in for a demo submission. It was pretty bad, but any second I get to pretend to be an A&R is okay with me.
A little while later he went out for lunch and came back with Billboard magazine (a magazine I love and wish everyday of my life I had the money to subscribe to and the time to read). He casually mentioned that he was thinking I should spend about an hour or so everyday looking at the charts and taking note of the top producers and songwriters, because these are things "we should know." He took that a step further and said that I should make a list of the Hot 100 so that we could have on file all the top producers and songwriters of each week. I didn't mind this because at least its something to do every week. Then I started working on the list and realized I'm going to need a magnifying glass to be able to read that tiny writing! I did that fairly quickly too and then around 5:00, he asked me to clean up and organize all of the binders we have for our artists and producers. I've noticed these binders are rarely used and sit on my desk, not his, so I couldn't really understand why they needed to be organized! But I did that too, and went above and beyond by alphabetizing them!
I don't mind being given these things to do, really I don't, because this is the whole point of going to the office every morning instead of working from my coveted bed. But I can't help but think that my boss really struggles to find things for me to do, although I admire his effort to make this internship more interesting for me. He does conclude every task he gives me with something along the lines of, "this is good for A&R's to do too, Evan does it."
Well, if Evan does it, then let the work begin!
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