Damn. Good comeback, though.
It’s not great but it’s the best I can do as I’m incompetent at photo editing.
Nice.
Oohh, small enough to print on sticker paper.
Gods, I’m growing tired of my one micromanaging co-worker. She isn’t my boss. She’s a co-worker. Sure, she’s an employee and I’m only a contractor, but the sheer randomness of it is a big factor too. Leaves me alone to do my work for most of the month, then one day out of the blue (like today)… “Why haven’t you done this yet? (Because that’s a project I do the last week of every month) “I found something you didn’t update last month!” (Because the change date for it was after last month’s update process, so it gets done this month. just like every month Oh, and hey, this particular monthly update project hadn’t been done for a fucking year before I found it languishing and started doing it on my own, so just why are you ‘supervising’ me on this when obviously YOU couldn’t be bothered to do this task in all that time?) "I need you to tell me about every incident in this circumstance so I can take it up with Other Team” (You say to me an hour after you saw me directly contact that team myself about the issue, which I have done before and am entitled to do? And our team lead has specifically told me in the past to contact them myself?)
I’m going to keep track of these incidents on my calendar. I bet they follow a certain cycle.
In Australia (at least) the name for cotton candy is fairy floss. A bit cuter.
My OCD clerk has left me! I cannot believe her lack of loyality! I gave her a permanent part-time job with no benefits, and someone from the Board noticed her and poached her. OCD clerk left me for a full time job, full benefits and retirement. HOW DARE SHE!!!
Honestly, I’m really happy for her. She hated her second job and was really hoping for something full time here. Its just that I have been in negotiations to get her hired full time so she could take my job.
She’s also getting more money. And gets to work someplace that she doesn’t have to wear protective gear just to walk into the door. I’d start to rant more about the lack of loyality, but remembers that it doesn’t matter because I’m leaving this job as well. My boss tells me that I’m the only one who lasted longer than 4 years.
There’s something endearingly cute about the way you say “loyality.” 
The Leader of the Sedition approves.
I am tired of incompetent people.
Whether because they have a mental problem or an emotional problem, whether they are stupid or just uneducated about some aspect of their job or are simply air-headed about everything, there are people whose entire existence is creating problems for themselves or others and then having to be rescued by someone else.
I’m not asking for everyone to be a genius, but can you at least be able to return a phone call? Or make a pot of coffee? How about just doing whatever it is you’ve said you will do??
I don’t care how cutely you apologize after each screwup. I don’t care that you have a little girl ‘don’t be mad at me’ giggle. When I have to miss lunch or stay late because I can’t do what I’m supposed to do because YOU haven’t done what you were supposed to do I get annoyed.
When it happens several times a day, day after day, every damn day for the last 14 days – I start fantasizing about running over you in the parking lot.
Repeatedly. Until your body is nothing but a bloody smear.
You do realize that when you do this – miss lunch or stay late – you are supporting & encouraging this behavior by her? You are making it possible for her to continue this by covering for her. Your working late or thru lunch catches things up, and prevents the problem she caused from spreading to other departments. If you just stopped covering for her, and ‘let the chips fall where they may’, this behavior would probably stop. (Or she would stop working there.)
Is it any wonder she slacks off “day after day, every damn day for the last 14 days” when she can count on you to work extra to make up for her?
I would tend to agree. I offer a test. Don’t miss lunch, don’t stay late, don’t do her work, if only for one or two days. If asked, claim that you were a bit busy with your own work and hadn’t time to do hers as well. If called on it by management, my response would be something along the lines of “Oh, I’m sorry, is that still an ongoing problem? I mean, I missed lunch and stayed late for two weeks to help catch her up, but I kinda had to step back and keep my own stuff running. Maybe you need to talk to her about getting her work done.” - all in a tone of surprise, confusion, innocence and suggestion, NOT one of anger or demands.
Otherwise she’s just doing a great job of training you to do her job in addition to yours and it will never end until you leave in disgust.
I know you guys are right, but… Well, much of the time I simply can’t carry on and do my work if the steps she’s in charge of haven’t happened. So I would have to sit there idle rather than being ‘too busy with my work.’ And they put a high value on being a team player here, so buffing my fingernails while work isn’t getting done would be a big black mark.
I have started documenting this via email: I talk with her about what needs to be done early, then go back to my desk and send her messages along the lines of: Just to make sure we’re on the same page, you are going to do X, Y, and Z and send me the results by 1 p.m. today. I will use them in producing Report A for Mr. Smith. He needs it by 4 p.m.
Today I sent her that at 9:30. Then at 1:10 I sent her a follow up: I haven’t received your results yet, do you have my correct email. And another saying the same thing at 2:30 and 3.
No response whatever to any of the emails today.
Tomorrow morning I will do the same, except I’m adding a cc to my boss and Mr. Smith.
BEAST! 
Smart. Now, go dig through your folders to find all of the sent and ignored emails you have sent as well. Cover your butt with bits.
There you go. Good move.
Whenever I’m dealing with non-management people not complying or responding, I give them 3 chances, then I start CC’ing their managers on the emails. Amazing how often that results in changes in behavior.
Hey, lady, how 'bout putting a “NSFW” tag on your post if you’re gonna holler “Breast!” at me. This is a family message board.
Waitaminute.
Never mind.
Why not bcc them for a few days first, then cc. Hopefully she might try and spin it that the cc’d emails were the first she knew of the problem…
Oh, even better BunnyTVS! Stealth busting.
On my end;
Goddamn it, I fucking hate working with Motherfucking CREDIT THIEVES. And apparently, that’s what Clueless George has turned into.
We get little database maintenance projects. They all amount to: Run a report finding all records where Field X is not filled in/invalid information. Track it down and update it. 70% of the time this is an easy lookup from another database, but it usually requires some eyeballing to make sure the fields you’re using to look up that information aren’t similarly wrong. The rest of the time it involves the tedious work of calling or emailing people to get that information. Then we log the project on our team website, and then on a weekly basis going forward, we monitor that database and fix the handful of records that get broken.
Well, last month we had a big one that hadn’t been done in a long time. He did one system, I did several minor systems. We log them. We are specifically told this is a one time deal because the system we’re pulling the correction data from isn’t 100% accurate all the time, as we found out. So don’t do it again until this gets worked out at higher levels of management.
A week later, Clueless George does the process again. Not just his part, but mine as well. Then he updates the web page listing himself as owner for ALL of the work that has been done on the project. (Therein lies Credit Theft, or stealing credit for other people’s work).
It gets noticed that he ran the process after being told not to, so he gets told AGAIN not to do it until further notice. I change the website to list my work again. Before the end of the day he’s changed it back.
Later that week I get assigned an extremely low priority project with no set deadline. I already have several people asking "Why are you even doing that? No one uses that data.) CG asks me what I’m doing. I tell him. He says "Oh, great idea! I’ll make it part of my weekly process! :smack: I say NO, this is my project.
Tuesday of this week he starts asking me questions about it. I ask why he’s asking. Turns out he’s trying to jump ahead of me and fix the stuff that has broken since I did my initial report and put it on HIS project list. I tersely tell him again that this is my project and he doesn’t need to be working on it.
This morning he walks over to our Team Lead and starts asking him questions about how to do the work, forcing me to walk over and ask why he is working on MY project. He fumbles around and claims that he isn’t, then sheepishly walks away.
Caught the TL in the hall away from our area and explained what was happening.
Somebody stole my Diet Dr Pepper from the refrigerator.
Plus someone is leaving today and I assumed there would be cake. I have no DDP AND NO CAKE.
Burn it to the ground, SG.