people are so stupid

The BBQ Pit
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Oh my god the GALL of some people!

I am working reception, and today, some guy comes to the desk, asking for the owner. (I have yet to see the owner today)

“did you have an appointment?” standard question

“no, he called me last week. He isn’t in his office, but his office is open.”

“you were in his office?” (he slipped past me, down the hall, and around the corner, all the way down to the owners office!!!

“we prefer people stop at the reception desk, my boss wouldn’t appreciate it if I just sent everyone back unannounced.”

I buzzed the owner. No answer.

“he isn’t in his office, I will tell him you dropped by”

so now he is wandering the halls outside my door, looking for the boss. Omfg grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Here is my beef, how the FUCK do you get to be a business owner, as this twit is, and NOT know some fundamentals like:

CALL FIRST
And
DON’T WANDER AROUND THE BUSINESS!!!

There is a reception desk and a receptionist for a reason, and we have signs posted at both doors telling people to check in with reception.

oh that makes me mad, if boss had caught twit in his office, it would have been my ass!

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Maybe he’s a friend of your boss?

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Even so Coldfire it’s rude to just bypass the receptionist just because your a friend of the boss. It’s just common courtesy to at LEAST follow the rules and if there are signs saying to stop by her desk then PLEEEEESE do it. It COULD mean someones job…

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…and since it means someones job, someone should tell that idiot fuck to stop wondering around, instead of letting him wander around willy nilly.

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SHould put a locked gate between you and your boss.

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That would be REALLY good if SHE were the ONLY one with the key :smiley:

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He isnt a friend, boss owes him money. :open_mouth:

The layout is such that if i am not busy i can see incoming traffic for ONE door, but the other one, i cant see who somes in - which is why i posted the signs.

I emailed boss and apologized, not because i did anything wrong, but because he has a habit of yelling JESUS CHRIST WHATS WRONG WITH YOU? when i displease him, and i think twit thought i was mean.

I am mean. I am a secretary, thats my job.

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Could be a Process Server. It would explain a lot.

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Yes, but I wouldn’t wait to talk to the secretary if I was trying to collect money, and how did he get past you in the first place? Put yourself in his shoes, how many people are willing to meet with someone who they owe money to?

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You still don’t barge in like that, Svt4Him, because it most likely will end up being the receptionist’s ass.

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Yeah, and * I * dont owe him a damn thing. At least call first and see if he is IN the building, dont wander around checking offices, sheesh.

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Sounds like your office has a weird set-up though, *kelli. Are you in a seperate room? Is it a shared office building? Usually, receptionist desks are positioned in way that you can’t get to the other offices w/o passing by them.

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How is this the receptionists fault? Is she supposed to physically stop him from roaming around? Calling the police maybe, but I don’t recall physical security being in the secretarial job descriptions I’ve seen…

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Where i work, every damn thing is my fault, trust me.
lezlers, we have our own building, imagine a rectangle, with a hall down the middle, doors on either end, offices run up and down the hall, and we have a hall way branching off the side about mid rectangle, and his office is down the branch. If we had a traditional layout, main door with reception right there, it would be ALOT easier.

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Having worked in secretarial and receptionist positions for several years, I know that person at the front desk gets all the heat for ANYTHING, including folks wandering into the boss’s office unannounced. That’s why I was there, to prevent that sort of thing.

Never mind that some people, like the one mentioned in the OP, seem to have no concept of normal office procedure, which is that you give your name to the receptionist/secretary, and wait to be told either, “go right in,” or “boss isn’t in right now, but I’ll be happy to take a message and have him/her get back to you.”

And yes, I did, on more than one occasion, have to corner some wandering visitor and corral them back to the waiting area. At times, I felt like a kindergarten teacher, sternly eyeballing them as they sat in the waiting area, wiggling like an impatient five-year-old. It’s a business, people… If you’re old enough to have any sort of business-related reason to be there, you’re old enough to understand and follow normal business protocol.

kellibelli, I feel your pain. Maybe next time you could just grab him by the shirt collar and drag him back to the waiting area? :wink: Oh, how I wish that were allowed… I used to work in a building with a similar setup to the one you described, and random visitors wandering in through the side doors just gave me fits.