This will come as a surprise to no one, but Mr. S leaves me these long, long, long-winded voice mails. He usually exceeds the recording time and then has to call back to finish the message. We have considerable difficulties communicating, mainly because he can never get to the point and clearly explain what he's trying to say.The message I got today is a perfect example. Yesterday I put together some information for him in a 3-ring binder. Since he always has to find fault with everything, I mentioned to him that he might want to change the way it's formatted, or whatever. Apparently, he found fault with the way I punched the holes in the paper:"...I would like to, if we possibly could, punch the holes in such a way that, rather than have it from the top down, I'd like to go with the bottom up, you might say, so when you have starting on page 1 and as you flip going to page 2 or 3, or if you have them just in turn, all page 1 through, say, 15, stacked there and you haven't turned the pages at all, you can leaf through it and you can pick up and look and see what's on page 3 and then look up and see what's on page 4, by just, you know, partially having the pages folded over, so to speak, where you can't do that the way they're punched and the way they're put together now. That was my main comment..."
I think what he's saying is that he wants the paper to be punched at the bottom instead of the top of the page.He explains everything this way and then gets frustrated when I ask clarifying questions. When I have a chance to ask him about this message (and what I would say is, "are you just saying that you want the pages punched at the bottom instead of the top?" [which he could answer with a yes or no]), he'll do the heavy sigh, and then say, "OK, you have a piece of paper. You want to put this piece of paper in a three-ring binder, but there are no holes in the paper for the binder rings to fit through..." I call this "First there were the dinosaurs."
When he's done it won't be any clearer at all.
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My boss did something like that to me on Friday night. Not to the extreme that Mr. S goes, but it was still a long winded message for "I want you to only install software X this weekend and hold off on software Y until next weekend."
Perhaps I'm a bit thick, but how does punching the holes at the bottom enable him to see several pages without flipping? Maybe you should just tape all the pages to his desk, for easy reading. But then again, would he want them taped left to right, or up and down? So many questions...
laughing at the line... first there were dinosaurs. i'm still not sure why punching the holes from the bottom would help and doesn't 4 always come after 3 so you can flip thru and see what's on that page either way. i'm so confused!!! o.O
LOL. "Peter, Did you get the memo about the new TPS cover sheets?" "Yes, I got the memo. I have it right here." "Good! I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of the memo."
There needs to be an award for the most time wasted explaining really simple stuff INEFFECTIVLEY that we can give Mr S.
Cracking up at spock and the TPS reports!
Wow and I thought my old boss micro managed! LOL I use to get told if I put her mail in her in box the incorrect way? The all need to be put this way, on and on, I told her, hey you are being a bit extreme!
LOL. Lord, I don't know how you do it!
wow. just wow.
Can you punch him and stick him in a binder?
He sounds so much like my daughter's band director. His favorites are "in so much as" and "and/or"...
"In so much as it is raining you can wear pants and/or shorts." (Why would you want to wear shorts AND pants?)
You may wonder why I emailed when I could have commented. I am not used to the new format. All I saw at the bottom of the post was the email option.
@ydurp - Thanks for the comment: i don't mind the emailing. :)
I haven't read it myself, but a friend of mine is the one who told me about Carver and she said she'll run me a copy of hers. But thanks for the offer!
And the fact that you've remained sane at the job is a wonderment.
OT: I'm clearing out my Xanga folder of Subscription digests on my computer and came across one of your entries from Jan 2007. I went to check on my subscriptions and I seemed to have lost you. Not sure hwo that happened. Anyway, subbed again. Noticed that I'm doing the same thing you're doing, keeping a list of books I've read. I started doing this mid 2005 because I was tired of reading the same book again unknowingly. Plus I wanted to keep track of how many books I've been reading. Much like you, I wish I had started this years ago (would make finding a book I'm looking for that much easier). Loved the idea of a goodreads account, so opened one and added you as a friend. I hope you don't mind.
Gawd....that Mr. S....does he take any meds? Needs them...
LMISS