well, there's one user on this computer, and it's the woman who's place I'm taking, with her password. we all just use it.

if I changed the password, they'd just ask what it was and I'd have to tell them. I don't mind them borrowing it, but they do it at the most inopportune times, and without asking.

and you've brought up another thing that annoys me...everything at my desk is the woman who worked here's stuff. she left it all here, pictures of her kids and pens and crap, and I don't know what to do with it. it's driving me NUTS.

Hm. Too bad there's not a lot you can do with the computer.

You could probably find a drawer or something to shove the pictures into, can't you? Is the woman gone for a while? Or do you just work opposite days?

Anne was our bookkeeper/administrative assistant sort of thing, dealt with the insurance companies. the night before Halloween her heart stopped, and after a bunch of tests they found out she has some hereditary heart problem. she got a defibrillator AND pacemaker, and wasn't allowed to drive for 6 months. so that's when I came in full time to take her place, and apparently everyone prefers me to her now anyways. she came in one day and couldn't remember how to do anything...now that she can drive again, she desperately wants to come back, but no one else wants her to.

so it's kind of a delicate situation...and I'm stuck in the middle. she's asked me if I wanted to give her some of my workdates, and I sort of put it off...but taking down all her stuff? I just can't do that...so I'm waiting for someone to tell me it's ok, or for her to come get it herself.

it's really aggravating. I want to make this MY desk. and I'm sick of looking at her kids and shuffling through her pens with flowers on and stuff. argh. I just don't have the kid gloves to handle this...

*hugs Silky* It is an odd situation. I'm sorry.

heh, s'ok. thanks. I feel better after ranting about it and today's a better day anyways.

Covering for J AGAIN 'cause she's sick. With a cold. Whiney baby can't go to work with a head cold.

Pissed off. Would have said no, except that between the funeral two weeks ago and the weddings next weekend, I need the hours.

Didn't even talk to her. She left a voice mail. What if I had never gotten the message?

Haven't gone a full month since I started where I didn't have to come in and cover for someone who was sick.

Pissed off at J. Think Boss is too. Hope boss is too.

a woman called this morning about the re-branding of thompson (directory enquiries) and wanted to talk to boss about changes and things

he wasn't in the office, but i duly passed on the message. he said he wasn't interested

same woman called this afternoon wanting to know why she hadn't heard from him. i dutifully relayed boss's message;

woman 'well, with all due respect, he obviously didn't appreciate why i was calling. you didn't pass the message on correctly. these changes will affect him. they will affect his business. he will want to know about them. i need to talk to him. please take my number again and tell him that it's urgent.'

i am so angry! probably more angry than i should be. but what gives her the right to accuse me of incompetence becuase my boss doesn't want to advertise in her paper?!

ah, LOVE those kind of people, Fion. I'm usually really bitchy with them...I feel I have a right, since my boss *is* my dad, I can make judgement calls for him

and I've got almost the opposite problem, Gia...the office manager has to come in about an hour late everyday because her brother's day nurse comes in when she's supposed to be here and he needs 24 hour care. EVERY FRIGGIN DAY our regular hygienist and our dental assistant complain about it...it's like people, HER BROTHER CAN'T BE LEFT ALONE. it's not like her not being here affects you at all. shut the fuck up already! and the dental assistant has been needing to take some time off to help her mother with her chemo...yet NO ONE complains about that! funny how the grass is greener...really pisses me off. I'm here so that they can all take care of their personal problems, but all they can do is bitch at me. If anyone has a right to bitch, it's ME, because I take over for anyone who's not here. And yet I (and the office manager, and my dad who's the boss and who's opinon really counts the most) am the only one who has any understanding.

*hugs Silky and Fion*

People are just annoying, I guess. Fion, I get that from parents a lot. "Have you talked to [Boss] about [whatever] yet?" Yes I have, but he takes forever to get anything done. Don't blame me when he doesn't get back to you.

I don't know whether or not to leave J another note with things I need her to do on Thursday, or what. There are some accounts I need her to look at ('cause I have no idea what goes on with anybody's accounts,) and some people I need her to call. One of them was someone I asked her to call last week that she "didn't get a chance to call." Now I know it's because she's too busy talking on her cell phone to do any actual work.
Gr.

9am and I've been here for a half an hour...the hygienist is already spitting venom at me about the office manager!!!

"her brother is in the hospital, she should be in to work ON TIME!"

GOOD LORD, MISS AGNES

oh, Gia, when I was a manager at a clothing store, I had that problem a LOT, and I would get in trouble for things not getting done...the director of all of the stores was really hard on us and she had her office in our store *groan* so we got the worst of it...in order to catch people being lazy, I would write down everything that needed to be done, in the order that I wanted them done, and assigned projects to the staff. I also wrote down everything I myself got done, so if the director or my manager tried to get pissy with me about anything, I just whipped out my papers and showed them EXACTLY what got done and what didn't, who did their jobs and who didn't.

So yes, DEFINITELY write down what needs to be done, even the stuff you need to do, then dole it out, and make sure to label what you did yourself. then you've got hard proof of what she isn't doing.

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Originally posted by fionchadd:


a woman called this morning about the re-branding of thompson (directory enquiries) and wanted to talk to boss about changes and things

he wasn't in the office, but i duly passed on the message. he said he wasn't interested

same woman called this afternoon wanting to know why she hadn't heard from him. i dutifully relayed boss's message;

woman 'well, with all due respect, he obviously didn't appreciate why i was calling. you didn't pass the message on correctly. these changes will affect him. they will affect his business. he will want to know about them. i need to talk to him. please take my number again and tell him that it's urgent.'

i am so angry! probably more angry than i should be. but what gives her the right to accuse me of incompetence becuase my boss doesn't want to advertise in her paper?!

Don't take it personally. I took a course on how to sell propositions, and this is kind of what they teach people to say: Make the person you're talking to feel that the issue is so vital to her boss she can't possibly decide anything herself but has to pass on the call.

It's really rude and obnoxious, but like I said, nothing personal against you.

Go ahead HR/CTO. Deny the offer letter. If he doesn't get the job offer to move up here, he'll be gone before the end of the year.

And I start my own stopwatch. I'm burning out and I need him up here if I have any chance of succeeding on these new projects. Way to manage your human resouces.

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Originally posted by Giabow:

I don't know whether or not to leave J another note with things I need her to do on Thursday, or what. There are some accounts I need her to look at ...

Go ahead. You answered yourself -you need her to do stuff. And you're already covering he rarse a lot, if she can't do this, then you might have to start thinking about complaining formally to your boss, because her behaviour affects your life, your time and she doesn't even get the job done.
BTW, are you getting paid extra for covering for her?

No, clover, I don't get paid extra for covering for her. Not really. I'm getting paid, which I wouldn't have been if I hadn't come in. But I don't get over time 'cause it doesn't push me over 40 hours this week.

Just got another phone call about something I asked her to take care of last week (another student account that I know nothing about.) WTF? If she doesn't want to do any work, why doesn't she just quit??

Ah, ok.
Still, I do think it's time to at least start thinking to talk to your boss. Or talk to her first, saying you're thinking of talking to your boss. I think that covering constantly for someone PLUS having to either do or tell her to do he rjob is reason enough for a little chat, and it's not being a tattletale or anything.
It's a job, and you're working for a company/organisation whatever, and the main goal for everyone is efficiency. If osmoen isn't pulling their weight you shouldn't have to deal with that.

*hugs*

Dear "boss": If you'd stop whining about it it'd be done by now. Idiot whiner. Shut up.

*hugs Smauggy*

*hugs Smauggy too*

*looks at Smaug*

*piles on the hugs*