This family has a strange definition of fun that I want nothing to do with.
I’m finding that I’m really missing the Music of the Alley. It seems so bare and bleak to walk out into the alley and not hear quiet music in the background. Yesterday, I dragged a ladder out and climbed the 6 foot fence into the deaf guy’s yard and left a note that I wanted him to plug the radio back in.
Did you all know that skunks don’t like the rain? I was walking to my car at lunch when the skies opened. A skunk came running, I mean RUNNING out of the wash, just charging in my direction, its tail up and over its head. I had sudden thoughts of my obit…“Killed when she got knocked over by a wet skunk and broke her head open in a quiet alley” then pressed myself against the wall and the skunk blazed under the fence and under a shed.
I suggested to my boss that she give me hazard pay and she suggested that I stay out of the alley.
Now THAT is FUNNY!
Apparently your boss isn’t a complete fool. 
I’d like to pit the clueless dolt who placed the diesel fuel-soaked test report on my desk this morning. Thanks to you, jackass, I wasted nearly twenty minutes scrubbing my desk, my keyboard, and my wrist pad. I’m also very curious as to why a test report for an air-powered component was covered in diesel (I haven’t actually read the report yet because the smell is still too strong).
Why am I receiving all of co-worker on vacation’s emails? I’m not in her position anymore, I don’t need to see her emails since my job doesn’t entail anything about her emails except for the rare one which I am generally included on, AND she gets junk galore from email lists about angels and psychics and thinking positive… Which of course are also forwarded!
It’s month end, I don’t have time for junk and twice as much email that doesn’t pertain to me but I have to put up with it until she comes back. What’s more, I’m on vacation too for part of when she’s away so when I come back after my vacation I’ll have to wade through her crap in addition to the emails I will need to deal with. Gah!
can you put in a role where everything forwarded from her goes to the deleted file?
I hate writing resumés very, very much. Hate.
Only thing worse: cover letters
Job applications aren’t worse still?
Yeah, they are, but I’m trying to hate the job-hunting process one stage at a time.
Could you forward them to her boss, in case there’s something that needs to be acted on?
At least gaming the stupidly transparent psych tests is fun.
Bri2k
(today’s average, a depresslingly low .250 - is it Friday yet?)
Thankfully I’ve never had to take one of those. They don’t seem to be SOP in Canada.
What’s worst about the job-hunting scenario is knowing that you’ll be passed over even if your personal skills match the job requirements, because a) even though you know you can do the work, your resume doesn’t have enough of the actual job on it, and b) they’d much rather hire someone with local references rather than having to contact someone in another country, oh yeah and c) nobody wants to hire anyone who hasn’t been in paid employment for three years already. And the longer I spend searching and applying fruitlessly, the longer that gap gets.
At this rate, I’ll still be jobless by the time I’m allowed to seek public benefits a year from now. I was really hoping that would not be the case.
Aha, now THAT’S an idea I didn’t think of! I may not, just because knowing the others getting her emails I’m sure to get a phone call asking me to clarify something since I was in her position before. 99% of it I skim over and delete as soon as I realize it doesn’t relate to me, it’s just annoying more than anything. If it gets to be too much I will keep that in mind though, thank you!
She already put him on there! And two other people who actually need to know.
Dear IT jerks,
Don’t put a message up on the homepage of the intranet admonishing people to keep their J (personal) drives under 500mb in size, when your own hidden network files, desktop profile files and assorted other SHIT WE CAN’T DELETE takes up nearly 150Gb alone. All week I’ve been listening to plaintive cries of “But I’ve deleted everything and my J drive still says 145 Jiggerbites are being used?”.
Just stop it. It’s hard enough dealing with the luddites on this floor (Whut you mean “Hold Print” queue?) without you confusing them further.
Okay, I didn’t make it a full month without complaining but holy hell people.
When you transition a project to me and I’ve taken it over please STOP accepting new tasks from the sponsors. Especially please stop accepting new tasks at 9am that need to be completed by 5pm and telling me about them at 4:15 as you’re leaving. I managed to pull a fucking miracle out of the air and get it done by 9am (functionally the same delivery time) but I will not do that to my team again.
Maybe you could set up a folder just for her stuff, so you still have it for future reference if necessary, but it goes straight in there so it’s not cluttering up your inbox.
Not without messing with my existing folders, since I was in her position most of those emails/people she forwards came to me and I never deleted my old rules because for the longest time I was still getting CCd on them. I’ll live, it was a very minor gripe.