Re: annoying coworker ---Grrrrrrrrr

April 20, 2005

A cousin of mine runs a funeral home. He gave me a tour once and that was plenty. Noone was being worked on at the time, but just all the machines, huge needles and all that was enough for me.

April 20, 2005

A cousin of mine runs a funeral home. He gave me a tour once and that was plenty. Noone was being worked on at the time, but just all the machines, huge needles and all that was enough for me.

April 20, 2005

Of course there are some days when I get annoyed with my job too,

like today when I, as a receptionist hosting the Board of Directors

and international staff:

1) Had to find masking tape for the CEO (it was on his desk where he

left it earlier).

2) Had to, for the second time in a year, explain to the CEO that

the large conference room was the largest conference room, the

medium conference room was the mid-sized one, and the smallest

conference room was the smallest sized one.

3) Had to tell someone the time while they used their laptop.

( " Check the lower right hand corner of your laptop. " " Oh! I never

saw the clock there before! " -This person has had his laptop for two

years and runs our Seattle Office.)

4) Answered a question about whether or not a person was here as

they stood beside the in/out board where people idicate whether or

not they are here by moving their dots to either the " in " or " out "

space.

5) Opened the unlocked front door for a Director of our Board of

Directors who tried to enter by pushing the door forward but didn't

think to try pulling it back toward him to see if that worked.

6) Pointed first to the closet, then to the handle of the closet,

and then walked over and opened the closet door for the head of our

Boise office who didn;t know where the closet was until I actually

opened the door even though he was standing right beside it.

7) Pointed out the window where a train was parked at the station

and gave directions how to walk the one block from here to there.

8) Tried to explain as politely as possible to a Director that

watering a plastic plant was not going to make it grow any larger or

grow any greener.

9) Explained to someone that to make the portable projector work you

had to take the lens cap off.

10) And when that didn't work, plugged in the projector for them.

Ad naseum...

Tom

Date: Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:41 pm

Subject: annoying coworker ---Grrrrrrrrr coolchinchilla

I work 9 hours a week. On Tuesdays I work with a guy named Pat and a

woman . We are all doing simple filing tasks and working at

the same table. These two constantly bellyache about what we're

doing. constantly complains because the papers she's filing

are all stapled together and that customers won't write their name

clearly. Belly-aching about the staples is a rather useless

activity. Besides, maybe stapling serves some purpose to the store

managers that we don't know about. It only takes a minute to take

care of it. As far as customers writing their names so you can't

read them ... it is a common hazard of the job. No matter what you

do, some people WILL write their names so they are totally

indiscernible. Just put it in the " can't read " stack. Don't sweat

it. Why complain so much? It's just annoying to listen to.

Pat complains about how boring the task is. He would rather do data

entry but there is only limited entry available so he bellyaches

about that. He asks lots of questions that are not really public

information (my age, where I live, is my phone number in the phone

book, do I own my house, what my wage is, what my disability is, what

other assistance do I receive, do I own my car, and on and on). How

do I do the NT thing of not answering gracefully? He tells the two

of us everything about him (age, wage, disabilities, services, etc).

I don't get it. He is not cognitively impaired - he has mild

cerebral palsy so I don't see that he should be a social dope. (I

might be socially impaired too, but I'm not intruding on other's

lives, I'm receding from them if anything.) I have to cut papers

with a paper cutter and Pat tells me again and again and again to be

careful and not cut myself, that it is sharp, that I could really

hurt myself, etc. ARRRRRRRRRgggggggggg!!!! Of course it's sharp

and YES I'm careful. How often does he need to tell me in one 3-hour

period week after week? Cutting these papers is part of my JOB! It's

not like I can or want to pass this task on to someone else. Each

time he tells me I treasure him that I will be careful but it never

shuts him up.

Anyone else have an ungracious co-worker? How do you cope?

Just needed to vent. Thanks for listening.

and the zoo.

April 20, 2005

Receptionist sounds like a very difficult job for an aspie- lots of

having to dealing with people.

Kitty

> From: chinchillahug <chinchillahug@h...>

> Date: Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:41 pm

> Subject: annoying coworker ---Grrrrrrrrr coolchinchilla

>

> I work 9 hours a week. On Tuesdays I work with a guy named Pat and a

> woman . We are all doing simple filing tasks and working at

> the same table. These two constantly bellyache about what we're

> doing. constantly complains because the papers she's filing

> are all stapled together and that customers won't write their name

> clearly. Belly-aching about the staples is a rather useless

> activity. Besides, maybe stapling serves some purpose to the store

> managers that we don't know about. It only takes a minute to take

> care of it. As far as customers writing their names so you can't

> read them ... it is a common hazard of the job. No matter what you

> do, some people WILL write their names so they are totally

> indiscernible. Just put it in the " can't read " stack. Don't sweat

> it. Why complain so much? It's just annoying to listen to.

>

> Pat complains about how boring the task is. He would rather do data

> entry but there is only limited entry available so he bellyaches

> about that. He asks lots of questions that are not really public

> information (my age, where I live, is my phone number in the phone

> book, do I own my house, what my wage is, what my disability is,

what

> other assistance do I receive, do I own my car, and on and on). How

> do I do the NT thing of not answering gracefully? He tells the two

> of us everything about him (age, wage, disabilities, services, etc).

> I don't get it. He is not cognitively impaired - he has mild

> cerebral palsy so I don't see that he should be a social dope. (I

> might be socially impaired too, but I'm not intruding on other's

> lives, I'm receding from them if anything.) I have to cut papers

> with a paper cutter and Pat tells me again and again and again to be

> careful and not cut myself, that it is sharp, that I could really

> hurt myself, etc. ARRRRRRRRRgggggggggg!!!! Of course it's sharp

> and YES I'm careful. How often does he need to tell me in one 3-hour

> period week after week? Cutting these papers is part of my JOB! It's

> not like I can or want to pass this task on to someone else. Each

> time he tells me I treasure him that I will be careful but it never

> shuts him up.

>

> Anyone else have an ungracious co-worker? How do you cope?

> Just needed to vent. Thanks for listening.

>

> and the zoo.

April 20, 2005

I was for a short while. I absolutely hated it!

The only thing I liked about the job was that I got to type out translations

about racing cars (since I worked for lin Mint and they had a

collection of medals with racing cars on them) and to sort out the archives.

That was fun!

If it hadn't been for the <censored> telephone that kept ringing all the

time and disrupting whatever I was hyperfocusing on. :-(((

I really don't know how Tom can stand it.

Inger

> Receptionist sounds like a very difficult job for an aspie- lots of having

> to dealing with people.