Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?

Glory ,'Potential'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Consuela - Jun 06, 2011 3:24:15 pm PDT #11672 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I would be tempted to go passive aggressive and pop my head in her office and say "you know, I think your email account is having some difficulty because I don't believe you are receiving some important email messages I have sent. I fear you are missing other important email messages as well. Have you been having difficulty?

Tempting, but no, it doesn't work. Nothing works. She in fact deletes email on purpose so that nobody can know what she's working on, or when. She never saves anything to the public/shared drives, either, so if you need something she's working on and she's not around, you're SOL. She outright lies about what she's doing and constantly misrepresents the status of her projects. She blames other people for her errors and undercuts the more junior staff she's supposed to be mentoring. At one point she had a bunch of project files hidden away in a locked cabinet so nobody else could access them and nobody could find out how much work she wasn't getting done.

But she reports to the division chief, not my boss, and he won't hear a word about her.

Which is another reason I cannot wait for the reorganization to be finished, when I can finally go up the chain of command and ask to have my projects redistributed because she's "Clearly too busy."


meara - Jun 06, 2011 3:28:58 pm PDT #11673 of 30001

God, Connie...I'd have long ago killed her. That's ridiculous.

But what female anatomy pic is going to obscure size with an absurd shot?

You can TOTALLY make your tits look bigger, if that's what you're going for. Or even not--there are definitely shots of mine where I'm like "Wow, that's...not representative, but awesome!"


Jesse - Jun 06, 2011 3:29:46 pm PDT #11674 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

God, Connie...I'd have long ago killed her. That's ridiculous.

Seriously.


Consuela - Jun 06, 2011 3:34:38 pm PDT #11675 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'd have long ago killed her. That's ridiculous.

It really is. I have had people from outside entities, with whom we have fairly important legal relationships, call me and tell me they've been trying to get her to do something for them for four years, and she won't. So they want someone else to do it. And I send the request up the chain of command--and it ends up back on her desk. Because she's the expert.

I joked with some other coworkers (everyone on the staff knows what she's like, but I and a couple of the other women have it worst) about not missing her much if she got hit by a bus, but I feel bad about it. She's quite pleasant in person, but I cannot bear her.

Once I ended up at lunch with her and she asked about my employment situation, and before I'd half finished explaining the whole thing, she was trying to convince me to quit! It was like something out of a movie. And yet she seems not to understand that we all know what she's doing.

She really is like something out of Mad Men, operating with the belief that the only way to protect herself is to undercut everyone else--especially the other women.


hippocampus - Jun 06, 2011 3:35:19 pm PDT #11676 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

God, Connie...I'd have long ago killed her. That's ridiculous.

this.

also Yay Ethan!

there was more. the trees/pollinates eated it. but hey, I managed to be upright all day, and not have eyestrain hijinks. that's progress.


megan walker - Jun 06, 2011 3:36:12 pm PDT #11677 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

She in fact deletes email on purpose so that nobody can know what she's working on

I don't get how this works. I mean, can people look at other people's email? Otherwise, how would this hide anything? Personally, I delete much of my email because I'm an anti-packrat, but I assume other people know what they've sent me and asked me to do.


Vortex - Jun 06, 2011 3:56:18 pm PDT #11678 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I'm neutral on boobies.)

good. There are a disproportionate number of boob shots of the boys from various F2Fs.


le nubian - Jun 06, 2011 3:57:04 pm PDT #11679 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I don't understand how there is no accountability for this behavior. It is egregious.


Kate P. - Jun 06, 2011 4:05:33 pm PDT #11680 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Kate P. - Jun 06, 2011 4:06:03 pm PDT #11681 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Oops, sorry, wrong thread!