Ever since I saw Ratatouille, that has been a dream of mine. How does one get into the business? Do you need some sort of education?
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Ever since I saw Ratatouille, that has been a dream of mine. How does one get into the business? Do you need some sort of education?
More to add to my list (I'll come up with even more as the week progresses 
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Euphemisms on conference calls. "Sorry, can you repeat that? I was multitasking." No, that's code for "I was so bored by your conference call that I decided to go screw around on Facebook or play Angry Birds on my phone, and I wasn't paying attention, and now you need something from me and I have no idea what the hell you were talking about for the past 47 minutes." "Give me 5 minutes, I need a health break." Just say it - you have to take a piss. If we were conversing in person, you'd probably say to me "Gimme a sec, I need to use the john." Health break? I never heard that phrase until I entered the corporate world. Why so PC on the phone?
People who don't know what time zones are. I work with a lot of people in California, so scheduling can sometimes be a bit difficult, but it's not impossible. People on the west coast sometimes schedule a meeting for 4 PM their time. Those get an immediate "Decline" response from me. Like hell I'm spending my evening on a conference call. How about instead of us staying late all the time, for once, you wake your ass up early and get into the office at 7 AM so we can have a 9 AM my time meeting. And do you have to schedule meetings right during lunch? I'll tell you what - you don't schedule a meeting at 10 AM pacific time, and I won't schedule one at 2 PM central time.
)Euphemisms on conference calls. "Sorry, can you repeat that? I was multitasking." No, that's code for "I was so bored by your conference call that I decided to go screw around on Facebook or play Angry Birds on my phone, and I wasn't paying attention, and now you need something from me and I have no idea what the hell you were talking about for the past 47 minutes." "Give me 5 minutes, I need a health break." Just say it - you have to take a piss. If we were conversing in person, you'd probably say to me "Gimme a sec, I need to use the john." Health break? I never heard that phrase until I entered the corporate world. Why so PC on the phone?
People who don't know what time zones are. I work with a lot of people in California, so scheduling can sometimes be a bit difficult, but it's not impossible. People on the west coast sometimes schedule a meeting for 4 PM their time. Those get an immediate "Decline" response from me. Like hell I'm spending my evening on a conference call. How about instead of us staying late all the time, for once, you wake your ass up early and get into the office at 7 AM so we can have a 9 AM my time meeting. And do you have to schedule meetings right during lunch? I'll tell you what - you don't schedule a meeting at 10 AM pacific time, and I won't schedule one at 2 PM central time.
Oh yeah...this reminded me...corporate-speak, buzzwords.
All this "Moving forward, we need to be proactive on an action plan to synergize our customer-centric focus, using value-added processes to create a paradigm shift in performance measurement!" OK...so you want me to work harder? I have a manager who talks like this sometimes. You can't get a word in edgewise because she uses about 28 words where 4 will suffice.
At least in the summer months, my job is pretty dull. I do video and multimedia production at university which includes a lot of professor and student interviews. Because everyone is away over the summer, I have almost no work to get done.
I hate being bored at work. I would much rather have 4 projects hanging over my head than have one project I can't complete due to the interviewee being on vacation.
I hate being bored at work. I would much rather have 4 projects hanging over my head than have one project I can't complete due to the interviewee being on vacation.
Oh the pain!! I know...how you feel dude! Windows XP and IE 7 are friggin awful.
haha!!! brilliant! You Sir are very entertaining...making me LOL
good thread this...its like a office rant thread. Blow off steam through the day. ha
This actually made me LOL
One of these days she going to lean too far back on her chair whilst munching and victory will be mine!
My facebook is full of that. Whtz every1 doing 2niiiiight! Wouldn't mind but the person in question has a BB. They come with a full hard keyboard. Use it!
We actually still use the mice with the little trackball inside
Which reminds me of another thing. Having to buy your own crap since the office is too cheap to buy anything that's even remotely "new" in terms of technology. WE STILL HAVE/USE PENTIUM II DESKTOPS FOR CHRIST SAKE!
I cleaned the ball when i first started there and it had never been done before! I swear cheese came out of it!
More to add to my list (I'll come up with even more as the week progresses
Euphemisms on conference calls. "Sorry, can you repeat that? I was multitasking." No, that's code for "I was so bored by your conference call that I decided to go screw around on Facebook or play Angry Birds on my phone, and I wasn't paying attention, and now you need something from me and I have no idea what the hell you were talking about for the past 47 minutes." "Give me 5 minutes, I need a health break." Just say it - you have to take a piss. If we were conversing in person, you'd probably say to me "Gimme a sec, I need to use the john." Health break? I never heard that phrase until I entered the corporate world. Why so PC on the phone?
Agreed. I can usually tell after a few seconds if someone isn't paying attention. I usually just bang the receiver on the desk. That wakes them up
I usually just bang the receiver on the desk. That wakes them up
nice trick! ill do that next time on a conference call.
that's what they call it eh? I call it hiding out on the crapper for 5-10 min while I regain my sanity...
Plus the other end of the spectrum where everyone is baking hot and wearing summer clothes to keep cool yet one person complains that they're freezing and insists on putting the heating on or having a portable fan heater even though they refuse to add more clothes. Pretty much selfish employees sums it up for me. Those who don't pull their weight and take the p by having lots of time off for "childcare issues" and such. They're usually the ones who refuse to do anything outside of their job description too but expect to be given special dispensation when they need time off. Like its their right to have the job.
Grrrrr!
Ooh! Ooh! I thought of another one! Does anyone else go through these types of conversations?
MANAGER: Please price out your flight costs for the upcoming trip.
2 hours later...
ME: I priced out those flights. The round trip is $250. I will book once approved.
2 days later...
ME: Did you get my email about the flights? Is that cost approved? Can I book?
2 weeks later...
MANAGER: The flight is approved at $250.
2 minutes later...
ME: Yeah, that was the cost over two weeks ago. The cost is now $750.
Next day...
MANAGER: But you priced them at $250, and that's the approved cost.
ME: ......
I'm a freelance employee mostly contracted by this company, so it's sort of permlance. I don't work even in the same country as they do when we're doing our work from home, so I can't just march across the office to figure this out. And I don't want to deal with expense reports for overseas phone calls, so I'm not doing that.
MANAGER: Please price out your flight costs for the upcoming trip.
2 hours later...
ME: I priced out those flights. The round trip is $250. I will book once approved.
2 days later...
ME: Did you get my email about the flights? Is that cost approved? Can I book?
2 weeks later...
MANAGER: The flight is approved at $250.
2 minutes later...
ME: Yeah, that was the cost over two weeks ago. The cost is now $750.
Next day...
MANAGER: But you priced them at $250, and that's the approved cost.
ME: ......
I'm a freelance employee mostly contracted by this company, so it's sort of permlance. I don't work even in the same country as they do when we're doing our work from home, so I can't just march across the office to figure this out. And I don't want to deal with expense reports for overseas phone calls, so I'm not doing that.
Ooh! Ooh! I thought of another one! Does anyone else go through these types of conversations?
MANAGER: Please price out your flight costs for the upcoming trip.
2 hours later...
ME: I priced out those flights. The round trip is $250. I will book once approved.
2 days later...
ME: Did you get my email about the flights? Is that cost approved? Can I book?
2 weeks later...
MANAGER: The flight is approved at $250.
2 minutes later...
ME: Yeah, that was the cost over two weeks ago. The cost is now $750.
Next day...
MANAGER: But you priced them at $250, and that's the approved cost.
ME: ......
LOLI usually get the shaft AFTER my travel has been completed. The flight/hotel isn't an issue usually but once I get back it's like,
Manager: well....uhh....we know the hotel offered free breakfast so did you really need to buy food at McDonald's?
ME: what?, is hitting up the dollar breakfast menu at McD's a no-no? Sorry, I'm not a huge fan of individually packed waffles heated up in a toaster oven that hasn't been cleaned in months. I prefer non-tainted food thanks.
Manager: Also, what's with this UPS shipping receipt? You were supposed to carry all the marketing collateral back yourself in your carry on luggage. Didn't you get that email?
ME:
really? I mean, seriously?
People who are always late for work.
People whose negligence are caused by excessive Facebook usage.
People who suddenly expect others to help them with their entire project on the last day before deadline, then take the whole credit themselves.
People who get p*ssed for no reason, such as yours truly
People whose negligence are caused by excessive Facebook usage.
People who suddenly expect others to help them with their entire project on the last day before deadline, then take the whole credit themselves.
People who get p*ssed for no reason, such as yours truly
Lack of initiative from others.
Massive email trails that people want to keep going in order to cover their backs.
Massive email trails that people want to keep going in order to cover their backs.
I got into the business by just starting as a part time pot washer and building my career up. I moved onto another job prepping food in a different restaurant. At that restaurant, I was sent to college part time to get my food hygiene qualification. I moved job a 3rd time and got the position of a full time chef.
Essentially, starting from the bottom and working upwards worked for me, leaning a lot from every place I worked in. It was a lot of hard work, especially since I was also studying music technology at college at the same time.
It doesn't matter what field you're talking about. Moving up from the bottom is a typical path. May I also say that its typically better as well.
I've worked with people straight out of college who were in a position of responsibility and were down right clueless. They didn't understand their ideas they learned in college were not always applicable in the real world. Only working in the trenches gives you the experience needed
- Lack of innovation.
- Old people who've been here for way too long, stifling the progress of the organization.
- Office politics/cliques.
- Getting treated like I know nothing just because I'm the youngest by the old people I mentioned previously. I'm not going to apologize for advancing quickly. It's not my fault it takes someone 15 years to do something I was able to do in a year and a half.
People that bring in tons coupons (and still give you a hard time when you try to make it so that they can use them all). I work in a Hallmark store (first part-time job) and I'm hoping that in a year or two I'll get something in my field through my school (starting college as an IT major in the fall)
well i work in IT Support and these are a few of the things that bug me:
me - " i've reset your password to computer"
user - " is that computer when you spell it with an o or an e?"
me - "its computer not computor"
- non-IT-people trying to use techno speak when they don't understand what it means, which aggravates them when you have no idea what they're talking about. "my server isn't working?! can you connect me to it" "no your pc won't power on!"
- people assuming coz its my job to fix computers that i can fix anything with electrons running through it e.g. dishwashers, fridges, bad mobile phone reception, projectors, ebay, switchboards, an egg incubator..........
- its never a persons fault when a they wreck their own computer, but its my fault they lost their work!
- people with unrealistic expectations about technology. Once i dealt with a woman who was just a little to far away from a wifi access point. i told her this but she refused to believe me because "Its wireless! it shouldn't matter where i am it should work on the moon!"........yeah......
- People who flash off name suffixes and none-job titles in email signatures. Theres nothing wrong with these, but when your a "strategic neighbourhood watch co-ordinator" it looks stupid
- Drive letters in Windows, 90% of people simply don't understand the drive they want isn't called "f drive"
The list is huge, but i think thats enough for now lol
me - " i've reset your password to computer"
user - " is that computer when you spell it with an o or an e?"
me - "its computer not computor"
- non-IT-people trying to use techno speak when they don't understand what it means, which aggravates them when you have no idea what they're talking about. "my server isn't working?! can you connect me to it" "no your pc won't power on!"
- people assuming coz its my job to fix computers that i can fix anything with electrons running through it e.g. dishwashers, fridges, bad mobile phone reception, projectors, ebay, switchboards, an egg incubator..........
- its never a persons fault when a they wreck their own computer, but its my fault they lost their work!
- people with unrealistic expectations about technology. Once i dealt with a woman who was just a little to far away from a wifi access point. i told her this but she refused to believe me because "Its wireless! it shouldn't matter where i am it should work on the moon!"........yeah......
- People who flash off name suffixes and none-job titles in email signatures. Theres nothing wrong with these, but when your a "strategic neighbourhood watch co-ordinator" it looks stupid
- Drive letters in Windows, 90% of people simply don't understand the drive they want isn't called "f drive"
The list is huge, but i think thats enough for now lol