Sending out emails on a Sunday night. I worked four hours yesterday morning to get caught up, drafted seven emails, but waited to hit send til I got in this morning out of courtesy. Had a guy I work with start up an email string that went on for a couple hours last night, because he wanted to make sure everyone knew he was working. Nothing that couldn't have waited Til this morning, or hell this afternoon.
Has anyone ever worked with someone who won't let something die? We'll discuss something for 45 minutes, come to a conclusion, then one guy will reiterate his point, restate the problem, just not let shit die. I finally decided to just say, "Moving on," and bring up the next point. It was working until this guy emailed my boss and said that I was cutting him out of conversations. GMAFB. I recorded our next two calls and sent them to my boss.
I actually just had two days of training in meeting facilitation, and one of the many acronyms we learned was ELMO, "Enough, let's move on."
I've had a couple who are kind of like that but not to the extent that they would need to re-hash something after 45 minutes. Sounds extremely immature and chickenshit to email your boss like that.
Worse, he's a baby boomer. Yeah, this guy will spin his wheels at every opportunity. He's the first person to interject and always has to have the last word, even if it's to say that he agrees with whoever spoke last. I wasn't concerned in the least, because my boss and I have discussed how to handle this guy a few times. He's close to retirement, but he keeps getting tossed from team to team because no one wants him. He was one of the original developers of our product so he has tons of ownership in it and an absurd wealth of knowledge. Everyone assumes he'd be incredibly helpful, but he's the exact opposite.
I didn't even mention the worst thing he does. When the call is winding down and I ask if anyone has anything else they want to discuss, he'll wait a beat then just as I'm saying thanks/bye, he'll interject with some terrible non sequitur he thinks is funny, but no one else even realizes is a joke. Then he has to explain it when the call should've been over 5 minutes ago. The. Worst.
Nah, this was a more traditional meeting facilitation course. The woman who taught it is a Certified Professional Facilitator.
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The super uber health nuts at work who criticize what everybody else eats during breaks or lunch. They normally eat food disguised as other food like zucchini pasta & cauliflower lasagne. Their butter comes from cashews and their milk from almonds...and they won't stop going on and on about how much better it is.
Ain't gonna front I tried some zucchini pasta and have since added it to my lunch packing menu Fuck the rest of that noise
Hate health food nuts. I do love some almond milk, only because cow's milk raises hell in my stomach. However, zucchini bread is fantastic though. Wife of one of my coworkers made some chocolate zucchini bread for him to share at work. I thought it was going to be gross, alas I could not eat enough of that stuff.
that's cool and all. Eat whatever you want...I just don't want a life coach commenting on how unhealthy everyone else's meal is. I don't give a shit if Yoplait is gelatinized milk...I enjoy it with my cereal from time to time...sorry I don't enjoy Greek emu Yogurt or whatev
A 2-day meeting facilitation course is a scam. It can be done in 2 hours. I'm suddenly re-thinking my profession ....
If someone's job involves telling people to how run meeting and it requires hosting a 2-day meeting then that person needs a career change.
this one slipped my mind until today the person who emails you, then walks over with a printed out copy of the email+any/all attachments to ask if you saw the email. combine all of the waste of such a scenario, it melts an ice cap or two.
"Levar, did I see you copy and paste something out of a PDF today? I haven't been able to do that in about a year and a half." Poor guy had the "hand tool" selected instead of the "select tool" Every PDF he's wanted to copy and paste from over the last year he's saved and then converted to a word document.
Pretty sure I just saw one of the managers outside on his phone looking for Pokemon while taking a walk in the middle of his shift.
This poor bastard I work with doesn't even know how to unzip files. He's in his mid 60's and would probably rather quit than learn something new.
I have a coworker that will dead stare at you. He says it's not intentional. I tell him to stop that shit before someone kicks his ass. So weird.
My legal assistant always sighs loudly as if she's annoyed, stressed, overworked, or whatever. Like she wants me to feel bad for her. I don't.
The secretary who majored in graphic design in college yet can't figure out how to put pictures on a Word document or inline on an email.
Hahahha, forgot about the boss with a bird. Is this the restult of your boss having a don't-give-a-fuck attitude or aspergers?
love these people i'm guessing their thought process was "yeah computers are probably just a fad. not worth learning to use them."
I've never understood people that refuse to embrace technology that massively reduces the time it takes for them to do their job.
When I first got into tech sales I covered public sector and it blew my mind the number of people in the federal government who are like this. Tons of people at Department of Whatever who have been there for 25 years and will straight up tell you "everything was easier on paper"
When I get handed a printed email and am asked me to post something on the website from it. Just forward me the damn email so I can copy and paste instead of retyping it.