The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > Home Base

Home Base A starting point, and place for threads don't seem to belong anywhere else

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 04-06-2017, 02:23 PM   #106
tw
Read? I only know how to write.
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 11,933
Quote:
Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
Don't get me wrong, my pharmacists are nice people, but they thought they were going to get to use their brains a lot more than they are.
Reading a doctor's handwriting is not mentally challenging enough?
tw is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-07-2017, 10:54 PM   #107
Clodfobble
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
They don't even get to do that anymore. It's all electronic.
Clodfobble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-12-2017, 12:07 PM   #108
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
How to deal with the narcissist at work.

In a nutshell, stroke their ego all the time. Especially just before you ask for something.
glatt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-13-2017, 03:03 PM   #109
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
I prefer the shattering of, as opposed to the stroking of egos.

'Smore fun for me.
__________________


These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-26-2017, 01:26 PM   #110
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
I have learned that my immediate supervisor spent many years as a manager at Vector Marketing.
Undertoad is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-26-2017, 06:31 PM   #111
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
Be careful, he's probably got a knife or two.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-27-2017, 06:36 AM   #112
Griff
still says videotape
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
creepy shit
__________________
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Griff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-27-2017, 09:43 AM   #113
lumberjim
I can hear my ears
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
Quote:
Originally Posted by glatt View Post
How to deal with the narcissist at work.

In a nutshell, stroke their ego all the time. Especially just before you ask for something.
this guy is describing my counterpart at work. The bit about responding immediately to texts and emails jumped out at me.

Last year, while I was on vacation, I got a text from him with a question about how to do the tax on a lease for a Virginia customer. The text, and subsequent voice mail both started with, "put on your thinking cap..." It irked me that he bothered me with that kind of thing. And the way the text and voice mail were pretty much identical made it sound contrived. Like he was purposefully trying to intrude on my down time with something I had no way of actually helping him with.

Needless to say, I didn't reply at all to either. I don't WANT to put my fucking thinking cap on while I'm on vacation. That's the point of vacation.

He didn't talk to me for like 3 weeks when I got back, and I finally had to lock him in a room and make it clear that he doesn't have the right to question my dedication to my job. And that I saw clearly through his attempt to control me. It got heated.

The praise thing absolutely works, btw. I hate doing it though. I will have my new assistant read this. She's having a hard time understanding why he's such a dick to everyone.

thanks g
__________________
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember
We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan
lumberjim is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-19-2017, 07:53 AM   #114
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
This Hacker News thread and the first comment and replies are exactly how I feel right now

Puttin' it here for posterity.
Undertoad is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-19-2017, 08:44 AM   #115
Freaky
Fellow-Commoner
 
Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 10
Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
That's so true. I'm the most productive when sitting in a coffee or bar with just the right amount of noise and people. What I hate though is if people stare on my screen, hence I'm always looking out for a corner spot.
Freaky is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-19-2017, 10:28 AM   #116
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
It's hard to concentrate on work when you have to scratch your nuts surreptitiously.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-19-2017, 02:49 PM   #117
Griff
still says videotape
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
corrosive
__________________
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Griff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-19-2017, 05:32 PM   #118
Clodfobble
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
An interesting corollary: I can't focus on anything significant if my kids are in the house at all. Even if they're silent and upstairs behind closed doors, there's the nagging awareness that at any moment one of them could interrupt me with anything from a flooded toilet to a broken bone to a stupid YouTube video they want me to see.
Clodfobble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2017, 09:18 AM   #119
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
it came out yesterday that the big boss is hyper-sensitive to voices and can't even tolerate speech while driving.

Hence why he shuts the door "with purpose" whenever the office gets talky; hence why he BLASTS electronic dance music (techno, with no words) from time to time (without respect for the rest of us)

But also, imagine the lack of empathy in creating an office where he, himself, could not possibly be productive; where everyone else MUST NOT be like him, for his benefit.
Undertoad is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2017, 10:28 AM   #120
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
It's good to be the King.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 06:42 PM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.