Stupid things that supervisor folk say to you right before they give you a bunch of extra work

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There is a ridiculously theatrical middle-aged lady here who kept walking into my office with a flourish, stack of papers in hand, crying "Well Adam, when it rains it pours!", and I would just sit here grinding my teeth.

Now she has taken to saying "Adam, the hungry maw is never satisfied!" and it takes all of my effort not to crease up with laughter.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

She's coming on to you.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

God no.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

say, "Put a sock in it, Ma!"

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Also - if you are a supervisor, heed this thread.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"the hungry maw" is American code for "aching heart"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

we can only hope that's what it means

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

'Ey can you do us a quick favour mate?'

― Fergal (Ferg), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The people who give me work apparently think that I have the word STUPID printed on my forehead, because a lot of conversations consist of them saying things like:

Banker (after explaining what he wants me to do in painstaking detail for what seems like an hour): "So these are the pages I want you to work on."
Me: "These pages? The same pages you've been showing me for the last ten minutes? Not the other pages which aren't connected to these at all and which you haven't show me or mentioned?"
Banker: "Yeah, these pages."
Me: "Got it."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

our manager came over yesterday and started with this: "so, hey, I think all three of you have musical projects on the side" (knowing full well that two of us are in a band together and I, at least, want to utterly, utterly divorce anything "reative" from anything "work related", still, I could tell this wasn't going to go anywhere good), then asked us to soundtrack a flash demo for a CDROM and record a voiceover by noon tomorrow. Even with garageband (which none of us have used) this is kind of a tight thing. So we said no. Then he went on vacation. Then his boss came over, listened to our concerns, and said, "Okay, well, let's just get it done, okay?"

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

by "reative" I meant "creative" obv.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! Alex I have worked with people just like that.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It really annoys me.

I've come pretty close to losing my job because I've completely lost my patience a couple of times and been like "look, fuck off and just leave this shit here and if I have any questions I'll call you."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG, Adam. Is my boss working two jobs??

That's exactly how mine is, too. And it drives me nuts.

"Guess we're going to be working overtime this week!" she says, blinking rapidly with a stupid grin smeared on her face.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, I guess you have more patience for it than I do. Oh well. Wait a few years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you feeding the maw on a regular basis?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

OI am so glad this thread exists and that I'm not the only one.

"So Charlie, let's have a look at this quote. Hmmm... No, it's completely wrong. You've forgotten to say that the price is ex works here..."

"Okay, I'll change it.. There you go"

"And here you've said "We are pleased to offer you the following price. Now, that's okay. But I always prefer to write that we are "happy to quote the following offer". It just works better that way.

"Okay"

"I tell you what, scrap that. Scrap it. I'll give you an idea of what to write and then you can put it into your own words"

"Okay.."

"Dear sir, thank you for your recent interest in lamination consumabl..." *starts dictating the whole fucking letter to me*

One day I'm going to stand up and tell him to work out how to use Word and that I'm not his bloody secretary.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"are you busy right now?"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"how hard do you think this is?"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"so is this going to be hard to do?"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"what time are you leaving today?"

uh oh

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

listened to our concerns, and said, "Okay, well, let's just get it done, okay?"

I've had this and so many variations on it that I can't even remember them all.

My other favorite is "do you think we can have this done by [whatever time]?" when they know damned well that they mean "can you have this done." There's no we about it.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Unless they are using the royal "we" and mean instead "can [royal] we be given this work in its completed form by [whatever time]?" In that case, it's probably even more annoying.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"what kind of time frame are we looking at here? because we REALLY need this by 4"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Do you have time to do THESE?"

"No. Sorry, but there is no way I'll be able to do them because I'm in the MIDDLE of doing THESE that you gave me just now. In fact I haven't even had time to go for lunch so there's no way I can do both."

"Oh well, don't worry about those - I'll give them to someone else. Just do these right away, ok?"

"But then I just WASTED half an h... "

"Oh don't worry about that - just get these done and then get back to those if you have time. Oh, but let me know if you won't be able to finish them, ok?"

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"you should make an effort to get out more and let people know we are here to offer advice, not just stuck behind a computer all the time. Incidentally, how are you going with the analysis for *,*,*,*,* and *?"

― isadora (isadora), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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