does anyone else work with a flutterer?

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you know, quavering voice, overreacts to everything ("my heavens! we have to get service copies out before the fedex deadline!"), overexplains him/herself to the point where you want to invest in duct tape?

yeah.

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LOL. Luckily, no.

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this is someone ELSE's assistant and i get panic attacks overhearing her. if i worked with her, we'd both be dead now. i like someone who exudes an air of "i've got this. no problem." not an air of "worst crisis ever! ack! how will we make it! WHERE IS MY LIFEJACKET!!!!!!!!!!"

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Jul 2, 2012 15:46:13 GMT -5 cjoy said:

YES. Hambags is a flutterer.

this doesn't surprise me.

you probably want to boff her in the head with a bag of ham regularly.

[blackcat]

Yup. Our Flutterer:

1. Talks to herself constantly, usually because she is so worked up over whatever is going on.

2. Loves going "above and beyond" on everything, and lets everyone know it (e.g. "John (boss) was asking if I would be here on Friday and I said, I'm a sure thing!!!!!!"). Being "a sure thing" is her little catchphrase.

3. Parks her car in a different, far away section of the parking lot, because she likes to tell people "I dont want John knowing how much I'm here and how much I'm working."

4. Gave herself the middle name of "Service." Because she likes to tell everyone that she is so dedicated to service, that it's her middle name. Her email signature reads as following: "Mary Service Smith," Operations Coordinator. No joke.

I avoid her as much as humanly possible.

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Jul 2, 2012 15:48:10 GMT -5 blackcat said:

Yup. Our Flutterer:

1. Talks to herself constantly, usually because she is so worked up over whatever is going on.

2. Loves going "above and beyond" on everything, and lets everyone know it (e.g. "John (boss) was asking if I would be here on Friday and I said, I'm a sure thing!!!!!!"). Being "a sure thing" is her little catchphrase.

YES. i have this too. omg. stop talking to yourself. i know, i know. you're making the labels now. I'M GOING TO KILL YOU.

and the "and then i did this and this and this, and i thought you'd like this and this and this, so i did that too." but it's like, "i made labels AND put them on the envelopes AND put them in the outgoing mailbox." IT'S NOT EVEN SPECIAL. gah!

[eightangryreindeer]

lol, yes.

He was insane to deal with.

He was also a narcissist, a perfectionist, a workaholic, and had some kind of OCD.

He liked to talk about herding cats, a lot.

IT'S LIKE HERDING CATS!!! /CUE HISTRIONICS

[gozf]

Yes. It's... trying.

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I love that gif.

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cjoy, yes! "oh no! the fedex deadline is in THREE HOURS!!!!!" i am sick of the fedex deadline. and we got new copiers. "i hope i can make copies on them! oh no!" THEY'RE COPIERS. i'm pretty sure you can. gah!



also, i work with a gratuitous thanker. he thanks you for stuff so that it can seem like it was his idea and he's gregarious. he thanked me the other day for attending a workfriend's baby shower. A) we've been friends longer than he's worked here; and B) the fact that his secretary is one of the people who organized the shower DOESN'T MAKE HIM THE ORGANIZER.

between the two of them, i might lose it.

[eightangryreindeer]

I hardly miss my job at all, ever.

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Jul 2, 2012 16:03:34 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Hambags came to my grandmother's wake and wept openly over the casket.

She had never met my grandmother.

WINNER OF WORST FLUTTERER COWORKER FOR LIFE.

[myordinarylife]

I was married to one.

[circa1978]

Jul 2, 2012 15:52:00 GMT -5 eightangryreindeer said:

lol, yes.

He was insane to deal with.

He was also a narcissist, a perfectionist, a workaholic, and had some kind of OCD.

He liked to talk about herding cats, a lot.

IT'S LIKE HERDING CATS!!! /CUE HISTRIONICS

LOL. I say that every day. But to be fair, I work in academia.

[eightangryreindeer]

Jul 2, 2012 16:03:34 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Hambags came to my grandmother's wake and wept openly over the casket.

She had never met my grandmother.

NO!

*aghast*

[greylady]

Jul 2, 2012 16:03:34 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Hambags came to my grandmother's wake and wept openly over the casket.

She had never met my grandmother.

This sounds like the BSC woman I used to work with - my first job out of college; I had only worked there 2 months when my grandmother passed away. BSC office manager shows up at the wake, 15 minutes AFTER the close of calling hours (we were still there because it takes a while to politely kick grieving people out of a funeral home). Anyway, she's all sniveling and snotty crying pathetic and then hands me a fucking home made coldolence card.

One of her "side businesses." I still want to set things on fire when I think about her.

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Yes and I had to do an overnight last week with this person. I literally had to take Friday off so I could recover I was soo annoyed.

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I imagine this is what its like working with my husband.

[bonquiqui]

I have two of these fools in my office

[Doc_Lobster]

No, but my mom is one. Sigh.

[iamgrace]

Yes. I'm generalizing, but most elementary teachers are, in my experience, flutterers. I tend to under react, though.

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Jul 2, 2012 16:06:09 GMT -5 cville said:

Jul 2, 2012 16:03:34 GMT -5 cjoy said:

Hambags came to my grandmother's wake and wept openly over the casket.

She had never met my grandmother.

WINNER OF WORST FLUTTERER COWORKER FOR LIFE.

Dude.



Dude.

[iamali]

Yes. Our 70 y.o. receptionist who talks non-stop about her cats/medical conditions/family/20 y.o. car/trailer/"insert annoying thing here".