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[madringal]

I was at a conference for work two weeks ago. I have literally been bombarded with calls, emails, and mail from all the various vendors ever since. It will not stop. Listen, if I didn't come to your booth - it's because I don't need your service.  I practically had to yell at a lady to get her to stop talking and I had explained twice, very politely, that I wasn't interested. And no, I am not going to give you the name of anyone else here that you can call and bother.  

There needs to be an option to pay more for conferences to have your contact information excluded from the lists provided to vendors. If I give you my business card, call me. Otherwise, buzz off.

[k3am]

We are stuck in the dark ages. Everything requires an original signature. Everything... even though it's not market and it's not required. "How do we know it's a valid signature if it's not orginal?" To which I contend.. "Well, unless that person came into the office, signed it in front of you, and you checked their ID beforehand, how do you know an original signature is a valid signature?"

Best of the work vents? They started a new committee to discuss how we can be more efficient. The person who I would talk to about suggestions for it to? The guy who is the king of the WE NEED ORIGINAL SIGNATURES BEFORE WE CAN BREATH mentality.

And even better? The folks in my operations department who will PRINT OUT a digital form (designed to be filled out in PDF forms) and MAIL it to a client, then request that the client send it back. So what could be sent a received in 1-2 days is now a 5 day process.

[madringal]

k3am oh man, that stinks. I work for a really small credit union so I feel like some of the stuff we do is from the dark ages, but even we have electronic signatures for everything!

[rere]

My basic vent is, there has been some reorganization. I begging to be reorganized. I have a feeling my boss will block any change, and they wont' want to deal with her, so all will be the same. She is mad someone got promoted-It's not best for the agency and buget. We are not monks. We realize we are not getting rich here, but we didn't sign on for the glory and satisfaction of a days work. We do like money and people should be recognized for a good job.

[186momx]

If one more person calls and asks me if I know that it is April I might scream. When all of these guys dropped off we told them about 3 weeks. We still have a whole week left in our original timeframe. This is when I wish we could have someone in to just answer the phone but it isn't worth it for 2 weeks. I'm looking forward to after hours so I can work in piece. An hour to go.

[mrspez07]

The guy that sits behind the cube wall that I face (so we face each other, but there is a 5’ partition there (except it is open at the feet), is really annoying me.
He has been farting a lot, and I’ll often come back to my desk and the whole area stinks. Hopefully coworkers realize it’s him and not me!
We were told to not microwave or eat smelly meals yesterday because we had a potential new client coming in at 1, he heated up his meal at 1pm. We sit near the conference room.
I was feeling like crap today, coming down with a cold or similar. This guy swears his coughing and congestion is allergies. I’m not so sure. Either way, cover your damn mouth when coughing or sneezing!

[sdlaura]

madringal I’m going to a conference next week and have been bombarded already with people trying to set up meetings while I’m there. I’ve put together sort of an auto reply that says I’m committed to meetings already while I’m there and hope to run into them during a break.

[katespade]

This is my first week back from maternity leave and my brain is mush. It feels really weird to suddenly have to start caring about work stuff again. My computer has also decided that it hates me, and wants to run daily updates that include restarts without giving me any warning or option to postpone. I know there must be a bit of an updates backlog after three months, but every day? Is that really necessary? Can't it just run all of them at once and be done with it? Ugh.

[mellym]

katespade, I remember that feeling well. All I did yesterday was change diapers and take care of my baby and today I'm supposed to flip a switch!? I can't even remember how to find said file on the network...It will get easier each day but be kind to yourself.

[mellym]

My first time leading the report to the owners went pretty well yesterday. One owner showed up 25 minutes late and we couldn't start without him but it allowed the rest of us to break the ice. Then, he's freaking out because we're going to be late to our dinner reservation and we still had so much to discuss. If the meeting had started on time....

[mustardseed2007]

Our HR director is going to talk to my boss about retiring. So lets see how that goes. : /

[2chatter]

Two retirements zero backfills last year. This year I have one who is due in June and one that just moved to my team and immediately is out on short term leave. I just really need someone to hand projects. I am currently starting everything but it’s hard to juggle, hard to focus and the knowledge transfer will never be perfect.

I just need a team. I think because everything continues to get done (barely, and not as well as it should be, and because I am working allll the time) no one quite gets how dire things are.

[k3am]

You guys... someone in another division has been being a pain in the ass over this original signatures thing.

I just pulled the full version of the document she's holding things up over waiting to get the originals for. Verbatim, the last line of the document:

Delivery of executed copies of this Agreement may be made by facsimile. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which collectively shall constitute a single agreement.

So Joan, tell me again why you're holding up everything for an original signature when the document you're waiting on an original signature for DOES NOT SAY IT REQUIRES AN ORIGINAL SIGNATURE?!?!

[mommyatty]

I walked out of my office at 5:07 today. It’s a 5 minute walk from my building to the parking garage, max. In that time, someone paged me. (A special email setting that is equivalent to “this is such an emergency that if you’re meeting with the CEO, you still need to step out to handle this.) I was walking and answering the page email, which indicated that next Tuesday an agency wanted to meet with us on site in a flooded area. Before I could complete my answer, the people who sent the email called me. Why are they so freaked out? Because they read the email wrong and thought the agency was showing up on site tomorrow (Saturday). Um, no. April 9 is next Tuesday. Cool your jets.

Then they were freaking out because I can’t be there Tuesday because I’ll be with another agency on another project. I’m sorry I don’t have a cloning machine, but I cannot be in two different states at exactly the same time. Ask them if they can shift to Thursday. I told them three times to ask to move it to Thursday. By the time I got home (30 minutes later), they were asking 2 members of my team to be there Tuesday. Without asking the agency to shift until Thursday. Dumbasses.