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.
I'm just trying to tell you that we have nothing in common besides both of us liking your penis.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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Frankenbuddha - Dec 09, 2009 9:00:47 am PST #2759 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sophia Brooks - Dec 09, 2009 9:03:58 am PST #2760 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 09, 2009 9:07:01 am PST #2761 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Because they CAN.
Point.
WindSparrow - Dec 09, 2009 9:18:14 am PST #2762 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I hope your email is the smack-upside-the-head by reality that your boss needs.
beth b - Dec 09, 2009 9:21:30 am PST #2763 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
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.
Trudy Booth - Dec 09, 2009 9:22:20 am PST #2764 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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?
javachik - Dec 09, 2009 9:24:41 am PST #2765 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
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!!!
Trudy Booth - Dec 09, 2009 9:25:08 am PST #2766 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Maybe its an efficiency thing. If you're not frantic clearly you could be doing more.
javachik - Dec 09, 2009 9:27:34 am PST #2767 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Trudy, that's probably a lot of it. Whereas I, if I see a frantic employee, immediately know I am not doing my job managing this person very well.
Aims - Dec 09, 2009 9:28:17 am PST #2768 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t feels the need to change careers again and move back to Cali to work for java