Office gripes - Freeze-Frame Radio

Date: Thu Oct 20 09:23 2005

RE: Office gripes

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Holy cow, I just did the math. That's only $7.21 an hour! I mean sure, there's fringe benefits, but most jobs have some fringe benefits. I got health insurance and dental and vision, and I'm still making $21,000 - $24,000 a year delivering cancelled checks for banks!

I think I'll stay put Ruby.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

BIKE IT!!!!?!?!?!?!?

So I assume this isn't a hard start time? Pretty much when I get there I get there?

Date: Thu Oct 20 09:29 2005

Yes sir, it is low paying. But if you are trying to put a child through college, or yourself, it is very appealing. The thing is they always graduate and then leave. This is my third one in 4 years!!

But if you take it, i will be very flexible about your hours

CP · Lord of the Lair

Fuzzy: I will call some of my surfer friends. There are a couple that are single.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Excellent CP. Then I can learn to surf - you don't get too much of that up here in the East coast - and they can help me be in better shape.

Date: Thu Oct 20 10:36 2005

Oh I soooo need a secretary. I have to set up my appointments and this girl calls and makes an appt for Monday at 3:30. Then she says, that she gets her work schedule tonight and may have to cancel if she has to work. So I tell her to call me after she gets her schedule and she gets an attitude! Get one, you will not get a degree that way. Suddenly I feel my appointment book being filled for weeks!!!!!!!!!!

Molly · The Mediator

I wish I had a secretary. I only have interns. (I do have my own office, but it's not oval, and I don't find girls attractive, so that's a no-go...)

1maple · Chairman Of The Board

Ruby, since she has an attitude your appointment book should be full at least until you get a new secretary and have that person trained.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Okay, I have another. No offense against you Ruby, but I hate it when people have their secretaries call for them. If it's jsut to give me information or to get our fax number or something that's fine. But if it's an in-depth question, call me yourself. I hate explaining it to a secretary, and then the secretary has to explain it to that person. It's like playing telephone, that person is not going to get the exact right answer. And then later, that person will claim that they did what we told them to, when in fact, they did what their secretary told them to. And I'm talking about people who are volunteers for the kids I work with. When you agree to volunteer your time, it's YOUR time you're volunteering, not your secretary's.

Okay, I'm done now. Thanks.

CP · Lord of the Lair

Let's see what I can do Fuzzy.

Will any of these do?

-- Edited by CP at 17:27, 2005-10-20

Date: Fri Oct 21 07:20 2005

ONLY TWO PEOPLE SHOWED UP TODAY!!!

Out of seven. So I see my day getting poopy!!!

Molly · The Mediator

All the more reason you shouldn't work today!!!

Date: Fri Oct 21 07:40 2005

Did I mention I am one of the two! And i have to teach at 1:30!! Oh well............

1maple · Chairman Of The Board

It is going around our office that the company is thinking of changing accounting software.
I have reports that were due two weeks ago that have not gone out yet because of the set up needed due to the upgrade that was installed in August.

In a heated moment when I heard this I said they might be looking for someone to fill my position.
I'm sure I will rethink that but this kind of thing really puts a damper on one's day.

Date: Fri Oct 21 08:00 2005

I am soo sorry to hear about that Maple. I will pray for some guidance.

1maple · Chairman Of The Board

Thank you Ruby.

Date: Tue Nov 1 07:30 2005

Well I get here today right at 8 and some smart a$$ makes a comment that I am real early today. I am frickin sorry if I have a two and a thirteen year old to get ready, I live 25 minutes away, yet it always takes 1 hour to get here and I never leave for lunch. But your fat sorry butt lives 5 minutes away, you only have to get your fat self ready and life has handed you no lemons!

In classic me fashion though, I said that I try to get here everyday at 8, unfortunately life does not always allow me to do it, and to be honest I don't care!

Date: Wed Nov 2 17:45 2005

Ok Dylan, I read your wise crack about me and the full week. The answer is no!!!

But since you do not work with me, it is not an office gripe for you, but I know it is for others!

Guess what? I have to leave early tomorrow too! Gotta get the boy to church by 5 to set up for this weekend's campout!

Dylan · Leader Of The Banned

didnt mean anything by it Ruby...just less ruby time on the forum when you leave early....and we all like to see the red slippered one...

Date: Wed Nov 2 17:53 2005

I was just teasing and letting you know it is an office gripe in my area. However, everyone I work with has kids that are in their 20s. So I guess that their kids never had any outside activities or got sick?? Maybe they had better help, but I have none!

Dylan · Leader Of The Banned

I hate office politics...people need to worry about themselves...you are good at your job and family always comes first...'nuff said

Date: Wed Nov 2 18:06 2005

Amen! I just tell everyone that I honor God through my job and that is all that matters!

Date: Thu Nov 17 11:57 2005

Gosh has it really been two weeks since I complained? No one wonder I am about to burst!

I just had a college student ask me if a class starts at 10:00 am and ends at 10:50, how long does the class meet!!!

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

Ruby,Right then you should have picked up the phone and said just a second let me call down to the kindergarten and get and answer for you.

Date: Thu Nov 17 12:07 2005

Today is one of those I have NO PATIENCE.

And every butthead in the world has emailed me, called me, or come in to ask the dumbest questions!!!

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

It happens. But don't you just hate when it happens all at once?

Date: Thu Nov 17 12:54 2005

Yes, it does not give me time to get cooled off properly! I need to breathe in between idiots!

Molly · The Mediator

Ruby, I feel your pain.

Molly · The Mediator

For example, a secretary called me weeks ago to ask questions that her boss really should've been asking. We had a discussion about which company to use, and the one we were planning to use wouldn't work, so she referred me to another. Now he's emailing me asking why we didn't use the other company!