Good luck, Otto. Hope everything turns out well.
crosses fingers
Good luck.
Take a deep breath and just calm down.
It is going to be fine one way or another. Don’t get yourself worked up and make yourself sick.
It is probably going to be something very, very minor.
We are thinking about you and hoping it works out for the very best.
crossing fingers, saying a prayer and sending good vibes to Otto
Best of luck.
Godd Luck, Otto.
Oh, Otto. I hope that’s not it. Like Amp suggested, my immediate that was that this is related to your coworker. I hope I’m right. Best wishes.
I figure they wouldn’t set up a meeting to fire you, they would just call you to come up then and there. Good luck to you.
Yeah, man. That’s a harsh place to be. It dominates your thoughts all the livelong day.
Best of luck. Let us know.
Sending luck vibes your direction.
(Chiming in a bit late here…)
Good luck, Otto. Please try not to get sick over it.
Well it is 3:28PM and no word from Otto. This can’t be good.
good luck.
OOPS, no message yet, not good.
Hopefully he`s gotten a promotion and there moving his computer to the corner office with the ocean view (in Madison?).
Otto?
Making Otto sweat like this makes the baby Cthulu eat people!
The suspense is killing me, man!!!
Hopefully, you’ll be posting from your desk within the next two minutes and all’ll be fine with the world.
Happy
How about a view of The Onion offices?
Increasing luck vibes to “11”
It’s quiet…
Too quiet…
OK, I’m back and spectacularly unfired.
I am however on some sort of double-secret probabtion. Apparently I have engendered several complaints from customers over the last month, including one with the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. Of course, I deal with customers who are desperate to avoid losing their phone service and they try everything, including filing complaints, to keep that from happening.
My bitch of a boss had me and an HR rep go over some paperwork that says in a nutshell if people keep complaining about me I can be fired.
What truly pisses me off about this is, as I said, these are people who are desperate to keep their phones in service. They will lie, cajole, promise and threaten. And they will complain to me and my boss. I listen in on “escalations” as we call them and 9 times out of 10 the first thing they say is that the person they just were talking to was rude to them. What this really means is “I didn’t get the answer I wanted so I’m going to lie about how I was treated in an attempt to garner sympathy.”
My bitch of a boss says right in the paperwork that the reason some of the complaints is “customer dissatisfied with [my] answer” and “* did not offer appropriate exception [to company policy].” In other words, I said no and meant no and the customer didn’t like it.
It reads to me like if I get one more complaint from a customer I’m gone. I asked my bitch of a boss in the meeting, was she telling me to grant every exception the customer wants, because that’s how I took these statements. She very unhelpfully said no but was unable to articulate any kind of clear guideline as to when a customer complaint would be taken seriously and when it wouldn’t.
The phrase “hung out to dry” comes to mind. As does the phrase “update your resume.”
I was required to sign this fetid document, which I did, but only after making her agree to change it to clarify her stunningly vague “problem definitions” and “expectations and objectives.” I wrote directly on the thing, “signed with the understanding that revisions pursuant to topics discussed are pending.” She supposed to meet with me in a week with the new paperwork and a progress report.
My bitch of a boss only became my bitch of a boss in January. Before that my boss in the same department gave me the highest possible rating on every review. Since then I have been rated “needs improvement” on every review and now this. It strikes me that if my performance has been the same throughout, it’s not my performance that needs evaluating, it’s my bitch of a boss’s.
The HR person made copies of the signed fetid document, leaving bitch of a boss and me alone in the conference room. She actually had the nerve to smile at me and ask “are you mad at me?” I’m like, “how would you expect me not to be mad at you? Well, mad is the wrong word, upset.” She starts in “Everything I said is true.” at which point I said “I’m not in a good place to discuss this right now.” Amazingly she took the hint and shut up.
So for the next month, the next complaint I get could be my last. There’s a healthy work environment to come to every day!
Have a taco Otto. That’ll help you relax.