Just a little ranty moment

[selenay]

When I say "this is actually my busiest day of the week, the data warehouse is crap and nothing is going to run very fast", this is not an indication that I give a sod about your request and will actually want to do anything about it. I don't care that you have a meeting tomorrow and need those figures - you should have asked for them on Friday rather than doing it last minute on the busiest day of the week for everyone in the business.

Telling me, "So how do you suggest we solve this problem?" does not endear me to you further. No, oddly enough we do not keep those numbers you want hanging around just in case because nobody bloody wants them usually. And yes, I could go into the last two years worth of weekly reports and pull the numbers out of them but this does not, in fact, match with my extremely busy day and 5pm deadlines for my own work.

You can indeed call me back at 3pm to see how I'm getting on. Knock yourself out please, knock yourself out now. My progress report will probably be something like "nope, no chance in hell that you're getting those numbers, the data warehouse ain't co-operating." Calling me while my boss it at lunch and cannot veto the request is sneaky and underhanded. I will be passing the phone to him when you call back so he can explain why I can't spend three hours pulling the numbers you need out of old reports and why the data warehouse is shot to hell today and won't be producing your numbers tonight.

Sod off. Really. Any other day of the week and your request would be fine. But not Monday. When you know the meeting is happening and you will probably need the numbers, a bit of forethought can be done.

Why do I work with bloody idiots who think that I can just drop everything to do their work for them?

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[gmul.livejournal.com]

bloody idiots who think that I can just drop everything
Sounds familiar. Could always tell them you are working on it but that the data warehouse is slow so you're not sure when you'll have the figures... Keep giving them hope, then at 5pm send them the corrupt spreadsheet you have around especially for the purpose then come tomorrow morning express surprise but no, you didn't keep a copy and you'll have to run the extract again but you're sure it'll be quicker today...

Just keep your unruffled poise in public and rant here. >h<

[selenay]

send them the corrupt spreadsheet you have around especially for the purpose

I like this plan. Just need to build myself a corrupt spreadsheet for the next loser who does this to me...*g*

It was rant here or throw something and ranting is usually cheaper. Especially as I'm supposed to be working on being calmer and more open to bloody idiots with daft queries for my next review. Or something like that.

[paranoidangel]

Your place sounds exactly like mine, where everyone thinks that their project is the only one you work on, and don't seem to understand that telepathy is not actually a good communication method.

[selenay]

*nods* This idiot couldn't seem to understand why other projects could take more priority than his request.

I'm afraid that using the name of my director didn't work as a motivator because my the reports that I spend Monday working on go straight to.....my director. Odd how I didn't get phased when the idiot suggested that his request was, in a very round about manner, a request for the director. The fact that the director just wiped the man off several report distribution lists because he'd never heard of the guy...

*g*

[paranoidangel]

That's something at least.

It's a depressing thought that this is a universal thing and changing jobs is unlikely to reduce the number of idiots I work with.

My sister was telling me at the weekend how she's ended up being their expert in a piece of software she uses, so on the plus side she had a long conversation with the people who wrote it in Canada about their plans for it in the next couple of years. Although she is now discovering just how thick people can be when it comes to computers :)

[selenay]

Sadly, idiocy is universal. You can change the type of idiocy you deal with, but not the fact of its existence :-(

Er, it's taken your sister this long to lern how thick people can be about computers? ;-)

[paranoidangel]

In all fairness I never realised just how clueless it was possible to be about computers until I came across it at work. I'd heard stories but I'd never entirely believed them.

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Why do I work with bloody idiots who think that I can just drop everything to do their work for them?

Hmm. Well, I guess if 100 is an *average* IQ, it means that 50% of the population are going to be below that. Hence the inability of some people to see that you can't drop everthing, or plan. Maybe.

Yeah, I realise this isn't helping any.

Hope today gets better.

Txx

[selenay]

Taking that one step further, if I'm in Mensa then 98% of the population is stupider than me. The odds of this particular idiot being a fellow Mensa candidate don't seem too high to me so I must have a considerably higher IQ than him.

Hence, I'm smart enough to know when I'm being played by other departments :-) And unfortunately, smart enough to have documentary evidence that I'm surrounded by total idiots...

It's it strange how my f-list has a higher proportion of Mensa members or candidates than the general population? *gg*

Da Boss backed me up in the politely worded sod off, I don't have time argument so at least that was one minor blessing. And I'm home now having had some supper, so the day just got better :-)

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

:-) Yes, I nearly said something like that, but didn't have the energy to be polite about your colleague!

I'm glad your boss stuck up for you - hope the rest of the week goes well.

Tx

[selenay]

*g* You don't need to be polite about my colleague - he really was an idiot! And I feel that my logic reached its natural conclusion so I can now feel justified in behaving as though my intellect is vastly superior to everyone else's ;-)

Da Boss sticking up for me is unusual, but felt good :-)

Have a fab time in Manchester :-) And the 27th may be possible for town-ness, but I don't want to commit in case my day gets committed for me by nameless mothers. Sort things out nearer the time?

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Thankyou!

I'm sure we can sort things out nearer the time. I'm now having visions of you, me, G, and your mum hitting the town for noodles. It'd be an interesting combination, that's for sure!

Of course, we could always just turn up on your doorstep and start carol singing instead...

No, you're right, I wouldn't wish that on anybody!

Tx

[danamaree.livejournal.com]

Why do I work with bloody idiots who think that I can just drop everything to do their work for them?

That's my job, it's pretty much in my position duties, in fact, that's what I'm looking at now:

'the ability to work under pressure, establish priorities and meet deadlines displaying professional qualities of integrity, initative and reliability'

In other words, don't tell the Health Minister's office to fuck off if you're trying to do five urgents things at once, the Prime-Minister's office wants a report for the upcoming National Water Summit, the Premier wants to track down some correspondence they lost a week ago to help with some figures for a meeting with a visiting diplomat, the Cabinet Secretary, who you actually work for is in the middle of legislative decisions signing off for the last and biggest Ministerial Cabinet Meeting of the year and you have to hold off, delay or work out how to handle a thousand queries from staff and other State Departments because no way in hell she's going to talk to anyone, and you still have to reconcile the monthly budget...and meanwhile, oh she wants COFFEE, right now.

Yep. I love my job.

[danamaree.livejournal.com]

And yet, the PA always get paid the least? Why, OH God why?

People are always out to take advantage methinks.