Tuesday GTKY

[HeartofCheese]

I will be traveling on Tuesday, so won't be on and this one is JUST SO IMPORTANT. Since we already did intros, I'll follow up with this:

1. Favorite swear word

2. Biggest work pet peeve

3. If you could be any fictional mom you wanted, who would you be?

ETA: I probably won't be around the following Tuesday or the one after either, so if anyone has any burning curiosities, have at it. See y'all back here mid-July.

[HeartofCheese]

1. So many...if "Are you kidding me?!" was a swear phrase, that would probably be it. But it's not so going with motherf*cker.

2. When I send a reply to an email and then have to send another reply before the other person has responded, so I go back to my message (b/c I have to continue the email thread) and I end up emailing myself. My gmail is smart enough to know I don't want to email myself, so why hasn't Outlook figured it out?

3. Wonder Woman! Was she a mom? Otherwise maybe Marge Gunderson from Fargo?

[billie]

1. Fuck!

2. Having to repeat myself because someone wasn't paying attention

3. That's easy! By far my favorite fictional mom is Linda Belcher from Bob's Burgers. Love her

[thatsfancy]

1. Fuck or bullshit

2. Being managed by email for things that really could be communicated more effectively in person since we sit 3 feet from each other.

3. Oo good one. I have no idea.

[erinshelley21]

1. Fuck for sure. Shit is a close second.
2. The fact that the guy that works for me has worked for me for 4 years and has done what we do for 30 before that and STILL asks questions. That and he prints everything in color and that shit costs money.
3. Claire Dunphy.

[supertrooper1]

1. Fuck
2. People that don't know how to do their job.
3. Lorelai Gilmore from Gilmore Girls.

[vavavictoria]

1. The F bomb is my fave as well
2. Feelings. Omg my employees have so many feelings. I feel like I'm constantly refereeing drama.
3. Claire Dunphy as well. She and I are the same. And my husband is a goof as well.

[saraml13]

1. Fuck

2. Inappropriate use of reply all, either accidentally or thinking that everyone cares about your idiotic question to an HR broadcast email. (Related pet peeve: that more people don't understand when they should send emails via BCC or restrict who can send an email to the whole list.)

3. Alicia Florick from the Good Wife. I don't want to be a single mom and I don't really want to be a lawyer, but I'd kill for her wardrobe.

[freezorburn]

1. Shit

2. Our time clock. If you punch in one or two minutes early or late, it beeps in a screechingly hostile fashion, and then won't accept that you punched in/out. And then you have to fill in manual override paperwork.

3. Lagertha from the History Channel's Vikings. Because she kicks ass.

[polecat8]

1. WTF. Especially when the software I'm testing does something totally unexpected.

2. When someone doesn't follow one of the company processes. We have processes for a reason people! If we don't follow them, the government goes crazy! (I work in a government regulated industry that is audited a lot. When we are audited, I'm the one who has to explain why the process isn't followed)

3. I'm not sure...

[twinmomma]

1. F*ck is definitely mine. I'm a klutz and DH says my signature phrase is "Oh f*ck!" after he hears a thud when I've tripped/walked into something/dropped something/etc.
2. Scheduled meetings not happening at the right time. I work hard to structure my day for maximum productivity and when meetings change last minute or in the middle of the meeting, it drives me insane because of the domino effect.
3. Molly Weasley!!!

[justcheckingin73]

1. It's a toss up between F*ck and GDI.
2. When people can't figure out how to mute their phone on a conference call.
3. Clair Huxtable - not because I am like her but because I want to be like her.

[xctsclrx]

1. probably shit. I don't cuss often, although I have noticed I am slipping more lately.

2. Worthless meetings and then listening to people in those meetings have no idea what they are talking about.

3. This is hard. Did anyone read the Ramona books growing up? I remember liking her mom.

[mommyatty]

1. Oh fuck me! Followed closely by For fuck's sake!

2. Oh so many. But probably the worst is when people continue to have an email exchange when they should just talk. I have one coworker who will argue on email with me when our offices are literally 20 feet apart. And he refuses to just discuss things because he wants a record and an audience. And most of the time (95%+), the poor schmuck is wrong and just had an audience that now knows it.

3. There's this book for older teens called Gingerbread. At first in the book, the mom seems like an awful trophy wife. But then, the more the story unfolds, you see just how far she's gone to provide a really great life to her teenaged daughter. And how brave and strong and supportive she really is. Less obscure reference- the main character in Bad Moms at the end of the movie.

[xctsclrx]

I have a new work pet peeve now... When I send you something in excel do not send it back to be in a freaking PDF send it back in excel. You don't know what the next step is I do if it is in PDF I can't manipulate it. UGH.

[erinshelley21]

mommyatty, I've said for fuck's sake under my breath so much from dealing with toddler shenanigans that I'm pretty sure that will be DD's first phrase.

[2chatter]

Fuck

People not following through on things then throwing me under the bus - what they don't get is we ALL look stupid, they aren't "winning".

I don't really want to like any tv moms I can think of....because most are less busy and more one dimensional than my life will ever be. Maybe a combination Felicity Huffman on Desperate Housewives and Carol Brady?

[supertrooper1]

saraml13, the reply all issue has been addressed now in our annual cyber security training because it got so bad. Some distribution lists have 50,000 people and people replying all to ask to be removed from the list or telling people to stop replying all has shut down our email system for hours.

[mellym]

1. Fuck

2. People not prepared for meetings and then not following through on what they said they were going to do.

3. I like Claire Dunphy too!

[mustardseed2007]

I will be traveling on Tuesday, so won't be on and this one is JUST SO IMPORTANT. Since we already did intros, I'll follow up with this:



1. Favorite swear word
- fuck


2. Biggest work pet peeve
- fucking people pushing work off on others that they could very well handle themselves. 


3. If you could be any fictional mom you wanted, who would you be?
- DS and I have been reading the Super Fudge Series and I love his mom. 


ETA: I probably won't be around the following Tuesday or the one after either, so if anyone has any burning curiosities, have at it. See y'all back here mid-July.



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[sweetptater]

1. Fuck

2. Dealing with sub-par management

3. Laura Ingalls Wilder's mom. I feel like if she could keep it together in the wilderness/plains, I should be able to manage my life in the modern world.

[Covergirl82]

1. Fuck. I really only say it during my commute.

2. People who ask me to send them information they have access to and people in my functional area who refuse to think critically about how something in the area they support might impact other areas.

3. This is a tough question, maybe because I haven't really through about it before. Maybe the mom from Growing Pains.

[186momx]

1. Shit I don't say it often but when I cuss that is what comes out

2. Clients asking me to text them. We have a landline and I'm not texting you a reminder with my personal cell. My dad can't hear on cell phones so no way I could talk him into switching over from a landline plus when I leave the office I want to be done not having people call/text at random times and expect a response as it is a cell. During tax season we get messages on the voicemail at 3am!

3.

[billie]

186momx a lot of dentists and doctors offices here have a mobile number that is only for texting/whatsapp, to send reminders and confirm appointments etc. They make it very clear that this number doesn't accept calls and is not on after hours. Maybe you could have something like that? Just a suggestion.

[yummmy]

1. For Fucks sake!
2. Co-workers taking over my projects without asking and then messing them up causing me additional work!
3. Umm... pretty much all I watch are cartoons and most of them don't have mom's soo... not sure... guess I would have to say Sofia's mom!

[traveltheworld]

1. Fuck.
2. Email chains that are for no purpose other than make funny jokes/witty comments. Mostly because I can never think of anything witty to say. I find it's super prevalent in my current work - the entire legal team does it, maybe they think it's some sort of bonding thing? e.g. someone took a picture of a funny-looking cat, sent it to the group, and then a dozen emails ensued with witty remarks. I'm just not that funny!!!!!
3. Aunt Viv on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (especially the first few seasons). She seems like a no nonsense kind of woman.

[mommyatty]

Jun 26, 2017 9:33:13 GMT -5 erinshelley21 said:

mommyatty, I've said for fuck's sake under my breath so much from dealing with toddler shenanigans that I'm pretty sure that will be DD's first phrase.

Excellent learning moment for us that made DH clean up his language. We were in Target with DD when she was just starting to talk. DH dropped something and DD with a huge, proud smile said, "Fucking damn it, Daddy!" Like "oh, I know what to say when you drop something! I do not believe he has said that phrase since.

[jlaok]

1. Fuck

2. Email signatures that include inspirational quotes or sayings

3. Elastigirl from the Incredibles

[erinshelley21]

Jun 26, 2017 15:31:39 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

Jun 26, 2017 9:33:13 GMT -5 erinshelley21 said:

mommyatty, I've said for fuck's sake under my breath so much from dealing with toddler shenanigans that I'm pretty sure that will be DD's first phrase.

Excellent learning moment for us that made DH clean up his language. We were in Target with DD when she was just starting to talk. DH dropped something and DD with a huge, proud smile said, "Fucking damn it, Daddy!" Like "oh, I know what to say when you drop something! I do not believe he has said that phrase since.

I shouldn't laugh but I am.

A fellow tee ball mom said when she was putting her 3 year old to bed the other night the little girl said "this is fucking stupid" when the mom told her she couldn't say that she said "then why can daddy"

There were tears when I heard that one.

[chrispy1122]

1. Fuck, although more recently I've just been saying "eff."
2. People that send me an email and then call me one minute later to ask a question about said email.
3. I can't think of any.