Jeeze. I’ll bet he’s getting sick of her too.
If you’re all interns, ask her if she plans to get a job with the company after graduation. If she says yes, let her know that she’s screwing her chance by acting like an unprofessional dumbass.
After the second or third such answer, I’d have taken the cell phone out of her hand, shut it off, and put it in my pocket, saying “You’ll get this back when you’ve finished the work I hired you to do.”
Years ago, my former manager’s girlfriend would call five or six times a day. This was a high ranking manager (read: very, very busy) and he literally didn’t have time to talk to her even if he enjoyed getting her calls. I intercepted the calls when he couldn’t pick up and the girlfriend and I would end up having these awkward conversations. Well, okay, they were awkward for me because I thought calling someone five and six times a day was embarrassing. (“What’s new since I talked to you an hour ago?”) She didn’t seem to think so and would chirp on incessantly about whatever mundane thing she was calling about – the house remodel, her kids, their upcoming vacation. She was so gawdawful cheerful that she made ME want to slit my throat. I can’t imagine what made him eventually ask her to be his wife. But he did.
Fast forward, 4 years later and they’re divorcing. Maybe one day he woke up and realized that she was just too damn annoying.
(Oh, and the reason I know they’re divorced is because my friend, who was filling in for his vacationing secretary, answered his line. Despite not knowing my friend from Eve, the manager’s wife proceeded to tell her that they were in the midst of an ugly divorce. She had no sense of propriety, I tell ya.)
I think I’d be tempted to call the temp agency and say “I’m not paying for her - when you reach her to tell her that her ass is fired, let me know.”
(The wonderful thing about temps is that you can call the agency and say “um, no.”
A girl who sits next to me is newly “in love” and spent the last game she made it to calling her new boyfriend every few minutes. The first words out of her mouth every time were “Are you drinking?”. Now she is saying she is going to marry this guy. There just aren’t enough rolleyes.
I don’t have a phone at work (we can use the office phone for parent calls, that’s it-- yeah, this is a school, but no, teachers do not have phones. Sad, eh?). My cell gets no reception. My boyfriend drives around all day. If we needed to talk on the phone every few minutes, we’d both die. We can leave each other voice mails, that’s it, and frankly, that’s enough. If was an emergency, different story, but hey, at work? I’M WORKING. Too busy for idle chit chat 90% of the time. People who can do this at work are spoiled rotten.
:eek: Which answer did she hope to hear???
This guy had wanted to date her for about a year, but she wouldn’t go out with him because he “drank too much”. He said he would stop drinking - so now he only drinks when she says it’s ok. He’s not allowed to drink if she’s not there.
I do not see this lasting.
On the plus side, I’m gladdened when I hear about couples like this because it means they’re saving two other people from dating these fools.
I cover 20ish phones at work, and one of my biggest pet peeves is having to answer personal calls from the same freakin’ people over and over. Everyone I work with has a cell phone. Everyone I work with has voicemail. If you left him a voicemail an hour ago, and he hasn’t called back, it’s probably because he’s BUSY what with being AT WORK and all. By the way, I’M BUSY TOO, so stop calling. When he can call you, he will. And if not, well… take a hint.
The worst was when we had a guy who was a big ol’ manho, and gave 10 women a night his business card. After explaining to him several times that I wasn’t his fucking social secretary, eventually when women called for him, I’d immediately ask “And which one are you, honey? There’s just so damned MANY, I can’t keep y’all straight. Giggle.” Suddenly he got over his aversion to giving random bimbos his cell phone number.
Also known as the popular “If you insist on acting like a child, you will be treated accordingly” approach. A good method for the rock-stupid who don’t respond to other methods.