Being told off as an adultWhen was the last time you were properly told off? You know: treated as an errant child rather than the sophisticated adult you are.
The sort of thing that dredges up an involuntary teenage mumble of "Sorry, Miss" whilst you stare at the ground.
Go on, tell us what childish thing you were up to when you got caught.
Oh, and can we have more than one-line answers this time? Cheers!
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chthonic, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 17:18)
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"Nanny" in HRWell I call her that, as she looks like Nanny from Count Duckula, the fat cow. She's the same size and her face actually looks like her too :)
Anyhows, Nanny runs the HR department in me office, and one of her underlings emailed out a request for me to attend a meeting for a course I was doing last year, but the meeting was outside of my work rota (I work split shifts, and this meeting was right in the middle of the split). So I send a reply back saying something like "Oh nice one, that's right in the middle of me split that is, can't do it"; nothing more. I get a reply back saying "Sorry, we tried to organise when the majority of staff were in" and I thought nothing more about it.
I come back in on the evening shift, and I've received an email from Nanny, with my original email attached to it. Basically she gave me a huge bollocking over the way I had spoken to her member of staff, and wanted to talk to me later. So I wonder over to her desk (which is in front off all the other 100 or so workers) and she starts screaming at me. I mean really screaming, saying that I'll never speak to a member of her staff like that again or I'll be out on my arse etc etc. So after about a minute of this with me sitting there calmly and everyone in the office stopping what they are doing to watch this, I say while smiling slightly "Don't you think you're over-reacting a bit?". She went purple and almost caused herself to hyperventilate while screaming even louder. After about another minute of this with comments like "How dare you!", "respect" and a few NVQ sentences when I say "Thanks for that information" and walked back to my desk. She made herself look a right twat in front of everyone, especially as I'd told a few peeps why I was in this meeting in the first place (including the immediate management). After that, she was off for a few weeks holidays, wouldn't surprise if it was stress related. Stupid "Ducky poos" twat, walk through a wall or something.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Fri 21 Sep 2007, 11:03,
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