Work colleagues

[Swarley]

11 hours ago, invergowrie arab said:

Similar thing happened at work recently where the person hadn't been copied in who was meant to complete the task.

Much apologies later the person was asked if they could expedite as the team had now lost 2 weeks of time on the task.

This was followed by the quite lovely "a mistake on your end does not constitute an emergency on mine" which I'll be using in future.

Yeah this is my all too frequent scenario, but I've not been brave enough to reply with that brilliant response. I've often thought it.

[Miguel Sanchez]

21 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

One of the guys in our office came up with the genius idea of recording himself in a meeting, and now his camera feed plays that video. He will eventually get caught out, but it is a genuine "I wish I had thought of that" moment every time

^^^

[Molotov]

On the subject of emails.

I remember back in the early days of IT email systems when an information email to all employees, departments, etc with all email addresses or groups in the senders list (instead of using BCC)

Invariably you’d get all sorts of numpties replying to ALL recipients and you’d just wait for other people replying to those messages by replying “stop replying” yet copying in every other person on the email in a “look at me - how smart I am!” 

Invariably the mail exchange server would die.

P45 offence in my opinion. Eejits!  

[Florentine_Pogen]

16 hours ago, richardsedmond said:

I see my colleagues once or twice a year and honestly, I'm happy about it

You work at the International Space Station ?

[scottsdad]

On 17/11/2023 at 12:59, invergowrie arab said:

Similar thing happened at work recently where the person hadn't been copied in who was meant to complete the task.

Much apologies later the person was asked if they could expedite as the team had now lost 2 weeks of time on the task.

This was followed by the quite lovely "a mistake on your end does not constitute an emergency on mine" which I'll be using in future.

I just got an email asking if I had contacted a group of students on Friday. 

No, I replied. No idea what you are on about. 

Turns out a few students put in a complaint 3 weeks ago about a programme they are on. The office replied stating that I would get back to them as I'm not a member of the programme team and can offer impartial feedback after I had spoken to the team, looked in to it, etc. Helpfully, I would get back to them by Friday 17th November. 

Only downside here is that they never a) asked me if I would be willing to do this shite and b) mentioned it at all to me. 

I have a funding bid deadline next week so have replied stating clearly that I would not be doing this. 

[Florentine_Pogen]

3 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

I just got an email asking if I had contacted a group of students on Friday. 

No, I replied. No idea what you are on about. 

Turns out a few students put in a complaint 3 weeks ago about a programme they are on. The office replied stating that I would get back to them as I'm not a member of the programme team and can offer impartial feedback after I had spoken to the team, looked in to it, etc. Helpfully, I would get back to them by Friday 17th November. 

Only downside here is that they never a) asked me if I would be willing to do this shite and b) mentioned it at all to me. 

I have a funding bid deadline next week so have replied stating clearly that I would not be doing this. 

We already know that your institution's HR function is fvcking useless.

Sounds like your admin is trying to knock them off their perch.

[Molotov]

Not sure which thread to put this article in.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/30/rough-sleepers-how-chinstrap-penguins-survive-on-micronaps-aoe
 

But it reminds me of some former (work) colleagues who did the square root of fcuk all. 
Always seemed to have one or two individuals who invariably slept at their desk but woke up at lunchtime or when they were due to leave the office. 
Once I arranged a leaving present of an alarm clock for one dozy cnut.

  

 

 

 

[scottsdad]

A strange one, but anyone who works with women - do they often end their emails with a wee x?

One woman I work with (and have done so for years) has started doing this. I find it a bit disconcerting. 

[BFTD]

On 17/11/2023 at 10:25, TheScarf said:

Make the guy feel like a right dick in front of his boss along the lines of - 

"In future can you please make sure the correct people have visibility of your requests so that they can be dealt with at in a timely manner".  Basically tell him, without telling him, that he's a fucking idiot and so that his boss knows too.

I've done something like that before a couple of times.  It's not grassing, it's showing management that some of their staff are stupid.

It's also essential to protect your own arse, as you can guarantee the p***k will still be telling everyone that @Central Belt Caley at Initrode is fucking useless and doesn't respond to requests, rather than admit their own failings.

Chances are their boss will never read any of it and just believe what their underling is saying, but it's always good to have evidence if it comes up again.

9 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

A strange one, but anyone who works with women - do they often end their emails with a wee x?

One woman I work with (and have done so for years) has started doing this. I find it a bit disconcerting. 

Yes.

All there is to say, really. Amazed you've not noticed it before. Must be a real sausagefest in your department.

Thanks,
Best,
Kind regards,
Milky Dave x

[Jacksgranda]

26 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

A strange one, but anyone who works with women - do they often end their emails with a wee x?

One woman I work with (and have done so for years) has started doing this. I find it a bit disconcerting. 

Maybe they're posting it on Twitter, too.

[Central Belt Caley]

Is it normal for people nowadays not to say thanks when you’ve done something for them? 
 

A few times this week I’ve had to prioritise stuff to fix other folks mistakes and after letting them know it’s fixed, I get no reply. Bit rude I feel

Also spelling my fucking name wrong, once I can accept. But it‘s in my signature and the email address you’ve had to add in. Open your eyes idiots.

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, Central Belt Caley said:

Is it normal for people nowadays not to say thanks when you’ve done something for them? 
 

A few times this week I’ve had to prioritise stuff to fix other folks mistakes and after letting them know it’s fixed, I get no reply. Bit rude I feel

Also spelling my fucking name wrong, once I can accept. But it‘s in my signature and the email address you’ve had to add in. Open your eyes idiots.

It's been normal since I entered the workplace in the Nineties, in my experience. Which is to say that you'll encounter decent people who appreciate when things are done for them, and entitled c***s who expect the rest of the world to do their bidding, and promptly. There are plenty of them in middle-management.

The name thing - if I had a quid for every time I've spelled/written/typed out my name for someone only to see them write it down incorrectly, or see it spelled wrong on some other system at a later date, I'd have enough to treat the family to a meal at a decent restaurant. So I'd really like to see that happen, please; I deserve it.

I assume plenty of people just don't pay attention, but it happens so often that there must genuinely be a seam of people living among us who see/hear other people's names and think, "nah, that's wrong - I know better". Latest was at work, on my ID card. When I did a joking "huh, typical" as I was given it, my boss was mortified and showed me the email they'd sent off with the correct details on. So someone received that and, rather than copypaste it onto the template, they decided to do their own thing. Mystifying.

[EvilScotsman]

2 minutes ago, BFTD said:

The name thing - if I had a quid for every time I've spelled/written/typed out my name for someone only to see them write it down incorrectly

Dajve?

[BFTD]

1 minute ago, EvilScotsman said:

Dajve?

Christ, don't encourage them.

With people giving their kids custom spellings of common names, I might end up being asked if I spell Dave with a 'j', a 'y', or the more-common silent 'ph' with hashtag.

[Silvio Tattiescone]

Colleague made a big thing of becoming a Mental Health First Aider, including putting a badge on his email signature. I was shocked because he's absolutely the last person I would go to with an issue as he's an arrogant egotist who causes stress. Unsurprisingly, the only member of staff he directly manages raised a grievance about bullying, went off sick with stress for 2 months and has just left the company. 

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, Newbornbairn said:

Colleague made a big thing of becoming a Mental Health First Aider, including putting a badge on his email signature. I was shocked because he's absolutely the last person I would go to with an issue as he's an arrogant egotist who causes stress. Unsurprisingly, the only member of staff he directly manages raised a grievance about bullying, went off sick with stress for 2 months and has just left the company. 

If I was an arrogant stress-causing egotist, I'd love to get into a mental health role in an organisation. It'd be like giving Jimmy Savile the keys to the morgue.

You'd like to think somebody might be keeping an eye out for something like that, but presumably they didn't think it was an important role anyway.

[welshbairn]

I'm sure there are stacks of honourable exceptions but the people I've known who have gone into psychology or psychiatry, as students or professionally, have all been mental. 

P.S. Apologies, there was one PHD student getting mice to go around a maze trying to avoid being electrocuted, he was sound.

Edited December 1, 2023 by welshbairn

[Florentine_Pogen]

2 hours ago, welshbairn said:

I'm sure there are stacks of honourable exceptions but the people I've known who have gone into psychology or psychiatry, as students or professionally, have all been mental. 

P.S. Apologies, there was one PHD student getting mice to go around a maze trying to avoid being electrocuted, he was sound.

Bet his surname was Skinner.

[The Equalizer]

Trying to manage a guy right now who is phenomenal at what he does but there is an incestuous nature around the three facilities I oversee. The owners all have different priorities at different times and undue hardship can be levied one way or the other depending which way the wind blows. This guy just can't see the bigger picture and I'm getting sick of running interference. I have given up a lot of responsibility to him regarding scheduling and worklflow but I think I may have given him too much rope. Thing is the guy used to run his own company so he should understand. What would would Jim Mclean do?

 

Sign 200 players a year on 15 yr contracts is not an option.

[Mark Connolly]

7 minutes ago, The Equalizer said:

What would would Jim Mclean do?

He'd get Walter Smith to threaten the guy in the bootroom