Message #4076

[energizer]

Trish, you crack me up!



Yank, I certainly empathize with you on this one.  Many's the time I've been interrupted to do some mundane thing while I was in the middle of something really important.  Usually I just put on my best professional smile, take the papers to be copied (or whatever!), and go do it.  But if I were in a closed door meeting, I believe I'd have taken the papers, put them very deliberately on the table in front of me, and said "I'll get them to you just as soon as I'm finished here."  I'd then turn around and face my boss (or whoever I was meeting with) and resume the conversation, effectively "dismissing" Mr. Rude.



One additional idea just came to mind -- maybe we (I'm including myself in this for future reference!!) could express dismay at learning that Mr. Rude is "copier-challenged."  (i.e., can't figure out how to push the START button on the copier!!!!  ) Just a thought!!



Hang in there, Yank.  Some day we'll be the whip-crackers and show these guys how it's really done!



Energizer