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« on: July 23, 2001, 11:58:50 am » |
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I wasn't sure which expression to pick out!
Here's what happened TODAY! This morning! It's a long one!
Last week had been an extremely stressful week. My director (Beth but not her real name ok) and Bob were heading to Minny today for a big presentation with a client. So last Monday they the handed me a presentation that dealt with the company capabilities. So my director goes on about how she wants the pictures to POP up and the word to do flips and what have you (animation) and I told her, "Beth, the original presentation that we're working off from is done in Quark" I don't know how many of you know know that program but let me get back to the story. So she's like "Well I don't know want all this 'fancy' stuff when I do the presentation can that be done in Quark?" "Nope, Quark will just pop of the slide and that's it" "Well I really really want the bells and whistles on the presentation" GRRRR! so I said fine but just to for her and Bob to know that we're there was going to be problems running it on PPT. So there I am work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday on the presentation and oops! what happens? I'm having problems with the memory.....ooops! the slide show is not running correctly on my computer. Now keep in mind that if I'm having problems running it on my computer imagine how it's going to work on the laptop.
So on Wednesday (at 4:30), Beth and Bob call me into the meeting about the presentation. Now Tuesday and Wednesday I kept telling Bob of the problems I was having with the presentation. (Beth works part-time) so anyway here I am in this meeting and again I repeated the problems I'm having with the presentation. And it was my suggestion that nothing more be added to the presentation to elimate anymore problems. And Beth was gaping at me and told me why all the problems and I said because PPT can't handle the pictures and the graphics that well. So I told Bob "Did you let Beth know about removing half of the presentation? SO that you can give the important stuff on screen and the little stuff in a deck that everyone can flip through" and by the rection of my director Beth I knew that Bob DIDN'T say anything. "Well no that wouldn't look good and to show half of it and not show the whole thing on screen!!!" then here's what ticked me off when she said, "OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH I'm soooooooo disappointed!!! If I would've know all this I would done it in Quark! OOOOOHHHHH I'm sooooo disappointed!" and Bob who's nothing but a butt kisser says, "Now Beth we'll do whatever you want done, don't worry you just say the word!"
I was like WHAT!?! It's Wednesday 5:00 p.m.!!! This is what I'm screaming in my head and then he did the unthinkable looked right out me and said, "How long would it take you to do this in Quark?" (WHAT!!?!?? the presentation is like 29 pages long!!!) so my response was this:
"To make changes you've just made and convert the entire presentation to Quark will take me 1 day. So you'll get the your 1st rough draft COB (Close Of Business) on Thursday and changes you make will be done Friday morning and you need need everything done by COB Friday copies and all. There's no time to convert the presentation now it's too late." and Beth is moaning and groaning in "disappointment". nevertheless it worked out and everything was done on time by COB Friday. So I didn't have to convert the ppt to Quark. And I got lots of help from another fellow here at work named Sean. Just to let you guys know that I'm leaving soooooo much out!
So today here's what happened. I walk in the office and Sean and my friend Kim look and me and said, "We had an unbelieveable crisis situation this morning" I'm like what? "Well Beth went to the wrong airport (Chicago O'Hare) and Bob is stuck in traffic and is going to miss his flight!" OMG what the heck! So Beth is claiming that NO ONE told her the flight was leaving out of Chicago Midway and now she's scrambling to get on a flight out of O'Hare. Bob calls in and said there was a huge accident on the expressway and therefore he's going to miss the flight. OH NO because Bob has the laptop to the PPT on and he has all the presentation decks for the meeting today! So I'm trying to find out when the next flight out is and Beth is freaking out because she has NOTHING to present with. So I'm contacting the admin over there at the office their having the meeting email all the files and asked to please please print out the needed copies of the document for the meeting.
Beth is ticked off because no one told her all the necessary information about her flight and guess who's going to get yelled at? Yep me! So here's my planned response for one that is brought up: "Beth I know what happened this morning and I should've have faxed you that itinarary but Bob assured me over and over and over and over again that he had everything under control." My job was only to book the tickets I had no contact with her about it. I even told Bob that to remind her again and again that the flight was leaving out of Midway and I got, "Don't worry she knows I got it I got it!"
So the end result? Beth is in Minny right now and Bob came back to the office and is doing the meeting via conference call. The documents have been email and copied. SIGH
So that my Monday morning how was yours?
Bridget
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bethalize
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2001, 12:09:10 am » |
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Oh, Bridget! I think you have just won today's cyber brownie! You poor old thing - glad to see you handled it like a professional, though!
What I would like to know is: who is the idiot who reckons you can switch between Quark (presume this is Quark Xpress?), the professional PRINT package, and Powerpoint, the presentation package. I would have had to do thewhole thing from scratch, or by copying and pasting by hand.
Stick with your response - with these people, if you give them enough rope they will hang themselves.
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radaro
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« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2001, 12:51:55 am » |
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My evil twin wants you to kick Bob's sorry little butt around the office.
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countrigal
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« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2001, 01:00:40 pm » |
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ditto what Radar said...
But Bridgete you did great and stayed professional! Way to go!
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bohorquez
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« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2001, 02:13:19 pm » |
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Aww thanks! I just knew that when we got all the decks on Friday before 5 pm it was just too good to be true!
Something was bond to happen! I'm glad it ended well! WHEW! It's 2:13 and I'm finally going to eat some lunch!
Oh yeah I wanted to say that it is Quark xPress
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joleeneviltwin
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« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2001, 02:34:06 pm » |
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Don't ya ever just want to look at your boss and say, 'do it yourself'?!
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bohorquez
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« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2001, 03:00:31 pm » |
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oh yeah I do!
I was really glad I didn't take that original phone in the beginning because I just KNEW she would have told me to call the airport and call the airline and get her on flight. But since I wasn't here she had to do everything herself.
Bridget
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kkosmoski
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« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2001, 04:16:13 pm » |
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Unfortunately we live in an age when some people believe that they don't have to be accountable for their own lives because they have an assistant to follow them around telling them where they have to be and what they need to do. Where is it written that a supervisor can check their brain and let somebody else do their thinking for them? Every travel company prints out an itinerary for travel. Is it too much to ask a person traveling to look at their itinerary? Duh!!!
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« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2001, 05:34:04 pm » |
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Oh Bridget! Bless you! I've been there and done that - are you sure you don't work for my ex-boss?
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joleeneviltwin
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« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2001, 10:58:58 pm » |
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Boy, sometimes they're just so clueless ... drives me nuts.
I can understand them wanting us to get all the information available to them, but when they actually expect to have their hands held all the way to the airport, it's a lost cause ....
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radaro
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I must begin by saying that I love my job and my boss (not THAT way but in the "man, what a great boss" way) but he can be a bit clueless!!! He is in an all day, off-site meeting at a hotel today. I put all the pertinent information in his calendar as per usual. As I am driving into the office this morning, he called me on my cell phone. He knew what hotel the meeting was at but not the room (this was in his schedule, too). Luckily, I knew the name and location of the room but why can't he ask at the front desk or check the board like every other human being!!
Well, I guess as long as they rely on us to do all these little things and more, we will all be gainfully employed for a long, long time.
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Bwahahahaha - Radar, that's a great way to look at it!
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Oh, oh, Radar, my boss does that, too! If I don't print his emails out for him, he doesn't read 'em, either. He thinks that if I know something, he doesn't need to. What happens if I'm sick or out of the office? I come back to "That man drove me insane! Is he ALWAYS like that?" Yep. Gotta love that job security!
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bohorquez
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hahaha I heard that!!!
When I told my bosses when I was planning to take my maternity leave and for how long my boss, "Know Bridge, we REALLY want you to come back!"
haha that's job security!
Bridget
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