Well, given that they can’t count, they definitely need an accountant. I mean, they want someone BIlingual who speaks 4 languages…
I work with someone who tends to use her own first name as a subject line. She’s otherwise great at her job, but it’s a bit confusing.
Anyway, my gripe… I work for what I will call ‘Team A’ at work. Last year, I was seconded into the Learning and Development Team. Despite still needing me in this second role, they had no money to continue the secondment.
Instead they unofficially borrow me from Team A for extended periods of time. Which in some ways is good - I like training others. But most people on the L&D team get downtime to make up for long hours when training (your day starts well before your learners get in, and ends after they leave). Some of them (who don’t have my professional background, so cannot train what I do) actually don’t have enough to do. Not me! When I’m not busy it’s back to Team A, where I will be.
The next 4 weeks looks especially hellish. :mad:
Buddy of mine recently shut down the Novel server at one of his sites for replacement, after a uptime of 1544 days. Try THAT with a Windoze box
People who stop right in the middle of doorways are the worst! I don’t know why some people at work seem to like doing that. Other than that, they’re nice people though.
And they got rid of my favourite vending machine at work!
Other than that, though, I had a pretty good day. I haven’t seen Insane Staring Woman all week, at least. 
I swear, if you actually run into me when you’re charging on to the elevator the moment the door opens, while you are looking in a different direction, I am going to work as hard as I can to hurt you while making it look like a total accident.
Oh, and if I get stabbed with that fucking pen you’re holding pointing outward as you run into me, I’m going to very deliberately and very rapidly cause you great bodily harm in the name of ‘self defense’ against a weapon wielding maniac.
Stupid cunt.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand why people try to charge onto elevators without waiting a few seconds to see if there’s anyone in the elevator wanting to get out. :mad:
Electric scooters are useful teaching tools under those circumstances. I just start backing out without worrying about whether someone is charging in. Surprise!
My old manager is too lazy or stupid to send a one-sentence E-mail to our help desk (help@(domain)) and type ‘please give (new employee name) access to (restricted folder on departmental drive).’ IT told the new employee to have her manager do just that, and instead the manager told her some nonsense about her needing to request a password.
Fortunately I was the one who requested that folder be created, and still work at the same institution (new department), so I e-mailed and said ‘I created this and we hired this new person, please give her access’ and bingo, problem solved.
Now she could finally get access to some joint documents that she actually needed to do her job, imagine that. (Old manager does her own job infrequently enough that she probably doesn’t see the urgency.)
*My replacement, the poor dear
That gives you Good Karma points, Ferret Herder!
I’m being put on permanently from the place I’ve been temping, so YAY on that, but the links I’ve been sent from HR to the application portal have not been working. I was finally able to get it done today. It’s only been a week…
They do it on buses/trains, too. :mad:
Yesterday morning I had a discussion with my boss about my accomplishments for last year, because I said I didn’t have the accomplishment I would have liked to have had partially because every time I propose something, it gets assigned to other people. Part and parcel with those same people supposedly giving up their fiefdoms and cross training everyone else in those tasks, which NONE OF THEM have done.
This morning he asked me to re-do some information gathering I did back in November for a project that has gone nowhere because it requires him to do something with it and (admittedly true), he’s too busy.
At the end of the email asking me to do this he asks me to let him know if I need help or if this needs to be off-loaded to someone else. :smack:
I swear, if the man had been in the office today instead of working from home, I would have been in his cube 10 seconds later looking like :mad:.
It took me all of about 2 hours to get it done. If I need to re-do it, I have the scripts saved and can do it in about 20 minutes.
We are going to have to let people go, because the consultants cost so much.
The consultants were hired to address intractable problems.
Intractable problem that, yes, the permanent staff have been pointing out and suggesting solutions for. For years.
Yeah, they’re going to be monitoring our LinkedIn usage.
These are not IBM consultants, are they? Or Anderson/Accenture consultants?
No. The consultants don’t want to lay us off; this is upper management’s solution for having ignored staff requests and recommendations for years.
The consultants are being very, very friendly. I think they hope we will let something slip about, I don’t know, what our processes are and where they are documented.
We are currently selling information @ 1 page per LinkedIn recommendation. I expect the price to rise precipitously as the dominos fall.
My company has to order certain parts customized due to customer demands… in the case of the part I was just working on, our customer had requested a special modification in their PO. This modification is also noted as part of both the item’s description and its special engineering notes in our inventory system. Many years ago, we did purchase the standard part; this occasion was our first time ordering this part as modified.
I received notice that the part had arrived unmodified, despite the abundance of comments and notes referencing the modification. Out of curiosity, I decided to review the email log created by customer service when the part was ordered.
Apparently, this genius customer service rep ignored all available notes regarding the modified part and just told the vendor to supply the same thing we ordered on an old PO. :smack:
Actually, co-worker, I find the very slight but all natural aroma of fruit, fruit peels, and possibly rotten fruit more appealing than the very strong aroma of highly chemical floral air freshener/floor cleaner.
Unrelated-- the amount of New Stuff I learned this past week was Maddening.
Well, that all makes perfect sense. In Pointy-Haired-Bossland.
Reading notes is for chumps.
Try to translate this (names and identifiers change to protect the guilty):
“das Glas unable to 4ward this to Unnamed Organization,A/Ceo John Doehis email: jdoe@unnamedorganization.co m also also 4ward him al l info related to file Mb R c B Lastname ??”
All crammed into the subject line.
One of my co-workers has his phone set to “BEEP” instead of ring. But it’s a LOUD beep and the pitch actually hurts my ears. I startle every time his damn phone BEEPS.
I’m in a FOUL fucking mood today. They moved more people into our office so it’s crowded and noisier. A lot more people to look over my shoulder, which I goddamn HATE. Customers are stupider and meaner than usual. We are starting to charge for something we used to provide for free, so everyone is pissed off (customers and employees alike). I’m also doing after-hours email support this week, so I’m fucking fried and I just don’t care about anything.
Fuck you, life! Give me a day off, already! Which I won’t have until a week from tomorrow, so Q fucking Q.