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I try not to do this, but sometimes it's unavoidable. I oftentimes participate in conference calls where I can also do work on my computer simultaneously. It's cumbersome to have the phone on my ear and try to type, use mouse, etc. I do not have a headset, unfortunately.
Dear Mrs. Keerock -
Believe it or not, there are cheap-### companies that require five levels of review/approval for restocking the coffee supply. I shudder to think what the process would be to get a headset. And I don't care enough about this poopy job to go out and buy one myself.DallasDMac said:
Mrs. Kanil,
So you are ok with a box lunch then is what you are saying.Mrs. Kanil,
No, when I work from home, I'm not able to just go run to the store to get X or pull the spoon out of the disposal because you're too afraid to do it. Nor am I able to join when you want to walk the dog because you're bored. I'm working, consider me completely unavailable.
Kanil
ETA: Yes, a quickie at lunch is still okay.
I had forgotten that I posted this. It's kinda strange reading it now, especially the last couple of sentences. 14 months after I posted this, I fired Fred personally, on the very first day that I could. To this day, I cannot think of anyone who deserved it more. Fred, however, found it less funny. I always thought that drugs could be to blame for a lot of the stupid #### he did, and it turns out, I was right. His life continued to spiral out of control, and he eventually lost his wife, family and home. A former coworker of mine told me a few months ago that Fred is now one of many addict homeless that populate our little city.
Mine thinks printing is ok, with the printer being two feet from my desk. I've taken to simply shutting off the printer any time I am running the meeting and have to be off mute the majority of the time.
She basically Facebook stalked someone but it’s ok (in her eyes) and now they have some sort of long distance “relationship” blah blah blah what should I do. He’s nice blah blah blah I’m like “what does this have to do with me? I don’t know what you should do, not stalk people on Facebook in the first place?” Then she goes on about how she went about stalking him and how it shouldn’t be weird (dude was friends with one of her friends and she pmd him “have we met, you look familiar”). I really don’t care, go have your Facebook pal and send your pics to each other or whatever you do, I don’t want to hear about it or give advice as to how to handle the situation. We just work together, that’s personal info and I don’t really have an opinion and don’t want to hear about it, you know? It’s like she’s trying to have an inner monologue but is incapable.
A guy that works for me does this too... drives me nuts. Plus the subject line is always cryptic with poor grammar and spelling.
Well, I just asked her about this habit and her explanation was "it saves time." She sends out a lot of emails and she also wants to make sure that her's get read, so she puts everything in the subject line. I made the remark that this just screams "AXE MURDERER" to me but she was not amused. So there's one more reason for these uptight righty women I work with to hate me.
I had a construction superintendent that did this, but then again, he had dropped out of school in the 8th grade and is barely literate. He literally spelled rain, "rane" on his daily reports.
I work with a guy - really decent guy, a little annoying BUT he is the worst at telling stories.
I won’t take the chance and just leave it simmering. When you walk in the stall and are all “awwwww god” yep, that was me
Right? If the con call line has its own mute functionality I’ll use that AND mute my phone.
If I’m going into the bathroom or something I’ll yell into the phone “CAN YOU HEAR ME?” to make sure the mute is working.
See, it’s this next level kind of thinking that is why people just PM you with any and all questions.
I do the same thing, but I don't continue to yell every 5 seconds to make sure it's still working
“Shuke, I was in the middle of a train of thought. Yes, we can hear you. Why are you in the bathroom?”
Chatty Cathy's drive me nuts. Guy I used to work with-great guy otherwise-could never get to the point. Every irrelevant extraneous detail was elaborated on. When he spoke in our staff meetings it was almost as if his eyes turned inwards and he lost all awareness of his surroundings. Meanwhile, the other 5-6 people in the meeting would be exchanging stoic glances that spoke volumes.belljr said:
There are times I am working from home and may have 6-8 straight hours of meetings.
? We don’t do meetings at my company, by design. We’ll meet with a vendor a few times per year and our insurance company for property or healthcare renewals, but no regularly scheduled meetings of staff. NFW
