Micromanagers, macroheadaches

I told myself I wasn't going to come here and rant about petty things like my job.  I lied. 

We are getting ready for the NY Chocolate Show.  My cher/owner is a micromanager.  Chef is also flighty and disorganized.  We are being hit with the worst of it.  I know I'm there to create order but it is hard when someone can't make up their mind.  Worse is when my Chef gets competitive and weird and won't let me make a product that I can do much better than the Chef and then I have to watch my Chef working like a slob, using really crappy technique and making a mess of stuff that will be seen by the peers of the Chef and the public in several days.  I'm embarrassed to say my standards are higher and I don't own the company. 

The good thing is my co-worker.  I am happy each day that she comes in and I have a compatriot.  We work really well together and can get things done in half the time when Chef is not around.  It is nice to have someone who I can laugh with when Chef asks for the 20th time how many batches of whatever we've scaled when we've already said we have no scaling containers and must wait for her to be done. 

Other than that, Otis has an ulcer on his eye and I must put this goopy antibiotic cream and a pain relieving cream in his eye twice a day.  Cream on the eye of a pitbull is hard.  He's just so strong and he clenches his eyes so tight.  I have to have M. help me hold them open.  Otis is almost 13 and I know he doesn't have many more years with us.  It's only in this past year that things have really gone down for him and it just pains me to see my sweetie with so many ailments and issues. 

Now, so as not to sound like a huge mope, I'm very looking forward to a night of carryout sushi, wine, ANTM and Top Chef.  Mind numbing activities are the best.