A Scene from an Old Horror Movie

That's what I feel like, this week!!

I came into my office, Monday morning, to find ants crawling ALL OVER my desk!!! Ya, their highway starts on the right side, just in front of my desk, up the side to the top of the desk, and then down the other side!

Who's the brainiac behind THAT travel route??? Wouldn't it just be easier to go under the desk and NOT go over my foot, while doing the Kamikaze biting thing??? (Meaning that once one of them starts to bite me, they are dead for sure!!)

Anyway, I quickly became very frustrated, because nobody in the office seems to know anything about our Orkin account, or what number I should call. Then, the maintenance guy (and I use that title VERY loosely!!) tells me that he can't find his bug spray! He claims the receptionist had it last . . . WHATEVER!!*

Anyway, I discovered their point of entry -- there is a tile on the floor, directly in front of my office, that is broken in half . . . apparently because the cement is rising on this side of the building. So, the ants, being the industrious little suckers that they are, basically dug a hole, or trail, or whatever it is they do, that allows them free access to my office, and anywhere else they want to go!*

I finally just looked Orkin up, myself, on Dex On Line, and called them up. That was Monday afternoon. Tuesday comes along, and I still haven't heard from anyone. Called again. Oh, you need to talk to a service tech. Called again in the afternoon, nobody answered my call after being on hold for 20 minutes.

Wednesday morning, call again. Spent plenty of time in the hold/ignore position again!! FINALLY somebody answered my call, and proceeded to tell me that the only form of communication that they have with the service technicians is Text messaging. FABULOUS!! This is a direct quote, "I can send him a text, and if I don't hear from him within 30 minutes, I can text him again." Wow, crazy communication skills in this century!!

Someone from Orkin called my office 2 hours later, and told the receptionist that a tech would be out after 12 pm. What, are we waiting for the cable guy, now, with this timeframe?? And, he DID show up . . . at 3:40 pm! Wow, great timing!

He sprayed outside, putzed around my desk a little bit, and then proceeded to tell me that it would probably be a week before the pesky little varmints were completely gone! MY HELL - a week???? He assured me that I could call him, if there were a serious problem, but if it were just one or two ants, well . . . you can imagine his thoughts here!

So, fast forward to Thursday morning. I walk into my office, and I only see one or two little ants meandering around on my door jam. My first thought? "Okay, maybe they've slowed it down, so I don't have to deal with them crawling all over me!" NOT SO MUCH!! Again, ALL OVER my desk!

This means war, suckers!!! I started wiping down my desk with Clorox wipes, which is apparently just as effective as bug spray, cuz once I wipe the surface, there are 10-12 little dead ants on my wipe! But, that doesn't stop them! So, I went to Home Depot . . . and returned armed and dangerous!! They'll be sorry they messed with me!!

These are the purchases that I made:

I was VERY frightened of how my office might be infested on Monday morning, after a long weekend, if I didn't take the situation into my own hands! So, I have been a little spray crazy, and now I have 4 of the little traps out . . . if they don't work, I may have to call myself a psychiatrist!!!

Now, in reference to the * - I've NEVER worked at a place where the maintenance manager refuses to do certain aspects of the maintenance job! And, I must say, I don't really like it!