I went to the meeting, which was literally a critique of my apology email- she gave me a copy when I walked in, and had her own copy with highlighted portions- with comments regarding word choice, information I chose to include, and the overall presentation, all couched in “I really like you and want you to do better, and part of that is showing you how things might come across to others.” She spoke for a ridiculously long time, my boss thanked her, I thanked her, and we were done.
But I am fairly certain my boss flat-out lied on my behalf, so props to her. I take back 25% of the stuff I’ve said about her over the past few months.
Yeah, I’ve had to play “Bite My Tongue” and act contrite like that before. Congrats for surviving it.
A friend of my son just reminded me of the first time my kid saw me do that. We pulled into Boy Scout summer camp with a full load of young hellions… and both side doors of our van open, blaring Black Sabbath.
Well, an apoplectic elderly Scoutmaster-for-Life with a uniform full of patches and medals (some had swastikas, as I recall) came hobbling over and screamed at me for “driving on the freeway with the doors open and those kids could’ve fallen out! In fact, I wish they had so we could charge you with manslaughter!! I could send you all back home again IM-medi-ATE-ly!!!”
When it became clear that he didn’t care that we had only opened the doors in the parking lot at 3 mph, I had to sit there in front of six middle school boys and nod “Yes, sir. I understand why you’re upset, sir. Won’t happen again this week.”
The boys dissolved into guffawing as soon as we were out of earshot, which I remember whenever I have to do that at work.
My workplace doesn’t answer the phone after 5pm, and that’s when we get the most business. I have to explain to people why we don’t have someone sitting around at a phone to answer questions that are available on our website. It’s cheaper to just not answer the phone.
Think how much you’d save if you just unplugged 'em!
Or set up an outgoing message that says “You’ve reached our National Service Center, where serving the nation from its center is our middle name. No one is in the country to take your call right now. Please check our website for the answer, and if by chance the answer isn’t there, only then may you call back and leave a message.* Beeep.*”
Idiot Boss went on vacation, leaving several shared documents open and therefore blocked for edit. Yes, we can make copies, but the problem there is which is the correct version, and did he do something in his copy which isn’t reflected on the site? :smack:
Why would you not go to the lunch room to eat your lunch? It’s not called the “sit and socialize” room. If I eat at my desk, I continually get interrupted by people wanting me to do things. I much prefer to sit quietly by myself and eat lunch without being disturbed by anyone.
I go to get away from my desk and read my Kindle. It’s my lunch hour and I choose not to socialize. I want me time.
If I am eating at my desk, it means I’m too busy to get away and will be working while I eat, therefore available to my co-workers and boss as needed. Not all of us have an office door we can close.
You seem to be under the impression that one never encounters stupid people at work (other than yourself, that is). If you are fortunate enough to work at such a place, you should do everything you can to keep that job, because such an environment is worth a price beyond diamonds, due to its rarity.
On the other hand, lots of people I know sometimes actually eat while they are working (not at lunch or on a break). Sometimes they want to run errands on their lunch hour; sometimes they have other reasons.
I’m going to guess that you tried to talk to someone in the lunch room while they were reading a book and eating their lunch, and you got brushed off with them telling you that they just wanted to read and not to talk. If this happened, you should take this very personally. They wouldn’t mind talking to most people, just not to you.
My workplace does not allow eating at desks, nor are writing instruments allowed (call center dealing with financial info), which is a pain for someone wanting to do some sudoku over lunch.
I’m so glad all the responses that sprang to my mind have already been made, so I don’t have to. For all the good it’s likely to do. Just posting for solidarity.
Found a manual (“manual”… over 100 pages) for one of the document types we use (there are half a dozen types in the same program, that I know of). It’s of course incomplete. I need to get the link for the TTG and attach it in the first CRE, then get the information for the UAT from the second of the three people which form the UAT stream (neither the first nor the third one have all the information) and add it to the second CRE, and if the third CRE wasn’t marked “not required”… well, I expect I’d need to get some other TLA from someplace, but I don’t know. I have strong suspicions that third CRE tends to get marked “not required” a lot.
Four months to test a change which took the programmer less than two hours, and he only took that long because the original code is of the yarn-plus-kittens variety (about 30 pages worth of code to do something which can be done in less than one page’s worth). I am hoping that testing times won’t be directly proportional to coder times, because if they are, a new report would take years
