Yes, but off the table gets you style points.
I don’t think you guys are taking the VERY SERIOUS problem of no work blow-jobs seriously!
I agree. No oral in the workplace is a very serious problem. I know I could work a lot more efficiently if I had a few guys under me.
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
Could get a little crowded. Have you been practicing your stretching exercises? We wouldn’t want you to get a cramp…
So there’s apparently some ash cloud thingy stopping flights around the country? Who knows. Anyway, because of said thingy, the post isn’t running well. Means we’ve got less than 30 files in today.
If we run out of files, they make me do filing. Bastards.
Ive been thinking about making this my own thread, but I will post here.
I work as a manager in a place more regulated than…uh I don’t know what is more regulated, obsessive about Quality, following SOPS. thou shalt do this this way and none other than where I work. I’ve been there since the fall and although I mostly know my job there are lots of parts I am still learning.
Anyway, because things are always changing we have a staff trainer who is in charge of getting the new Standard Operating Procedures implemented, the old ones rescinded and the staff trained to the new forms, information, or tasks.
Except she hasn’t been telling people when things are rescinded but not updated. And we are being audited in two weeks.
Another employee, doing some on the job training discovered that they are using the wrong form to do something they aren’t even supposed to do anymore.
Do you know what I spent my afternoon doing? Looking through all the rescinded documents for the last three months and seeing if they are updated or just totally not in place. My boss and I both know that it should be the trainer doing this, but right now, two weeks from the audit, its more important that it gets done correctly than gets done by the person who is supposed to be doing it.
This same person reacted to a major non conformance in another centre with an "oh well, maybe he was falling back on his outside training. The first rule with our company is “forget how you do anything anywhere else this is what you do and how you do it.”
Did I mention we are two weeks from audit. I would like to review things, brush up on my skills, set my filing in order. But I was doing this today, and from the looks of it most of the rest of tomorrow.:smack:
Attention jackass: just because we’re being forced to share an office doesn’t mean I’m your free ride to lunch. Bring your own damn car if going out to lunch every day is that big of a deal for you. Why the fuck would you think that I was planning to go out to lunch today, anyway? My lunch box is rather large (it’s full of ice packs), and I have to walk by your desk to get to my section of the office. How could you miss that?
I didn’t bring a car today. Can I eat your lunch?
I didn’t bring a lunch today. Can I eat your car?
I got some extra shorts – make a fine, hearty stew.
Hey, IT idiots at Central Reservations, you are totally not doing “system upgrades” on a Wednesday morning. You did “system upgrades” in the middle of the night last Saturday. The reason the entire reservation system for Large International Hotel Chain went out this morning is because someone was an incompetent boob and fubared something royal this morning. Don’t lie about it, but do tell us when the system is back up and running so we can do our damn jobs.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he asks this within the next week or so.
Yes customers, we will be closed on Independence Day. Yes, we know it’s a Monday. Yes, we know the 3rd is a Sunday. Don’t worry, your government handout checks will be posted on Friday. Maybe if some of you had jobs instead of sponging off of the rest of us and collecting welfare you’d understand why some of us want a holiday!
Aaaaaand a counter-pitting to you, good doctor, for assuming that jobs are available, let alone obtainable.
(Talking only slightly out of my ass here, since I don’t know the details of Dr. G’s line of work. But the whole “get a job, you lazy bum!” thing kinda went down the toilet when the, y’know, economy did the same.)
Ah, perhaps I should’ve explained my rant better. It’s not the unemployed I was ranting about. It’s the drunks and junkies who are living off of welfare who have been calling all pissed off because we have the nerve to be closed on the day they’re expecting their money. I probably took 30 of those calls yesterday alone. Believe me, I know there aren’t many jobs out there, I’ve been looking for a new one myself. I work at a financial institution, BTW. But I don’t want to hijack the thread into a welfare rant, so I’ll just leave it at that.
My workplace doesn’t have trouble with lunch-stealers (though there have been folks who’d all but pack a cooler at events), but there’s a ridiculous problem with fork and spoon thievery.
The staff room has a toaster, microwave, fridge, sink, and oven, and a motley assortment of mugs. Currently, there are also about six plates, three bowls, three dozen knives (ranging from butter through dinner, steak, and bread), a couple pie servers and salad servers… and NO FORKS OR SPOONS. Six months ago someone got approval to use some petty cash to replenish the supplies, and bought two plates, two bowls, and two fork-knife-spoon sets. The plates are still around, and the spoons, and the knives, but the forks and spoons have evaporated.
Do people accidentally throw them away? Do people actually take them home? I don’t know, but eating my reheated pasta with a knife is nothing I want to do again.
People take them back to their desks, kivrin. Then they get tossed in a drawer or misidentified as “mine” and taken home.
That’s probably it. I didn’t think of that because we’re a special collections library and food isn’t supposed to be anywhere but the staff room, the conference room, the lobby and on rare occasions when the card catalogs have been wrapped in plastic and covered with cloth to make them cocktail tables, the reference room… but probably the admin folks on the third floor don’t think that rule applies to them. (And for most of them that’s a reasonable thing to think… I just hope the education staff aren’t putting manuscripts on the same desks they eat on.)
At my office (I’ve posted about this before) we have Ms. Entitled and she has taken all our fork/spoons/knives save one setting. (She also took our serving spoon.)
They aren’t in her office, either. They’re just gone.
I think office utensils might have a mind of their own; you guys have reminded me of a fork that mysteriously appeared in my fork drawer at home, and just as mysteriously has disappeared again. I don’t recall consciously stealing it OR getting rid of it.