"Office Space" type questions
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote:
From a reciever view point has this happened once or 10 times a day. (not them telling you, you leaving the annoying phone on.) Most I know to not start to respond like you describe until it is happening daily and those around are really fead up.
This is the first time anything like that has happened since they moved into my area. I usually sit in my office, very quiet compared to them, and work on my software. They seem to hold an impromptu meeting just outside my cubicle every couple of days and after they did it for a month I asked them to please quite down or go to a conference room. Maybe their getting me back for that. Joe Q
Joe Q wrote:
This is the first time anything like that has happened since they moved into my area.
Ok, a little more information. Maybe they had one in their previous area who did let it ring all the time and are just sensitive. Have a good day. :rose:
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Joe Q wrote:
This is the first time anything like that has happened since they moved into my area.
Ok, a little more information. Maybe they had one in their previous area who did let it ring all the time and are just sensitive. Have a good day. :rose:
Your right, there could have been all sorts of things that could have happened before. It just bothered me to waste all that time being told about something that, to me, isn't a huge deal. That's how life goes. After all these posts I'm over it. Thanks Joe Q
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In the movie Office Space, when Peter forgot to put the right cover leter on his TPS reports, 8 different bosses had to tell him about that. I had one of those lapses and I was wondering what I can do next time. I left my cell phone on my desk when I went to the bathroom. (I didn't want to conduct business while doing my "business") I forgot to silence it and my daughter called so it played "Welcome to the Jungle" (by Motley Crue). 8 people in the cubes around me had to come over and tell me about it and ask me not to do it again. Most of them saw that the others were talking to me about it but they felt they needed to wait their turn and tell me about it. OK, I had a brain fart! It happens! Get over it! Is there anything I can do to get them to whine and moan as a group (to get it overwith) or get them to realize when one person tells me the obvious, I get it, and they don't all have to whine? Thanks Joe Q
send an email from an anonymous account to each of the eight with a link to a VERY loud video. Then walk over to each of them and tell them to please not do that again.
Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
As they come in to tell you that you had a brain fart, snap a picture of them, print it out, and tack it to your wall. Then, let them wonder why you're doing it (but don't tell them why). That'll drive 'em nuts.
That sounds like a good idea. Except we can't have camera's in our work place. But what I could do is have a white board hear my door and as they're telling me about my brain fart, just get up, write their name in large, friendly letters then sit back down with no explaination. Thanks for the great idea! BTW, I used your Dale Earnhardt qoute the other day. A co-worker (commonly refered to as "Mr. Negativity") was complaining about how bad his life was. So, thanks for the quote, too.
Don't forget to put something to title your little collection of names, like 'Death List', 'Next to Die', 'RIP'...something like that. You get the picture. :-D
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Don't forget to put something to title your little collection of names, like 'Death List', 'Next to Die', 'RIP'...something like that. You get the picture. :-D
Andrew Rissing wrote:
Don't forget to put something to title your little collection of names, like 'Death List', 'Next to Die', 'RIP'...something like that. You get the picture.
Our "preventing Violence in the workplace" training says to not use words like Death, Die, Kill. If we do we have to go to the intermediate class and that would just Kill me! I could either put acronyms in red like "DL" for Death List and "NTD" next to die. Or I could, when I write thier name, scrawl it and then put a big red X through it if they're still talking. Maybe a maniacal laugh to go along with it.