Look him straight in the eye, and drop the paperwork into a bin and go back to work on something oyu grab out of the in box. If he asks when you are going to get to his paperwork, tell him whenever it shows up in your in box.
Ball pythons eat about once a week. They defecate once a week, too.
Nechoshet, one of the pythons at camp, has been on a hunger strike for at least three months. Somehow she has managed, in apparent defiance of the first law of thermodynamics, to still produce enough waste to “gift” me four times in the last week.
Four times.
She is no longer my favorite coworker.
Many years ago, i was hired as an assistant to the Engineering team at a defense contractor and this is what I learned and experienced:
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One of my first tasks was to convert the old paper record list of the engineers’ drawings to an Excel spreadsheet. Using the spreadsheet I found many drawings that were the same dimensions and material, just rotated. For example 8"x3" and then a few entries down on the same page would be 3"x8" from the same engineer.
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As a defense contractor, we had gov’t drawings of the widgets that we manufactured. One of my jobs was to manage the drawings. We made the widgets in different color combinations. So for one part we would have drawing A for color 1, completely different drawing for color 2, and completely different drawing for color 3, etc. Toward the end I realized how much easier it would be to have one drawing, direct from the gov’t modified to include a color chart with different part numbers to call out the end colors of the product.
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One of the heads of the engineering team (over time we had a few) called me over and asked me why it was taking so long to send an email. I looked at what he was sending. It was a multi-page Word document that he had inserted full size digital photos. The full size of the document was in the gigabites. He asked me don’t the images shrink when you paste them into word.
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and the most annoying. Every engineer whether they were the most experienced there at 50+ or just out of college, every engineer knew everything about every subject and just because I was not an engineer I must be wrong.
Follow up to the PCL to PDF clusterfuck.
The person directing it works in IT. She doesn’t grasp the significance of legal documents disappearing into the ether. She doesn’t understand why some docs print locally and some print at the state level, and that while we can generate most docs, there are some that are automatically generated at the state level. It all causes confusion when she’s thinking ALL documents should PCL/PDF and we’re telling her it doesn’t work that way.
When the docs disappeared, I brought in one of our program managers. She handles all the technical bits n bobs (in this instance setting up the group within this agency, doing the behind the screen stuff to assign printers, authorize access, &c). I wanted her assistance in locating the docs that disappeared.
We had a meeting yesterday, it was initially just me and the IT lady, wherein I was scolded harshly for causing such a stir about missing documents, for bringing in the program manager, and she was in meetings all day Tuesday and just couldn’t deal with my “flipping out”.
Coworker joined, she explained to IT person that I was right in bringing in the pm, what the situation actually was, and why having the pm involved is necessary. Suffice it to say, the program manager is now part of the group.
Was an apology received? No. I was scolded even further not be so upset about losing documents.
Legal documents. That I think I may be able to find on Monday, after the weekly reports are run. I hope.
Whoa…that makes my one missing document seem like nothing. (I say “my” document, but I only need it as backup for an upcoming order; I wasn’t involved in the original preparation, signing, or filing.)
I just received an update…it’s thought that the original report was shipped to the customer, when they should have only received a copy. 
Update on the missing document: because the report is still missing, no record that testing was performed exists, so I’ve had to dig the test specimen out of storage and write a new procedure to repeat testing. What a productive use of my time in the office this week. 
On the plus side, it seems that someone had a chat with my loud co-worker about her speakerphone conversations; she actually closed her door this morning. I’ll be impressed if she keeps it up all week.
And an update on my missing documents: One was located. Luckily, it had been transmitted electronically to the intended recipient.
The other? Shrug
My supe printed out every case note entered on every case I worked on Monday. Still cannot find it, which is weird.
Now I’m wondering if I’m losing my mind. On my tracking sheet I entered these two docs as I was generating them. I obviously wouldn’t have entered them otherwise. Where is it?
Got the news today that we are definitely (instead of just probably) losing our final contract in September. This sucks. It is not related to COVID but what a fun time to look for a new job with the unemployment rate already elevated out there. Employer will try to find us a position elsewhere but that could be tough too because company has been hit by COVID-imposed austerity.
The missing document was located this afternoon! It had been scanned in with a completely unrelated job package; my supervisor found it while searching through every single file that was scanned in on the day the document in question went through final sign-off.
Who does this scanning? My loud co-worker, of course. 
Her sudden ability to work quietly was gone after lunch; she spent the end of the afternoon watching a video of Joe Biden with the sound cranked up (apparently his stutter is funny to her).
I am so sorry to hear that. All I can do is wish you luck and hope you land somewhere better.
Thanks. I’m trying to see it as an adventure. 
My workplace is curbside pickup only. So OMFG …
Walking up to a car and asking, “Hiya, what’s your name?”
“Yup.”
Not a yes/no question, dude. 
It gets better, if I’m running change out for someone else. I’ve likely never seen the person’s face, okay?
“Hiya, what’s your name?”
“Oh, I already got my order. I’m just waiting on change.”
me, looking down at the various fistfuls of money I’m balancing
“Let’s try this again, shall we? What. Is. Your. Name.”
Dude, I’m not gonna wave around handfuls of money - or product - and be all, “Kevin? Where’s Kevin?”
We all know fourteen hands are gonna wave at me. I’m Kevin! No, you’re probably not.
Oh, perfect. This has eaten up weeks of my life.
Dear student. You have openly plagiarized some code. You did a google search, you have copied several hundred lines of code, you have changed a few variable names, crossed out the old name on the top and scrawled in your own in sharpie, and you thought perhaps I might not notice.
I feel like I should be insulted that you think me so stupid. Instead, I get to bust out my dad-joke grade Larry Snotter monologue**, and you have to suffer through it. So the joke’s on you. (also you get zero in my course because you were a serial cheater ok thx bye)
** It goes like this, but greatly abbreviated: “If you take a Harry Potter novel, cross out the name of the hero and write in ‘Larry Snotter’, you have not made an original work. I am not buying Larry Snotter’s adventures in Snogwarts.”
So I’ve been working at a college for the last year, as a part time lab tech, while I was at university. I haven’t actually been in since March, I’ve been on a government furlough scheme, and now it’s summer holidays, but I’ve still been getting paid, so that’s not exactly something I can complain about, just background. I’ve had almost no communication from the department- they’ve been busy, my manager has been promoted, there’s been a whole range of changes going on with courses being moved to another site. Understandable really, but…
I was supposed to be starting doing some teaching there in September, as part of which, I was going to be enrolled on a training course. If I’m totally honest, the course is the main reason I’ve been staying around, as it’s potentially useful for other things- the hours I was actually told I’d be getting really aren’t enough to live on, so I’ll be having to get a second job delivering pizza or cleaning or something. Worth it for a year if it’s going to lead to better things (if nothing else, they should have more hours going there as someone’s retiring, which I would probably be first in line for if it’s working out), but not if it’s just going to be dead end.
I got the form to register for the course just under a month back, and immediately went to sign up, but it had a few questions I couldn’t answer, which I needed to fill out to submit it; I hadn’t been told which hours I was supposed to be teaching (they need this to work out the training hours), and I apparently was supposed to have a mentor from my department, with some info about their qualifications. Emailed my manager, who sent me a friendly reply saying she’d check and get back to me.
So I waited- this is a college during the summer break, stuff can happen a bit slowly as people are often away.
A few weeks passed.
I sent my manager a reminder note.
Got a message asking what size desk diary I wanted, but no update on the info I needed. This is getting a bit ridiculous.
Went to go check if there was a date on the form today, and I couldn’t load it. Looks like signup has closed. My chain of command is now, since the promotion, only my manager (who’s now off on holiday), and the site manager, who wouldn’t have a clue about stuff internal to my department like this. There’s no-one else I can ask- and college rules say I can’t do the hours I’ve been signed up for without doing this course. What the hell am I supposed to do now?
Gaaaah…
This may not exactly go here, but I didn’t want to start a new thread in MPSIMS.
I am on the job hunt right now and decided to look up some old coworkers on FB. I’m not on FB very often because it just makes me feel bad, mostly designed for people to post annoying jokes or snippets that make their lives sound perfect and I’m not there for it.
So anyway, in looking for my old boss I found out that she died in March. THAT was the last thing I expected. She was a few years younger than me which makes her mid to late 40s. So weird. She was SO YOUNG when I started working there, only like 22. How can she be gone?
We had lost touch but this was such a shock to me. If 2020 were a tangible object I’d drown it in the toilet.
I am ready to hunt down whoever authorized pushing new programs on us without notification they were coming, no explanation how they work, and nothing being customized to actually work within our job function and beat them.
Then, when things totally are fucked up, they shrug their shoulders and say they have no idea how that could’ve happened or how to fix it.
Idiots.
Employee, we received multiple complaints when we stopped doing the stupid games. Face it, we’re damned if we do and we’re damned if we don’t.
I don’t know why the water fountains have been taped off for months now, but there’s at least a dispenser (with a coffee can begging us to chip in) but … that’s been empty since yesterday. 
We’re curbside pickup only, running hundreds of orders a day out to people’s cars, and there’s NO FUCKING WATER for your employees?!?
that sounds like a labor violation… id bring it up to the bosses
Far, far worse was having to work with Noisy Bitch all day.
There’s a couple of other team members who subject us all to a stream-of-consciousness rambling of their inner monologues and conspiracy theories. That’s bad enough, but I can generally tune them out until I hear something work-related.
But Noisy Bitch has no Inside Voice at all, and screetches out her every thought, hope, fears and dreams, and what (or who) she did the night before.
It’s physically painful working with her.
Hell, she’s not even that great at her job, because she’s slow. So much of her mental energy goes towards singing and yelling that she falls behind, and now my eardrums hurt AND I hafta pick up her slack.