Do I have to be nice?

Because I had such a great evaluation, expect me to refer to it every once in a while. This is one of those occasions.

I've been working here for the past two years and four months, yet people still think I'm new. People walk into the suite I work at and ignore me. They say hi to everyone else, except me. Maybe it's my awesome 21" monitor or maybe it's because I'm at my corner quietly surfing the Web or e-mailing friends. But back to my point ... because people don't know me, I'm a little meaner or less patient with some people. Not everybody. Just some people. So it was surprising when my boss said I'm really nice and professional and my relations with people over the phone are even better than his. Aw. Me? Nice? Aw shucks.

I remembered this as I spoke to an egotistical professor who wanted me to remove staff accompanist from her bio in a release I wrote. Stupid professor didn't say anything about it the last two times I wrote her bio. In fact, I just copied and pasted the damn thing. I had to remind her that the release was about the performance and to let the public know about the event. I had to mention that at least three times. I didn't hold back because she kept insisting she was not staff. I told her that there are some employees who are classified as staff and work just as hard or even harder than administrators and professors. Plus, the stupid bio didn't have "staff" anywhere on it.