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This is my bad, but I honestly hadn't even thought of that being an option. Maybe it's because I'm new and want to look alert and productive, but headphones would solve all of this.
But then again, I wouldn't have any more stories to tell.
It is a balancing game. I always thought it has helped me look like I am blocking out the rest of the office so that I can focus on my work. Nothing says "I don't want to talk" like headphones, but like you said, it keeps you from hearing the crazy sh*t your co-workers talk about. I tend to use them more on days where the conversation is irritating rather than fascinating.
I share an office with two girls are "like totally bffs.. forever." They always sing off pitch and laugh with their gross manly laughs.. i gotta put in headphones or i would probably ending up breaking/jumping out of the window like the caged monkey who escapes from the zoo!
My admin continues to be terrible. Once again, he had too much work arrive on his desk yesterday so he a) spent time after lunch browsing the internets, b) after an hour of this, he sent everyone an email saying he wouldn't get all our mail out, c) only sent half of it (meaning he was able to prepare a whopping 5 letters in 2+ hours) and d) magically generating all day doctor's appointments for today and Friday since we get the 4th off.
P.S. "preparing a letter" consists of making two copies of it and putting it in an envelope that we provide for him.
I read way more terrible briefs than decent ones. Way more. It really baffles me sometimes.
I used to get confused by this too. I'd see briefs/motions/pleadings coming from some really A+ peer firms, and be absolutely baffled. Once I switched jobs I realized why - a lot of places with good reputations, where the lawyers are paid well, churn out sh*tloads of work in order to keep clients happy. If you spend 8+ hours on a motion, you're a) taking time away from other work that needs to be done, and b) creating something/billing for something that your clients may not pay for. There's nothing worse than spending 12+ hours on a perfect MSJ, only to have the client get upset that you spent that long crafting a document which will GET THEM OUT OF THE F*CKING CASE and whack your time down by 1/2. Some attorneys combat this by making things shorter and more punchy/to the point, but that's a tough skill to hone. Many more wind up writing things that aren't so perfect. It's the way it is.
...or they're just terrible attorneys. You have to remember, right now there are about 2 attorneys for every 1 attorney job in the United States. Law schools are graduating morons at record pace, with new and completely worthless "law schools" opening up every year to take advantage of the cash cow that is Graduate Education in America.
I think it is probably some of both, but I tend to believe it is more of the latter explanation. The problems I see cover a variety of areas, but the thing that always surprises me the most is the clear failure to proofread things even a single time. I'm talking about briefs that are just riddled with typos and similar issues that should have been glaringly obvious if the attorney had just read the thing once before submitting it.
As an example, when I worked for the 11th Circuit, we would get a ton of small scale criminal cases involving smuggling of various substances, all of which raised basically the same issue, so the attorneys would cut and paste their briefs from one to the next. More than once, I read briefs that randomly started calling the defendant by a different name in the middle of the brief because the attorney apparently failed to find and replace all instances of the previous defendant's name throughout the thing. Now, I realize these particular attorneys were indeed pumping out work and probably not getting a ton of compensation for it, but that sort of mistake is just pure sloppiness.
What's with businesses paying their employees with cash cards instead of checks or direct-deposit or heavens-to-Betsy, cash? I just found out about this. These cards carry, like, $3-$7 per-transaction ATM access fees. You're not nickel-and-diming your employees enough but that you also need a bank kickback on payroll?
I mean, I get that many families don't have bank accounts, but some bank product development guy needs stripped naked, hogtied, ball-gagged, and dumped off on a Wal-Mart loading dock with "I AM THE 1%" written in Sharpie on his forehead.
What's with businesses paying their employees with cash cards instead of checks or direct-deposit or heavens-to-Betsy, cash? I just found out about this. These cards carry, like, $3-$7 per-transaction ATM access fees. You're not nickel-and-diming your employees enough but that you also need a bank kickback on payroll?
I mean, I get that many families don't have bank accounts, but some bank product development guy needs stripped naked, hogtied, ball-gagged, and dumped off on a Wal-Mart loading dock with "I AM THE 1%" written in Sharpie on his forehead.
We were just talking about this the other day. It's terrible!
What's with businesses paying their employees with cash cards instead of checks or direct-deposit or heavens-to-Betsy, cash? I just found out about this. These cards carry, like, $3-$7 per-transaction ATM access fees. You're not nickel-and-diming your employees enough but that you also need a bank kickback on payroll?
I mean, I get that many families don't have bank accounts, but some bank product development guy needs stripped naked, hogtied, ball-gagged, and dumped off on a Wal-Mart loading dock with "I AM THE 1%" written in Sharpie on his forehead.
I didnt do a single thing at work yesterday except attend a 2hr long training meeting. And today I have yet to do anything either. SO BOREDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDd.
So much country music. Popular current country music.
All day every day.
Special kind of Hell.
I just started working with Cabela's and wish I would have considered this before I accepted the job. ha! I guess it's not the first time I've had to deal. -_-
Post by Dave Maynar on Jul 8, 2013 11:36:32 GMT -5
I might have posted about it before in here, but apparently, my workplace didn't read it. I work in Knoxville. I do not work in Nashville. Please stop sending me emails about sh*t that only applies to people in Nashville. A Nashville office email list exists in your address book, and I bet you could find it pretty quickly if you looked.
What is with this place and trackers? I have to maintain a tracker for just about everything and now someone just added additional fields to further track the tracker.
Is there some kind of manager training that teaches them how to ceremoniously get the employee to say they made a mistake instead of just being like, hey this isn't right, can you fix it?
The office ordered lunch today for nearly everyone, due to attend a meeting today. I didn't have to attend that meeting, so I get to sit here eating my peanut butter sandwich watching others eat plates of BBQ.
Is there some kind of manager training that teaches them how to ceremoniously get the employee to say they made a mistake instead of just being like, hey this isn't right, can you fix it?
not that I've ever been to! I actually get negative feedback for being too blunt in those kind of situations. my method is to find the person, directly spell out the issue and ask them to please resolve it. however (and this is not meant as a knock on women, but just based on my experience managing a group of 10-13 of them, they are far more difficult to communicate with), they perceive that as being too harsh and would rather have a long, drawn-out discussion where everyone makes sure everyone else is "still ok" at the end.
probably I just lack the requisite estrogen or something but I think it's bananas. if I screw up I want someone to just straight up tell me so I can fix it and move on.
Is there some kind of manager training that teaches them how to ceremoniously get the employee to say they made a mistake instead of just being like, hey this isn't right, can you fix it?
Yes; the same kind of savage natural selection that trains little vampire squids not to get eaten by bigger vampire squids. CYA and all that.
In my case, the way I transcribed something made the final product say the wrong thing. No good way to dance around it, but no, there HAS to be a dance. There has to be some kind of Socratic method BS to get me to say, "I messed up!"
Man, I was coming here to complain about someone leaving fingernail clippings in the floorboard of one of the company cars, but you got me beat by a mile.
This is one of the many reasons I do not work in medicine, my Grandfather was a surgeon and when I was a kid he took to surgery with him and there was a guy who had been gut shot. The pressure had built up so much that he just knicked the side with the scalpel and blood was spraying everywhere. These days I prefer sick computers.
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Man, I was coming here to complain about someone leaving fingernail clippings in the floorboard of one of the company cars, but you got me beat by a mile.
yuck. one of the doctors I work with has a real phobia about blood and is really OCD. even more ironic than being in this field with those issues is the fact that he's the only one I know who's actually gotten blood in his eye. twice.
