There’s an old guy in my office who makes his secretary print out his email. He dictates his response, his secretary transcribes the tape, and then she sends the response. A model of efficiency.
Right, but have to log up on my computer to do it. Can’t do it from my phone. I did it as soon as I logged up this morning
Ultimate troll move if you’re willing to lose your job is to wait 2 weeks after the chain dies and then reply
I just love how there’s 600 people that think THEIR reply to all is going to be the one that stops all the others from doing the same
We have a group text and it has a voice message option. This is great if someone has something important to say that would be long winded by text, but it drives me insane when people use the voice message for fucking everything. Like 5 second replies that could have easily been texted.
A big customer has missed several of their own deadlines to get a new system/process going. I'm just involved as a SME. They scheduled a call first thing this morning to discuss status. One of the key team members was missing and sent an email to the group that she couldn't join because she was on the bus and didn't have her headphones. Somebody else said he missed completing a task because they had a team outing yesterday afternoon. The project manager was almost inaudible due to a bad connection. She was at her kid's school for a birthday celebration. Good work team.
So EY is here auditing and they want to audit how I build some of our system elements that impact client financial stuff. Awesome. I’ve been here about 2 months and am just figuring things out as I go because there isn’t formalized training. This should go swimmingly.
My boss is very old school as well. Serves him well, I suppose. We are in-house media lawyers and he doesn’t use email, never texts and rarely uses the phone to discuss specifics. Everything is “walk with me” where he gives me the order and I make the team execute it. Model of efficiency.
The guy I mentioned doesn’t even own a cell phone. He has slowed down tremendously and I haven’t done much work for him recently. Back when he was still actively practicing he handled things very similar to how you described your boss.
Yep we are a very large and healthy company, but we have a very similar culture where nothing remotely important is discussed over email or texts. You use emails for things like numbers and procedural things like that, but if there is ever an issue it's almost always in person in someone's office. It's really not bad. Everyone has their own office so when one of my kids keeps us up all night, i can close the door and take a nap and nobody says a thing. It also allows us to have hidden monitors so i can fuck off on the internet all day every day.
In a meeting a coworker sharing screen had her outlook notifications pop up SEVENTY meeting notifications past due. What a maniac
I’m pooping and from the neighboring stall there is heavy breathing and the sound of a small speaker - Dreams last for so long. Even after your gone. what is happening
It took me about 2 weeks to lose my etiquette/politeness w my boss and start talking shit to him about things like printing his emails.
Your boss isn’t old school he’s just a criminal smart enough not to leave a paper trail. y’all must be shady af
I regularly harass my boss about having keyclicks turned on on his phone. He claims he likes them but really he just doesn’t know how to turn them off.
My boss also doesn’t know how to use excel and will regularly take hours doing what a pivot table can do in seconds. I’ve offered to show him, but again he refuses to admit he doesn’t know how, and says his method is better. I could go on forever about the things he refuses to admit he doesn’t know or understand.
Some people will not let an email chain die!!! I can answer every question they have, and they go "gee, that reminds me of another thing." I have to be done with this at some point. You can't keep me captive forever.
Had a conversation the other day with a coworker (same one I’ve previously mentioned in this thread) about if he should reply “you’re welcome” to a thank you email. He asked everyone in our office what they do, it was a good 30 min out of my day listening to it
Today and tomorrow are my last days to work this year and I'm trying to finish everything and the "one more thing..." emails are driving me over the edge
Same thing. I’m trying to finish up the projects I can before the holiday and every meeting turns into a “hey, while you are...” at the end. Drives me nuts
Do any of your co-workers wear hoodies over their work clothes? A guy here does. He will have on khakis, a polo or button down, and.....a fucking hoodie. Just like a plain blue zip up hoodie. It looks like something I'd wear if I was working in my garage. It doesn't have tears or stains, it just doesn't look nice, or at all professional. I don't understand the mentality. If you are cold, wear a sweater. Otherwise why even bother wearing nice clothes? Just come to work wearing sweat pants.
god invented sweaters for when professionals are chilly. This isn't a biker build-off, it's an office, get it together.
I agree with 69er... That's absurd. I'd understand if he like wore it to the office then took it off upon arrival, but wearing it all day just seems dumb. That said, I also agree with racer. Dress codes are pretty lame as well -- particularly in an office environment, where you're not customer facing.
Our dress code has become more relaxed. We allow "nice" jeans now, and have always said people can wear appropriate clothes if they are visiting a job site or construction area. But there has to be some limit. We do have clients, reps, and outsiders in our office fairly regularly, we are not completely isolated.
Office dress codes in offices that don’t interact with clients face to face are highly annoying and cringeworthy.
We have one megalomaniac boomer boss who is really overweight and spends all of his time bullshitting in a handful of other boomers' offices. He is also naturally warm blooded and teases everyone that wears sweaters inside. It's insanely childish and obnoxious. He also has complete control over the thermostat and surprise surprise it's always fucking freezing. I wear a quarter zip every day in the winter, all day. And HR bought space heaters for everyone to have in their office because it's that damn cold.
Even we were getting with the times. Used to be suits and ties everyday. Then we went to casual Fridays in the summer. Then casual Fridays all year. Now we are finally business casual but the old guard stills wears suits out of some type of protest. But recently, because people were relaxing the dress code too much we might be going back to suits and ties. I hate people.
our dress code allows pretty much anything but shorts/flip flops or really revealing clothes, otherwise people wear whatever. I'm usually in a button down and dress pants, and when it's cold I'll wear a sweater over the button down Most of my employees span the spectrum of jeans/polo to what I wear. Our three top executives will wear suit/no tie most days. Otherwise we worry about work, not clothes.
I've spent all morning trying to get a client to email a PDF version of an important attachment. Just looked back, and I have sent 7 emails this AM, all basically saying "Michael, still can't open, could you send in PDF format?" He's sent me HTML links, screenshots, everything except a PDF. Peak boomer.
“BamaNug, My apologies, hopefully this one works. Technology is not always my friend!!! Regards, -Joe Boomer” *no attachment on email*