Hope you’re kidding around, dropsie. I’d much prefer the quieter, real you.
And that lame scenario at the end? That’s the opposite of all my experience.
What is “all my experience”?:
Guy tries to be funny, woman tells him in no uncertain terms he’s being an idiot.
Guy reforms, wins woman by being genuine.
She continues to roll her eyes every single time he tries to be funny or “ON” for the next 30+ years…
When I’m asked to help, I’m more than happy to do so. Just let me know when you’re getting started and I’ll walk you through it. Then that turns into me waiting for that call for help until 30 minutes before their shift ends, and it turns into, Oh, I’m not going to have time. Which turns into me having to do it myself. Whatever, active working time it takes to do the task is like 15 minutes. That’s not the point, it’s that now this person isn’t trained for yet another week on something that would take them a total of 15 minutes, and not all at once, either.
Ahem. My job is to get medical offices to sign up to get their medical claims from certain payers through direct deposit instead of through paper checks. Weeks or months faster (current client’s client is a slow pay, and I’m thinking of shifting to another that is beloved). I am calling medical office or billing managers “on behalf” of my company’s client (as I said before, it’s subcontractors all the way down) out of the clear blue, though I try to get my client’s name and other payers out front early because most offices hate the client’s client client. My wife worked in medical billing offices so I know how to talk to them, but she knows me and calls my sense of humor “corny.” Don’t care because I’m just trying to be reassuring. As women, a guy making lame, though inoffensive, jokes seems to be safe, because I will eventually need them to key in, sight unseen, their passwords and banking information. I succeed because several times a day I need to remind them that I, personally, do not want to know their banking account. :rolleyes:
I’ve known for decades that women know we are laughable, pathetic, and lame*, and seem to judge us by how sincerely lame we are. I am sincerely offering a service that can help them do their jobs faster and easier. If calling the Captcha “hieroglyphics I have no hope of helping you with,” makes them feel more comfortable with me because I’m so lame, I’ll use it.
yes – that the guy who was leaving spent part of his time working in her area. Which was already under-staffed due to not hiring anyone to replace the previous 3 people who left. So she needs to alert her bosses that this additional departure will likely affect their ability to deliver work on time.
Got it in one. Not only does it have a huge impact on a team that has been stretched to the breaking point for months already, it potentially impacts multiple other teams because our team can’t perform. I needed people ASAP with access to HR records to identify potential eligible interviewees, and who could give me permission to look into those folks’ work performance via their supervisors.
Yeah, that was my reading also. I love learning how other cultures celebrate holidays. 
Hey IT folks, quit making changes that screw up my scheduled jobs. I have one that runs weekly, it takes image files from one server that have been processed that week, puts them in a zip file, and uploads them to our FTP server. Then another job on another server downloads the zip file and sends it to our customer. Twice in the last month, the first job failed because the IT folks uninstalled the zip software from the server and didn’t tell anyone. This week we discovered that they made changes to the FTP server accounts over the weekend and now we can’t upload or download files. Meanwhile we get angry calls from our customer wondering where their image files are, and we have to explain to them why our jobs have failed three times in five weeks. Thanks IT guys for making us look like idiots!
Congratulations, you just passed a course on corporate jargon without:
The great thing about The ‘Fapper’ Initiative (FAPR = Fleeting Acronyms, Persistent Ramifications) at my work is that all the buzzwords change every four-to-six months. So a few of us curmudgeons sit back and watch the eager young’uns fill their powerpoints with this week’s acronyms and spend months rewriting their StrategemHierarchiesInTime to bring them in line with QUISP/NOTQUISP protocols.
What they don’t realize is that by December, no one will even mention NOTQUISP, because a VP went to a seminar on QUAKE, and we’ll be re-writing everything…
And the 20-somethings are SO motivated and always tell me I’d better hurry up with my re-writes because they’d just read that “both QUISP and NOTQUISP effect-ables need to be monumentized in refraction of and proximal to the Proto-QUISP and Pre-QUAKE protocols.”
And I feel like Stanley on The Office as I kick back in my chair and drawl “Yeaaaah, I should get to that, but I got this comic book for my Professional Development, and it ain’t gonna read itself…”
digs? Can I come sit on your lawn? I’ll bring a cooler and drinks.
I think it’s because, with B leaving, the OP’s department was going to be down to 2 people, when it normally should have 6.
My plan is to be the old fart that not only doesn’t mind people on his lawn, but supplies the beer. So make room in that cooler…
A manager at our other location wonders to me about contingency plans for when a manager is out on vacation or something. I say, the other manager is the contingency. She says, well, what about when they’re both out? I say they shouldn’t do that. Oh, but they did. Overlapping vacations over the same 10 days. Yeah, y’all should have talked that one over and perhaps planned differently.
I was never officially attached to IT, but I did their work often enough to relate to that. We not only had a flaky IT manager but also the president managed according to what book he was reading, so I had to do a lot of reading just to get a clue about what hare-brained 1990s get-productive-fast scheme he’d come up with next.
My current bosses set up a bookshelf of the same shit, since they have never worked elsewhere and have no real training in how to run a company beyond what the owners, still living in 1956 though it’s the third generation (they laughed one brother/grandson out of the company because he tried to use what he learned when he got his MBA, calling him “college boy”), taught them when they tried to rise above being telemarketers. I looked at the books and mentally ticked them off, “Read it. 7 Habits could’ve been a two-page article in Parade. Read it; it was bullshit. Oh, Napoleon Hill brings me back.”
My job has a planning committee that has sales on PAY DAY and want you to buy stuff:smack:
ok, this is not a rant, but I don’t really have any one else to tell. I have been at this company for 8 years. 6 months ago I was promoted from Traffic Coordinator to Traffic Analyst, I had my mid year review and told my boss I was still trying to really learn this position but sometime in the distant, long time from now, future I would like to become the Traffic Manager. Working more with all of our other locations even more than I already am. Guess what? The VP of Compliance of our parent corporation had already approached the President of the corp. and told him, “I need someone in this position and I want Adhemar.” President said “make it so.”
Damn I am speechless. no more surfing the Dope at work anymore, I will actually have to work. :eek:
Dude, that his in the Happy Milestones thread in MPSIMS. Congrats!
Congratulations, Adhemar. We need the occasional bright spot amidst all the gloom, doom and incompetence that seems to be the soul of this thread.
Good luck, and if we ever see you posting during working hours again, you’ll hear from us!
Congrats adhemar!
During my never-ending job hunt, I’ve often thought about what it would be like to go through an entire work week without needing my iPod or my stack of science/engineering magazines…
That is tragic. 
