Wow, you really invented a scenario that didn’t actually exist to nitpick. I didn’t identify them as jungle cats on the logo. I just submitted images with no accompanying text.
I maybe should’ve added a 
Anyway, for jungle cats you should always go with the Jaguar. Everyone likes fast cars.
I know my boss is a busy man and doesn’t have time for everything, but he has a tendency to appoint someone in another department as his “representative” for various projects.
This person, while pretty high on the food chain, doesn’t have the legal training or experience to act as his surrogate. He’ll loop her in immediately on projects, and she will start nit-picking or just get involved to the point that the project has become over-complicated and delayed, and all other parties are frustrated, if not angry.
I had a ten-minute back and forth with her about a one-page addendum that alters 2 provisions in a 30+ page agreement, where I had to convince her that the language in the addendum did not nullify the entirety of the original agreement. All I could do was repeat the basic concept over and over. It was like trying to explain that water is wet. It just is. Finally, I think I wore her down (don’t feel like I actually convinced her) and we ended the conversation. Keep in mind, this was something that had already been sent out to 100+ parties for execution.
I like her as a person, but working with her can be difficult.
Maybe she should be sent out for execution.
I can think of more than a few co-workers who would volunteer to be a part of the firing squad. 
Well, my manager was moved. She didn’t want to go but there’s presumably chaos at another location because both manager and assistant stepped down and nobody wanted their positions. She’s presumably there “until Thanksgiving” but we all know how that goes.
I was told I’ll be working 6 days from now until doomsday.
TPTB came down with a “nobody takes a weekend day off” and “everyone MUST have open availability.” They’ve already let go of a few people who have second jobs.
My husband recently got a job in a neighboring state. He’ll be staying there during the week and coming home on the weekends. I told my manager I’m going to have to have Saturdays off because it’ll be the only day we’ll see each other. Her face went white.
wonders if this is how she ends her 25+ year career in this industry even though she doesn’t necessarily want it to end
Are you looking for a job near where he is working? Maybe you could move there. What do you like about your job that you might be able to find somewhere else?
Haven’t started looking yet but I am open to the idea.
And, oh, to add to my ranting of late:
We’re not allowed out of the building except for our 30-minute lunch period. not even on our 15-minute breaks.
As a smoker (and STFU if you’re going to lecture me), I am most upset by this. I’d rather kill myself slowly than stuff my face in a cramped, claustrophobic break room. Yes, madly chewing on peppermint gum helps as well as being so busy that there’s no time for a break (which is what I think is the whole point since they’re unpaid) helps, but not much. Besides, it’s against rules to chew gum, so I have to tuck it between jaw and cheek like chewing tobacco.
Hey, client. It was bad enough when you’d leave me a voicemail, then immediately call my supervisor. Today, you left me a voicemail, then left a voicemail for my supe, AND then one for HER supe.
Grandboss is an idiot, has no idea what line staff does. You talk to him, he promises things we cannot do, and I have to clean up the mess. It doesn’t help that client has issues that prevent her from understanding the most basic of aspects of life.
I have spent the last two hours attempting to un-do what grandboss told her. I’m sure I will receive another call tomorrow (along with my supe and grandboss again) asking the same original question she started off with today.
This one case has been taking up 1/4 of my day every day the past few weeks. It’s ridiculous.
Are they trying to get everyone to quit? Because all the stuff you’re saying sure sounds like a good way to do that.
The policies on smoking and gum brought to mind this one my current employer has:
- no personal files on computers. Specifically, no music files on computers
- no streaming
- no radios in the offices
and if people listen to music in their cellphones (a ban which so far hasn’t reached the written policy), our HR guy frowns mightily at them and lectures them and everybody within hearing distance about wasting time at work.
I still haven’t met a programmer who didn’t run on music. You can pretty much tell how hard they are working by what escapes the headset!
Interesting question because you’re not the only one who’s asked that.
The company has had a nonsmoking policy in place for years (there’s a deep insurance discount for every person who signs the annual “I do not smoke” paper). Ditto the break thing, from what I understand. When they bought out our old company there was wind of these, among other things, and many people either quit outright or chose to remain with the old company and endure a much longer commute to it.
The area where this new company is headquartered has historically been economically depressed; ergo, they’re one of the biggest employers there. They have great benefits, so people out there tend to spend their entire careers there. I think the new company came in thinking it’d be the same way here.
Right now the walkouts/quittings are fast and furious. They convinced one of my coworkers to stay. They’re moving other people around to compensate. My district has one of the highest populations of longtime FT people (including myself), so the thought is that they’re trying to make us quit because of payroll. OTOH they’re now realizing that new help isn’t as plentiful as what they’re used to, so…
I’m of two minds on an issue.
I was given a 90+ page Agreement to review (from a legal standpoint) and complete for a different department. I completed 6 of these (and made it into a template where I can turn one around in 5 minutes, albeit it took a good portion of my morning to make this “shortcut”) when I saw that the document uses “effect” where it should use “affect,” “it’s” where it should be “its,” etc.
On one hand, I really doubt that the other party reads all 90 pages of this dense “Heart of Darkness”-esque document and so these errors will probably go unnoticed, but on the other hand… it just irks me. We’re a multi-billion dollar company and these things should not happen. It’s sloppy.
Do I spend the hour-plus reading through the entire document, line-by-line, and edit it? Or do I not waste my time and let it slide?
As a fellow Grammar Nazi, I feel your pain. Do what you need to do for peace of mind.
Did you notice enough correct uses of “effect” and “it’s” to make a global find-and-replace impractical?
Unfortunately, sometimes, they used it correctly, so a “replace all” could cause more trouble than it’s worth.* I’m just gonna do 10 or 20 pages per day. Until then, it obviously hasn’t been an issue.
*Reminds me of a time when I first started practicing, and we were representing the defendant instead of the plaintiff. Boss’s brilliant solution to quickly crafting a response to a motion? He thought we could just swap out the two terms.
Step 1) Find and replace all mentions of “Plaintiff” to “Defendant.”
Step 2) Find and replace all mentions of “Defendant” to “Plaintiff.”
See where we may have a potential issue?
And yes, he filed it. And yes, the court accepted the filing without question. I left the firm before the outcome of the case, but if I was opposing counsel, I would’ve pounced on that so hard.
God, I hated that job.
Blah blah blah you’ve worked here five years and nobody ever takes the disabled parking spot. Blah blah nobody here is in a wheelchair. Blah blah it’s only for half a day. Blah blah the other spots are so far away.
Don’t care. I’m going to call you on it, I’m going to get you to move, and unless you’re a bigger jerk than I thought I’m going to make you feel bad about it. First of all, that spot is for those of us who need it once it turns icy outside, and second, that’s just ugly behavior, esp. from management.
There’s a certain subset of people who seem to feel the need to shout into speaker phones.
My boss just spent 10 minutes in my office shouting into my phone. It was so bad that I put my fingers in my ears. I was not subtle about it, but he didn’t catch the hint.
When it was my turn to talk I just did so in a normal voice. The person on the other end had no problem hearing me.
I would say that it is typically older men, but my boss is 56, so not exactly “old”.
Some people just do that. We have a woman on our team who shouts into the phone in our team meetings while everyone else speaks in a normal voice. She also has the very bad habit of shouting someone’s name and then stopping and waiting for you to answer before asking you a question.
Just. Stop. Shouting.
Especially the whole annoying as fuck
“JOHN!!!”
<pause>
John: Yes?
“CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION?”
John: Yes
“(unintelligible shouting because she’s apparently eating her phone as she talks)”
You’d think than in a year and a half on the team, she would notice that other people use indoor voices and just straight out ask questions.