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Continually being expected to know things MAGICALLY is getting really old. Oh, you didn't know what you didn't know? SHAME ON YOU.
Vindicated today. The way I did things was actually correct and the other person was wrong. Of course nobody ever admits to that outright, but I feel better knowing I didn't fuck anything up.
Continually being expected to know things MAGICALLY is getting really old. Oh, you didn't know what you didn't know? SHAME ON YOU.
I know you mean this in a different way, but this is my #2 pet peeve (after people who can't read maps). I get so many people who come to the info desk and get mad when I can't figure out where they are supposed to go for some meeting or conference, when they don't know where it is, when it is, if it's even in the student union, what it's called, or who is putting it on. Yet somehow they expect me to call on the spirits of the netherworld or something and gleam the answer from some parallel dimension where they aren't idiots.
I know you mean this in a different way, but this is my #2 pet peeve (after people who can't read maps). I get so many people who come to the info desk and get mad when I can't figure out where they are supposed to go for some meeting or conference, when they don't know where it is, when it is, if it's even in the student union, what it's called, or who is putting it on. Yet somehow they expect me to call on the spirits of the netherworld or something and gleam the answer from some parallel dimension where they aren't idiots.
This is good prep for the working world outside of college. Daily, I'm asked to do thing that I have no idea how to do (and apparently neither does the person asking me to do it). As crazykittensmile noted yesterday, you are magically supposed to get it done. For me, it involves a lot of angry grunting and asking around until I find someone that has an idea of what I'm supposed to do. Then I cross my fingers that I've done it correctly.
Post by billypilgrim on Sept 24, 2014 13:55:47 GMT -5
I like being asked to foresee the future.
If we make this business decision and get sued, what's the likely outcome and what will it cost?
Oh, you just need me to predict the outcome and cost of a suit by some unidentified entity bringing unidentified claims in a yet-to-be-determined forum? Let me dust off my crystal ball.
This is actually about 90% of my job. It's not bad as long as you throw in enough life savers such as: "all things being equal"; "barring unforeseen events"; "most likely outcome"; "appears to indicate".
Plus, when you analyze irrational actors (all humans to date), predicting the outcomes of the combination of all their behavior over a period any longer than the extremely short term is effectively impossible, but that doesn't stop me from taking money for doing it.
Post by Dave Maynar on Sept 24, 2014 14:31:54 GMT -5
On the lighter side of things, the admins in the building made jars to collect pocket change throughout the next month for breast cancer research. Due to this, my admin currently has a large mason jar on his desk decorated with pink ribbon stickers and balloons. It is incredibly funny. He totally refuses to refer to it as his jar due to all the pink.
I've been e-mailing a lady in a different department all week. Each time she e-mails me, it's sent only to me. each time I respond to her, I CC my supervisor on it. And when she responds, it again comes only to me. I want to tell her how the Reply All button is really useful.
I've been e-mailing a lady in a different department all week. Each time she e-mails me, it's sent only to me. each time I respond to her, I CC my supervisor on it. And when she responds, it again comes only to me. I want to tell her how the Reply All button is really useful.
I'm totally guilty of this. I often forget that Reply All is a thing.
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I've been e-mailing a lady in a different department all week. Each time she e-mails me, it's sent only to me. each time I respond to her, I CC my supervisor on it. And when she responds, it again comes only to me. I want to tell her how the Reply All button is really useful.
I had the opposite experience yesterday where multiple people forgot that reply all is not what you do when you get an that was sent to the organization wide mailing list.
I've been e-mailing a lady in a different department all week. Each time she e-mails me, it's sent only to me. each time I respond to her, I CC my supervisor on it. And when she responds, it again comes only to me. I want to tell her how the Reply All button is really useful.
I had the opposite experience yesterday where multiple people forgot that reply all is not what you do when you get an that was sent to the organization wide mailing list.
Our office has that issue sometimes as well. It's just been frustrating because every e-mail where my supervisor isn't CC'd, I have to send to her because it's information she needs also.
I woke up this morning in terrible pain. I called in, but I have to be at a meeting at 2pm. I'm the only one who really understands a deal with a lot of zeros behind it and have to explain it.
So now I am at that oh so fun point when you try and time your meds so you can drive and be functional whilst fighting back the ever growing wall of pain.
I've been e-mailing a lady in a different department all week. Each time she e-mails me, it's sent only to me. each time I respond to her, I CC my supervisor on it. And when she responds, it again comes only to me. I want to tell her how the Reply All button is really useful.
In my firm, the Reply All button is abused far more often. If someone asks 500+ people a question, and your answer is that you don't know, do you need to share it with the rest of us?
I woke up this morning in terrible pain. I called in, but I have to be at a meeting at 2pm. I'm the only one who really understands a deal with a lot of zeros behind it and have to explain it.
So now I am at that oh so fun point when you try and time your meds so you can drive and be functional whilst fighting back the ever growing wall of pain.
Post by crazykittensmile on Sept 29, 2014 17:12:27 GMT -5
UGH. Someone just heated up something so vile in the break room. The worst part is, I can't even tell what it is and I keep trying to figure it out with every rancid sniff.
Can't everyone agree on these simple office microwave guidelines? 1. Don't burn popcorn 2. Don't nuke anything that smells like roadkill
So, I'm three weeks into the new pizza delivery gig after walking out on the last boss. Some things better, some things worse, but overall a good decision...
One of those changes: I now have a workplace rival in one of my fellow delivery guys. I usually get along with my coworkers, so this is a new phenomenon to me.
It's anything but personal, since I barely even know the guy. He's technically got seniority on myself & the fellow driver that walked out on the old job and came to this new one with me... but what he's got on us in seniority at this specific establishment, we've got on him by years in general experience. There has been much friction.
Three examples of this:
1. Three deliveries ready, one going to far northeast side of town & two far west. Rival has a habit of being greedy & takes all three, despite my suggestion they be split 2-1. I'm in the restaurant 45 minutes (and as a pizza guy, if I'm not moving I'm not making money) before there's another delivery. Initially, I didn't complain to management, because it was my first week... but I did eventually, after one of those three called back to complain about a late order.
2. Thursday, he was the on-call guy from 5-8 before the Packers-Vikings game. Busy night in these parts. I wasn't scheduled, but got called in anyway - rival didn't answer the call. Rival arrived after me & claimed the manager never called him... odd, because he always sports an earpiece & spends all his between-delivery time with his phone in his hands. He got sent home. Two weeks in and not only am I already stealing hours from him, but they were the most lucrative hours of the week.
3. Sunday, rival's scheduled at 4:30 but punched in at 4:00 without being asked. I have three deliveries, but they go together. He still expected to take one from/"for" me. I resist and tell him I've got it under control until the time his shift is *supposed* to start. He stomps off in a huff, and a waitress later asks me what happened because "You really chapped his ass!" Made me smile. The one he tried to poach off me turned out to be my best tip of the night.
Rival probably hates me at this point, but I don't care because it's for a good reason: new guy's been in "his" house less than a month & is already showing him up and stealing his hours. I don't think I've ever taken so much joy in a coworker's misery before.
I'm also keeping a log documenting incidents like those mentioned above. I feel it may come in handy down the road. Any of you have experiences with that kind of thing?
Yeah, I've got no problem competing with this rival... I just think we don't agree on exactly what the ground rules are.
I'm thinking of stuff like "orders in the same part of town should go together" or "on-time delivery is more important than individual drivers' number of deliveries."
Definitely writing my log with boss sharing in mind, making note of late orders due to his decision-making as a customer service issue and his punching in before (and lingering past) scheduled times trying to grab more as a payroll concern.
Not trying to get rival fired. He just needs to get the message "team player or GTFO."
Yeah, I've got no problem competing with this rival... I just think we don't agree on exactly what the ground rules are.
I'm thinking of stuff like "orders in the same part of town should go together" or "on-time delivery is more important than individual drivers' number of deliveries."
Definitely writing my log with boss sharing in mind, making note of late orders due to his decision-making as a customer service issue and his punching in before (and lingering past) scheduled times trying to grab more as a payroll concern.
Not trying to get rival fired. He just needs to get the message "team player or GTFO."
Your boss really should set the ground rules. Back when I delivered pizza there was one guy (the assistant manager/chef) who pretty much delegated who took what deliveries and that was the end of discussion.
Post by tealeyedangel on Oct 7, 2014 16:54:15 GMT -5
If this legal aid that works in this office doesn't stop meddling in my freaking business I am going to snap, like seriously explode. Dude will change things in MY files, will tinker in MY office.. Yesterday I was doing something and he comes up and grabs my mouse and starts clicking randomly just messing up what I was doing to begin with until I literally yelled at him to GTFO before I throat punch him.
I might have vented about this before, but whatever.
There's a guy in Maintenance that goes to lunch at 1:45 (way after everyone else), turns two TVs (side-by-side) in the break room to Fox News and cranks the volume as high as it can go. I go on break around 2:20, and half of my department is glued to the screens so I can't change the channel to something neutral (ESPN, MLB Network, HGTV, Food Network). There's a third TV in the corner that's controlled in the back office, always on CNN. Why do we need all three TVs on the news, two on the same channel?
I try to stay politically neutral while at work. Few, if anyone, knows of my political leanings. You'd think others would be neutral, just to keep the peace in the workplace. This guy doesn't care.