Office Etiquette: Rule #4

Not ONLY Office Etiquette but a Life Lesson as well...

So here's the story. This lady leaves me with the most vague instructions on how to produce inserts for an ongoing quarterly binder - inserts that go to all the executives on the exclusive 4th floor, as well as Mr. Dave O'Reilly, CEO, himself.

So anyway, I go to this guy Everette who handles another meeting that I have made binders for ONCE when I first started. I asked him how to deliver these pages (interoffice mail, hand deliver) and is the cover ok???
He points to the cover and says "This is for the BPR Meeting." I said "Yeah" kinda dumbfounded and continued my questioning. After rambling out all my questions he says "But this is the BPR Meeting."
I said "OH, do you only do the SPC Meetings? I was wondering why you were pointing the to the name of the meeting cause I can read... ha ha ha ho ho ho." Laugh laugh

What I wanted to say was "Hey, Code McCoderson, throw me a bone here. I'm still fairly new so when I walk up to you with this particular binder why don't you just say, 'I'm sorry I do not handle that meeting, maybe go ask blah blah.' "

Seriously people. I'm not a mind reader. It's one of those things that makes me feel stupid and I do not like feeling stupid!

Poo on him!

Office Etiquette: Rule #3

If you have a cough every 1 minute that sounds like emphysema and then a horrible wheeze type sound after it... GO HOME!!

If I get sick here (which I am HIGHLY prone to) I will be VERY upset.
It sounds disgusting, it's irritating, and...
OMG people are sneezing now... loudest sneeze I've heard.

If you are not going home close your door... in fact I'll close mine.

Oh god here we go again with the cough. I think that was less than a minute.

Ernie

So in reference to my blog God nice people are so rude... This guy is actually the "Office Cancer" (as I was once referred to at Wamu) lol!

One day Liza & Gracita (my direct boss and co-worker) were out of the office simultaneously. So this guy... we'll call him Ernie... cause thats his name... ha! Ernie decides to stand in MY office for 40 min rambling about how he doesn't like this place, down-talking my head boss, he knows everyone and everything, showing me pictures of his granddaughter winning first place at a Karate competition... really dude? I don't remember asking.

But this is all this guy does all day. Walks around to peoples office braggin about himself. So irritating.

Needless to say when Gracita & Liza returned to work the next day, I politely "yelled" at them to "Never leave me alone here again!" They laughed.... and then Gracita announced she's retiring!!

Oy vey! :(

Office Etiquette: Rule #2

If someone says "Hi" to you or "Good Morning"... just say "Hi" back. We all work here.

I don't like expending MY energy to some stranger (cause let's face it, we all know how much I love people) and they don't even have the courtesy to mutter a Hi?
Not to mention... I make all y'all's coffee so you BEST be nice to me!!

Office Etiquette: Rule #1

Do NOT cook nasty smelling chinese fish in the company-open-air-no-door break room where half the floor can smell it.

Bring some lysol.

Heat it up in you own office with your door shut.

Better yet don't bring that crap to work... I mean seriously, who eats something that smells like that anyway???

Ugh!
Gross!

God, nice people are so rude!

Is it really necessary to say to someone "You know where our storage facility is, right?" and stare them down like you're asking if they know their own name.

Maybe I do maybe I don't. But how about, since I'm NEW at this job and all, just saying "Did anyone tell you our storage facility has moved to Fairfield", or how about "These can go to our storage in Fairfield". It's not that hard. Friggin' know it alls.

So the guy saying this: 65 years old, very very nice, brings in cookies and breakfast bars for everyone.... What the hell?

That's irony and 30 years of Chevron angst for ya.