The guy at work who is reviewing my project is about 60 years old, born in India, and moved to the States about 35-40 years ago.
There was an existing note on a drawing:
"All wiring shall be type #1."
I added:
"Type #6 may also be used as an alternative to type #1."
R: What are you doing, adding this note?! This is bad English! We do not want to give them an alternative suggestion! Say they may use it. We need to tell them they must use it!!
Me: Well, that's what the boss said to do when you asked about it in our meeting last week.
R: No! He did not say that! He wouldn't have said that! That is wrong!
Supervisor: He did say to give them an alternative. The way this is written is correct.
R: No! You must not know English because this is bad English!!
Supervisor: Well, if you don't agree with it, then make a comment for Lauren on the drawing. Write the note the way you think it should read and we'll take a look.
His note:
"All wire new connection must to be type #6."
Yeah....I must not know English.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Disturbing
If you haven't read my blog post Maintenance Issues, it would be relevant for you to take a few minutes to do so before proceeding....
http://spaputzstories.blogspot.com/2011/11/maintenance-issues.html
So we have a new girl on our team who sits next to the fingernail clipper. And the clippers came out this morning. About 20 seconds into the cutting, the new girl asked:
NG: What are you doing over there??
Clippy: Cutting my nails.
NG: What?!
(I think she meant "What?!" as in "WTF?! Why would you be doing that here?!" But he interpreted her response as "What did you say? I didn't hear your answer.") So he repeated...
C: Cutting my nails.
NG: Why would you do that here?!?!
C: It's hard to work with long nails.
NG: You should do that at home!!!
C: There is no time at home.
NG: HR sent out an email about that one time!!!
http://spaputzstories.blogspot.com/2012/02/office-policy.html
NG: You can't be doing that here!!! It disturbs me!!!
C: Well they don't know that I have no time at home.
I wonder if HR would confiscate his clippers if I reported him....
http://spaputzstories.blogspot.com/2011/11/maintenance-issues.html
So we have a new girl on our team who sits next to the fingernail clipper. And the clippers came out this morning. About 20 seconds into the cutting, the new girl asked:
NG: What are you doing over there??
Clippy: Cutting my nails.
NG: What?!
(I think she meant "What?!" as in "WTF?! Why would you be doing that here?!" But he interpreted her response as "What did you say? I didn't hear your answer.") So he repeated...
C: Cutting my nails.
NG: Why would you do that here?!?!
C: It's hard to work with long nails.
NG: You should do that at home!!!
C: There is no time at home.
NG: HR sent out an email about that one time!!!
http://spaputzstories.blogspot.com/2012/02/office-policy.html
NG: You can't be doing that here!!! It disturbs me!!!
C: Well they don't know that I have no time at home.
I wonder if HR would confiscate his clippers if I reported him....
Monday, December 3, 2012
Cashing In
At work today, I was at R's desk talking about my project when T came over:
T: Sorry to interrupt you guys...
He holds up two "Thank You" cards with post-it notes on them labeling each of our two administrative assistants.
T: ...but we're collecting $10 for each of the admins as a Thank You/Christmas gift. Do you have the money now?
Wait....what?? You're asking me to give $10 to each of these women to say "Thanks." Thanks for doing your job. The job that you get paid to do. Every day. Here is an additional $500 bonus (there are about 50 people on our team) in addition to the Christmas bonus that the company is going to give you. Here is money out of my own pocket. Money that I get paid for by the company for doing my job. Just like you get paid by the company for doing your job. But here is my money to you for doing your job. Right.
Me: I don't have any cash on me.
Truthfully I didn't have two $10 bills on me, but even if I did....
AND.....do you know what I would have to do to obtain two $10 bills??
a) Go to the bank (does anyone actually even go to the bank anymore?), stand in line, hand the teller a $20, and ask for two $10's back
-OR-
b) Go the the ATM, withdraw $40, purchase two separate items of less than $10 each, in two separate transactions, paying for each item with one of the $20's from the ATM, just to end up with two $10 bills in change to give to someone else for doing their job. Right.
R: I have my money! He pulls out his wallet from his desk drawer (that is sealed in a Ziploc plastic sandwich bag, along with loose change rattling around in the bag, and a wad of receipts)
He handed T his money and was given the cards to sign. And I was shocked how many signatures were already on the card! There were at least 25 signatures. Really? There are that many people who are willing to participate in this?
T took R's money, put it in his front shirt pocket, and checked R's name off a list. Great. I'm sure he'll be hitting up my un-checked name again in a day or two.
But that's okay. I still won't have any cash on me.
T: Sorry to interrupt you guys...
He holds up two "Thank You" cards with post-it notes on them labeling each of our two administrative assistants.
T: ...but we're collecting $10 for each of the admins as a Thank You/Christmas gift. Do you have the money now?
Wait....what?? You're asking me to give $10 to each of these women to say "Thanks." Thanks for doing your job. The job that you get paid to do. Every day. Here is an additional $500 bonus (there are about 50 people on our team) in addition to the Christmas bonus that the company is going to give you. Here is money out of my own pocket. Money that I get paid for by the company for doing my job. Just like you get paid by the company for doing your job. But here is my money to you for doing your job. Right.
Me: I don't have any cash on me.
Truthfully I didn't have two $10 bills on me, but even if I did....
AND.....do you know what I would have to do to obtain two $10 bills??
a) Go to the bank (does anyone actually even go to the bank anymore?), stand in line, hand the teller a $20, and ask for two $10's back
-OR-
b) Go the the ATM, withdraw $40, purchase two separate items of less than $10 each, in two separate transactions, paying for each item with one of the $20's from the ATM, just to end up with two $10 bills in change to give to someone else for doing their job. Right.
R: I have my money! He pulls out his wallet from his desk drawer (that is sealed in a Ziploc plastic sandwich bag, along with loose change rattling around in the bag, and a wad of receipts)
He handed T his money and was given the cards to sign. And I was shocked how many signatures were already on the card! There were at least 25 signatures. Really? There are that many people who are willing to participate in this?
T took R's money, put it in his front shirt pocket, and checked R's name off a list. Great. I'm sure he'll be hitting up my un-checked name again in a day or two.
But that's okay. I still won't have any cash on me.
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