I've mentioned before that I'm in charge of the office coffee club because no other schmuck will take it off my hands, and I need coffee, and as much as I like Soy Lattes I'm not doing Starbucks every day.
So I'm in the breakroom this morning and an altruistic coworker presents to me what he thinks is a great idea.
We should turn off the Keurig coffee machine on Friday afternoon so it's not On all weekend, he says to me.
That's not a bad idea. I mean it's just one little machine keeping about a quart of water hot so when someone wants a cup of coffee it's ready, but I'm sure there's some cost saving if it were turned off over the weekend instead of being left on. A minimal cost saving, but a saving nonetheless.
I also start work early. I mean seriously early. Like OMFG o'clock. So I could turn the machine back on first thing Monday morning when I get in giving the water inside time to heat up and be ready by the time the rest of the riffraff get in, and so...
Yeah, that's a good idea, I tell him, before adding, who's going to turn it off on Friday?
See because I get in at OMFG o'clock (what can I say? That amuses me. Yeah, I'm a little juvenile at times) I also leave early in the afternoon, so I can't turn the machine off when I leave or I'd be depriving some of my caffeine-addicted coworkers of their coffee. Bad things happen when people who need caffeine don't get it, and I'm not going to be responsible for that, so it's only natural that I'd ask him who would turn the machine off.
And he gives me a look not unlike a kicked puppy, which I think is a little unfair. He's the one who didn't think his idea all the way through to the "Who would do this?" stage. Why does that make me the bad guy for pointing it out?
If anything that was his queue to step up to the plate and say "Why! I shall turn it off myself!" but he didn't do that. So he has a half-arsed idea, that he never thought through, and which he's not prepared to put into action himself, but I'm the bad guy for calling him on it.
That's not the Initech moment, which if you need it pointed out is the company Peter worked for (or didn't work for, depending how you look at it) in the movie "Office Space".
On Friday I completed & submitted my electronic Time Sheet (like a good little Peon). This morning the supervisor who I helped last week (who is a supervisor but not my supervisor) is apparently reviewing my Time Sheet because she asks me to recall it because I didn't charge any time to her projects.
So I recall my Time Sheet, change the numbers around to bill some time to her projects (instead of it all being charged to the projects on which I normally work), re-Submit it, then notice I have a new email. It's from my Supervisor. As in my actual Supervisor.
It's short, simple, and to the point.
"Please submit your Time Sheet."
You have got to be fucking kidding me!
Now I actually have a decent relationship with my real supervisor so I fire off an email to him, explain the situation, and tell him I've just re-submitted it. Then I add:
"I'm glad I'm learning new opportunities but situations like these make me feel like I'm in the movie "Office Space" :P
Yeah, I actually emailed that, including the :P smiley.
"Just another manic Monday." - The Bangles.
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your time sheet isn't a Time Production Schedule is it? your supervisor didn't ask you to submit your TPS report did he? in which case, i think it's been universally approved that the correct response is a swift kick to the sack.
i don't have that exact problem at my job (i work on a specific job site project, and i'm the Project Engineer to some people, and the Project Manager to others, depending on who you ask). but i have a time sheet issue sometimes too. see, i always charge to the same job, but under each job there's like 50 job codes. depending on what you were working on, or who you were working with (process, electrical, I&C, CADD, mechanical, internal, external to client/vendor/etc.). i pretty much only charge to about 5 of the 50 job codes. and they all come out of the same eventual budget anyways.....
so when i get an e-mail from accounting that they're moving 1.5 hours from CADD work to vendor contact for last tuesday's afternoon meeting, if i approve i have to come by and initial the change on my time sheet [which is a printed e-mail from me] and because of my role on the job it doesn't matter WHICH job code i bill to, it's the SAME POT......i can't help but think about the same great movie.
i have to admit, full dislosure, that i have been known to put whatever i feel like it in the description block next to my job codes. if anyone is keeping track, there have been hours charged to bigfloppydonkeydicks and ittybittytittycommittees.
Reminds me of our last staff meeting when my "favorite" co-worker was suggesting someone needed to come in on Saturdays for some little thing he felt needed to be done.
But he added, "Now I don't want to have to be the one to come in and do it."
Then shut the freak up!
People are great like that. They all have Very Important Things that they need done, but you can guarantee that they all almost always expect someone else to do it.
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