The Random Conversation Thread (for Casey)

[goddessoflubbock]

Casey - I always got roped in to doing other people's work because I finished my own quickly. It was a big disincentive to get stuff done fast. It took me a long time to learn there was no benefit as others got promoted on my work

I have concluded that upper management is required to take an IQ test and only the lowest scorers get the job

[CaseyAllan]

Casey - I always got roped in to doing other people's work because I finished my own quickly. It was a big disincentive to get stuff done fast. It took me a long time to learn there was no benefit as others got promoted on my work...

That was the way it went at the last place I worked but this place is amusing: they have a central monitoring system. Each job goes on someone's individual list and we have set times to complete them. Every time we do something to that job the time spent is updated automatically on the monitoring system and the person who asked for the job gets an email telling them the new progress/status.

The stats reports go weekly (who finished what and how quickly) to upper management. It also highlights details of any job which has been switched between Agents, lists any Agent who's left a job sitting for more than three days and gives a breakdown of how many jobs are still sitting on each Agent's list at the end of each week. At the end of the month, the reports are collated and given to the company Board of Directors to prove that the Department is doing a good job!

The stats show our boss is doing less then a third of anyone else in the department and there's no way he can fudge the figures

As long as I complete ten jobs a day, I stay in the top 3 in the Stats Reports...it doesn't seem to matter if I complete all ten within the first hour of the day or take the entire 8 hours - all they care about is that the jobs are done

[Sophist]

Casey - I always got roped in to doing other people's work because I finished my own quickly. It was a big disincentive to get stuff done fast. It took me a long time to learn there was no benefit as others got promoted on my work

I have concluded that upper management is required to take an IQ test and only the lowest scorers get the job

Don't forget they must fall below a certain morality.

[CaseyAllan]

...I have concluded that upper management is required to take an IQ test and only the lowest scorers get the job

Don't forget they must fall below a certain morality.

Lol

Can't argue with that!

[Sophist]

I think they must have some sort of official A**hole Scale for Upper Management (ASUM).

[goddessoflubbock]

Heheh. I worked for an attorney in PA one time who was a doozy. The whole office was terrified of him. He'd call me from the road to tell me to have a certain file ready for him, and I could *never* find that file - leading to me being yelled at.

One day I got sneaky and checked his desk. The file he'd just called about was hidden in his desk drawer. I grabbed it and ran down to my desk. He was speechless when I handed it to him

I finally got fired when I scheduled him to fly into Bowie airport here in Dallas for a depo. He'd have a shuttle waiting to take him to the office there.

Unbeknownst to me he changed the time of the depo, a,d so changed his flight. He flew himself into an airport across town. No shuttle. It's a bank holiday and he flew 2000 miles without so much as lunch money

When he fired me for that (which I literally laughed out loud about) I told him I knew I was his fifth secretary in 2 years and that maybe he should look at the one common element....

I enjoy getting fired way too much...

[CaseyAllan]

...I enjoy getting fired way too much...

You make it sound like fun!

[goddessoflubbock]

I've only been happy about it twice, out of the, well three times it's happened

Although the third time makes up for it. I thought I was getting promoted.... Uh, *clueless* hahh

Although with the attorney, I was already working a second job that wanted me fulltime, so when he fired me I walked down the street and said I'm all yours....

And this last time, I was really pushing it working anyway. I applied for ssdi right after and was immediately approved...

[Sophist]

When he fired me for that (which I literally laughed out loud about) I told him I knew I was his fifth secretary in 2 years and that maybe he should look at the one common element....

[CaseyAllan]

Gah! Why do people feel the urge to touch folk they don't know?

Was on the bus yesterday going to see my mum. I don't like riding buses at the best of times but I loathe them when they're crowded.

Anyways, I was standing off to the side, near the baggage area when someone stepped up behind me. They didn't try to pass me (I wasn't actually in the aisle), they just stood there.

Then she pressed closer; close enough that I could feel her breathe on my neck. I moved away to the other side of aisle and less than a minute later, she was standing beside me!

She put her hand on top of mine on the handrail, so I moved my hand away. Next thing I know she'd moved til her hand was touching mine again. I moved, she moved. I moved again, and she moved again.

After the fifth time, I stepped away from her and move forward towards the driver and I'd barely settled against the side rail when she was pressed against me again.

I gave up at that point and got off the bus three stops early.

[SomethingElse]

That's beyond simply touching. That's stalking, harrassing... almost molesting!!

[CaseyAllan]

That's beyond simply touching. That's stalking, harrassing... almost molesting!!

It really creeped me out, but I wasn't sure what, if anything, I was supposed to say to her...

[Charlie]

Well I was in the pub yesterday (delivering sandwiches, not buying drinks) and I didn't even realise that the barmaid was interested in me until my sister pointed it out to me as we left, with the ways she was asking questions. I'm still not convinced - but I never saw anything either way.

[CaseyAllan]

Well I was in the pub yesterday (delivering sandwiches, not buying drinks) and I didn't even realise that the barmaid was interested in me until my sister pointed it out to me as we left, with the ways she was asking questions. I'm still not convinced - but I never saw anything either way.

See, this kind of thing confuses the heck out of me. How does asking questions mean she's interested in anything other than what she's asking you about? I'm amazed anyone can tell these things!

Does that mean you get to ask her out next time you're in the pub?

[Charlie]

Well I was in the pub yesterday (delivering sandwiches, not buying drinks) and I didn't even realise that the barmaid was interested in me until my sister pointed it out to me as we left, with the ways she was asking questions. I'm still not convinced - but I never saw anything either way.

See, this kind of thing confuses the heck out of me. How does asking questions mean she's interested in anything other than what she's asking you about? I'm amazed anyone can tell these things!

Does that mean you get to ask her out next time you're in the pub?

Apparently it was something to do with the way she was asking me questions and ignoring my sister, and was quite excited when she found out I was the "new buttie man". Coming to think about it I am not sure if she would have known my sister was my sister and could have appeared as my "other half", so maybe my sister is the mad one....