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Post by Q-pee on Sept 16, 2013 9:07:08 GMT -5
This was 37 minutes early. That's borderline rude!
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Post by Phoenix on Sept 16, 2013 9:15:24 GMT -5
37 minutes early for a meeting is enough time to get a coffee and look over the meeting agenda/read a few pages in my book. Somewhere not to close to the meeting site, but still within walking distance. Showing up that early is weird.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 16, 2013 9:41:20 GMT -5
Weird and disturbing.
He had also booked meeting for an hour but it only took 15 minutes. As things turned out, it was over before it started.
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Post by fishface on Sept 16, 2013 20:20:43 GMT -5
Don't get me started on meetings. My boss/soon to be former manager drives me up the wall with impromptu meetings because "there is nothing in your calendar". No because that's when I fucking work.
But I don't say that. I wish I did.
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Post by Webs on Sept 16, 2013 20:35:26 GMT -5
Getting an upset stomach at the end of the day and spending a half hour in the bathroom after work.
Then not being able to eat anything much this evening.
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Post by no idea @wino on Sept 16, 2013 20:36:25 GMT -5
you leaving him/her fishguts or Vicky Verka?
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Post by sprite on Sept 16, 2013 21:57:22 GMT -5
OUtlook Web app. we use it at work, no desktop version. it changed a couple of months ago to office 365 or something, during holidays, so none of us could get in. it's recently changed it's look completely, i can't find a damn thing. i'm only here 4 more weeks and i seriously can't be arsed re-learning a thing i was only barely familiar with, as the web version isn't like the 'real' one i used at my last job. i was quite comfortable with that one.
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Post by brodiebruce on Sept 17, 2013 1:14:37 GMT -5
Had a date arranged for Saturday with someone who has been known to be a bit disorganised shall we say (pot, kettle, black....I know) only to get a BBM asking if we can postpone as they have a birthday party they forgot about but could meet for dessert afterwards.
I'm thinking......no. I think I appreciate the suggestion but practically I'm not sitting around waiting until late on Saturday night when there's a fair chance this party will drag on and I'll get a message later saying they'd been delayed or can we change dates again so I'll end up wasting a Saturday evening. There's a precedent for this too. Or I'm just getting old and grumpy. Well, grumpier.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 17, 2013 1:18:55 GMT -5
Oh brodes, that's worth being grumpy over - take a raincheck - do it some other time.
I have got an email which suggests, and I am not joking, that we make a word flash on and off on the home page of our website to draw attention to this new feature.
I had to close the email, before I answered something like "fuck off, I'm not screwing my reputation for your stupid feature"
which would be a definite CLM.
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Post by sprite on Sept 17, 2013 1:58:24 GMT -5
tell them an animated pointing finger fits in with the new vogue for steampunk.
brodes, confirm. then don't go. if they show up, say you fell asleep. then go back to bed.
now--internet is conking in and out. worse, it shows me connected when i'm not. means i can't listen to radio to drown out little buggers screaming in the corridor.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Sept 17, 2013 2:03:53 GMT -5
Yeah, if someone can't make it for the first date they probably aren't all that into you. ;-) (says the girl who forgot to turn up to a movie date once with a) a very hot young man and b) it was a movie I really wanted to see as well)
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Post by wombatrois on Sept 17, 2013 2:24:56 GMT -5
Hahaha - did you get a second chance?
I was once going to meet someone, but I got the meeting point wrong. He wouldn't even talk to me afterwards. I blame it on the latino temperament (the non-communication).
I'd second HD too brodie - why can't she invite you to the party too?
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Post by brodiebruce on Sept 17, 2013 3:15:08 GMT -5
Do you want me to send the "do you know where you can stick your great idea?" e-mail Q?
Ahhhh, they were all very apologetic (which in itself is a novelty from this person) but I'm not rearranging my plans to suit. That just has "doormat" written all over it.
I'm also pissed off as my replacement has said "I'm not having a blackberry as I don't believe in being contactable out of hours". I don't really care either way but he's talking to the wrong person about that.....
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Post by fishface on Sept 17, 2013 3:41:32 GMT -5
Wino- I have been bored at work, signaled I'd like to try something new and my bosses put the word out. They could tell I was starting to be an unhappy fishguts. By the end of the afternoon I had two job offers Same place, just new teams. But until I can be properly released I get to do half days...of five hours each...
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 17, 2013 4:07:34 GMT -5
Do you want me to send the "do you know where you can stick your great idea?" e-mail Q? I'm also pissed off as my replacement has said "I'm not having a blackberry as I don't believe in being contactable out of hours". I don't really care either way but he's talking to the wrong person about that..... Do you a deal.... you send that and I'll send the one telling the new colleague how people who are not contactable when they are needed get one implanted in their arse at their performance review meeting. Come to think of it, sounds like it's the same email.
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Post by janeyd on Sept 17, 2013 4:17:35 GMT -5
getting blamed and yelled at two mornings in a row for not doing someone else's job.
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Post by sprite on Sept 17, 2013 7:06:15 GMT -5
got any time for job hunting? how long could you live unemployed?
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 17, 2013 9:42:35 GMT -5
Nothing today - that tax refund finally arrived.
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Post by no idea @wino on Sept 17, 2013 16:08:32 GMT -5
nice one fish person.....BB blackberry's are still noxious weeds were I live.........
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Post by Webs on Sept 17, 2013 20:01:38 GMT -5
Of all the "auto-pay" places I need to change information on the two that give me the biggest problems are the ones that don't take the new information as immediate.
Really fuckers? Really?
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Sept 18, 2013 1:25:58 GMT -5
My washing machine. More specifically, its inability to tell the time correctly. Went down after the cycle should have finished to see 31 mins displaying. Went back after 35 mins to see 7 mins displaying. Thankfully it did pretty much time the 7 minutes in normal time and not washingmachineland time.
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Post by fishface on Sept 18, 2013 2:09:04 GMT -5
nice one fish person.....BB blackberry's are still noxious weeds were I live......... I was kinda stunned. Unless they just figure they need someone to kick around they seem to like me. Today I'm annoyed. My right arm is doing its nervy spasm thing. Hurts. Stupid.
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Post by MacademiaNut on Sept 18, 2013 2:13:02 GMT -5
My level of clumsiness is pissing me off. Was walking up the steps of the grocery shop, looked back at the Mr who was following, and walked my head right into the edge of a metal contraption.
Now I have a sore head and am annoyed.
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Post by brodiebruce on Sept 18, 2013 3:46:47 GMT -5
Handover is still pissing me off. My replacement knows it all.
Fuck it, I might just take the next two days off.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 18, 2013 4:44:42 GMT -5
Handover is still pissing me off. My replacement knows it all. Excellent, that should make the hand over very quick. Every time he knows stuff (is it a he?) just say "great, you know that, next thing" Long lunches.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Sept 18, 2013 7:38:24 GMT -5
Or ramp up the posting here.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 18, 2013 8:32:47 GMT -5
Apparently various other managers in the department want to take bits of what my team does plus the team members.
Is this the ultimate sign of success?
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Post by brodiebruce on Sept 18, 2013 10:28:37 GMT -5
Or ramp up the posting here. I'm trying.....but do I have to decide between being politically incorrect or hated!
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 18, 2013 10:38:09 GMT -5
No, you can be both.
In fact that's quite likely.
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Post by brodiebruce on Sept 18, 2013 11:09:28 GMT -5
That's very true.
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