retro in love with technology

Title:	Bosses
Topics:	work
Date:	2013-02-12 @ 13:13
Security:	public

So I had the last week completely derailed by my boss, she has a project she was working on that I was only to edit a spreadsheet and send the ONE spreadsheet to the vendor. On Tuesday (a week ago) she called me into her office and dropped 9 spreadsheets on my lap, figuratively.

Most of them were pretty easy however a couple had pretty complicated calculations and I am by no means a expert in excel. I managed to complete most of them by Thursday except one. I needed a rate from a different vendor to do the calculation. I requested from our finance group and another department that uses the vendor our rate.

2 people from the finance department tried to help me and a guy from the other department tried to get the information. I also called the vendor to see if they could give me that number. I received no calls back.
Yesterday my boss emailed a contact she has to try to get this information and by the end of the day she still hadn’t heard anything.

I know we are now a week late on our deadline and since I am sort of in charge of the sheet, I am worried I will be the one taking the fall for the lateness of the sheet. So of course I have nightmares all last night about the spreadsheet.

When I came in to work today I asked my boss if she had heard anything. Then I told her about my having had nightmares about the spreadsheet. She then pulls a file from her desk and says “maybe I have the rate here”

She had the rate and I had the sheet done and sent within 30 minutes…
I mentioned this to one of the contacts that had been helping me try to find the rate and she said we should have a “you can backhand your boss” day each year.

I am all for it.

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Title:	I am back
Topics:	life
Date:	2012-09-24 @ 12:26
Security:	public

I am in need of an outlet, so I am going to try to post a couple times a week just to keep myself sane. Today's post is short and sweet! Now I am committed!

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Title:	you suck at driving
Topics:	work
Date:	2010-01-27 @ 13:57
Security:	public

I work for a company that has trucks that drive around the state, each truck has a sticker with the driving complaint line on it along with the unit number. A few months ago I took over taking the messages for that line and forwarding the complaints to the driver’s managers for follow up.

When a company puts a toll free number on a bunch of moving billboards they are bound to receive some crazy calls. I am more astounded at the calls from people that really want to complain but they either:

A. are so mad they cannot refrain from obscenities
B. they complain but give no pertinent information to distinguish the driver/unit and place.

Today I screened a message that really took the cake.

“ uhh Yeah I am on Main Street and I just got cut off by your driver. My kid is not strapped into the car seat; she just did a little front flip and has a bruise on her head. Call me back.”

REALLY????

Maybe she wouldn’t have a bruise if you were not breaking the law and had her strapped in. now you are driving and calling on your cell phone to complain. Did you even bother to strap her in before you called? I didn’t think so.

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Title:	work people are weird and gross.
Topics:	work
Date:	2010-01-20 @ 13:14
Security:	public

I have come to the conclusion that I would rather pack a lunch and keep it in an insulated lunch box than put anything in the fridge where I work. No, No it’s not that I think stuff will be stolen from me, it’s the manner people treat the refrigerators at work.

Each year, the last day of work before the New Year holiday it has become a little bit of a tradition for me to clean out the refrigerator. Only because it gets pretty dead in the office and I like to see just how disgusting the people I work with can be.

We have a couple downstairs in a large break room that the janitorial staff cleans twice a week, but upstairs in a mini break area we have a microwave and a small fridge. The fridge isn’t a tiny dorm size but more like 18 cubic feet for the executives to put their lunches and water in. I don’t personally use it because it is nasty.

This year I cleaned it out and threw out take out containers filled with mold, salad dressing that expired in 2008 and some left over mini chimis that we had at an event in the beginning of October! I filled 2 waist high garbage cans with crap. When I was finished there was one yogurt, mustard and ketchup in the fridge.

Fast forward to a week ago the date was 1-11-10, I was heating something in the microwave and wanted to see how my freshly cleaned fridge was fairing. I noticed an open yogurt with a spoon in it. Now, what you people do in your own homes is your own prerogative however when you put shit in a company fridge use some common sense. That is just weird and disgusting.

So the next day I peeked and IT WAS STILL THERE!!!! So I took a picture.

Then I had to document how long it was there.

Alas today I looked and it was gone… someone finally threw out their yogurt, I guess a week and a half is the limit to how long a open yogurt can stay in the fridge. Maybe they got hungry after I left and ate it. I’ll never know.

I used the camera I keep in my purse becasue it puts the date I took the picture on the picture. Next year I am totally taking pictures of the crap I throw out.

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Title:	work makes me crazy
Date:	2009-12-04 @ 14:23
Security:	public

Today I had to send this message for the building facilities guy because he was out of the office and had received calls from the painters that were scheduled today. He sent a message yesterday but people didn’t understand, so I forwarded his message and a little bit of my own:
_____________________________________________
From: Jacque Goddess of HR
To: the whole company
Subject: FW: updated Solar project painting schedule

There are still some cars parked around the area that will be painted for the solar shade. Please move them ASAP if you DO NOT want overspray on your car. Please read the below message that was sent yesterday

Thank you

Jacque Goddess of HR
_____________________________________________
From: Building Facilitites
To: the whole company

Parking caution for Friday and Saturday December 4rdand 5th

The steel structure for the solar project will get painted on Friday Dec 4th with primer and Saturday Dec 5th color coat. All painting will be conducted early in the day and should be completed by 11 am. Please use the sketch below to guide your parking choice. Anyone parking vehicles in close proximity to the painting should be aware of the possibility of overspray.

Then I received this email from an employee:

_____________________________________________
From: a random employee
To: Jacque Goddess of HR
Subject: RE: updated Solar project painting schedule

If I am parked in front of the tower is there a possibility of getting over spray?

A Random Employee

So I respond with this email:

_____________________________________________
From: Jacque Goddess of HR
To: a random employee
Subject: RE: updated Solar project painting schedule

Don’t know where you mean but if you are worried I would move your car.

Jacque Goddess of HR

In which I receive this response:

_____________________________________________
From: a random employee
To: Jacque Goddess of HR
Subject: RE: updated Solar project painting schedule

I marked it on your map

A random employee

(Attached is a map of the parking lot with “I am parked here” in a space very near the painting area)

It is very possible something in my head broke right then because here is my response:

From: Jacque Goddess of HR
To: a random employee
Subject: RE: updated Solar project painting schedule

Random employee,
I am not a painter nor am a weather person so I do not know if overspray will hit your car. Please use your judgment and if you are worried please move your car.

Jacque Goddess of HR

Perhaps my office mate is right and I am a little tough on our employees, but then again I am not so sure I am. I didn’t receive another response.

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Title:	are you serious?
Date:	2009-11-19 @ 08:39
Security:	public

this lovely place is on your way down to sierra vista, i am sure they only hire the very best looking strippers.

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Title:	thoughts
Topics:	absurd
Date:	2009-11-05 @ 08:16
Security:	public

“Pain killers” is such an interesting term. It makes me think that after I swallow the pills and they dissolve in my stomach and head out to my blood stream they are a bunch of little ninja like guys. Those guys then find the pain and an one on one fight occurs. The little ninjas with daggers in their mouth wrestle the evil pain down then they kill it. Sometimes there is more pain than the killers so you have to take another dose.

Hmm

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Title:	odes by me
Date:	2009-10-01 @ 15:36
Security:	public

Ode to the kon tiki

Kon tiki, where we can go and forget the daily grind, drink a luscious beverage and munch on a monkey, ouch why do you punish me in the morning?

Ode to The Shelter

pour me a drink yes I’ll have a martini, its ok that I have no gogo boots; I’ll sit by this handsome fellow, wait is that JFK? Oh just pour me another.

Ode to leslies house

Yes I’d love some wine, look there goes a kangersquark. The patio or the living room, perhaps the lounge. Is Steve here maybe we can sing

Ode to no happy hour

Limits mean no bar, no bar tab, no fuzzy conversations and laughing about nothing. No going out past ten… maybe tomorrow but probably not; there is laundry and dinner to be made. when did this happen? Where did we go? what happened … oh just life and responsibilities. Honey pick up some wine on your way home

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Title:	i know i am a slacker
Date:	2009-09-30 @ 14:37
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It has been a few months since I have posted about my awesome life. Only because things have been normal awesome and I have been slack on my absurd observations. Next week the hubby and I will be heading to LV for a couple of nights and we have nothing planned other than having fun! Normally I get too many things planned to do and our vacations get a little stressful.

All is going well with the kids and animals.

Umm I’ll try to look for something good to blog about …

:D

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Title:	slacking
Topics:	stuff
Date:	2009-07-17 @ 08:40
Security:	public
Mood:	sleepy

This week has been weird; the step son has been out of the house for about a month. And my step daughter left to visit her mother’s mother in Iowa we have 2 weeks of totally alone. What can we possibly do with all that time? I’d like to say that we’ll get a million projects done, but I know that won’t happen. I am just hoping to get a few things done around the house and get our yard looking pretty.

I am very tired this week also, I believe this has to do with the fact I am working on my final in my class and still doing all of the things I need to do. Sigh my advice to anyone out there is stay in college its sooooo much harder to go back when you have a house to clean and other people to feed.

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