It shouldn't be this hard to deal with receptionists

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 04/01/2015 at 16:50 • Filed to: Particularly Religious Coworker, Bubblehead

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Time for the latest update on the idiots who work for me, including !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and the other receptionist who is just a straight up bubblehead and I hate. These two are obsessed with complaining that they don’t know my and the other managers’ exact schedules. This is impossible to know, because we have flexible schedules.

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This morning, as I happened to walk through the lobby, Particularly Religious Coworker and Bubblehead were both complaining that one of the other managers, who often starts his day working from home and then comes in sometime between noon and 2, hadn’t yet arrived, and they didn’t know exactly when to expect him. He works from home all the time . I suggested that’s probably what he was doing.

They complained more about not knowing our schedules, because they’re fixated on this concept that they absolutely need to tell anyone who calls for us, our exact whereabouts and expected time of arrival. Which makes no sense, because if you call any other business and someone’s not available, you just get their voicemail. That’s even what happens when you call our school’s other campuses.

This is far from the first time I’ve attempted to explain this to Particularly Religious Coworker and Bubblehead, but they keep sticking to it. In fact, my boss had a conversation with them about it last week.

I attempted once again to explain my and the other managers’ preferences regarding sharing our calendar information. They didn’t like this. Bubblehead actually said to my face that she was tuning me out and not listening to me anymore . I let her know that was unacceptable and she’s going to be hearing more about it later.

The problem with Particularly Religious Coworker and Bubblehead is they take everything 100% literally, and Bubblehead in particular is completely incapabale of thinking on her feet. If something happens that isn’t exactly as how it has been described to her, she acts like BUT THIS IS NOT THE PLAN AS IT WAS DESCRIBED TO ME, and can’t cope.

At first I wrote out an overly detailed plan of every way to handle incoming calls for managers. My boss, myself and the guy who works from home got together and agreed that we wouldn’t actually send Particularly Religious Coworker and Bubblehead this list, but it was good talking points for my boss to sit both of them down again and hopefully beat it into their heads once and for all that they don’t need to say anything to callers beyond “they’re not available, here’s their voicemail.” She’s also going to talk to Bubblehead individually and explain in no uncertain terms she can’t say shit to me like I’m tuning you out .

jariten1781 > Textured Soy Protein 04/01/2015 at 16:56

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All our admins are DEAD SERIOUS about calendars. Thus, I put OOO or WFH in giant swaths across my shared calendar across every day where we don't have a staff meeting or all-hands so that I wouldn't make the 'mistake' of working at a liaison site or client site when they expected me to be at home base. Too much bitching...nuclear option.

Brian, The Life of > jariten1781 04/01/2015 at 16:59

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Goddamn ... people still have admins?!

Brian, The Life of > Textured Soy Protein 04/01/2015 at 17:01

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My suggestion, if you're in a state like CA that makes it easy to fire people, is to fire them. Particularly the Bubblehead.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Textured Soy Protein 04/01/2015 at 17:09

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Sounds like they both need to be fired.

Racescort666 > Textured Soy Protein 04/01/2015 at 17:10

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This, being April Fool's Day, seems like a perfect opportunity to exact some sort of shenanigans.

Alfalfa Romeo > Textured Soy Protein 04/01/2015 at 17:12

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Get a computer to replace the both of them.

Textured Soy Protein > jariten1781 04/01/2015 at 17:49

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The guy who starts his days working from home summed it up thusly:

"I don't work for them."

Textured Soy Protein > Brian, The Life of 04/01/2015 at 17:50

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The problem is that each of them, in spite of their undesirable qualities, is useful in their own way. It's just sometimes we need to take a strong hand with them.

Textured Soy Protein > Racescort666 04/01/2015 at 17:50

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Neither of them have the sense of humor necessary for that to be a successful strategy.

Manic Otti > Textured Soy Protein 04/01/2015 at 19:10

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They're just pissed because they can't work at home or set their own hours, so their showing their displeasure the only way they can, by constantly whining. BTW, I also find very religious people tend to be extremely entitled and self righteous.

Racescort666 > Textured Soy Protein 04/01/2015 at 19:24

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They might not but do you? ;)

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Textured Soy Protein 04/07/2015 at 11:09

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Strong hand you say?

Please note that I do not condone physically abusing coworkers no matter how much you want to and how badly they deserve it. I just felt this was an excellent opening to post a Dave Chappelle gif.