In-DUH-viduals at work

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #1 04-14-2005, 01:22 PM

With apologies to Dilbert for borrowing his word ("in-DUH-viduals"), here's what I've run into in the past 20 minutes. Please feel free to add descriptions of the various In-DUH-viduals you deal with today.

1) Guy sends an email requesting something that he needs "right away," "ASAP," "urgent," etc. (something he could have asked for three weeks ago when it wasn't urgent, but that's a whole 'nuther issue). He asks that the report be sent to his fax machine, which he states is also his home/office phone. I finish the report and send it through the fax. He picks up the phone, my fax machine beeps, he says "Hello? HELLO??" My machine keeps beeping, he keeps saying "Hello? HELLO????" sounding more and more irritated. Doesn't switch on the fax and apparently doesn't remember that he asked for this URGENT, ASAP, RIGHT-AWAY report to be faxed to him.

2) Survey went out to agency representatives listing 13 topics of discussion from a recent meeting and asks agencies to pick up to 5 "top priorities" and up to 5 "secondary priorities."
- one person writes in stuff that was never discussed and will probably be pissed when her items don't get a lot of "votes"
- one person listed five top priorities, five secondary priorities, then said "I think issues 6, 12, and 13 [the three remaining issues] should be included as well." (So, basically, everything's a priority.)

3) Executive Directors (the BIG BOSSES) of the agencies were asked to complete a survey on salary and benefits. The benefits section specified that we want to know how much the agency spends on providing that benefit for the year. To emphasize the point, the form has a dollar sign next to the line that the ED's need to fill in. I can't tell you how many people filled in that section by writing "YES" on the lines.

eplovejoy · #2 04-14-2005, 01:37 PM

4) A person who says that a draft is unacceptable but doesn't suggest an alternative: "I don't know what it should say, I just know this isn't it." How can you know what something should not be without having an idea of what it should?

**Joubert**[$] · #3 04-14-2005, 08:15 PM

The IT guys who are told that a specific application is not working in one of our locations. We start the email thread and late in the day comes the reply, "There's no one working on that application in the office."

Duh.

That's because it doesn't load in that office. Fix the friggin' server.

jenninca · #4 04-14-2005, 08:56 PM

The five kids this morning who turned in their order form for the 5th grade t-shirts with just a size circled. We may just want their name SOMEWHERE on the form so we know who to give the shirt to!

Cindy

eris esoteric · #5 04-15-2005, 11:36 AM

Well, I'm not entirely certain WHAT happened in the restaurant, but I'm fairly certain that the cashier in the restaurant did not intend to pay the guest $50 for eating there. Just when I think I've figured out everything they can bonehead on me, they decide to close their eyes and start pressing keys randomly, I swear they do.

mtbat · #6 04-15-2005, 10:50 PM

Eris! This morning our manager was running around looking for a missing cash envelope, that didn't exist, because the new guy posted to Cash-with a memo of NO CASH PAID on a room that was paid for by someone else's cc.

I've agreed to train to do night audit. That way I can cover vaccations ect if needed. I'm not sure what I've gotten myself into.

eris esoteric · #7 04-15-2005, 10:59 PM

Oh, but audit is FUN. And I'm convinced that every deskclerk should train on audit, if only to learn exactly what kind of headaches they can cause when they mess things up...

mtbat · #8 04-16-2005, 12:13 AM

you are probably right.

*emeleel* · #9 04-16-2005, 10:10 AM

My DH has to deal with a lot of in-duh-viduals at work. Like the bigwig who wanted some copies of some flyer run off - he wanted white text on red paper. He couldn't understand why they couldn't just run red paper through the copier and get it to work.

After they finally convinced him they couldn't do *that*, then he wanted to know why getting color copies run at the copy place would be so expensive, because after all it was "only ONE color!" :rofl:

**Joubert**[$] · #10 04-16-2005, 10:37 AM

That reminds me of the day long meeting I attended yesterday. All of the PowerPoint slides were neatly organized into beautiful binders.

Unfortunately, there were graphics on every page that included white text as labels for the various processes.

Yes, they printed the slides on white paper.

No, you can't read white text on white paper no matter how pretty it looks on the screen.