CUBE LIFE: Office Etiquette

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

If I did that it would take up a lot more than two binders... we actually do print every e-mail on every individual file, though, and keep them in separate correspondence folders. There's off-site storage. Starting to move away from that, finally.

Here's my blatant, selfish breach of office decorum: I have a magic bullet in my office. When I get back from the gym (which is either before 9am or after 5pm usually, if that matters) I make myself a protein shake.

Now, my door's closed, but it's a freakin' blender. I'm sure people can hear it from the adjoining offices and I'm sure my assistant right outside the door can hear it. Poor etiquette, but I need it. It usually involves under 20 seconds of blending, once a day. Hopefully people don't hate me too much. No one's ever complained.

You are a monster and should feel bad.

[comrade]

Originally Posted by blueski

There was a guy who printed every email and kept them in a book. Had two phonebook size binders to show me of all the emails he had read since he started.

Did you ask him why?

[Locke]

This is nothing, gum? Blenders? In my first year of work I was outside in -20 on a regular basis, sometimes colder! My stupid coat had holes in it and my damned boot soles were coming off.

All we were doing is going out into a small cordoned off area and turning big rocks into smaller rocks. Presumably to make roads or some such nonsense, I dont know. Upper management never told us anything.

They were such jerks, I mean, if you want me to make big rocks into smaller rocks you've got to give me some support! We only had one sledgehammer between the three of us! When one got tired the next one took over. What an inefficient system!

But management was adamant that we meet our quote! Gotta meet that quota!

And if you didnt they'd whip you! Literally whip you! I complained to HR about it once but all they did was take my crappy boots away and throw me in a windowless room for a few days.

Like thats going to solve the production problem! But thats HR for you amirite?

My first decent set of boots I got from someone who fell down dead on the job. I had to hit him when it was my turn with the sledghammer, but it was worth it! His boots were mint! My productivity quotient skyrocketed by 23% and my whipping quotient dropped like you wouldnt believe.

Until I submitted my productivity/whipping analysis report, then the whipping went way up again. Management! Ugh. You just cant please them.

Anyways, the moral of the story is if you ever see job openings in Siberian Gulags just dont do it, it has better working conditions than a lot of places in Edmonton's NE but the money isnt worth it and the accommodations have a mystifying degree of Soviet-era architecture.

Also the food is bad. Unless you like beets and physical abuse.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Locke

This is nothing, gum? Blenders? In my first year of work I was outside in -20 on a regular basis, sometimes colder! My stupid coat had holes in it and my damned boot soles were coming off.



All we were doing is going out into a small cordoned off area and turning big rocks into smaller rocks. Presumably to make roads or some such nonsense, I dont know. Upper management never told us anything.



They were such jerks, I mean, if you want me to make big rocks into smaller rocks you've got to give me some support! We only had one sledgehammer between the three of us! When one got tired the next one took over. What an inefficient system!



But management was adamant that we meet our quote! Gotta meet that quota!



And if you didnt they'd whip you! Literally whip you! I complained to HR about it once but all they did was take my crappy boots away and throw me in a windowless room for a few days.



Like thats going to solve the production problem! But thats HR for you amirite?



My first decent set of boots I got from someone who fell down dead on the job. I had to hit him when it was my turn with the sledghammer, but it was worth it! His boots were mint! My productivity quotient skyrocketed by 23% and my whipping quotient dropped like you wouldnt believe.



Until I submitted my productivity/whipping analysis report, then the whipping went way up again. Management! Ugh. You just cant please them.



Anyways, the moral of the story is if you ever see job openings in Siberian Gulags just dont do it, it has better working conditions than a lot of places in Edmonton's NE but the money isnt worth it and the accommodations have a mystifying degree of Soviet-era architecture.



Also the food is bad. Unless you like beets and physical abuse.

That's all lousy and everything, I agree, but you obviously never had to suffer a cubicle or an open office. If you did, I think you would be less inclined to whine about your fancy private room.

[blueski]

Originally Posted by comrade

Did you ask him why?

Yeah he didn't trust IT to keep them, it was his backup.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by blueski

Yeah he didn't trust IT to keep them, it was his backup.

Was this before thumb drives?

That would take such effort to just go through and edit everything. How would you even to begin to deal with long email chains that are quoted. Would someone actually print out an email that had, maybe, a dozen responses nested in it? Good god.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Was this before thumb drives?

That would take such effort to just go through and edit everything. How would you even to begin to deal with long email chains that are quoted. Would someone actually print out an email that had, maybe, a dozen responses nested in it? Good god.

I've found in an office, that a lot of people fall prey to "It's not my money paying for the supplies" so they tend to do stuff like that without much care.

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by blueski

There was a guy who printed every email and kept them in a book. Had two phonebook size binders to show me of all the emails he had read since he started.

At my office they actually pay someone that prints off all incoming emails for a certain department, sort them and bring them to peoples physical mail slots.

Many times I have argued with them that it would save time and money to just forward the emails to the users and gave many different options of doing this but they refuse. The worst part is they still complain to me when the printer has issues because of the heavy load. blows my mind

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Raekwon

At my office they actually pay someone that prints off all incoming emails for a certain department, sort them and bring them to peoples physical mail slots.

Many times I have argued with them that it would save time and money to just forward the emails to the users and gave many different options of doing this but they refuse. The worst part is they still complain to me when the printer has issues because of the heavy load. blows my mind

Don't you work at an insurance company?

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Don't you work at an insurance company?

No one would admit to that, I tell my family I'm a crack dealer

[Sainters7]

Meant to write this earlier, but our IT guy came into our office this afternoon kinda mumbling under his breath. I asked him what's up, he said he was installing a phone in the quiet room (this small dark room with a single table and a couple chairs where people go to destressify), and he found toenail clippings all over the floor. WTF??

It amazes me how gross seemingly normal, educated, productive people can be.

[GirlySports]

Just an observation, perhaps better suited for the "random things that make Girly feel old" thread that I never started, but Planes, Trains and Automobiles is on in the kitchen and all five employees sitting in there watching it were born after the movie was released.

[GirlySports]

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