#3083

a work irk i have is when someone sends me a pass agg email with loads of people in CC telling me a report i’ve made is incorrect and it turns out they’re just interpreting it incorrectly / someone other than me has messed up

love rubbing it in their face once the panic subsides and i realise i’ve not done anything wrong though

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#3084

With everyone still cc’d in i hope

“If you’re struggling with how to use the software I’m happy to screen share and help” in there too.
It’s a beautiful thing

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#3085

People not answering the direct question in an email when you’re actually trying to help them.

“This will involve downtime for the system of 3 hours what time would this best suit you, we can do it out of hours”
“This is taking too long. It’s urgent it just needs doing ASAP”
“Ok as soon as it’s ready I’ll do it”

Enjoy not being able to do anything one morning, prick.

#3086

I absolutely fucking love a pass-agg cc’d reply.

“Thanks for copying our line managers into an email where you try to make me look bad. I’ve included them in a forwarded email from the start of the year when I sent you the information which you’ve not bothered to read.”

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#3087

There must be a word in German for this

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#3088

“oh hi, just wanted to let you know that we’ve sent off a third party material that we don’t have any rights to but have signed a non-disclosure agreement around to a massive EU collaborative research program, the results of which will be public. That’s cool right since we had the stuff sitting around anyway, yeah?”

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#3089

This isn’t a proper irk because I find it funny, but there isn’t a thread for that. I started a secondment in March and a few weeks after, one person started abbreviating my name to Alexa instead of Alex and I was too polite to correct him. This seems to be spreading - currently on 5 people who think my name is Alexa.

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Monday Night I Reckon
#3090

Main irk rn is that this is all just a huge waste of my time

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#3091

Getting it in the ear for spending too much money on extension fees so I made the huge periodic mistake of running a report on our system to see what everyone else’s caseload is relative to mine and… I am getting mugged off to an even bigger extent than I thought was possible. Holy fuck.

#3092

Me: 340
Next closest: 304
Next closest in my sector: 225
Others: 48, 43, 39…

Also I’ve got another 83 that I get instructions on but still take about 60% of the time of my own ones, that Dr 304 doesn’t.

Jesus Christ, no wonder I feel like I’m never getting to the end of my task list.

#3093

The utter abuse of the term ‘Millenials’ is irking me rn. You’re not seeing more millennials join the company, you’re seeing Gen-Z at the moment

Kind of hate myself for that last sentence, but I am correct

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#3094

just don’t like how much of my time is spent chasing data and badgering people for access / data definitions. combination of terrible data architecture and no documentation means it’s about half my job. probably complained about this before

#3095

I am applying for my boss’s old job. I don’t really want it, but the money would be good. I have just updated my CV from five years ago and it only needed a couple of extra sentences. Now I have to write a covering letter (very irked) and wrestle with our company electronic application process (very very irked). I don’t want to do any of it. It’s going to be like pulling teeth.

#3096

Holy shit, that sounds horrible. Is there anyone you can talk to regarding this?

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#3097

I’ve been moaning about it to my boss for years, he’s not really competent to deal with it. We’ve got a call with the new head of department this afternoon that may or may not be about workload but I’m planning on having a good moan about it anyway.

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#3098

Good luck with it. It definitely seems out of line.

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#3099

Just warn your boss that you’re stretched too thin and then start dropping the ball and missing deadlines on some of your matters. That’s sometimes the only way people understand that you’ve got too much on your plate while others are sitting relatively idle, in my experience.

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#3100

I did discover an absolute fucking howler of a mistake that I made in March tbf :sweat_smile:

It’s a result of a whole mess of things, really. The people with 10x fewer cases than me are in a different part of the business, so that can be partially hand-waved away by saying oh they have other matters taking up their time (so do I!). The bigger issue is that we’re fundamentally a support function and have just about managed to keep up our level of service despite all this, so any pushback gets met with “well, what’s changed now?” (my number of grey hairs, for one)

I’m only snapping because we are once again been asked to do more with lower spend and a recruitment freeze and there comes a point where someone higher up the pay grade than me needs to say “look you need to either cut this portfolio back by at least a third, or be prepared to spend £megabucks on sending stuff out, because Dr Epimer’s about to spontaneously combust” and I’m not sure there’s any willingness on their part to do it.

Also probably shouldn’t be deliberately dropping the ball on stuff right now when we’re looking at redundancies in the next few months.

#3101

Fair enough. I hate situations like this.

Whenever my team is a little short staffed (whether due to people being away on secondment or having left and not yet replaced), you’d think it would make sense for the partners to adjust the workload accordingly (by occasionally turning down work on the basis that we can’t staff it adequately) to ensure client delivery standards are maintained. Does that ever happen though? Fuck no - everyone just has to work a bit harder to compensate for the lower headcount.

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#3102

And by “everyone”, I principally mean the most competent non-partners.

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