Office Insanity!

lorie d.

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Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00 and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.

If it's really a rush job, run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps. Or even better, hover behind me, advising me at every keystroke.

Always leave without telling anyone where you're going.It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where you are.

If my arms are full of papers, boxes, books, or supplies, don't open the door for me. I need to learn how to function as a paraplegic and opening doors with no arms is good training in case I should ever be injured and lose all use of my limbs.

If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me which is the priority. I am psychic.

Do your best to keep me late. I adore this office and really have nowhere to go or anything to do. I have no life beyond work.

If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. If that gets out, it could mean a promotion.

If you don't like my work, tell everyone. I like my name to be popular in conversations. I was born to be whipped.

If you have special instructions for a job, don't write them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done. No use confusing me with useful information.

Never introduce me to the people you're with. I have no right to know anything. In the corporate food chain, I am plankton. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them.

Be nice to me only when the job I'm doing for you could really change your life and send you straight to manager's hell.

Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any and it's nice to know someone is less fortunate. I especially like the story about having to pay so much taxes on the bonus check you received for being such a good manager.

Wait until my yearly review and THEN tell me what my goals SHOULD have been. Give me a mediocre performance rating with a cost of living increase. I'm not here for the money anyway.
 

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This really sound familiar and so true. Do you sit in the cubical next to me?
 
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lorie d.

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I forgot to mention that I have worked in offices in the past, and when I saw this it just seemed sooooo familiar. One of my least favorite situations is in here too.
It's the person with a rush job who stands behind you and supervises every move you make.
 

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That is sooo funny.... and soooo true..... I've been a practising paraplegic for some time now....... :LOL:
 

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LOL

I hope I never have to work at an office like that! But I gotta say, I work better when being stressed (which is why I always started to work on my projects the day before they were due while I was in school
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I actually printed that out for my boss. She's the accountant/office manager and I heard her laughing when she took it back to her office.

It's really not that bad here, for me at least. They do more of these things to her than to me. BUT my last job....this could have been my job description!!!
 
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