I have been busy as Hell!

I have been sooooooooo busy that my head is spinning. Work has been driving my crazy and the kids are finding new activities and I also have school. Whatever time I get I will spend it in the bed. I am trying to juggle everything but unexpected situation pop up and throw off my whole game plan. Now football season has come around again and I have to watch my games!

I need to discuss the craziness that is work. I work in a small office with three others(my manager, assistant manager and account), we also have three engineers who take care of our two buildings. We have an assistant manager that has absolutely no clue how to do her job. She also has no desire to learn it either. For some unknown reason she thinks that I'm her assistant. What pisses me off is that she is suppose to be my back up but has yet to back me up. As I'm sitting in a position where I see no possible advancement, she is sitting in a office being totally useless. I have to be real honest, I am very salty about it too. On my end I handle my business, I am very good at what I do even making those damn cookies every Friday. Myself and my manager have received so many thank you letters and email because of me. I really love what I do, the tenant and vendors are wonderful they make my job worth coming to. Because of all my hard work I get hooked up. I have received tickets to many events(I talking VIP tickets), gift cards and gifts for the kids. Now on the other hand my assistant manager doesn't even know how to talk to the tenants or vendors. Her voice changes to that of a 10 year old and she can't provide them with an answer to their questions. She will not even correspond by email, instead she will send the emails to me and tell me to answer it then cc her on it. So I will answer the email and cc my manager and leave her out. She has no authority over anything( I found that out recently). So why is she the assistant manager.....good question. Instead of her asking questions on how to do something she will come talk to me about how much weights she has lost....yawn. I don't really care! I gave the girl one complement and ever since she has been looking for some kind of validation(insert eye roll here). It is not my job to validate how you look everyday, you need to call your momma for all that. Now I do understand that some people do not have the confidence to speak to people on a certain level, But damn it, that has nothing to do with learning you job. I'm on a mission, it is time for me to move up. I'm not saying it's going to be tomorrow but come the first of the year I will be looking. I'm trying to gain as much knowledge as possible. But unfortunately there is no structure on learning with this company. My manager continues to tell me I don't need a degree because this company doesn't recognize them. (sigh). I don't plan to be here like that and trust and believe that another company will recognize it and pay me for it.