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Senior Level Assholes
Jul 14th
There were a few events that happened at work today that have been on my mind a lot this evening. The later of the two has occupied most of my focus so I’ll write about that one tonight.
A little back story: Our department has decided to do a test run of social networks. The hope is that we’ll keep attendees at our seminars and events interested if they’re vested in a social network group or page. Right now, we’re just focusing on Facebook, but the thought is we’ll expand to others like Twitter and Linkedin eventually.
I’m not sure if anyone of you have ever set-up a Facebook business page, but it’s a bit of a hassle. Especially if you want to have a custom URL like facebook.com/businessname. To do that, you need to have a personal profile tied to the page and you need twenty-five fans before Facebook will allow for a vanity URL. I don’t have a Facebook profile and Larry didn’t want his name to show up as the admin, so we don’t have a profile tied to the page. We’re hoping that we’ll be able to get the vanity URL with just the twenty-five fans.
Free Agitation
Apr 17th
Every morning, Natalie, Charlie and I go out on a Tim’s run. Sometimes we’re joined by Vortex, but more often than not, it’s just the three of us. By now, it’s become an expected mid-morning ritual. By 10 am, one of us has IM’ed the others asking, “coffee?”
It’s not even about the coffee. It gives us a chance to gab for a few minutes away from the confines of the office where there’s always a set of ears waiting to listen in.
Unless he’s not in his office, I always ask Larry (my boss), if he’d like something from Tim’s before I leave. 99.8% of the time, he declines and just nods towards the frozen muffin he’s brought in that day. Larry never buys tea (he’s not a coffee drinker), nor does he ever buy his lunch. Instead, he has some of the free Flavia stuff provided by the office and brings his lunch. Larry likes it when a meeting he’s attending is happening during the lunch hour because it means he’ll get a free meal out of it.
All in a Huff
Nov 4th
When I coined the moniker for “Speakerphone Asshole,” I didn’t realize how accurate the Asshole part of it was. The man is the biggest douche I have come across in a long time. He’s made it clear several times that unless you have a penis, he doesn’t want to hear your opinion.
Luckily, my job doesn’t require much interaction with SA, but when it does, it takes all of my restraint to keep from telling him off.
Not long ago, he asked me to retrieve some information that was found on an Excel file that was sitting on a server he didn’t have access to. Fine, no big deal. I told him I’d download the file and e-mail it to him. “No, that’s not necessary, just send me the information I need,” he said explaining what data he was looking for. I let Larry (my boss) know about the request and while he wasn’t thrilled about it, he figured it would only take a few minutes and that would be that.
Verbal Diarrhea
Apr 17th
I have this ‘condition’ of sorts. A friend once coined it “verbal diarrhea” – the ability to just let shit flow out of my mouth without being able to stop it. The other day, I had a pretty funny occurrence of the VD verbal diarrhea.
The scene:
I was sitting at my desk at work, Natalie was sitting in the cubicle next to mine and Speakerphone Asshole and John (my boss’ boss) were standing nearby talking. Speakerphone Asshole and John had just come back from a webinar on social media, a discussion of things like Twitter and Facebook.
SA: I want to join Facebook too!
John: I think everyone wants to join now.
SA: And Twitter, let’s all join so that I can Tweet you.
John: [something inaudible]
SA: We can become Twits!
Me [unable to stop myself]: Become?
Natalie immediately burst out laughing and didn’t stop for a few minutes. I’m pretty sure Speakerphone Asshole heard me as he was well within earshot. He didn’t acknowledge it though.
I do try to keep the condition in check, but that opportunity to zing Speakerphone Asshole was just too good to pass up.
Office Recap
Nov 12th
I thought I’d take a break from all of the prop 8 stuff and let my blood pressure settle down a bit. Plus, I know my readers are just itching to know how things are going at work. So I’ll be nice and update you.
Things at work have definitely picked up since I last bitched and moaned about how quiet it was. It seems like once the summer wound down, people were back at the office and projects were once again in motion. I am happy to report that my days of late have been pretty busy and I don’t spend nearly as much time perusing the interwebs.
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