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re: Ways people try and act important at work?
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:04 am to BabyTac
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:04 am to BabyTac
I have a woman who prints out the emails, goes around reading them to people and saying "we need this done" as if she and the boss need it done. I tell her every time that I got the same email. Once and only once, she got chippy and said Well have you done it yet? I told her I was too busy talking to her.
I'm a teacher, our boss is our principal, our rolls in the school are so clearly defined it's silly. I really have no clue why she thinks she is any type of supervisor of mine.
I'm a teacher, our boss is our principal, our rolls in the school are so clearly defined it's silly. I really have no clue why she thinks she is any type of supervisor of mine.
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Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:06 am to tigerinthebueche
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Ways people try and act important at work?
Walk around with a stack of papers/folders to every meeting (usually never once taking any type of note). Also walk into every meeting 2-3 minutes later than everyone with said stack of papers and apologize for being late because he/she "got stuck on a call".
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:08 am to CoachChappy
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I'm a teacher, our boss is our principal, our rolls in the school are so clearly defined it's silly.
Uh oh
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:10 am to BabyTac
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One guy keeps forwarding us emails (usually over the weekend) that we've already received while copying our manager. Who on the OT does this and why?
This morning I see one guy in my group fwd 3 emails to me and others in my group over the weekend as an FYI. He could clearly see we were all part of the original exploder list. This is something that's becoming a common occurance. Rant over.
That would get a big "frick You" reply here at my office. I'd make sure to cc the owners so they could get a laugh out of it too
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:14 am to yellowfin
We have one guy in the office who rejects our electronic time sheets over trivial shite like not having am exact material on hand calculation or your vehicle hours being .02 of an hour off from what the GPS tracker says.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:17 am to Agforlife
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We have one guy in the office who rejects our electronic time sheets over trivial shite like not having am exact material on hand calculation or your vehicle hours being .02 of an hour off from what the GPS tracker says.
frick that, I'd be looking for another job. I don't handle micromanagement like that very well.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:22 am to CoachChappy
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I'm a teacher, our boss is our principal, our rolls in the school are so clearly defined it's silly. I really have no clue why she thinks she is any type of supervisor of mine.
Maybe she has better grammar than you?
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CoachChappy
Nevermind.
j/k there, Chappy.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:24 am to BabyTac
Reading all these posts have validated my career decisions. Thank you. I am so Fortunate that i do not have to deal with this.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:25 am to Agforlife
I would get in trouble in your office because I would tell that guy to frick off.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:28 am to catfish 62
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Also walk into every meeting 2-3 minutes later than everyone with said stack of papers
I like this one, it's simple and effective. But always make sure to explain that the meeting will be started over from the beginning to cover anything you may have missed while you were late.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:32 am to Modern
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Ppl try to act important at work b/c they don't run nothing at home
Got one at work just like that; makes comments about how he's stuck in one room with a mini fridge at home while his family that hates him has the rest of the house. At work, goes all out for atta boys, gets butt hurt at the smallest comments, and sucks as much arse as possible.
It's sad and pathetic.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:35 am to BabyTac
This whole thread is like "Management 101". I can't thank all of you enough for your contributions to my education as a manager.
Implementing approximately 90% of these great ideas today. I'll save the other 10% for those extra special days of self-importance.
Implementing approximately 90% of these great ideas today. I'll save the other 10% for those extra special days of self-importance.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:36 am to BabyTac
Talk loudly.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:37 am to BabyTac
Closed door meetings. No lie, had three of the supervisors have 8 closed door meetings in one day. I know one of them and she told me that the newest (and most unqualified/incompetent one) said it makes them look more professional. One meeting was about what they were having for lunch...
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:42 am to BabyTac
I HATE HATE HATE when we're just going along and having an email conversation trying to get things done, maybe with some slight disagreement (but that's expected), then all of a sudden to get a response that has every manager in the company copied like they're trying to "gotcha"...
They pay us to work out the shitty details, they don't care, just make it work.
They pay us to work out the shitty details, they don't care, just make it work.
This post was edited on 8/24/15 at 9:27 am
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:48 am to elprez00
Yeah, I'm on the phone this morning.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:49 am to CoachChappy
Has anyone mentioned posting on td from foreign countries yet?
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:57 am to TaderSalad
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Closed door meetings.
This only happens when one of my clients wants to talk shite about administration
Speaker phones annoy the shite out of me, I'm not sure if they do it to act important or if they are just stupid.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 9:02 am to BabyTac
A lot of the "important people" I've worked with get frequent migraines. I guess from all the stress of being important...?
Posted on 8/24/15 at 9:14 am to HeadyMurphey
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Asking too many damn questions in meetings
This. And it's usually the POS who is trying to cover for themselves because they don't work during the day.
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