Workplace shenanigans

[resonant]

When it gets frustrating to solve the same problems over and over, sometimes there's nothing you can do but make a bingo card.










(Yes, the one who spills her lunch is me.)

This is the polite version, the one that doesn't make fun of anybody who actually works there. The impolite version would have squares for:

The Head Monkey bitches about the White Sheep
The White Sheep bitches about the Head Monkey
The White Sheep bitches about her governing board representative
Little Trouble bitches about her governing board rep
Little Trouble makes a racist remark
Little Trouble disapproves of other people's work ethic
The Head Monkey sits at my desk and talks for more than thirty minutes
The Head Monkey loudly takes a phone call while sitting at my desk
The Head Monkey tells me at great length about: his collectible car, his granddaughter the state-champion athlete, how smart his adult son is, or how his daughter has a master's degree plus XX hours but no common sense.
The Spontaniator* sits at my desk and talks for more than thirty minutes
The Spontaniator leaves my desk and talks to someone else for more than thirty minutes
The Spontaniator gets halfway down the stairs and then comes back up to talk some more
The Spontaniator complains about how much work he has to do
The Spontaniator changes the music for Sunday any later than Thursday morning
The Hilarious Bastard** bitches about the White Sheep
The Hilarious Bastard bitches about his governing board rep
Generalized bitch session about Pastor Vague

* The Spontaniator is our music director. He's the bane of my existence partly because he can't bear to make a decision, as that would close off other possibilities, which seems to cause him actual pain (hence we're still learning our Easter anthem on Good Friday) and also because he does nothing but talk.

** The Hilarious Bastard is our organist. He's very hilarious, and I love to talk to him. He's also the same personality type as me (INTJ, if you follow that sort of thing), but he's ... immature, and doesn't believe that there's any good reason not to share your insights. He knows the better way to do everything, and He Will Tell You.

Comments

[sara]

I'm trying to think what would be on mine -- probably "Volunteer complains about not knowing what's happening, despite not having come to last three meetings," and "SemiCanadian has cat problems," and "City rep calls disavowing responsibility," and "Dead tree falls in parking lot."

(All the cedar trees have a fungus, this summer, which means we periodically have large branches thudding to the ground outside. If you're thinking this makes things a lot more exciting than I would like, you are correct.)

[princessofgeeks]

i should do one too, lol.... "Coworkers clog hall complaining at length about service learning component", "someone's boss talks about baseball for 45 minutes", "student asks for extension for NO GOOD REASON AT ALL", etc. :)

[reginagiraffe]

There's only supposed to be a very small percentage of INTJs, and I swear they're all in fandom!

*points to self*

[vickita]

Oh, man, I have to do this for my job. HEE.

The Spontaniator gets halfway down the stairs and then comes back up to talk some more

Okay, this made me laugh until my sides hurt.

[carolyn_claire]

I feel a sort of kinship with The Hilarious Bastard. Oh, dear.

[quinfirefrorefiddle]

Oh my, do these ever sound familiar. Copier being the bane of everyone's existence and also quite possibly possessed. Congregational President skips worship for months at a time. Congregational President shows up to make an announcement blasting the bishop and then leaves church before worship starts. The Queen of Daycare using colorful metaphorical verbs like "hemorrhaging" and stirring up melodrama while sincerely trying to help. Music Director and the Various Organists having a longstanding feud as the MD only cares about the praise band the VOs have Views on praise music. The parking lot flooding. The parking lot being borrowed for somebody to sell corn out of the back of a pick up truck without asking us first, during a wedding rehearsal with a very twitchy Mother of the Bride....

[giglet]

Res, I fear the only thing you can do at this point to relieve the frustration is write a liturgical comedy, and include all these characters. Make it a mystery (perhaps not a murder mystery, but that depends on how frustrating you find them). If your main character talks to her cats and you include someone eating good chocolate, you could have a best-seller on your hands.

Suggest you publish under a pseudonym.

[mad_maudlin]

INTJ represent, what what!

Hmm, I could probably do one of these for my actual place-of-getting-a-paycheck (a Restaurant) or for school. One would involve "entire line staff playing quarters in the drive-thru instead of cooking" and "customer hallucinating condiments."

[azurelunatic]

I made one for my own workplace just now, based on this.

The highlights:

(multiple quibbles about account)
Possessed printer jams
New equipment to replace old possessed equipment; old equipment kept as backup
Emailed pictures of embarrassing moments from office events
Unintelligible voicemail
Your delay is our emergency
[partner company] overshared and/or gave bad information
Transfer from [partner company] for a program that we do not administrate

[ecaterin]

This. Is hilariously awesome :D

INFP reporting in....with all of my almost-no-companions :P

[jennyagain.livejournal.com]

:: vigorously highlights 'junk fax' ::