In Which Dawn and Bobby Engage in Separate and Unrelated Snarks

[dawn_felagund]

I told off my coworker Diane today. Diane is a pain in my ass. She doesn't know her job; she doesn't do her job...and she has the nerve to harass me more about stupid stuff than anyone else in the unit. I asked Johnny's permission to tell her off. Johnny said, "Go ahead!" and came over to lean on my partition to listen.

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[frenchpony]

Johnny The Boss sounds almost completely awesome. The only quibble I have is that he seems to like letting you do his dirty work for him. He should have been the one telling Diane off, and he should have done it a lot sooner.

Note to self: Do not apply for hypothetical ethnomusicology position at TU. If the registrar is that screwed-up with students, imagine how they must be with the faculty.

[dawn_felagund]

Johnny the Boss always offers to take care of these things for me, and we have an understanding that anytime I don't want to handle something, his extension is only three button presses away.

But I wanted to tell Diane off, which is why I asked if I could. She's unfortunately one of those people who you can say something to nicely one hundred times and it never gets through the old hairspray, much less the thick skull beneath. Believe me, he's talked to her before. He talked to her today for the hundredth time about checking her email, and it makes no difference. I seem to have pissed her off; she pointedly annoyed me. But she also didn't call a half-dozen different times to have me do something she could easily do herself.

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you. I appreciate it! :) This is all just so wearying. Bleh.

[ann_arien]

Three cheers for the House of Felagund and it's excellent to hear that you've been standing up to the bullshit served to you from work and Uni. Hopefully, everything will work out well. *keeps fingers crossed*

OT (sort of...) I'm extremely anoyed by the fact that I haven't been able to catch up with your posts and especially the original stories you have posted lately. I do read your news but don't have the time to comment properly and that sucks to high heaven. Still, I'm trying to stay in touch and what I can't go through while on LJ, I take with me at work and read. In any case, it pisses me off to not be in touch as often as we were this time last year, for example.

[digdigil]

I'm with Alina. Hey, Alina, how's it going with you? I miss you so much. I wanted to comment on your last post but couldn't get it done in time. And then you know how time passes and you think, oh feh, it's too late now. I'll comment on her next post. Etc., etc. And then you don't again and the whole time you're thinking, OMG I don't want to lose her! Anyway, I'm always thinking about you even if I'm not commenting

[dawn_felagund]

Way to go on telling off Diane!

Thanks! :^D I know exactly what you mean about not wanting to rock the boat but needing to sometimes. I really make an effort to be nice to everyone at work and to make sure that they all have what they need to do their jobs, but she takes advantage of me and it's terribly obvious. And she's not even competent enough at her job to justify it with stats.

But it seems to be quite common in learning institutions--I don't know why that is.

Heh. I have my pet theory, namely that they forget that it's about education and not about getting all that they can shake from your pockets. Funny how nice everyone was before the application fees arrived! And at UMBC, where they gave not a bit of help in finding a job or graduate school--and this during the worst year of unemployment here in like 20 years--but they sure didn't have problems calling every week to ask me to make donations! Yeah, I work at a damned restaurant because that's the best job graduating with honors could get, and I really had money to send

[dawn_felagund]

I do understand how it goes, so please don't ever think that I'm looking at my LJ and saying, "Alina never comments anymore. How rude!" I know that you wish you could be around more often...alas, RL sucks sometimes. :)

Also, with my stories, if you want to read them, I'd love that! But please don't feel that you need to leave comments; I'd sooner that you enjoy my stories and keeping up with what you can when online.

*big hugs*

[dawn_felagund]

Yes, I do recall that you know all about annoying coworkers! :^D

And thanks for the fingers crossed. Let's hope that it works. :)

[fanged_geranium]

Your department certainly seems to acquire some er, interesting staff! And what a nuisance about your classes - I thought it was only UK universities that made muckups like that (in the days before top-up fees).

[dawn_felagund]

Yep, the good ol' WAU sure brings in some winners! In Diane's case, our best officer personally vouched for her. Oh, we give him a hard time about that!

As for university, trust me, it's true in the US too! They have a habit of being very nice until the money arrives, then suddenly they forget you in favor of the ones who still haven't paid them yet. :^/