Some people fill a bottle at the sink and bring it into the stall to clean their bits. Less icky than using water from the bowl, but just as likely to splatter water all over the place.
While we’re on the topic of toilets and the workplace: If you insist upon enrobing the seat with paper prior to sitting down, then for the love of all that’s decent, push the paper into the bowl after you get up. If you think it’s nasty to have your naked ass in contact with the bare seat, how do you think I feel about encountering toilet paper that’s had your butt sitting on it?
This dude who has only been at the job 3 months actually came to ask me a work related question as soon as I sat down at my desk knowing i don’t start until 9am.
I thought he would have enough common sense to let someone get settled in and turn on their damm computer:mad:
I’m not on/off the clock, but it does annoy me when I walk in to my office and my secretary runs right up to me with some issue or something that needs my signature. Give me a sec to go in my office, put my stuff down, check my email or something. Nothing is usually that urgent it can’t wait a minute to give me some transition time.
Actually, no I wouldn’t. I am retired now, but was in that situation many times as a programmer. If I could answer it off the top of my head (i.e. computer and/or documentation not needed) I would, otherwise I would nicely let them know that I’ll be a few minutes. I would have expected the same from my co-workers.
Oh, I’m nice about it too, but on the inside I’m saying “can you just give me one minute to settle in”. I think it’s a legit thing to be annoyed about… since it annoys me!
Got a supermegaurgent ticket from a customer complaining that the system does not let him sell stuff marked for “rework”. Eh, well, let’s see… Can I rework that dude? Can I, can I, can I?
Speaking of urgent, emails telling people “you’ve been assigned a ticket” get sent every hour. If you get an urgent one, you can get it at the same time as several emails telling you “OMG you’re not paying attention to this hugely urgent ticket!” Can I rework that too? Preferably with a baseball bat.
Dear co-worker,
Your proposed schedule is delusional, unrealistic, stupid, and just shy of impossible. (It is not wholly impossible, but it is so close as to be indistinguishable). I am not going to say it’s a good idea, because it isn’t and I don’t think it is. It’s incredibly bad. I don’t understand why
a) you keep trying to get me to say that I agree with the plan or that I am for the schedule or that I agree with you. I don’t. It’s a series of bad, bad ideas. But more importantly, I don’t have to agree with it. My consent is not needed. You don’t need my signature, my buy off, my assent, nothing. You don’t need my permission. If you want to move forward with this shitshow - go ahead. I already said that if this is what you want to do, I’ll try to get my part done. That should be enough- trying to badger, bully, whine, and plead me into saying “what a great idea” is really just pissing me off.
(BTW, and just to be very clear I will fail, not for lack of effort, but because this is not doable. So will all of the other people involved in their parts of the plan. We will all fail. This WILL NOT WORK. But I’ll still try, because I’d really like to be proven wrong here.)
b) you seem to think that setting an impossible deadline and missing it is better than setting a reasonable one and making it. What does this gain you? Especially when there are people depending on your output - isn’t it better to tell them the truth about when they can expect what they need than to lie to them?
c) you can’t see that the things we’ll do to try to finish this according to your insane schedule will not only not work, but will likely put us even further behind? Seriously, this is so flawed that not only will the original “done” date pass, but the date for the alternate, non-crazy schedule will pass, and we’ll still be floundering around trying to finish.
I’m not trying to destroy you or your dreams. I’m not trying to sabotage you. I’m not trying to do something underhanded or backstabby - that’s really not in my nature. I am trying to address the reality of the situation. Why can’t you?
Most IT jobs, including my current one, are fairly flexible on hours. If I show up at my desk at 8:30 and am not planning to sign in until 8:45, I know well enough from experience that I’d better plan on immediately walking away from my computer and not returning until 8:45, or someone is going to assume I’m working, invite me to IM conversations, etc.
If I’m there at 8:22, figuring I’ll rest a second and be on at 8:30, only to have someone immediately walk up and ask questions, I’ll a> tell them to give me 10 minutes or b> tell them I’ll take a look at it as soon as I get back, then get up and walk away until 8:30, or I’ll just count 8:22 as my start time and worry about the time later.
But then, I’ve never had any issue, even with my last asshole micromanager boss, with anyone micromanaging my time. I show up every day, on time, I put in my hours and I’m extremely flexible on outside hours if they are reasonable in working with me on it.
I guess its kinda like White Privilege. As I said in another thread, I’m a very average middle class middle aged white middle American. I just show up and do the work every day. There is not ever an issue with me and availability or promptness, and in return I always end up being allowed flexibility my less prompt co-workers are not granted.
My agency fired two employees today and had them escorted out at the same time all the other staff leaves. Why not do that at 4pm so they other employees don’t have to witness anyone being escorted out of the door at 5pm?
