Wednesday, January 19, 2011

This...is my Yearly Review?

A couple weeks ago I get a review and it states: "Consistently shows excellent judgment at all times in leadership, decisions making and responsibilities."

In the "Suggest Goals section: "Could show growth in decision making."

So I go to talk to my boss. "Uhm. Can you explain these two things? They sound like the same thing but one is in the merits one is in the goal section."
Boss: "Oh ya remember that time when you refused to help that person because it was against process?"
Me: "Ya."
Boss: "It was then. See I know you followed process and did exactly as you should have and as myself and the other Lead had informed you but you could have still done it."
Me: "So...NOT done what you said."
Boss: "Ya."
Me: "Even though less than 3 days before that you said...if this exact situation happens I am....never to do it and refuse anyone who ask?"
Boss: "Ya."
Me: "..."
Boss: "..."
Me: "That makes shit for sense."
Boss: "Ya I can see how you would think that but..."
Me: "Yes?"
Boss: "Ya that doesn't make any sense."
Me: "You will change that then before turning in the paperwork?"
Boss: "Yes sorry about that."

Things I Overheard Last Week

Employee: "This supposedly clean fork has enough food on it for an extra meal."
Other employee: "Don't use it then. You need to go on a diet anyway."

Lead to Employees at meeting: "We need to make sure we put recycling in the recycling bins I keep finding cans in the trash and garbage in the recycle bins."
Employee: "Don't they go to the same place anyway?"
Lead: "No one goes to the recycling center. One I suppose goes to the dump."
Employee: "I am...not sure I believe that."
Lead: "We can toss you in one of them and you can write us a letter from whichever one you end up at."

Employee: "I love this iMac mouse its awesome. Except I can't get the middle button to work."
Other employee: "Thats a sticker...from logitech. That's not a iMac mouse."
Employee: "Oh I thought it was."
Other employee: "Why?"
Employee: "Because its...uhm...because its white and plugged into this computer."

Client Support to Customer: "No I am sorry that offer isn't valid anymore. The deadline has passed."
Client: "There are really no such things as deadlines."
Client Support Rep...not missing a beat: "And now there is no such thing as that original offer."

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Things I Overhead This Last Week 1/3/2011 & Before Christmas

While making a group batch of New Years Eve cookies:
"Man I am fighting this horrible flu. Last night I thought I had end stage colon cancer. Can you grab the butter?"

Employee: "I don't think that people should celebrate Christmas, its racist."

The day before Christmas vacation started for our company.
Boss: "If the Christmas lights get in the way of people doing work we will need to discuss taking them down."
Me: "Uhm. We start vacation tomorrow, no one will be here."
Boss: "Ya just inform me if we have to take them down..."

Boss: "We really should not be buying people Christmas presents for people at work."
Me: "Understood. We should probably inform people then."
Boss: "I can take care of that I have to drop my gift off to the accounting person they can send out an email..."
Me: "You bought them... a gift?"
Boss: "Ya I got them this really nice set of dinnerware."
Me: "Ah... k."