Some people just have a tendency to get wrong pronunciations stuck in their heads and once they’re there they cannot be dislodged. I don’t think my mom could even hear that she wasn’t saying a few words right. Thankfully, it was only a few.
She had a tendency to add Rs, usually to names. That was embarrassing only when it was your teacher’s name. But to her dying day, she pronounced the name of the game system as Intendo.
My sister-in-law is like that. She’ll say something like “I want to get Nicholas (her nephew) a game for his Intendo for Christmas. I’ll go by Wal-Mark after work. If they don’t have anything, I’ll try K-Mark.”
Oh my christ.
I accept that the general project manager might not understand that “simple text changes” to a website do not entail things like adding radio buttons, checkboxes, and data entry fields, requiring all these new elements to be checked for various errors and logical inconsistencies, and altering subsequent page behavior based on the responses given.
But my supervisor should certainly understand that, and should absolutely review requests from the project manager to ensure they are in fact as “simple” as claimed before passing them on to me, so that my time can be budgeted accordingly.
Grr.
That is all.
I am convinced that the qualifications for a generic corporate Project Manager position include;
1> Zero knowledge of technology, design or programming.
2> Complete ignorance of the subject of schedules, from micro to macro, from when most people go to lunch (fuck 'em, always schedule your meetings at noon) to how long it should take to do any given task.
3> Complete lack of people skills, including the complete inability to read body language or social cues.
My grandmother used to work as the business manager for a doctors’ practice, and to this day she swears up and down that the bookkeeping software she used was called “Click’em” (Quicken). She can still correctly rattle off the names of different insurance claim forms, inventory codes for office supplies, patient chart numbers, and various ICD-9 diagnosis codes, but she thinks that all computer accounting and checkbook software is called “Click’em.”
Hey, now, some people want to work in the mail room because they just want a part-time job with little to no stress! (Anyone hiring? 
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As a temp, I have been known to wow my clients with my complete, encyclopedic knowledge of the alphabet as used in filing. {Preens}
“Dilbert” wasn’t created in a vacuum. 
These are words of truth worthy of being embroidered on a throw pillow.
When I send you a message stating that you indicated on form x that forms y & z are supposed to be attached, I’m asking you to actually attach forms y & z, not confirm that they’re supposed to be attached.
ETA: I see that form x has been returned to me again, still without y & z attached but with the attachment indicator removed from form x. Why didn’t you do that the first time?
Manager 1: Email saying “I approve” (nothing else)
Me: Um, if you’re approving something, you might want to tell us what it is. Responding to that email would be appropriate.
Person 2: She was responding to my email.
Me: Which we didn’t get? As I said, she needs to respond to that email and send it to us.
Manager 1 (eventually): Oh, yeah, here it is. I approve.
Seriously, you sent us a two word email and we’re supposed to have the slightest clue what the fuck you’re on about? :dubious: And your [del]minion[/del] [del]trained monkey[/del] *employee *thinks it’s appropriate to respond to us saying ‘reply to what you’re approving’ by telling us that you’re approving an email we didn’t get?
A former coworker of mine* would have taken that as a cue to ask, “Approve what? Giving us the rest of the day off?”
*we’ve since been reassigned to different groups.
So I have been complaining here about my co-worker who is supposed to be coming into the office 3 days a week yet we’ve seen hide nor hair of her in months. Well, apparently, the complaint has become moot, as our office of about 60 people has just been notified that when the office lease comes up for renewal in March, the company will not renew. A few people were given 5-month pink slips. Thankfully, I and said co-worker were told that we could now work from home full-time. (!) I’m still a bit in shock, and feel that it’s all a bit ominous.
So, in a small department meeting, co-worker asks our boss when we can get this show on the road. I was SO tempted to say, what are you talking about? You’re already doing it!!
P.S. She is the one I had asked about in another thread because she gets migraines all the time. She says she still is getting them, almost daily. Wow. Crazy. When I had a minor ear problem that caused me to be nauseated, I went to the doctor three times! She just sits there, day after day, and just takes it?? To each their own…
One of our younger project engineers is sitting at the conference table outside my office holding a rather detailed discussion about the “Jackass” sketch where one of the guys took a dump in a hardware store’s display toilet. It also seems that something that took place in the second “Jackass” movie was just too much for him, and caused him to quit watching.
Really???
Coworker: Whatcha doing?
Me: Not much, looking for work.
Coworker: Want to work on some of my cases?
Me:…No…
Coworker: I really want to go to the casino, though. It would help me out.
Me: Isn’t your boss auditing your work?
Coworker: Yeah, I figured I’d give you my login info.
Seriously? I’m caught up because I do my job. Yes, we have flex time and going to the casino would be fun, but job comes first. Ding-a-ling.
Oh goody, it’s time for the stupid employee reviews. Why it can’t be just a straight forward review with my supervisor telling me what I have done well and what needs improvement, I don’t know. But no, we have to answer a bunch of questions on a stupid form. The first question asking about what projects/goals I would like to accomplish in the next review period. WTF am I, Kreskin? I don’t know what’s going to come up, I just do what they tell me. If I could predict the future, I sure as hell wouldn’t be here. Probably some HR flack came up with these questions to justify their job. I wish I could answer it like one guy did and say: “If I had goals, I wouldn’t be working here.” The whole process is just stupid.
I totally get this! I will be in the same boat soon again this year. Blehh.
How long have you been working there? What’s the problem with saying “I achieved my goal [X] years ago. I’m working here.”?
18 years. They don’t want you to write the same thing every year. It’s really a stupid process as it has no bearing on anything really. It’s just something that gets stuffed in a drawer and forgotten about. I used to get creative with them, but you can only do that for so long. Now it’s just a tedious and annoying thing to do.
Can you just Google the question and use the answers? That’s the level of effort this type of thing should get.
When I was at my old job, all of a sudden, the hospital big shots started saying “Hi” to everyone in the halls. In one case, it kinda sorta made sense because we went to the same church (although we really didn’t know each other) but in others, it was kind of like the Cool Kids being fakey-nice to the not-cool kids because they had to be, KWIM?
My boss spent 20 minutes in a whole-department meeting explaining this to us.
The man from my church was the one in whose office I was eventually given my walking papers, which was REALLY uncomfortable, and I stopped going there when I found out that he was not only the church’s financial officer, he was also responsible for my career (and that of a lot of other people) being tossed onto the trash pile. Oh, there were other reasons too (and this was before I moved away) but I just couldn’t hear this man stand at the altar and talk about the saving grace of Jesus Christ when he was destroying people’s lives. :mad: :smack:
Meh. Just save this article, and C&P something different from it every year.