Boss sees the angels and psychics? Damn.
That he does. I don’t know why she forwards all her emails when on vacation, all I ever did was set my away message to tell people I was gone and if anything was urgent contact this, this or this person at their emails or phone number. No one really needs to see all my emails, and 99% of the time if they do need them they are already included, and if it’s a rush the away info catches the others.
That and I certainly don’t use my work email for stuff like that! Work email is strictly for work and work contacts, rarely do I get personal stuff there and only if it’s rush things that need my attention quickly and can’t wait until I check my phone.
We’re back on the same phone issue that prompted me to start this thread. Even after I explicitly told support the damn feature can’t be turned off, someone wandered over to my desk and asked me to ‘flip the switch for hotelling’ because the system was telling the customer their number was invalid. I then spent the next hour demonstrating to my support rep that the only time the system will tell someone the number is invalid is when . . . (pause for gasp of suprise) . . . they type in the wrong fucking phone number.
This whole week is giving me a migraine. Back to resume writing.
Oh holy mother of Og, why in hades doesn’t our own federal government talk to itself?!!! One department does something which another department knows doesn’t need done and then when all heck breaks loose, it’s finally my problem?!! And jebeezus, when you screw it up royally into the 14th dimension, please oh please do what an adult would do and clean up your own mess!!! You have the power. Me, I’m just a very small, ground-down cog in a brutal and unforgiving corporate machine.
And cripes, these damn products have been around for at least half a decade now, so why on earth do I almost daily ask questions about them that no one knows the answer to?!!! And should I be stupid enough to bring this up in meetings, please don’t “act out” by inferring I’m a drooling idiot because you don’t know the answer either and are too proud and “important” to admit it.
Oh and my “batting average” today while an improvement over yesterday, was still an abysmal .400. Do we need company toilet training too you ignorant jerks?!!! Show some “leadership” and flush the damn can for once!
Thank you. I feel marginally better. I now return you to your regularly scheduled rants.
Bri2k
Dear Dr. Sexy Voice,
Please stop calling my supervisor at corporate because your charts aren’t reconciled. The reason everyone else in the practice has been reconciled already is because they actually finish their charts on time.
And when I explain to you that I can’t “guess the diagnosis” based on an office visit, please don’t come to my office and use your Sexy Voice to try and get your way. The Sexy Voice only works when we’re on the phone and I can pretend you are Alan Rickman. In person, I see that you are not Alan Rickman and I become less motivated to help you.
Quit ruining my fantasies and do your damn charts.
Yours truly,
My name is Kika, not Kiki. I am not your mother’s poodle.
We just went through another round of housekeeper hiring at the hotel I work at.
Folks, is it that hard to do the following?
a) bring a pen
b) dress like a decent person and not a hooker or a hobo
c) bring a pen
d) fill out the application in a place that is not standing directly in front of me
e) bring a pen
f) leave a message on the head housekeeper’s voicemail when I transfer you and not call me back two seconds later saying that she wasn’t there. That’s why she has voicemail.
g) bring a goddamn pen with you
h) check your own voicemail when you get a callback and not call me saying “I just got a call from this number” like I know wtf you’re talking about.
i) stop taking my pens. Bring your own with you.
As a corollary, head housekeeper, you have been here long enough to change the voicemail message from the previous head housekeeper’s voice to your own. It takes five minutes tops. Change it. That will eliminate a good 10% of the instant callbacks I get from some of these Mensa members who are confused that a stranger’s voice is on the voicemail.
Can I borrow a pen?
In a couple of my jobs, I was in charge of preliminary screening of job applicants. If we didn’t have the “Now Hiring” sign up, and someone was clearly going up and down the shopping center filling out applications, but didn’t have a pen, I’d usually just put the application in the circular file. My bosses knew about this, and approved. My reasoning is that if you KNOW that you’re gonna fill out applications, but don’t bring at least one and preferably TWO working pens with you, you are not the sort of person who shows up on time and ready to work. It’s one thing to be out shopping and then decide to fill out an application because this is such a cool store, but if I can see that you’re hitting the Country Chic store, and the Hallmark, and our store, then it’s obvious that you intended to fill out applications. Which generally involves a pen.
I actually got this job because I was the only interviewee that brought a pen.
Oh look! I suddenly have a performance review tomorrow. I find the timing suspect, as this is coming just as I’ve decided to give up on trying to get one and find a new job.
Why is it “suspect,” and not a mere coincidence? Have you been broadcasting your decision to give up on getting a performance review and just find a new job?
Dear business software,
Why oh why in the bloody blue blazes do you constantly ask me if I want to go to the next tab without saving when I’ve got read-only access and can’t edit anything anyway? I understand you were built by the CEO’s soft-headed brother-in-law but honestly, is there some legitimate reason you’re so lame-brained?!!!
Dear supervisors,
If the process flow for temporary address changes has a column header that says “Verified Temporary Mailing Address Change” why can we not have common sense enough to know that means we don’t change the Residence Address in this situation? Reps that don’t have smarts enough to figure that one out are incapable of functioning in the adult world. Accepting that a mistake was truly made and addressing (hehehe) the problem is much better for the business than playing politics and hiding behind such stupidity.
Today’s “batting average” was a hefty .500, but I suspect this is due more to people being on vacation than any actual mature, diligent behavior.
Bri2k
So you ‘don’t want to bring this shit to work’? Guess I was confused because every two or three days you show up pissed off or upset over some crap your husband’s said or done. Then the rest of us get to hear all about how you’re fed up and going to take the kids and divorce his ass. He’s mean, his family is mean, everyone’s mean. Got it.
Then two days later you’re chatting about how great things are and the two of you are applying for a mortgage to buy a house together.
You go on and on about how professional you are, then launch into long, heavily personal monologues none of need to hear. Marriage troubles, health issues, your DEAD SON! We’ve heard it all in great detail.
Some people need to vent, but that’s what girlfriends (and certain message boards) are for. Try a bit harder to separate work and personal issues.
An update to our system was put through last night. It changes the whole method of how we enter data.
Given that they can’t even do the weekly system maintenance without killing half of the tools we need to use, I’m afraid. Very afraid.
Consider this a pre-rant.
Well look at that. Less than an hour after everyone comes in and we start working, we get a shrieking admonishment from IT to STOP THAT and GO BACK TO DOING IT THE OLD WAY.
NO WE WON’T EXPLAIN WHY, JUST STOP IT
And some chucklehead has deleted the letter templates we need to use for approximately half the files that pass through here every day. Woo.
No, it probably is a mere coincidence, but I’m kind of paranoid since the meeting request appeared in my inbox less than 12 hours after an idle pipe dream became firm intent.
My manager has also been avoiding me yesterday and today. Every time we’re in proximity she looks like I’m a grenade about to go off. Previously she’s never had any trouble telling me other people are unhappy with me, so this is mildly concerning.
Well, I’m not fired, and I got a raise. Unfortunately, I also got encouraged to ‘expand my duties and stick my neck out more to avoid stagnation’. Our engineering department is underworked already and we’re full up on managers, so the only place to ‘expand’ to . . . is babysitting support.
What in the fuck, coworkers? Or should I say, former coworkers? What is it about this industry that attracts people like you?
Work is going through the second round of this pattern: two cocky dudes get tired of actually having to do some not-fun stuff at work and decide they can do it better themselves and flame out of the company one right after the other and make their own company.
Also, I’m not sure if you realize you are not getting a reference if you tell a replacement that he never should have accepted the job here, that he’ll be asked to do stuff he doesn’t want to, that our boss is horrible and he’ll regret working here, and then when boss calls you on it, send an email to him saying you’re not going to finish out your 2 weeks notice. Ugh.
Livemeeting worked yesterday. It didn’t work today. At this point, I’ll be referring to this wonderful piece of software as “Sybil”.
Even if livemeeting had worked, training classes are a waste of time when led by someone who has no idea what they’re doing. At least I got paid for that 90 minutes I can’t get back.
Is it Friday yet?
Bri2k