O dear gawd.
I just received a copy of an analysis of some capital spending proposals - let’s say it’s for Tom’s Puffy Snowshoes, Inc.
And am in a complicated discussion of… “the TPS report.”
No, it does not have the correct cover page. No, I don’t know where I put the memo.
Yeaaaah, well, if you could take care of that, that’d be greaaat.
Yeeeah. I’m gonna need you to come in on Saturday? That’d be great.
Yeeaaahh, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and take care of that? That’d be greeaaat.
Could you go ahead and move your desk down to storage area B?
Ah! Yeah. It’s just we’re putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that’d be great. All right!
Yeah, Bill, let me ask you a real quick question here. How much time would you say you spend each week dealing with these TPS reports?
It’s nice to see a thread once in a while where you know exactly what replies are going to say before you open it.
That’s my stapler!
I can’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.
I once got a staff manager to start asking for a weekly Total Progress Synopsis report. He stopped requiring it after (I think) someone had told him why we were all laughing.
<slurps coffee>
This thread needs a theme song. Maybe something by Michael Bolton.
Which one?
I did the same thing. They made us change the name after someone told the bosses why we were laughing.
I celebrate his entire catalog.
Fuckin’ A.
Just as long as you play it at a reasonable level…
I just realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it.
Hello, Peter. What’s happenin’?
The one who doesn’t suck.