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Anger Management in the Workplace; Stuff that kills you.
Topic Started: Dec 15 2006, 04:44 PM (1,214 Views)
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Oh my. All I was considering was beating the living life blood out of her face.

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Pffft. Come on.

You can do better than that - I know it.
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Beating someone about the face, head, chest, neck and breast region once isn't nearly as satisfying as inflicting dozens upon dozens of tiny pieces of psychological damage over a long period of time. I'd imagine.
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You're all bad, bad people. I miss the protection of Tart and Dreamian. :baby:
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I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

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Hmm.

I put in a request yesterday, to our office in India.

This morning I received a reply about me - the man who wrote it was SO angry he actually fucked up and sent the email (about me) directly to me, as opposed to my boss it was written to and intended for.

Basic overview - I made a request.

Canadian man in India misread it, and freaked out. His professionalism included calling me bitchy, "beureaucratic", stupid, without a brain in my head...

Thing is, it's an obvious miscommunication over what happenned, and once he realizes that he misunderstood the request entirely, he'll probably feel quite sheepish. As I imagine he did today when I replied to the email telling him I appreciated him being upfront and sending his complaint directly to me - and reassured him I would forward it immediately to the intended recipient on his behalf. And that if he had any questions about my request, that I will gladly clear them up if he feels inclined to give me a phonecall.


However, I'm tired of it. I'm tired of men in their 50's and 60's screaming at me over misunderstandings that are easily cleared up - but afterwards they don't apologize for the things they've said. I'm tired of my tone being read in a negative manner over a simple email saying "Sorry, we can't use carpenters for this position - please send us furniture installers. Here is a letter from SC explaining the difference between the two". I've had one apology since I've been here, it was "I'm sorry if I offended you." after the Canadian in India called me a racist.

Mostly I get "Let's just forget about this, ok?".




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It's you. You're a psychopath. The fact that you don't think you are just underlines it. :D
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Entirely possible, I suppose.
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I may have gotten someone in the contracts department of our company "dismissed" from my accounts...

teehee <_<
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That's better than punching them in the head.
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We have a complex phone system set up in our office that only I know how to program. It was installed quickly, with little forethought into future situations like new employees, changed workstations, etc.

So, anytime we get a new employee, changing the phone system is a semi-major task.

We hired a new girl, and I'm trying to modify the phone system to include her with a selector code, but an extension previously used, with a reinitialized mailbox system. Since we're going into no-man's land where changes were made before, and nothing was documented, it's a trial-by-error sort of situation.

What's killing me, however, is the idiot keeps picking up her phone when it rings. I told her "Don't answer the phone, it's not for you - no one even knows you're here yet" and everytime I try something she picks up the fucking phone and yells to me "Is it set up? I only hear a dial tone!".

I've told her three times to stop answering her phone. She keeps answering it.

This girl is either an evil fucking genius and I must stab her immediately before she pods, or a fucking moron, and forgot her helmet in her car.
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You can do phone changes? We need that. It took two weeks for MTS to figure out how to move our switchboard.

I say stab the girl and get it over with.
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Well, this phone system I can do. If MTS can't do something, however, I wouldn't want to play with it...not when anyone's watching anyway.

She's STILL answering the phone! What the hell? I went and put a post-it note on her phone that says "Even if I ring, do not answer me" and she listenned for about 5 rings...then picked up again.
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MTS can't do anything --that's the problem.

I guess it's better than those trainees who get scared of the phone and refuse to answer it. This one girl I had wouldn't answer the phone for the first 3 weeks! :huh:
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I've had one hell of a shit day. One problem after another throwing itself into my inbox. And just when I have it sorted out, people pick up on the fact that there was a problem and they overcomplicate things.

"Has this been sorted out?" "Are the books in Japan?", "You gave us the wrong invoice number!!" I had to restrain myself from going "Listen, incompetent retards. It is sorted. The books are there. I didn't fuck up the invoice number, that was YOU. Leave me alone now."

And then, on top of that, I have a girl sitting next to me who asks me SO MANY QUESTIONS throughout the day, I could scream. I will rant at her here:

Dear Emma. I am not the only person in your team. I am also not your boss. ASK SOMEONE ELSE. YOU CAN SEE THAT I AM BUSY. Also, stop asking me things you have already asked me about eight times. They are getting so boring, I could repeatedly smash your head against your keyboard. Kindly fuck off.


I feel slightly better now.
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Karma exists.

I called her extension to let her know everything is up and running, and she wouldn't answer it.

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Here is great anger management in the workplace:

Kim at work is really slow to catch on sometimes...

I was cleaning my keyboard at work and one of the girls accross from me noticed and looked down at her lap/keyboard and said "I need a muffin grabber". With everything inside of me I had to keep in my laughter and I stared at her and she finally caught on to what she had said and started laughing as well. What she had meant was that she had pieces of her morning muffin stuck in the keyboard.

Feeling a bit silly in that moment I emailed our administrator Kim and asked that the next time she places a supply order, could she please order some LCD screen cleaner and a muffin-grabber. Instead of replying back and catching on that we were being silly, she proceeded to go around to her own office mates and ask "what is a muffin-grabber?".

By the time we made it down to her office to go see what she thought of the email, the entire room was comparing vibrator prefrences.

Ahhhhh good times.

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The problem with micro-management is the boss also tends to keep every task to himself.

I have a mountain of work I cannot proceed with because my boss is holding things up. Keeping every task to himself has bottle-necked the office production where we literally cannot complete a task without a next step...which he is always, at one stage or another, responsible for.

I have four truck drivers ready to go...but my boss has set it up where it's his responsibility, on the last step, to contact the employer and verify flights...but he's too busy, and keeps putting it off. It would take a phonecall, 5 fucking minutes...

My whole day is mapped out like this. All this work ready on a boss-trigger that he doesn't have time for.
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I work for a psychologist, so my bad days include things like... "You know that guy who said you were always so nice to him? He overdosed yesterday. Dead, dead, dead. Who wants some coffee?" and then... "Sugarbabyhoneypie, thank you, and don't forget, Jesus is gonna git-r-done!"

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So, I leave the office for three and a half days, and I am confronted with no end of crap when I return.

I left something really urgent with my manager, and he didn't fucking do it. I now have this man on my case, and he is not a happy bunny. Lea, go and have sex with him.

Now, if we have someone willing to travel to Egypt to have sex with another man that's pissed off because of the sheer incompetence of our office, my life would be so much easier!
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