Our AC is out too. Since yesterday afternoon. I have a box fan, and it’s ok right now, but those motherfuckers better get the thing working! Plus I have a fucking cold.
Grr.
Wow, just wow. Got curious and did a quick 'net search on the excuses people give for calling off work. It’s amazing how many people actually BRAG about how they’ve called off work by making up the death of a relative (usually a grandparent). It’s bad enough (especially these days) to skip work by making phony excuses but to offer the falsified death of a relative as a reason? What the fuck? What scum. I used to think of myself as cynical but these douchebags have got me beat…
Ah, it’s fixed. Now I’m, predictably, freezing. Oh well, at least I can do something about that.
** dons sweater and wool socks, flings blanket over lap **
They learn it in college. I tell my students to warn their grandparents to be extra careful during exam weeks, given my past history of being fatal to various relatives all over the country.
Maybe because it’s illegal to write a check for more money than you have in your checking account?
I work for a global company with more money than God. If they’re broke, the world’s gonna end.
Ooo, here’s mine for today. I work in a ground floor office with a door with a window that faces directly out into the hallway, at an elavator. I don’t mind when people chat when they are waiting for an elevator, that’s expected. What I mind is what’s happening right now - a whole bunch of people are having a impromptu LOUD meeting out in the hallway. That is really fucking annoying. This is an office and we do work here. Don’t you have a conference room or a bar to go to?
Still perfectly possible not to have it liquid, I remember Littlebro’s Tales From Treasury… “NO damnit, I am NOT going to invest that money! Because we need it to make payroll! I don’t know about the bricklayers, but I do not work if I am not getting paid!”
Or maybe someone thought you were a new hire and verified your account instead of sending the new amount, while someone else went and sent the old one, who knows. Payroll works in mysterious ways…
This is why I started wearing headphones at work…there’s a conference table in the open space outside my (shared) office, and people like to have loud discussions there. Sometimes a couple of hotheaded managers from other departments will show up; I’ve really thought things were going to come to blows a few times.
My rant for the day: when I am behind the wheel of my vehicle with the engine running, DO NOT RUN OVER AND KNOCK ON MY WINDOW UNLESS IT’S A FUCKING EMERGENCY Asking if Mr. Whatsit ever replied to the email I sent two months ago does not count as an emergency (and he’s not going to reply, because no on at that company knows their ass from a hole in the ground.) Also, don’t stand around bitching about how goddamn difficult you think your job is while my gas is burning.
Telefónica blows. That’s all, I just don’t have the energy to expound upon all the ways they do, but they do. Why did this end up in the work-related gripes? Because one of the ways in which they blow is the messages and calls I keep getting from their sales folk - I need that phone free for real calls you ill-begotten bastards!
Well, the third time wasn’t the charm. We’re trying to get a new night auditor hired and trained. I put in my notice almost six weeks ago, as soon as we put in the paperwork on the new house, so that we’d have time to get someone in place for my job. For the third time in three weeks, the new hire was a no-show. (The first and third never bothered to show up or call, the second trained for a couple of days, and then vamoosed.)
What is wrong with these people?
I know that cost-cutting is all the rage. For instance, each of us secretaries now works for five attorneys rather than two like we used to. In order to meet this larger load, it would certainly be nice to have fast, efficient well-designed software.
But no, another cost that was cut was quality brand-name software. Now we have some turdware that looks like it was cobbled together in some yutz’s basement by Wayne and Garth. Simple document comparisons and .pdf tasks now take twice as long as they used to. And our building is 1.5 blocks away from Adobe’s corporate headquarters. Wish we could use your software, Adobe!
Guess you’re just unlucky… [ironic reference to user name]
But I know how that feels. I keep getting calls from a relative: “Okay, they still won’t buy me Photoshop. NOW they’ve switched to… (I dunno, ‘PixelPusherPro ZeroPointOh’)… do you have any idea how I can rotate an image? It looks like… nope, I can’t. Aaaaaagh!”
Insider tip: If you call for my boss and he’s not available and I offer to take a message? Just so’s you know, if you ask if you can have voicemail instead I’ll happily transfer you to his voicemail.
But it’s going to be ME that checks that voicemail.
I realize you may be hoping to either preserve privacy/confidentiality or you think you’d get to leave a more detailed message that way.
Not really.
ETA: Guy asked to go into voicemail. Ok, I assume you’re leaving important private info. Nope. Just they guy from the suit store calling to see if my boss liked his pants.
You couldn’t leave that with me??
Well, how would YOU know if he liked his pants, huh?!
I hate the people who don’t want to leave a message or voice mail. They just want to keep calling and calling and calling and calling. Because a caller who refuses to identify himself/refuses to give a company name/refuses to mention what the call will be about is really high on my bosses ‘let them through’ list.
The really rude ones start to hang up the second they hear my voice. Newsflash: It’s never going to be the President!
Oh, yeah. There’s those, too. Seriously, you expect me to just pass you on through with a shrug and a “yeah, I don’t know who this is, here they come!”
What’s also intriguing is how some people’s attitude changes once they realize that no, I’m not a receptionist, I’m his assistant. So, receptionists don’t deserve your respect but assistants do? Guess what, that’s something I tell my boss about you.
Are you fucking kidding me, United Airlines? You robocall just now to tell me my boss’s flight departure has been delayed? We know! It was supposed to leave over three hours ago! Tip top flight notification system you got there, guys.
Ha, that doesn’t mean anything. I have more money than God. Think about it; if you’re omnipotent, what do you need with money? (Well, except for what He’s been saving to hire someone to come and break up that damned giant rock He threw His back out trying to lift.)
Oh, yes, I have experienced this as well! (In fact, I think I complained about this on the board before?) I help out different departments, in this case I was working with a database for HR. The IS director brought me to an IS consultant to get help. In his mind he had apparently labeled me ‘young - hr clerk - low level’. The minute the Director was gone (if I’m remembering correctly) he turned his back on me, held his finger up at me without looking at me and barked at me that he had to finish typing an email. Which he did. It took him quite a few minutes as he stared at it, deleting a word here, retyping a word there.
Then, he sighed at me through the entire explanation of what I needed, and said he would work on it when he got around to it…until I mentioned that if he had any questions, exactly where I sat.
Suddenly he was so nice. (One Bourbon, one scotch, and a beer)
Bleagh. I hate people who do that. We’re all working together in this company and it shouldn’t matter if it’s a clerk or receptionist or what not.