...That's hobo style
I've been largely silent lately because things haven't been going all that well. It's almost 2 weeks since I have been to the gym. I've been eating nothing but crab because the dentist put me off solids and I have been treating milkshakes and ice cream like a food group. I shudder to think what the scale will say. I'm waiting to hear from my trainer before heading back to the gym...Welll I'm going to try to go back tonight...TRY being the operative word.
Now I'd like to take the opportunity to bitch a little bit about my work. I work in a front line Customer Service oriented job. I answer the phone, I respond to walki-n inquiries. I am what is essentially one of three glorified receptionists for a very VERY large Education based institution. Here are my top ten pet peeves of my job.
1. People who call with inquiries and ask "How are you doing?" How are you doing is something you ask someone you know. To ask a complete stranger wastes their time and yours. You honestly do not want to know how I am doing. "How am I doing? I'm annoyed thank you very much because total strangers keep asking me how I am doing."
2. People who call with inquiries that don't have anything to do with my institution: I do know how to file income tax as I file my own but I haven't a clue how to do YOUR income tax. So please don't call me and ask me for income tax advice. I work in Education not accounting.
3. If you open a call with "I've probably got the wrong number" then why are you calling me?
4. I am here to answer inquiries about the institution I work for. I cannot answer questions about other institutions. I also cannot see the future or through the phone at your transcripts. I'm super, not supernatural.
5. My gawd people, there's three of us, somebody answer the damn phone. When the phone rings it is not a game of chicken to see who will be the last to answer it.
6. When someone is standing directly in front of your desk, it's highly likely they would like you to help them. Not so much to ask since it's what you get paid for!
7. If you need to make a personal call please use one of the incoming lines so that the rest of us are scrambling to answer our line plus all the calls on your incoming line. That only makes sense.
8. Attention Hypochondriac Co-workers: I don't want to hear about your family members' rectal bleeding. However, I do find it amusing when you find out that they spent days in the hospital with Hemmoroids.
9. Attention Co-workers: if you need to take a crap, please do not do it in the washroom that it directly off the lunch room. Nothing spoils lunch like the smell of someone else's bowel movements. There's more than one washroom people!!!
10. People make mistakes, they happen all the time. When someone else makes a mistake please try not to make it out to be the end of the world. So far the actions of people in this office have not resulted in catastrophic tragedy. It's the nature of our work. Stop acting like what we do is of global importance.
Now I'd like to take the opportunity to bitch a little bit about my work. I work in a front line Customer Service oriented job. I answer the phone, I respond to walki-n inquiries. I am what is essentially one of three glorified receptionists for a very VERY large Education based institution. Here are my top ten pet peeves of my job.
1. People who call with inquiries and ask "How are you doing?" How are you doing is something you ask someone you know. To ask a complete stranger wastes their time and yours. You honestly do not want to know how I am doing. "How am I doing? I'm annoyed thank you very much because total strangers keep asking me how I am doing."
2. People who call with inquiries that don't have anything to do with my institution: I do know how to file income tax as I file my own but I haven't a clue how to do YOUR income tax. So please don't call me and ask me for income tax advice. I work in Education not accounting.
3. If you open a call with "I've probably got the wrong number" then why are you calling me?
4. I am here to answer inquiries about the institution I work for. I cannot answer questions about other institutions. I also cannot see the future or through the phone at your transcripts. I'm super, not supernatural.
5. My gawd people, there's three of us, somebody answer the damn phone. When the phone rings it is not a game of chicken to see who will be the last to answer it.
6. When someone is standing directly in front of your desk, it's highly likely they would like you to help them. Not so much to ask since it's what you get paid for!
7. If you need to make a personal call please use one of the incoming lines so that the rest of us are scrambling to answer our line plus all the calls on your incoming line. That only makes sense.
8. Attention Hypochondriac Co-workers: I don't want to hear about your family members' rectal bleeding. However, I do find it amusing when you find out that they spent days in the hospital with Hemmoroids.
9. Attention Co-workers: if you need to take a crap, please do not do it in the washroom that it directly off the lunch room. Nothing spoils lunch like the smell of someone else's bowel movements. There's more than one washroom people!!!
10. People make mistakes, they happen all the time. When someone else makes a mistake please try not to make it out to be the end of the world. So far the actions of people in this office have not resulted in catastrophic tragedy. It's the nature of our work. Stop acting like what we do is of global importance.
posted by Dealing with it at 7:17 AM
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