How close are you to the agency’s office, and does the agency have a gatekeeper for people who don’t have appointments? If email doesn’t work, then your last resort might have to be barging in…
I have a new one! My director has taken to asking me “How’s are you doing?” when she really means “Update me on what you’ve been doing.” I’m used to “How are you doing?” as a colloquial greeting, so I’ve been responding with “Good!” and walking away. That is, until yesterday, when she followed me back to my desk and repeated herself. :smack:
Dude 1 called yesterday on a bad phone connection and kept talking over me. I got his email so I could send him information he wanted without having to repeat myself ten times.
Then Dude 2 called from the same place, said he had gotten my email and started asking for the same information and kept talking over me on a bad phone connection. I told him the connection was bad and could he send me the data via email and he… asked me for my email address. Which he already had. Because he said he got my email.
And it took repeating myself a whole lot because the line was bad AND HE KEPT TALKING OVER ME.
Update: The RFP response they sent me contained the SOW… sort of. Except not really. You see, someone else pulled the SOW section out of the RFP and developed it into a much larger document, which is what I’d been asking for. Which somehow neither of these women noticed despite the fact that the start/end dates had changed, the page numbers were different and it became over twice as long. Whatever fucking retard created the extracted SOW never updated the footer, so there was literally no way to track it down. We’re pretty sure we figured out who worked on it, but she (big shock, since she was too fucking stupid to update the footer) didn’t keep a copy of the finished document, nor did she remember who she sent it to.
I am so glad that we are so busy today that it was totally worthwhile for me to be kept standing around for thirty minutes after my manager told me I could go home so he could talk to his brother and sister-in-law about whatever the hell they wandered in to talk to him about.
Oh wait, we weren’t busy at all.
I better not have any questions from the head honcho about why I was on the clock so long today. Because I will tell him. The hours are nice, but there was absolutely no reason why I should have been on the clock for the last three hours today.
Yaaayy, a person who can’t sort out the difference between a 24-hour day and a shorter period of day*light ***is talking to me like I’m an idiot for thinking there’s a difference, yaaaaaay…
Oh, it’s just delightful. And they’re still mad at me.
Busybody and minion said of my weekly meeting with the manager, “Oh, this will be an excellent opportunity for us to…” Uh, no. Nononononono. This is not an excellent opportunity for you to anything. When I commented as calmly as possible that I would use the meeting to update my manager on what I was doing, both women looked like I’d slapped them. I swear, this is the second time I’ve had to remind them that my weekly status meetings aren’t their inroads to the boss. It’s just another day in paradise.
I have no personal experience with this, but I was told that if this happens you should take the insoles out, dust the underside with baby powder or talc, and put them back in. The person who told me this is the guy who does custom orthotics and shoe repair at my podiatrist, so I tend to think he might know something about the matter.
I know I’m bumping the thread, but it’s not that old…
Dear client,
Just because something you want seems simple, does not automatically mean that it will be simple for our programmers to do. We have an integrated application, and often what we do on one screen affects multiple screens that you might not think it does. And no, no one else has asked for this enhancement - they all make do with how it currently works. The current method of looking up the information you want printed is not particularly onerus, so get a grip and deal with it.
My manager is unable to make an on-call roster. 4 engineers, one primary, one backup, rotating on a per-week basis. As scheduling goes, this is really simple.
Last year, after 5 revisions, one engineer still, inexplicably, had no on-call duty for all of December. (We gave up at that point, as it was the best try yet and it got really embarrassing…)
This year, we noticed the turn-over day was moved - normally it’s a Monday-Sunday shift, this year it’s Tuesday - Monday. Turns out she has C&Ped the dates directly from last year’s schedule - and thrown a few 8-day shifts in at the start of the year, to make things match up! How the %#^%#&^%$! can you be PMP certified without understanding the basic concept of a calendar?
