HMOG, some guy came in our office asking the office manager to help him find the unspecified grandmother of a friend who allegedly lives in the neighborhood. Couldn't give a name, address, or phone number of this person, said he was from a new appliance sales business that doesn't have a number yet, and referenced a church that's "going to be built in the area." Then was all religious-y in his farewell.

Dude might as well have "Con man trolling gullible seniors for donations" tattooed on his forehead!

Ugh. This is so frustrating. My manager shot off a reply to an email she didn't read properly, and is now pulling me over the coals because she didn't understand the request, and therefore gave an answer that made no sense.

Okay, I will organise the completely pointless meeting, but all the information you say I need to provide is all there in the original email, which you refuse to re-read. There's only so much responsibility I can take for you not seeing the words "QA" and "no data" if your issue is about granting people access to production data. I SAID I DIDN'T WANT THAT.

This is why I have to mark myself down on communication on the self evaluations....

I just sent a reminder to one of my project managers of a deadline he is holding up. His response? "Tonight. I'm ugly right now". WTF?

Can I use that, Suzi? It sounds like a guaranteed discussion-killer.

It definitely kept me from responding to him. But if he hasn't done his stuff by tomorrow morning, I think I'll send him an e-mail asking if he is still ugly or not.

I would have responded. "That does not address the issue. Please respond with a time when you will have your part completed."

You could remind him that life could get uglier.

I don't know how all y'all with regular jobs don't go about killing your coworkers on a regular basis.

I keep reminding myself--all of my other long term jobs were worse. A LOT worse. I just have no idea how to manage a few people, but that's not the main thrust of my job.

And, you know, colds make me whiny.

For this PM, I'm not going to push. It is his own deadline and if he doesn't get it done this week, he gets to deal with the consequences, not me.

For a few other things I do, my response would have been pretty close to msbelle's.

I don't know how all y'all with regular jobs don't go about killing your coworkers on a regular basis.

Part of the reason I work from home. Though, for most of the people I'd want to strangle, I'd have to hop on an airplane.

hunh huh - ita said thrust.