Highlights of the work week
I was sitting in my boss' office with the door closed, talking about random client things. Someone opened the door and looked in, my boss told him to come back in 5 minutes. The door closed, and I asked, surprised, "Does that happen often?" (I never open someone's office door without knocking, and waiting to be told to come in. And I never knock unless it's an emergency.) He gave a non-committal response and said, "It kind of makes offfice sex difficult."
Teasing a client who bought rival software. She really really really enjoys men, and loves one of our sales reps. She said, "If he had come down to sell it to us we definitely would have bought it."
The same client told me that a different sales rep had asked out one of the girls in her department. That made me laugh for about an hour that day, and still makes me laugh.
My boss gave me a decently critical item to work on Tuesday evening. I don't know the entire history, but the client wasn't happy with what was done, and his impression was that one field had to be changed. Just one teeny tiny field. And I lost it. "That's it? I yelled in disbelief. "That's all that needed changed? How do you screw that up?!" Fortunately I can lose it when I'm in disbelief.
We have a mandatory 3-hour staff meeting today, and I hate them. I aksed to get out of the meeting today because of the above assignment, and my boss said no. I didn't expect him to say yes, although I knew he'd understand why I was asking. I looked at him and said, "If I'm here till 8:00 tomorrow night I'm going to be really bitchy next week." The VP turned to him and said, "You can always come to Indiana with me." He determined that it'd be easier to "put up with me." I love working at a company where I can tell my boss I'm going to be bitchy if I'm working till 8 on a Friday. :-)
Teasing a client who bought rival software. She really really really enjoys men, and loves one of our sales reps. She said, "If he had come down to sell it to us we definitely would have bought it."
The same client told me that a different sales rep had asked out one of the girls in her department. That made me laugh for about an hour that day, and still makes me laugh.
My boss gave me a decently critical item to work on Tuesday evening. I don't know the entire history, but the client wasn't happy with what was done, and his impression was that one field had to be changed. Just one teeny tiny field. And I lost it. "That's it? I yelled in disbelief. "That's all that needed changed? How do you screw that up?!" Fortunately I can lose it when I'm in disbelief.
We have a mandatory 3-hour staff meeting today, and I hate them. I aksed to get out of the meeting today because of the above assignment, and my boss said no. I didn't expect him to say yes, although I knew he'd understand why I was asking. I looked at him and said, "If I'm here till 8:00 tomorrow night I'm going to be really bitchy next week." The VP turned to him and said, "You can always come to Indiana with me." He determined that it'd be easier to "put up with me." I love working at a company where I can tell my boss I'm going to be bitchy if I'm working till 8 on a Friday. :-)