The last one involved a woman repeatedly claiming that one of my team members hadn’t done something she’d asked to an item record in the system in a series of escalating emails. I responded to all 8 people on the email chain including her boss and boss’s boss and my boss with 8 highlighted examples from the emails she’d sent my employee where she added an additional character in the middle of the record (which was also valid) and asked her to consider why my team member may have been confused and loaded the record incorrectly since that’s what she’d been asked to do.
That's funny. And sounds like the kind of thing that someone would've corrected her on multiple times before.
We didn’t figure it out until her boss sent another email with the correct item and we noticed the difference
A couple co-workers we’re trying to prove their conspiracy theories about the lunar landing being fake to a younger co-worker today because they saw a documentary about it
I get to work at 6 am every day and our morning meeting, which used to be 50+ people on our project, got moved to 7 am and is just our small team. So, the first hour of my day I just want to sit, check my email, read the news, and drink my coffee in peace. Guy in the cubicle next to me, every fucking day, has "figured it out" in reference to COVID. And then repeats everything he said during lunch and then I have to hear it again at the end of the day. Shoot me.
This is probably more me being annoying than anyone else. My IT manager told me in a message that a process ‘has become cumbersome’ and I asked if it was too heavy or too light? Too black or too white? Too wrong or too right? It did not land.
So bertwing 's GF in my office (the 300lb, mid 40s lady that constantly hit on me, but wound up getting pregnant) recently had her child, and is just flooding Facebook and IG -- with pictures of herself breastfeeding. Spoiler There are so many posts with basically only her nipple not showing. It's like a car crash you can't look away from, and I'm a glutton for punishment. I haven't been in the office in a few months, but we did a "soft open" this past Monday. From what I've been told, even though she's supposed to be on maternity leave, she has brought her kid to the office every day, and is very open about her breastfeeding and milk pumping -- to the point she "forgets" to close the door. WFH 4 lyfe
Asked my boss a question via email with two options. Do I need to do this or should I do that instead? She replied ‘yes, definitely.’ So I took the more extensive cya route and am now getting shit for wasting resources on it when it wasn’t totally necessary. Maybe I could have been more clear in my question?
My boss got canned last Friday. I had heard rumblings of some HR shit for a while so I wasn't totally shocked but oh my god he has made it so shitty for me personally. He considers us cool so for the last week he has been calling me on my cell asking for info like "who was talking shit about me?" etc. I have of course played dumb and done everything possible to not be involved but jesus christ man leave me out of this lol
I needed a proof of employment letter to go thru with the refinance of my home. he website that has it isn't working. I email HR and ask how do I go about getting a proof of employment letter if this site is down and here is the email response I get "Howdy Mike, (side note: not my real name but a name that no woman would ever be named) That's correct. Unfortunately, the website will be down for until 12 Aug 20 madam. Jessie" Howdy? WTH? Madam????? WTF? My response, "TY Like Woody from toy story I too am a male figure. Hope that helps sir or madam Jessie. YEEEHAWWWWWWWWWW" For the record, I never got a response.
Correct. No we were definitely not friends. I wasn't ever really a fan of the guy but it obviously is advantageous to be on good terms so I never made waves. I think because I was one of the few people who wasn't in open conflict with him, he interpreted that as us being buddies. But man, pretty big leap in logic for him to assume that even if we were friends im going to give him a list of names and burn all my own bridges.
Guy I work with is a former attack helicopter pilot, big burly manly man... who might be the softest, most self absorbed person I've met. HR sent out a memo a few weeks ago to encourage conversation about race, so he asks me and my coworker to join in the discussion. Co worker is black, so I figure we'll learn a thing or two from his perspective. Nope... guy made it all what's grinding his gears, which is basically the army allowing LGBTQ people. Thought that was incredibly selfish and kinda sat there with my jaw on the floor since he hardly even let my other coworker talk. Just the other day I asked him if he saw this explosion in Beirut and the fucker used that as a springboard to complain about rainbow flags being flown on army installations. He's like Walter from big lebowski
Do you see what happens spagett ? Do you see what happens when you fly a rainbow flag on an army installation?
I have no idea how this can even be a thing My team gets a faster response to almost any question or anything they send me, than anyone. Last thing I want is one of them using me as an excuse for why they couldn't do/finish something.
My boss is generally not responsive unless it’s something she wants. As a boss I was responsive to my people, but had a well deserved reputation for ignoring other people I worked with who I felt weren’t a priority. Like why waste time telling you I’m not done just to make you feel better? I’d it ready? No. When will it be? The same as last time you asked + the time it took to write this.
don’t use it to start an email unless you want people to think you’re really awkward to deal with! Yehawww!
What I normally do is say howdy and use finger guns when I say hi to good friends. If not good friends, I just say howdy if I know them.
So our company is forcing everyone back into the office. We’ve done alternating weeks this month, but Sept 8th all 1,500+ people are back in the building. The cringiest part of it all is they have put signs up all over the building with “quotes” from “employees” about how proud they are of the company. It’s like walking through the streets of Pyongyang.
What is the logic there? I feel like most companies are realizing that the money spent on office space isn't even worth it for most businesses and people are just as productive from home (setting aside the obvious heath concerns). We have already been told we won't be back to the office until at least July 2021
Our CEO has said over the years he “doesn’t believe in working from home”. Amazon, and other large companies, are opening large offices in Nashville. This company is going to bleed talent soon. He also said “revenue is down because we’ve had to work from home”. Which could be true, OR it could be that we’re in healthcare and a global fucking pandemic has shut down elective surgeries and limited overall volumes. But yea, probably because we’re working from home.
Been WFH since March and my fingers are crossed that we could make it permanent, but I highly doubt it. We have one salesperson who is lazy and I think he's going to fuck it up for all of us. He takes off to his beach house on the gulf coast pretty routinely and just lets me handle all his shit (i'm the youngest so I "back up" a lot of the older sales guys when they take time off). He's a legit alcoholic and lives alone so the bosses have some sympathy for him. He's been with the company 25 years and has always been a loyal soldier. But his sales are down this year relative to the rest of the team and he is known for disappearing and his customers can't get ahold of him. (Until they eventually get to me all pissed off) Of course I am in a position covering for him because we have a tradition in the office that who ever "backs up" the sales guys inherits all their accounts whenever they retire (Or in this case get fired). So it really puts me in a difficult position. I think in all likelihood, his poor performance will be a rationale for bringing us all back to work. Fortunately, our ownership is being very smart about all this and I don't think we will be back in the office until there is a vaccine. I was just hoping to work from home permanently for all the obvious reasons.
Man its gonna really fuck him up when people leave for other companies that will let people work from home lol Ugh dude I have been in that exact position with a tenured rep who isn't worth shit. For a business that prides itself on being one of the only true meritocracies, sales is full of those people, especially when it comes to older organizations. When I worked at Oracle, there was a whole fucking battalion of older guys who spent most of their time bitching about how the business "used to be great" but had been ruined and hated that they had to actually pay attention to customers
I’m in a finance/consultant role. So we can very easily work from home. Masks are required when you get up from your desk/office.
We are about to be brought back in on an alternating schedule so 50% capacity. I’m fine with it in theory but the majority of folks on my floor are “we can’t let the virus control our lives” type that don’t wear masks in the office so yeah, not ideal. I always thought the “hey man have you seen this YouTube video?!” we’re annoying and now I guess they are potentially physically harmful. Yay!
It's really easy to coast when you're in sales. Especially when you worked hard for over a decade and just quit giving a shit. He has an established base and makes crazy money putting in minimal effort. He literally just rolls out of bed and responds to emails for 4-6 hours with a 2 hour long and just shuts it back down. It's a pain in the ass now but it'll be worth the wait when he's done.
My wife works for Salesforce, and they've stated that offices won't reopen until August 2021. My company stated no work travel til Jan 2021 at the earliest but has been hinting for quite some time that even in the future that work travel will be much more limited (i.e., staff can opt-out of travel, restrictions on % of the total team required to travel, restrictions on # of weeks anyone is allowed to travel in a year, etc.). I have a mentor that left my consulting firm to get a promotion at a competitor, and he was telling me that they're already in talks to reduce their total amount of square footage across the globe. He said he'd seen numbers as high a 50% reductions, but felt like that was over a 5 year period and not immediately. He did say that most of the reductions would come from closing offices in smaller markets.
So probably a very very small number of people will be wearing a mask at their desk, are they going to be spaced a lot farther apart than normal? It looks like my MIL is going to have to move in with us temporarily from California (long story that pisses me off as my Wife's brother and her mom's friends suck) and so I'm going to have to go to the co-working space I had pre-COVID regularly. I bought some KN-95s off Amazon since those are supposed to be pretty close to the regular N95 standard and am going to have to live with wearing it when I'm not eating.