it's a nightmare.
she's been with the company for a long period of time and somehow stumbled into her position at an opportune time, i guess. although i've heard she was once competent and a colleague that worked with her for a while wondered aloud if she'd possibly had a stroke. she ran her department at a massive loss for a year or so before somebody noticed and she was transferred to work with me instead of being fired.
shortly after taking up residence in the office with me, she accidentally cc'd everyone in the company in on an email vowing to fire everyone on our team and hiring all new staff. there was some resentment. after that, she often lamented, "nobody here seems to like me."
i assured her that it's simply because she's a new face and the team will start firing on all cylinders soon.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
I work in a residential facility for people with mental illness. The clients' money all comes from Social Security, and when someone new arrives we generally take them to the SS office soon afterwards, so that they can arrange to have checks sent to the main office, which takes for rent money all but a $60 monthly stipend (we provide meals, case management, etc). Recently a co-worker, who was quite nice, intelligent, reasonable, but totally shameless about not really doing much work and calling out all the time, left for another job after working here for 7 or 8 months. I inherited one of her clients, and discovered that my former co-worker had never bothered to take her to the SS office when she arrived in December, a process which takes a couple hours at most. Due to this, her benefits had been terminated, she has to re-apply, and her benefits cannot be made retroactive. So my client is out maybe $400 that were rightfully hers (and has had NO SPENDING MONEY AT ALL since December, and the company I work for is out maybe $4000.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
How about just saying "yo, you always use speakerphone in an open office and it is extremely distracting and disturbing others, can you keep it down?"
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's not even an open office! She's in the office next to mine. Other coworkers further away have already bitched to her and mgmt and yet it continues...
― kate78, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
Joe, that's terrible. I hope that person's mess catches up with them.
i explained that the snowflake means cold air and the flame means hot air. she disagreed and explained that the reason it was so hot in there must be because i had it backwards-- the snowflake is what you choose when it's winter (it snows in winter), and the flame is what you choose in summer.
Amazing.
But couldn't she figure it out by the temp of the air coming out of the vents?
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:44 (eleven years ago) link
she ran her department at a massive loss for a year or so before somebody noticed and she was transferred to work with me instead of being fired.
smdh
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Yikes JoeStork isn't there some sort of vulnerable adults law that violates?
― alternative riff (CharlieS), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'm hoping to get two people fired soon..two spoiled girls from my alma mater and that is the only reason they got the job. Becase Ikm sick of rude comments and inquiries about my family.
― Gavin McLayoff (u s steel), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
It was like "let's get so and so for you, I know she's your friend from college.". And Ikm like she's a nasty class bigot and phony and my dad is not her business."
― Gavin McLayoff (u s steel), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
T/F: it is appropriate to mention how much your son's circumcision cost during a staff meeting.
― cwkiii, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
"staff" meeting.
― pplains, Friday, 24 August 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
staff "meat"ing
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 25 August 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
how much does a circumcision cost?
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Saturday, 25 August 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
And what do you leave for a tip?
― pplains, Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
Why do people feel the need to heavily re-apply deodorant, at their desks, at least twice a day? You really really dont smell, but that stuff you are spraying stinks like shit. It smells like a cheap men's cologne! Why would a woman put on such a horrible smell? GAH STOP IT.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Monday, 27 August 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
I mean it makes me feel genuinely sick.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Monday, 27 August 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
Was thinking about coming to post here about that very thing. One of my co-workers (a woman) keeps a can at the ready and sprays liberally around other co-workers. They've never complained, but it's just a no-no afaic. If you must, deodorise in the damn bathroom!
― Yam, Monday, 27 August 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
I heard this in NPR this morning and thought of cwkiii's coworker.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Convention has estimated circumcision costs range from about $200 to $600 nationwide. Coverage varies among insurers and several states have stopped Medicaid funding for circumcisions.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 27 August 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
This kid's was only $100!
― cwkiii, Monday, 27 August 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
I need to let this woman know she got a steal of a deal.
― cwkiii, Monday, 27 August 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
That's incredibly cheap! Hers and the whole range. My ENT billed almost $600 to shove a scope up my N and tell me I have a deviated septum but no polyps. I guess if you're looking for bargains in elective surgery, it's hard to beat circumcision.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 27 August 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
it'll be a great ice breaker for the next meeting!"Hey Deb, regarding last week's conversation about your son's circumcision, you got a HELL of a deal for $100, let me tell you, I never"
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 27 August 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
Something tells me that if you have to have that done as an adult it costs a few bucks more
― your native bacon (mh), Monday, 27 August 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
Bargains in Elective Surgery sounds like a Brian Eno album or something.
― carl agatha, Monday, 27 August 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
Man, do people even circumcise kids unless they're really 'merican or have a religious obligation?
― your native bacon (mh), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
I am sure there's a long, aggrieved thread about it on ILX somewhere if you really wanted to do a little market research on the topic.
― carl agatha, Monday, 27 August 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
I decline any further conversation on this contentious subject
― your native bacon (mh), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
It's weird, but all my newsfeeds this morning are absolutely ate up with stories about circumcision.
― pplains, Monday, 27 August 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
The Great Circumcision Zeitgeist of 2012
― cwkiii, Monday, 27 August 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
I love this Southernism!
mh, I'd bet that most Americans still view circumcision as the default option. When my nephew was born, circumcision wasn't presented as a choice - my SIL was given a consent form and told it was time to circumcise him and that was that, no more of a thing than if it they were asking for consent to wash his hair.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I think that's been the norm in most areas of the States for the last good couple decades. The only uncircumsized guys I know are not American.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
You'd be surprised how often this conversation comes up. Or maybe not.
I know a few (was gonna say "handful") of uncut white Americans, but they're all from the U.P., and so heavily influenced by Euro forces.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
the U.P.?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
I guess the news mentions are due to a new pediatrician association recommendation on the pro side. However: A recent analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the U.S. circumcision rate fell from about 63 percent of newborn boys in 1999 to 55 percent in 2010.
― your native bacon (mh), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
the uncircumcised penis zone, the U.P.
U.P. stands for Upper Peninsula, and now that I think about it, I think Je55e was making a very elaborate word joke.
― pplains, Monday, 27 August 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
And I'm the one with the folksy colloquialisms...
― pplains, Monday, 27 August 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't making a joke of any kind. A number of the men I know from the U.P. (of Michigan) are uncircumcised, and most of the men who I know who are uncircumcised are from the U.P.
mh is right - that was the story I heard on the radio this morning that made me think of ccwkii's coworker.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 27 August 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Not really my coworker, but sort of work-related: I've been looking at emails from a colleague's banker, who writes like this:
Thank you…………..they should not ask us for else t…..we s/b fine with what I have turned in already!!! :)
and
Thank you so much for these [colleague's name]………………I just received the email the paperwork……………so it is truly DONE!!! I am sorry for these last items they requested…..it is a cumbersome & illogical process these days……I appreciate your patience & hanging in there!!! Thank you for your business & please let me know if any questions come up!!!
What professional writes like this?? :D Besides the rampant typos and grammar problems and excessive abbreviations, why the ellipses? Did.....I already post about this!?
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 27 August 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
A bunch of people, unfortunately.
― your native bacon (mh), Monday, 27 August 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe I should have left out the second 'n' of "peninsula" when I made my "joke".
― pplains, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
I've been noticing similar oddities from a workmate in his tickets recently (I work at an ISP). Stuff like this:
"B___called saying her internet TV works perfectly some days but no theres."
And: "She is look up trail an ADSL2, can someone please call her"
They really just look like brainfarts (I think he meant "not others" and "looking to trial an ADSL2", but it looks like he does them a LOT, and they are really heavy burtation!
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
Je55e, that is nothing. I used to work as an assistant to an executive assistant, who handled all correspondence with banks. A bank that shall remain unnamed had one employee who closing his e-mail with a daily "toilet joke". Usually they were pretty crass and gross!
When I came on board I had to review some of that correspondence and was horrified. It's not that it was a bad bank or something and we had been doing business with them for a long time...so we couldn't cancel all business on account of one employee. I wonder if they were just disgruntled. However, by the time I saw these e-mails it had been going on for months!
Makes you fear for capitalism that some people feel free to do this!
I am sure they were fired but how they got away with it for that long is beyond me.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Hey guess what guys? There's blood all over the floor in the bathroom.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
That reminds me of one of my favorite tweets ever tweeted: https://es.twitter.com/regisl/status/160391002677456897
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
????
Someone took a shit in the middle of the bathroom floor in the office I worked at in London but there was never any blood. THANK GOD.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
It looks like somebody was removing a tampon and missed the toilet or possibly just stood there with her skirts hiked up and bled on the floor for awhile or also possible tried to commit suicide, I don't know. It's not enough to make me think somebody needs medical attention, but it's enough to make me avoid that stall until they clean the floors.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
WTF.
xp
that was a response to Mount Cleaners, but it applies to car and ENBB, too.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
God, that really really is one of the finest Tweets ever Tweeted. lolol
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
i wish it were appropriate to yell, 'get your head outta your ass!' on conf calls. this woman hates me because she doesn't follow up on any of the shit she says she will do so i have to harass her about it, and so anytime i ask a question about why this or that went wrong, she responds like i'm an idiot, and i have to be like no, you misunderstood my question. and then she'll answer appropriately.
― rayuela, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link