Letters to Idiots

[selenay]

Dear Idiot Boss,

Thank you very much for booking me on a course without telling me. Sadly,
though, I cannot rearrange my holiday to attend the course that you have
booked for me because it is Eastercon and I am going. Hotel room booked,
ticket bought, stewarding volunteered for, irrevocably going.

I've even had my holiday in the holiday planner and my Outlook calendar
since February.

Before you have accept a cost to your cost centre for a course that I can't
attend, please to be consulting with. Or even just checking the holiday
planner or my diary. It's not actually that hard, you know.

No love,
Me



Dear Idiots in the queue around my desk,

I can talk to one person at a time today. One. Not five. So take a ticket,
get in line and wait.

By the way, I have now closed bookings for my time today. So take your
virtual queuing ticket and try again tomorrow. It's really not worth waiting
for me to get to your request today.

No love,
Me


I suppose it's flattering to be in demand. Possibly. I am considering
putting up a "No idiots, please" sign on my desk today.

Comments

[gmul.livejournal.com]

Suggested signs for today:

"When I want your opinion, I'LL BEAT IT OUT OF YOU"
"The buck doesn't even slow down here"
"DON'T ANNOY THE CRAZY PERSON"
"I'll try to be nicer IF YOU'LL TRY TO BE SMARTER"

My current selection remains "This isn't an office, it's hell with fluorescent lighting" (but in our case much less warm since there's no heating down here and we won't have any servers being built at the moment...)

[selenay]

I like those signs :-) I really do need a few...

Sorry about the lack of heating in your place. It probably won't help if I tell you that for once the heating in my little corner is for once overwhelming the breeze through my window so I'm actually comfortably warm here.

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Sigh. You'd think he'd ask, wouldn't you? Maybe he thought it'd be a nice surprise, or even (shudder) a treat.

As for the people round your desk - how about 'For a quick solution, bang head here' sign.

Hope the rest of your day goes much better, and that you get to meet up with S tonight.

Txx

[selenay]

Well, it is a course we talked about me needing to do - project management thing. But yes, you'd think that he'd ask before putting me on it and incurring the cost. Or even just check my diary for whether I'm free on those dates *sigh* Typical Boss, though.

Your sign would be brilliant :-) Thankfully the queue round my desk hasn't materialised today and I'm having a much calmer day of it. I really need the calmer day because, um, S and I stayed up ridiculously late chatting last night :-)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I had real problems putting my Eastercon leave into my work calendar. Because it had already been told that the Friday and Monday were bank holidays, and didn't want to let me schedule anything else on those days. I'm guessing you mean the Thursday or Tuesday.

In any case, booking things which overlap, or adjacent to Easter is dumb, even if the victim isn't going to Eastercon.

I suggest you combine your two problems by sending some of your queuing idiots round to the person who can really, really help them with yourtheir problem. Your boss ;-)

[selenay]

I meant Thursday and Tuesday :-) Those I was able to add to our holiday calendar without problems and I didn't attempt to add anything on the bank holidays. My Outlook calendar thankfully doesn't know about bank holiday so I put in my entire time off.

Booking things around Easter is never easy, but booking training courses around Easter? Just daft.

I like your suggestion, though :-)

[nic]

I am considering putting up a "No idiots, please" sign on my desk today.

That sounds perfectly justified to me!

[selenay]

I thought so :-)

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

*nods* I'm about to rant on my LJ about something similar. *hugs you*

[selenay]

*hugs* Sometimes people you work with are either too annoying or too stupid to be allowed to live, yet nobody regards that as a justifiable homicide thing! ;-)

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

No, dammit. Instead, they're promoted. ::growls::