Anybody want to bring me lunch? I have a can of lentil soup but no desire to eat it or volition to wash dishes so I can eat it. And no car to go get something.
When the guys from the city public works/water department get here and get done checking around for reasons why our water pressure has been so pathetic lately, I shall be making something involving black beans, tomato products and angel hair pasta. I shall be sure to pour some through the internet for you, smonster. Until then, I have given myself some fuel in the form of a peanut butter and honey sandwich, which was fuel, but not satisfying. My dad used to love peanut butter and honey, don't know why I don't.
I love that you have to schedule your own scoldings, though!
Put like that sounds like Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Be greatful you don't have to pay for the time spent on them, at least I hope you don't.
Because they CAN.
yes, this. I seem to have solved almost my entire, written warning level problem with my boss by acting like I am either happy and cheerful, or at least hurried and overly animate. The thing I don't understand is why my boss thinks that if I am not flipping out like a mammal, I am not actually doing anything.
I hope your email is the smack-upside-the-head by reality that your boss needs.
all this nonsense that Nora and Sophia are seeing now makes m so grateful that my boss is 15 minuets across town. And she only stops by when she has to. Granted, when I ask what I think is a simple question 500 people get involved and I get a non-answer, but the stupid stuff is minimal.
The thing I don't understand is why my boss thinks that if I am not flipping out like a mammal, I am not actually doing anything.
"Be hyper and/or stressed" isn't in your job description?
That completely sucks, Nora. Completely.
R (my direct report) always laughs when work comes in that is going to be craptastically tedious because I'll tell him, "you're gonna need your iPod for this, and at a minimum, you'll need to create some of your own cuss words because the ones at your ready disposal won't be sufficient. I expect to hear them uttered at least once every 15 minutes."
The thing that does take some managing, especially when I had a group of 5 people, was when our tedious work was made 15000 times worse because someone in another department couldn't be arsed to do his or her work correctly, and the company was on a deadline so we couldn't just push it back to them. And often, because we're so small, we had MDs inserting tables in Word (which is not the best use of their time, but they're trying to help)without using the correct template, and therefore screwing up the whole doc, which would then take hours or days to fix. Anyway, keeping morale high when shit like that happened all the time was a challenge.
Which has nothing to do with Nora having to trek out in sleet because her asshat boss can't manage his own finances well enough to not need a payday advance!!!
Maybe its an efficiency thing. If you're not frantic clearly you could be doing more.
