Office Work.......

[Buff Hooligans]

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[taking notes on these highly effective techniques]

 

[Buff Hooligans]

For Dacs

Dovekie

Monarch summer - the best pic

 

[wegotchickens]

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[taking notes on these highly effective techniques]

Another good technique, if BYC is not currently up and running, is to ask for help on something. Makes people want to avoid you if you ask for assistance every time they walk by. I have a list of weird things to ask questions about on customers and such.
My new computer has given me loooooots of good questions to ask. Like that I need a serial -> USB converter for the Deggy. That question is guaranteed to send my boss off to find a piece of equipment....

 

[wegotchickens]

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I like to take partial conversations out of context... so much more fun that the real meaning

Exactly. I love those moments when a conversation pauses in amazement and someone says, "Has that sentence EVER been uttered before?"

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Lori, you are brilliant!

 

[wegotchickens]

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Love the monarch pic best!
Now post one that shows a meconium drip as it dries off....

 

[NellaBean]

See I'm just so hateful people avoid me anyways.

BUT I TYPE LOUDLY. TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP.

My BF will call me at work and we're chatting....and he says "I don't hear typing!". So I say Sorry and mash my hands down on the keyboard as hard as I can repeatedly. That better? lol

Working hard, as always.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Lori, you are brilliant!

Thank you. Thank you very much!

I used to have a really picky boss that wanted to know every little thing anyone ever did. SO I spent 30 minutes each morning making a very impressive list of tasks so that I could rattle them off when he asked me what I was working on. I could spend the day surfing and he was always so pleased with me. I just rattled off a new part of the list each time he walked by. It took maybe 2 minuites to do each thing on the list. Heck, I probably spent more of my work day on the darn list!

My philosophy: Don't begrudge a butthead, find a way to make them work for you.

There was this real beyotch I worked with once, who if I came to her with serious questions was really hateful. But if I bounced up all cute and silly, and made her smile even just a tiny bit, she was nice and answered my questions for me. So if I really needed something important I'd sneak up and peer over the top of her monitor the way my cat does sometimes. Worked like a charm. She'd say, "Lori, you NUT! What do you want now?"
You know the really hard part? Acting all cute and perky when I was really feeling ticked off because I was asked to do BS on a regular basis....

 

[wegotchickens]

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Ironically, my current job requires more data entry than typing, and yet no one ever questions these long periods of typing that I do....

I started putting my bosses messages on his cell phone so that I didn't have to leave my desk any more.
He thinks I'm brilliant, because he never misses a message any more.

Irony.

 

[NellaBean]

The gave us an option to have our voicemails emailed to us as wav files too. Irony here is that our computers have no soundcards or speakers. Hmmmmm.....However, it does give me a timestamped record of each call (assuming I know their phone #). So when Giant Butthead #12 calls and says "I have been waiting for a call back for HOURS", I can say "oh really, I show your voicemail came in 27 minutes ago".

Also, when the voicemail needs to be dealt with by someone else, I just forward the email with wav file attached. All our sales guys and higher ups can listen to them on their phone.

Plus, if someone leaves you a really ridiculous voicemail, you have it in a wav file foooooorever. I tend to not tell people about this until AFTER they leave me blackmail material.