I regularly get pulled into meetings about my "attitude".
Apparently making it clear in the tone of your voice that you think the person you're talking to is an incapable half-wit is undesirable in a customer-facing telephone support role. Who knew?

Also, during a similar experience in my first proper job I was told "now, I know working in a bowling alley isn't the be all and end all" I responded with "you've got to be joking. you might be happy wasting your life here, but I'm not". And that is how I lost my first ever job.
( Kroney, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:26, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

It's even more difficult when it is clear from the tone of your voice that you think the person issuing the disciplinary is an incapable half-wit.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:29, Reply)

Just this very morning I have received an extremely imperious email from some jumped-up consultant
who seems to think that the best way of getting me onside is to copy in his boss and his boss's boss in the email which refers to his issue "directly impacting his candidate attraction for live vacancies". He would like me to inform him on the best way of getting it resolved.

I am having to take a bit of break before replying in the hopes it'll stop me saying "Please apply the following procedure 1: Climb down from the several feet you appear to be lodged up your own anus..."
( Kroney, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:36, Reply)

Big Picture manoeuvre usually works
single user fault....not business critical. ..lower priority.....appreciate important to you but in the company scheme of things you are an insignificant twat.*

*This last phrase may need editing.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:43, Reply)

I'll probably just leave it until this afternoon
and tell him to try again in ten minutes with no further explanation.
( Kroney, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:46, Reply)

This is my worry about next Monday.
My boss already knows I consider myself his intellectual superior.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:36, Reply)

In truth, I actually am.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:37, Reply)

From the little I've seen of mid-level management in warehousing
you'd struggle not to be.
( Kroney, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:38, Reply)

However, he's the one that had the balls to set up a business that pays you a salary.
You owe him a level of respect for that.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:41, Reply)

No he didn't - he bought it when we were fucked.
I do respect him for the work he's put in but he is an administrator with no imagination or people skills, and an ill-mannered cretin, to boot. Plus, yid.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:43, Reply)

Alright, at least he had the balls to buy a failing business to keep it going & to get it back on track.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:44, Reply)

That's true.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:49, Reply)

and the finance
money makes money
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:59, Reply)