Why choose?
Unfortunately, she’s also the VP’s friend. Though even that friendship is wearing thin at this point.
I spoke to minion this morning. She said she was really glad I said something because she’s uncomfortable with the level of tension and doesn’t understand why busybody won’t talk to me. So I’m forcing confrontation today and dragging busybody’s sorry ass out with me tomorrow to hash the rest of this shit out. My boss has told me to treat her with kid gloves, but this just can’t go on. We’re making other employees jumpy and things aren’t getting done.
I hate confrontation, so I kind of want to throw up. But I think it’ll be worth it so at least I can say I tried (again and again) when the shit hits the fan. I’m fucking tired of this shit.
This probably doesn’t need to be said, but document everything, immediately afterwards, even during. You need to be both covering your own ass and possibly providing materials for what I suspect is them trying to build a case to fire her.
Unfortunately she’s Executive Assistant to one of the big-big bosses, so there’s nobody around who can tell her not to pull this shit, because her boss is out most of the time. And as I mentioned in the earlier post, I’ve been told “It’s a family friendly workplace” and most of the people on my floor are parents or preparing to breed, and apparently I was the only one concerned about the communicable nature of the child’s illness.
I can only hope I’m not the only one who caught the goddamn kiddy plague, and next time they’ll listen to me when I express displeasure at having a child with an illness running around.
Also, good luck overly. I hope you can get busybody to STFU, or get her fired.
Send her an email, explaining how it’s her fault you now can’t go help your mom out, and ask her to assign one of her non-sneezing underlings to do it for you.
You know, as a “friendly” thing to do for your family. 
Could the idiot who took the staple remover that was by the photocopier please return it.
Thank you.
Damnit, where’s the like button? 
Well, the meeting yesterday went…blah. The four of us (busybody, minion, my counterpart (who’s having similar issues to mine) and I talked about our issues for nearly 2 and a half hours, but at the same time, nothing was really resolved. Instead, they shifted all the blame from themselves to our boss.
So I’m going to lunch with busybody today by myself. I really, really hope she doesn’t cry. She almost did yesterday and I don’t know if I can handle tears without snapping today.
My husband asked me what I hoped to gain from this meeting. I told him, “I’m doing this so that, when all is said and done, I’m not part of the problem. I can say that I acted like an adult and tried to solve it. I know it’s not going to work. But at least I can say I tried, as a group and individually.”
Then I will document the hell out of everything and hope for the best. Once again, I want to throw up. I get really nervous when I have to deal with conflict, though I’ve had to do it a LOT at this job. Guess I just gotta pull up the big girl undies (again) and do the right thing.
Confidential to our IT:
Dammit, you people really need to get your shit together and figure out a) the Big Problem and all the Littler Problems, and b) why every time you attempt to fix any Problems you make that and/or another Problem even fucking worse than before. I know you’re sick of hearing our team bugging you about all of that, but you know what? We’re sick of having to bug you, we’re sick of having our work impacted so badly, and we’re sick of being treated as if Big Problem is some piddly little whiny pissant trifle, instead of a *serious *customer service issue.
No one’s really going to care enough until this starts leading to inevitable significant client loss, in which case there will be Emergency Meetings where people will make Important And Meaningless Statements, but by then, it’ll be too fucking late, and what clients we do retain will be jumpy and huffy and extra-sensitive to any future problems, which will no doubt also be caused by you but it’s my team who will have to bear the brunt of their irritation -> wrath.
** pant ** wheeze **
Sorry.
That was me. I’m tired of people removing staples over the copier and having them wind up inside. I get the lectures from the tech that I’m responsible for calling when the copier breaks down about how staples are NOT a copier lubricant.
BTW, I’m tired of having to clean whiteout off the copier glass, so kindly keep that crap at your desk as well.
I’m glad to hear someone else is on my side of the Crusade to Keep Staples Out of Photocopiers. Staples are just about a copier’s worst enemy.
I think I had my first run in with a PHB, and here I thought they were just cartoon characters.
My task. Modify an existing process to accomplish a new task. This new task cannot be accomplished using any current functions. Not a big deal, then comes all the gotcha’s.
(Unnecessary information: The process traverses 3 systems, and 5 different application programs)
- You cannot modify any existing software.
- You cannot create any new software to fill in the gaps.
- You cannot use any extra CPU time to accomplish the new task.
Uhm, excuse me, but just what am I able to do? Pray that the process can magically start accomplishing the new task?
So, I go to my boss who shakes his head, and replies back to the PHB that we are having problems reconciling the above 3 limitations.
The answer from PHB was, “Okay, you can use more CPU, but you still can’t change anything.”
I don’t understand how they can expect new functionality without allowing us to change anything.
Oh yeah, did I mention it has to be done yesterday, they just forgot to tell us until this morning. :smack:
What is that I don’t even
I’m guessing Pointy-Haired Boss.
No, I think SFG was just using her standard agog at stupidity reply. She’s said it several times in this thread and the mini-rants thread. (But yes, PHB means pointyhaired boss.)
I’m sorry, I’ve seen PHB used elsewhere and thought it was as common as LOL and ROFLPIP. Inner Stickler and Nava are correct.
Yes, my response was not confusion about the initialism but incredulity at the request.
Someone in a nearby office is playing Bejeweled or some other similar game that produces repeated, high-pitched, ‘sparkly’ sound effects. They can shut the fuck up already. :mad:
sparkle
sparkle
sparkle
sparkle
sparkle