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    Yelled at for not being at my desk

    This just happened not 10 minutes before typing this.

    It's a busy but uneventful day here at the higher education center. We have two groups teaching their employees (defense contractors and big projects) here. This means that we're running 6 classrooms for one group and three computer labs for the other.

    My job is to be the roving troubleshooter as well as the guy who sets up the rooms for these events. As I said, today was busy, but nothing more than the usual setups and troubleshooting for people who don't know how to connect their laptops to the overhead LCD projectors.

    So I'm walking back to my office and I notice that someone was staring in my office at my desk. I pick up my pace a little bit and I catch up with her and ask if I can help her. After all, anyone looking in my office might be looking for me for help.

    She fires off with "Where were you?" in a very harsh tone as if she were my mother and had told me to stay there or I'd get the spanking of my life.

    I reply "I was helping the instructor in 126 setup his laptop. Is there anything I can do for you? Anything you need?"

    She replied "No! There is nothing I need. But don't you think your place is in your office at your desk where someone can find you if they need you?"

    Brain to mouth filter failed me at that point and I fired back with "I was at my desk in my office when the instructor in 126 needed me and came looking for me. Is there anything you need? Anything I can set up for you?"

    "No, I'm not an instructor, I'm taking the class in 126."

    Again the brain to mouth filter failed. "Then what are you complaining about? When your instructor needed me, I was where I was supposed to be. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be at my desk."

    Dear God in Heaven what is it with some people? Why the hell can't they just worry about their own concerns and leave me the [smurf] alone?
    I never lost my faith in humanity. Can't lose what you never had right?
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    • #3
      Now, now, Mongo. You just have to translate what she said into what she meant. With a little bit of work, I come up with, "You should be at your desk in case I need you--screw everyone else!"

      And now you know!

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      • #4
        So she didnt even need you for anything. She just wanted you to be there because in her little world everyone sits at their desks and waits for her to bestow whims upon them.

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        • #5
          Quoth Mongo Skruddgemire View Post
          Dear God in Heaven what is it with some people? Why the hell can't they just worry about their own concerns and leave me the [smurf] alone?
          pretty much sums it up. Of course you could have replied "uh, shouldn't you be *in* that class right now?"
          Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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          • #6
            Quoth protege View Post
            pretty much sums it up. Of course you could have replied "uh, shouldn't you be *in* that class right now?"
            yeah, really

            here at the library, they expect the librarians to shelve books, rove, and be at the desk. At the same time. And the plan was to have 3 people per floor. hee, nope, only 1 person at a time is schedule. So we are screwed. One day, when I was shelving, some guy was yelling at the desk, "HEY ! HELLO! Someone has to be here!" So I go help the guy who wouldn't shut up about how no one was at the desk.

            And we are suppose to rove. So every once in a while a patron will go to another floor and complain, "Hey, I went to x floor, and no one was there!" I either explain the librarian might have been helping someone, or was walking around helping people. Nope, they swear they've been there for 10 min. and no one was there.

            Granted, we might go to storage to get a book or microfilm for someone. Oh, we do have a system to alert people working in storage to retrieve material. It's just they goof off or something. So we have to go get it ourselves.

            Also, librarians are retiring left and right.
            Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

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            • #7
              I remember my friend telling me that one time she took her 10 min break and some crappy customer got all over her for leaving her post on a break. They said that if she needed a break she should have taken her break in her booth that way if someone needed help she could come off her break and help them and then return to her break IF THERE WAS TIME!! Sadly my friend don't work at my workplace anymore because she got a better job. But she DID give the customer her well thought of opinion...to which the customer asked for corporate's number so that the wonderufl opinion could be shared.:
              NEVER underestimate the stupidity of the customer

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              • #8
                that's when you tell the customer... "I had to use the bathroom... You sooo don't want me taking a dump at my post, right?"

                but they of course will expect you to be a robot with no needs except the need to please their every whim.

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