Tag Archives: Office

Dilbert comic strip for 10/03/2013 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

A meeting to decide upon the effectiveness of meetings. Sounds about right…

Dilbert comic strip for 10/03/2013 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive..

What Are You Doing Here?

I kid you not:

Me: (Picks up phone) Hi, {boss’ name}

Boss: Hi, is {name of a colleague} there?

Me: No, he’s not.

Boss: And what are you doing there?

Me: I… work here? I’m at my desk….

Boss: (pause) Oh, I dialled the wrong number, sorry.

 

Work & Holiday Allowance

Managers and businesses can be so hypocritical, it sometimes drives me up the wall.

I have a holiday allowance and I’m only allowed to carry over 5 days of holiday leave over to the following year – any extra days, I lose. I’ve been lectured by my boss many times about not taking all my leave. So, this year, I booked everything in advance. I had to pull one week off due to work load, and now my boss wants me to pull ANOTHER week off my holiday. When I told her about the excess doing this would cause, she told me “don’t worry, it’ll be approved”.

So, they can make me lose holidays when it suits them, and keep them when it doesn’t…

Upgrade

I have been wanting to upgrade my laptop for a long while but have been putting off. Now my decision has somewhat been pushed. I’ll need to upgrade it to handle some of my work from the office and the software I need to use is really going to struggle on my current hardware.