Ok, I work for a news agency which shall remain nameless. I wrangle freelancers. One of the freelance sound guys in my stable sexually harassed a woman after she was interviewed. Guess who is getting in trouble for it? thats right. Me.
Well, I hope that freelance guy is at least going to find out that shit rolls downhill.
If you catch my drift.
Thank you so much! That will work so well for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you 
As a fellow bibliophile, I gets where the spelling confusion happens, so tips like this makes me happy.
You’re welcome.
Now if I could only figure out a way to remember how to spell occasionally. Occassionally? Ocasionally?
Oooh. The first version doesn’t get a squiggly line. Too bad all of life doesn’t provide squiggly lines when you screw up.
And, an Envelope is stationEry, but an Anchor is stationAry.
Oooh, I like that one! Thanks!
Hey boss, if you’re gonna give me an assignment and mark it high priority, please give me all the directions, mmmkay?
I get to a certain point in the project yesterday and have no instructions on what to do next. I IM the boss. “Hey boss, what do I do with these contracts now?” Boss IMs back “Um… hang on, I gotta go to a meeting, but I’ll catch up with you afterwards.” Good thing I had other stuff to work on.
Boss’s meeting lasts the rest of the day. I have an email this morning saying he’ll get with me today. Then he disappears into a training session all day. He IMs me at the end of the day saying he’ll get with me tomorrow for sure. We’ll see… At least he knows I’m not blowing the project off, since I keep bugging him about it! I’m betting I won’t get this done until Monday.
I really don’t mind this job and the boss is a nice guy, but good Lord he’s a bit of a flake sometimes!
I tell my students to get used to the flakiness-- it’s part of most bosses’ job descriptions.
A big chunk of my last job was picking up the balls that the owner had dropped… so that the clients wouldn’t notice, and think he was competent.
Dear people who schedule mandatory meetings:
There are three of these meetings on different days. Could you pretty please next time have people choose which meeting they will attend so we don’t have everybody in the damn building in the meeting right at prime getting things together before the onslaught of checkin time?
Hugs & Kisses,
The person who had to run every fuckin’ thing because she was the only one working today who had been to the meeting the day before
My phone quit working yesterday, but I wasn’t aware of it until today when I got a call on my cell phone wanting to know why I wasn’t at my desk. The phone guys were brought in very quickly; unfortunately, they didn’t have a phone to bring in with them. They ended up digging a partially-working phone out of the box of broken phones that is kept upstairs…it makes and receives calls, and the little voicemail light works, but it doesn’t ring. I’ll get a fully functioning replacement when the system is upgraded this month (maybe?). I really can’t muster up any anger over having a barely-functioning phone; my disgust is at the condition of the phone when it was delivered to my desk. These phones are supposed to be beige with gray keys…this particular one was brown. gag It took four Purell wipes and 20 minutes of scrubbing to return it to its original color.
Stop fucking scheduling them at our lunch time. We have to rotate lunches to cover our box. That means between 11 and 1, one of us has to be there and one of us has to be at lunch. Stop fucking assuming you can schedule us both in a meeting at that time and we’ll just ‘adjust’.
Besides which, FUCK OFF in general about scheduling meetings at lunch time.
I hate having to use the photocopier. It’s so hard to use! Well, at least today it wasn’t that bad.
And it’s summer, and various people at work are away on vacation during various periods in the summer. Not everyone’s there all at once. Some of my favourite coworkers are currently away on vacation. 
:rolleyes: ← me rolling my eyes at myself.
Dear team:
Only because a problem has been detected by Quality, that doesn’t mean it’s “a Quality problem”. Not when it’s got to do with what happens when YOU move stuff around. It’s an “every-fucking-body problem”, stop asking whether I’ve already solved it when y’all never find time to look at it with me.
Dear team leader:
I know your boss is mostly “dealing with the customer”. But you really, sometimes, should try leading the team. Occasionally. It won’t kill you.
Some people in middle management don’t understand where the direction changes. At the bottom level (team leader, supervisor, sometimes manager) you deal directly with your people and their needs. A level above that and it either changes altogether to be upward facing (dealing with higher ups) or outward facing (client) or sometimes depending on management structure, split focus (client and team, client and upwards, etc). If you want to excel at your management position, you need to have a firm understanding of the direction you should be facing.
And now I’m watching CG totally mess up our Outlook rules because he’s focused on some ‘auto-complete’ bullshit with the email addresses. He also deleted a half dozen folders we need (which were addressed in rules he deleted) because at the moment, they were empty. So I had to spend 20 minutes this morning rebuilding rules and folders, only to have the asshole start messing with it all over again the moment I announced that I had made changes. If only our Team Lead wasn’t out for the next two weeks or I’d ask him to tell CG to stop fucking with this stuff.
Dear work,
Who schedules an offsite meeting for 10 hours a day for THREE WEEKS with one day’s notice? Oh, wait - that was you. Namely, it was our IT department because they just realized that perhaps, perhaps they needed to start doing something since our ridiculously burdensome project process prevented them from realizing how much work was in the pipeline.
Unluckily, I have to go to almost all of it. Bonus: I’m on vacation for a week after (yay!). Bonus bonus: I have another off site for half the week after that, and for the other half an ON-site teambuilding thingy. So I’m not going to be at work for five weeks. And no one knows that because everyone was on vacation yesterday. See? That’s what happens when you do that.
Dummies.
Love,
Overlyverbose
That sort of thing would be immediately cancelled in a shitstorm of howling rage at pretty much every place I’ve ever worked.
“How dare you schedule my people for something like this on such short notice. Are you unaware that we have other work to do? Are you completely unaware of something called the Management Structure? This isn’t happening. My people will not be there. Going forward, you will speak to me before doing anything like this.”
Oh my God and Sonny Jesus, shut up shut up SHUT UP! Seriously, Ferret, for the rest of the day would you SHUT THE FUCK UP and DO SOME GODDAMN WORK. Stop watching me work, stop calling that sad sack fiancé of yours, stop running off every time you see something shiny. Stop. Talking. Stay on your side of the desk and do. some. work. Stop that disgusting sucking on your water bottle. Just be *silent *for a while. Grown people are trying to work here.
Goddamn, this chick needs to chill the fuck out before I beat her to death with the switchboard.
Bah. My work schedule has changed for the next little while. Meaning that I have to come to school on Tuesdays, which is the long day at school.
Okay, I guess that’s more of a school rant than a work rant.
:eek: Sorry!
On the “I shouldn’t really be complaining but…” level of things, it’s a week after the end of the fiscal year and we still haven’t gotten our bonus checks, or heard a thing about them. Even the assistant to the department head doesn’t know. Yes, I’m glad I have a job much less one that gives bonuses, but I’m starting to get worried we’ll have a real-life “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” thing with the Christmas bonus turning out to be bull - and I would put even money on a hostage situation resulting. 
My replacement desk phone has now quit working!
I’m trying very hard to see this as a bad thing…