I do, and I have some as friends, but most of them know enough to use English when communicating with mere mortals.
Sorry if I sound unforgiving, but one of those friends uses nothing but buzzwords, and then gets all impatient when no one understands him.
Sharepoint (one word) is a software package used to build and maintain internal websites for companies. We use ours to convey information and instructions to users, store shared documents, log interactions, and so forth.
I’m back on Snowflake’s good side. Boss told her that I could help her, but all requests for my assistance would have to go through him. Boss asked me to do some little token thing for her, and that made her all happy. And I can see her workflow now, she really is so far behind!!! I’m not sure how they’ve let it go on this long, this is an insurance company and the agents need us to be timely with their paperwork.
And speaking of paperwork, part of my job is to match paper contracts with the agents in the computer system. Never fails, we get a contract for a Rumplestiltskin J Jingleheimer-Schmitt III and it has every possible bit of information filled in on the contract. Middle initial, last 4 of social, agent number, all that nice stuff that makes it easy to find him in the computer. Now if the agent’s name is Mike Smith, I of course will have nothing else to go on. I have to click on each of the 64 Mike Smiths in the system to see which one has a recent contract outstanding.
Nice efficient system there…
Don’t know where you’ve been, but “throwing shit/stuff/whatever in the quarry” is an SDMB meme and I’m pretty sure we imported it from somewhere else.
As for the rest, it’s workplace griping. Sometimes that’s going to include workplace jargon. I rant for my benefit. Just ignore the job specific stuff.
W S A W W D: We Suck At What We Do. One of our old-timers coined the phrase about 5 years ago when management fucked up something more than normal. It’s been our motto ever since. Lately I’ve been thinking that embroidery doesn’t convey the proper level of suckage and we need to upgrade to neon.
Dang. I wasn’t far off. :eek:
Thanks-- love the sign (now that I get it), and I think you could stick with the embroidered version… if you frame it.
Perhaps an upgrade is in order. Whether you go with neon, or stay with embroidery, have the “S” be backwards.
Cool idea: if you have it re-embroidered, have just one letter embroidered from the wrong side.
No, understated elegance is much better. Ask her to make another one with Gothic letters (those can be gold fibers) and some surface stitched roses.
The frame does need to be stark, though. A black frame would work nicely.
My rant: My minion brings flowers to work. They love to garden and he brings me food. Food is good, beautiful flowers are not. Don’t get me wrong, I love beautiful flowers, but they set my allergies off something terrible.
I hates hurting his feelings, he’s a really nice guy, but I had to tell him to stop with the flowers today.
Ask him if he can just forward you a picture of the flowers he would have brought, so you can make a screen saver out of it.
Actually, it’s a one-Doper schtick that other people have taken to complaining about.
The frame is extremely minimalist.
And broken from where it fell off the wall. The background and border are actually purple, blame the POS cell phone camera.
Really? I’d seen it mentioned in several threads and haven’t seen the complaints. Consider ignorance fought.
This all sounds so familiar. I’ve worked at so many companies that were seriously far behind in the work that needed to be done. I hope that solves your problem with Ms. Snowflake - I HATE working with co-workers who think they’re the boss of me!
At last report there was only enough money in the payroll till to pay us through the end of this week. My summer vacation may start earlier than I thought.
My supervisor have me my first evaluation last week. Then the warehouse manager somehow lost the paperwork and my supervisor and I had to do the same song-and-dance again this week. It was only minorly annoying, but it is just another thing that confirms to me how incompetent he is.
That is an awesome idea and one that I will implement tomorrow. Thank you so much!
No, imbecile floater, my desk is not easy.
Embedded down in an email string that originated in my asking for a couple of days off, I saw that the floater who was requested to cover my desk in my absence told the HR chief that my desk was easy.
A bit of history on the floater: she used to be a legal secretary here, then was given a chance at being a paralegal. That didn’t work out, and her old job was taken, so she was demoted to floater (someone who covers the desks of absent secretaries). I know she doesn’t want to be a floater anymore, and damned if it doesn’t look like she’s gunning for my job.
There’s a shit-ton of work at this desk that isn’t given to the floaters because it’s specialized, I’ve been doing it for years and I do it at a paralegal level. When I’m out, the attorneys suck it up and do it themselves or save it for my return. So the floater only sees the grunt-work when she sits here.
I’ve been thinking about asking for a raise or bonus because I do paralegal work, and I don’t need this floater telling HR that this desk is easy.
Aaarrrgggh. Grandboss has suddenly decided that the way we do reports is no longer good enough, and now I have to go back over every report done since March and put in some bull shit. All while staying on top of my normal workload
Two and a half month’s worth. Hmm. Maybe we can help. Start an “Ask the (Tell the) Report Fixer” thread, and post the reports there. We’ll help you [del]put bull shit in[/del] fix 'em! 
I figure we could do a good enough job to either get you a raise, or make your Grandboss reconsider…
Heh - “floater.” Anyone else thinking of the disgruntled floater as a turd floating in the toilet?
There is a sign on the microwave in one of the lunch rooms that says “BROKE.” I am thinking of taping a dollar to the sign but I don’t think anyone but me would understand why.
