07-20-2018, 11:15 PM
Rant on/
Having to coordinate with three admins to get on one persons calendar. After being instructed to coordinate with Debbie and Phil, Phil says Mrs. VP is open at X. OK can you invite so and so as well? "Not my job to schedule" Fuck it, I'll do it. Next meeting, coordinate with Phil and Debbie for Jill's availability and then I send invite. Get an email from another VP Bernie, "Steve, going forward, please coordinate with Debbie and Phil to get on Jill's calendar". Oh, for fuck sake, apparently it's Debbie's role to send invite. And, it's someone else's job to actually coordinate all this shit and they didn't do it so I did. And the third person - needed to reserve the room at the building where Jill will be that day because Phil and Debbie are at a different building and can't reserve that room...
"As we discussed..." Yeah we discussed it, but note the difference in the newly available details, hence the question. (Yay, three more emails to resolve!)
Working with an overseas team during a month where they typically work less and have a weekend that is Fri / Sat. Especially when the updates need to come quick.
Conference room technology that sucks ass and wastes 20 minutes trying to get the equipment to work after driving an hour to get there.
Working with a new team where the lead makes BS remarks because you don't know their program inside and out...then realizes 4 days before the proposal is due they never had the IT guy develop the separate system the program needs to operate on.
Sharepoint admins that suck - "Hey Carl, can you send me the updated contracts piece"
"It's on the SP site"
"I looked in the contracts folder, it's not there"
"It's in the Technical folder"
If your response is going to simply be "it's on the site", you better fucking make sure that shit is organized.
And last but not least- anyone who thinks they can develop a workable excel template that takes into consideration every possible scenario and litters the thing with "no formulas for flexibility" and "If offeror does this, do this, if not, do this, or indicate what you do and add columns rows as necessary". How about you tell me how you want the data summarized, and I'll provide the details as backup instead having to attend a training session on your brilliant "template" because you know how overly complicated it is.
So fucking ready for my vacation... OOTO on, cargo box loaded with beach chairs.
Having to coordinate with three admins to get on one persons calendar. After being instructed to coordinate with Debbie and Phil, Phil says Mrs. VP is open at X. OK can you invite so and so as well? "Not my job to schedule" Fuck it, I'll do it. Next meeting, coordinate with Phil and Debbie for Jill's availability and then I send invite. Get an email from another VP Bernie, "Steve, going forward, please coordinate with Debbie and Phil to get on Jill's calendar". Oh, for fuck sake, apparently it's Debbie's role to send invite. And, it's someone else's job to actually coordinate all this shit and they didn't do it so I did. And the third person - needed to reserve the room at the building where Jill will be that day because Phil and Debbie are at a different building and can't reserve that room...
"As we discussed..." Yeah we discussed it, but note the difference in the newly available details, hence the question. (Yay, three more emails to resolve!)
Working with an overseas team during a month where they typically work less and have a weekend that is Fri / Sat. Especially when the updates need to come quick.
Conference room technology that sucks ass and wastes 20 minutes trying to get the equipment to work after driving an hour to get there.
Working with a new team where the lead makes BS remarks because you don't know their program inside and out...then realizes 4 days before the proposal is due they never had the IT guy develop the separate system the program needs to operate on.
Sharepoint admins that suck - "Hey Carl, can you send me the updated contracts piece"
"It's on the SP site"
"I looked in the contracts folder, it's not there"
"It's in the Technical folder"
If your response is going to simply be "it's on the site", you better fucking make sure that shit is organized.
And last but not least- anyone who thinks they can develop a workable excel template that takes into consideration every possible scenario and litters the thing with "no formulas for flexibility" and "If offeror does this, do this, if not, do this, or indicate what you do and add columns rows as necessary". How about you tell me how you want the data summarized, and I'll provide the details as backup instead having to attend a training session on your brilliant "template" because you know how overly complicated it is.
So fucking ready for my vacation... OOTO on, cargo box loaded with beach chairs.
Current: 1985 LS1 Corvette | 2014 328i Wagon F31
Former: 2010 Ford Edge | 1999 Integra GS
I have a little bit of a rub near lock but if you are turned to lock on a track there are other problems already...
Former: 2010 Ford Edge | 1999 Integra GS
I have a little bit of a rub near lock but if you are turned to lock on a track there are other problems already...