Bell Cheeses at work

[wakeytom]

A fine example today.

One of the admin assistants has gone on maternity leave (not missed - she was useless). We now have a temp in her place.

Email sent to the department today informing us not to ask her to do anything for 2 weeks as she is not "up to speed yet".

FFS! This has got be the basic basic job in the world. All she has to do is book meeting rooms, go and get the post and fill out travel itineraries. Oh and order stationery.

Why does it take 2 weeks to learn this? She seemed perfectly adept at standing by the coffee machines nattering to the other secretaries for 20 minutes yesterday.

This really sounded like a scene from Mad Men then I looked at where you are located and laughed!

 

[Bodian]

A fine example today.

One of the admin assistants has gone on maternity leave (not missed - she was useless). We now have a temp in her place.

Email sent to the department today informing us not to ask her to do anything for 2 weeks as she is not "up to speed yet".

FFS! This has got be the basic basic job in the world. All she has to do is book meeting rooms, go and get the post and fill out travel itineraries. Oh and order stationery.

Why does it take 2 weeks to learn this? She seemed perfectly adept at standing by the coffee machines nattering to the other secretaries for 20 minutes yesterday.

She'll leave the day after her two weeks are up. Then you'll get another temp - who will be protected for a couple of weeks, then leave. Then you'll get....[ad infinitum]

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I have never seen such voyerism.
Who cares what other people are eating/wearing/talking about
Get to office - head down - work hard = live in Brighton - Job Done

See what I did there.

 

[nwgull]

I have never seen such voyerism.
Who cares what other people are eating/wearing/talking about
Get to office - head down - work hard = live in Brighton - Job Done

See what I did there.

Mis-spelt voyeurism?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Mis-spelt voyeurism?

Of course how would you know it was really me otherwise ?

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

A fine example today.

One of the admin assistants has gone on maternity leave (not missed - she was useless). We now have a temp in her place.

Email sent to the department today informing us not to ask her to do anything for 2 weeks as she is not "up to speed yet".

FFS! This has got be the basic basic job in the world. All she has to do is book meeting rooms, go and get the post and fill out travel itineraries. Oh and order stationery.

Why does it take 2 weeks to learn this? She seemed perfectly adept at standing by the coffee machines nattering to the other secretaries for 20 minutes yesterday.

So I take it you won’t be buying her a present on April 27 when we have Administrative Professionals Day here in the States – about a week before that all the useless donut eating lardarses in our company will wander round dropping hints about what they’d like.

 

[Marty McFly]

So I take it you won’t be buying her a present on April 27 when we have Administrative Professionals Day here in the States – about a week before that all the useless donut eating lardarses in our company will wander round dropping hints about what they’d like.

I can't believe people take that day seriously.

 

[Notters]

So I take it you won’t be buying her a present on April 27 when we have Administrative Professionals Day here in the States – about a week before that all the useless donut eating lardarses in our company will wander round dropping hints about what they’d like.

My word is that a thing?

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

I can't believe people take that day seriously.

My word is that a thing?

Unfortunately it is in our company - so you have to pony up and buy them something otherwise your expenses can take a long time to get paid

 

[Easy 10]

Unfortunately it is in our company - so you have to pony up and buy them something otherwise your expenses can take a long time to get paid

Now thats REAL power.

 

[Easy 10]

I have never seen such voyerism.
Who cares what other people are eating/wearing/talking about
Get to office - head down - work hard = live in Brighton - Job Done

See what I did there.

Yup.

You have completely missed the entire point of one of the greatest and most thereputic threads in NSC history

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Yup.

You have completely missed the entire point of one of the greatest and most thereputic threads in NSC history

Well, as we've observed many times - if you don't think there's a bell cheese problem in your office...

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Here's a conversation I had today with Daniel Craig's Stalker. Given it was over 1000 posts ago, I should remind everyone I work in IT.

DCS 'You know Dave'
ME 'Yep, I know Dave' *sigh*
DCS 'Well, really funny story, His wife works for HP - They both have a job in IT!!!!!
ME :

Kill. Me. Now

 

[dazzer6666]

On the food front, one extreme to the other in my office. Normally we are flooded out with biscuits, chocolates and stuff on a permanent basis. Now it's 'new year', the vast majority are on futile crusades to lose a few ounces. Several have joined some poncy slimming world thing which means EVERY item (solid or liquid) is assessed as a certain number of 'sins'. A cappuccino, for example, is 4 sins. You're apparently allowed a certain number each day. Fair enough, good luck with your faddy bullshit futile attempts that you will give up on by the end of January. But please do not ask me what I am eating for lunch and then tell me that 'oooh, that's 8 sins' because I genuinely do not give a ****.

 

[Easy 10]

On the food front, one extreme to the other in my office. Normally we are flooded out with biscuits, chocolates and stuff on a permanent basis. Now it's 'new year', the vast majority are on futile crusades to lose a few ounces. Several have joined some poncy slimming world thing which means EVERY item (solid or liquid) is assessed as a certain number of 'sins'. A cappuccino, for example, is 4 sins. You're apparently allowed a certain number each day. Fair enough, good luck with your faddy bullshit futile attempts that you will give up on by the end of January. But please do not ask me what I am eating for lunch and then tell me that 'oooh, that's 8 sins' because I genuinely do not give a ****.

If a cappuccino is 4 sins, then how many sins would a RAPE in the stationary cupboard equate to ?

Thats what I'd be asking.

 

[dazzer6666]

If a cappuccino is 4 sins, then how many sins would a RAPE in the stationary cupboard equate to ?

Thats what I'd be asking.

Would get credits for that as it burns off a few calories. Would probably be allowed a donut after ?

 

[Easy 10]

Would get credits for that as it burns off a few calories. Would probably be allowed a donut after ?

Probably depends how hard they fight it.

 

[Gazwag]

Mr Twatty rings in 8am this morning to say his car will not start and he's waiting for the RAC. Coldest morning in Sussex this winter so guaranteed he will be waiting hours. He usually drives to the station, which is 20 minutes walk from his home, and the train ride is 10 minutes to Bexhill.

Why he cannot walk to the station and sort the car out tomorrow when he is not at work I don't know. When his car is fixed he won't then drive the 12 miles to work he will drive to the station and wait for the train so god knows when he will arrive today.

 

[Postman Pat]

On the food front, one extreme to the other in my office. Normally we are flooded out with biscuits, chocolates and stuff on a permanent basis. Now it's 'new year', the vast majority are on futile crusades to lose a few ounces. Several have joined some poncy slimming world thing which means EVERY item (solid or liquid) is assessed as a certain number of 'sins'. A cappuccino, for example, is 4 sins. You're apparently allowed a certain number each day. Fair enough, good luck with your faddy bullshit futile attempts that you will give up on by the end of January. But please do not ask me what I am eating for lunch and then tell me that 'oooh, that's 8 sins' because I genuinely do not give a ****.

I would take huge delight in buying the biggest dirtiest burger I could lay my hands on and scoffing it in front of all of them, and watch them drown in a pool of their own saliva as they "enjoy" their low fat cottage cheese on Ryvita.

 

[dazzer6666]

I would take huge delight in buying the biggest dirtiest burger I could lay my hands on and scoffing it in front of all of them, and watch them drown in a pool of their own saliva as they "enjoy" their low fat cottage cheese on Ryvita.

Absolutely. Dirty tricks campaign already underway