Project Life 2020 - Week 24

Project Life 20 - Week 23

Office Pet Peeve

As I said in my last post, I have some office pet peeves.  We all do but after working for 40 years (am I that old?) I have developed my fair share of them...

Today's Office Pet Peeve ..... Unresponders

I do get annoyed when I send someone and email or leave them a voice mail and they NEVER get back to me but that isn't today's pet peeve, exactly.

Today's is when someone sends you an email, you immediately reply back and ask a follow up question and then they don't reply. 

(This bugs me with text messages too)

Example:

Person:  Will you tell me how much we paid Vendor XYZ
Me: (Responds the second I get the email) - Yes - for what date range?
Person: 

I mean I replied the second and I mean the second you asked me the question, it would only take you another 2nd to reply back with Fiscal Year 20, or for the month of April or whatever.

How can I get you what you want if you don't reply back and you JUST sent the question so I know you are at your desk or with your phone....

Of course that person will never respond and 2 or 3 days later say "I still haven't gotten the information I requested" - upon which I will have to ask again "for what date range?"

I've had similar things happen with a friend.  She will text me and say "Do you want to meet for lunch tomorrow" - I reply back the second the text is sent and say "Yes, what time and where?'  and then 4 or 5 hours late she will reply back.

You JUST sent the text, YOU asked me a question, you must be waiting for my response and then you don't have the decency to reply back to me? 

I just don't understand these kind of people.

Office Pet Peeve of the Day

I admit, I have several office pet peeves, I am sure everyone does.

Today it involves managers.  I, myself, am a manager - I even manage managers.  This isn't about anyone on my staff but rather someone else that I work with.

I do not like what I call "power authority" managers or what I consider down right "lazy" managers.

Case in point:

This manager will call her employee to come see her in her office.
Employee gets up and goes to manager's office
Manager tells employee "Go down the hall and ask Debra XYZ"

Employee walks down hall, comes to ask me the question
I give employee answer
Employee goes back down the hall and relays answer
Manager says "Go back and ask her ABC"

Employee walks down hall, comes to ask me the question
I give employee answer
Employee goes back down the hall and relays answer
Manager says "Go back and ask her DEF" (These are follow up questions to the answers I had given)

This goes on and on for 30-40 minutes.

WHY CAN'T THE LAZY MANAGER, JUST PICK UP THE DARN PHONE AND ASK ME THE STUPID QUESTION HERSELF?

WHY?  Because she wants to push her employees around and show that she is in charge and she likes getting people to jump at her command...plus she is to dog gone lazy to get off her sorry butt and walk 50 steps down the hall to ask me herself.

DRIVES ME BATTY - it is disrespectful to your employees and disrespectful to the person you send the employee to (me!)

Today, this particular manager isn't in the office.  Instead she calls the employee (who I have never even met) and tells the employee to see if I am in and then ask me a question.  A question with a simple answer that (a) the manager could have called and ask me herself or (b) the manager could look it up in the system herself - seriously!!

Project Life 2020 - Week 22

I had a nice visit with my mom the first part of the week but the visit was not long enough...it never is!

My sister-in-law visited mom too, but unfortunetly, it was the day after I had to go back home.
Protesting lead to some rioting and looting this week - such a shame.

Project Life 2020 - Week 21