Grumpy Old Man
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
I had the displeasure of working with a guy like this recently. Unable to apply even the slightest bit of common sense, and every time he got called out for a dumb mistake his go to was "is that documented anywhere? It should be for new starters". We documented so much stupid shit for him, which has not been used at all for subsequent new starters. fluffybunny.
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@No-Quarter was he Irish?
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@Bones he had a kiwi accent unfortunately, but I have to assume he was of Irish descent.
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@No-Quarter said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones he had a kiwi accent unfortunately, but I have to assume he was of Irish descent.
It must be cool working with Sean Fitzpatrick. Ask him about the ear biting incident back in 94.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
My pet peeve is excessive CC'ers. The ones who send you an email and cc half the company in (and who cc you into emails you don't give a shit about).
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
My pet peeve is excessive CC'ers. The ones who send you an email and cc half the company in (and who cc you into emails you don't give a shit about).
They're not as bad as the reply-to-all-ers on company wide emails.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
My pet peeve is excessive CC'ers. The ones who send you an email and cc half the company in (and who cc you into emails you don't give a shit about).
They're not as bad as the reply-to-all-ers on company wide emails.
Those are great fun until HR come along and ruin all the fun
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@Bones ha about 12 or so years back when I worked for another bigger company, one fella (not me) in his wisdom after 10+ years with the company in varying divisions, decided to send a farewell email to every single person in the mailing list, which included loads of suppliers, so company size was circa 1200 at the time, mail groups, plus a very large number of external suppliers in the contact list...suffice to say the thousands of emails going out, incorrect mail bounce backs, people who replied to him, out of office bounce backs crashed the servers at about 3pm on a Friday arvo...
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He’s my hero for today.
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I was getting 200-300 emails a day in my last job as an employee in the late '90s (and it was Lotus Notes) so set up an autoreply along the lines of "I get so many emails it may be days before I am able to respond to you. If it's important, please give me a call"
Needless to say, the reaction from the PHB's was OTT - but enjoyable as I really didn't give a fuck at that stage. Cited it as a key reason for my departure in my exit interview with the Head honcho.
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@Victor-Meldrew the pioneer of the modern Call Centre.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
My pet peeve is excessive CC'ers. The ones who send you an email and cc half the company in (and who cc you into emails you don't give a shit about).
They're not as bad as the reply-to-all-ers on company wide emails.
Try working for a major. Waking up to an inbox full of special people replying to all that an email has nothing to do with them and requesting they can be removed from the email. Que increasing responses as time zones wake and respond. Eventually the mail servers become overwhelmed and need to be rebooted.
I suggested to the head of APAC that it was an easy way to identify people who should be sacked to reduce head count...
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@antipodean Siemens and Pitney Bowes are a decent size
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@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew the pioneer of the modern Call Centre.
Don't get me started....
Stupid management who don't understand the difference between value and cost when it comes to the customer interface. Short-sighted, incompetent fluffybunnies.
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@Victor-Meldrew also forgetfulness...
My industry the main players often use off shore call centres, then when customers get fed up, they bring stuff back in house...then, new ceo needs to cut costs, what can we do, I know, set up an off store call centre, it will be different this time.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew also forgetfulness...
My industry the main players often use off shore call centres, then when customers get fed up, they bring stuff back in house...then, new ceo needs to cut costs, what can we do, I know, set up an off store call centre, it will be different this time.
Yep. We mapped the real cost of an agent in Bangalore and Sheffield - to include things like staff attrition, training costs, re-work - and found Bangalore more expensive. Brought as much as we could back in-house and increased QoS by 10% (wholesale life insurance and pensions) and sales by 5%.
Can't be grumpy as I was called back 18 months later to update our work and convince the new CEO for a big fat fee....
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Ok just to get it off chest. I had a growls about 5 weeks ago when my youngest sister passed away. Well a couple of days later wife's nephew who we have a bit to do with, woke up at night, had some kind of siezure, got rushed to hospital. He was put in an induced coma, but last Monday they had to switch off machines and he passed away. He had got some kind of virus that attcked brain, and they just couldn't isolate/treat it. Anyway he was only 35 for fucks sake with 3 young boys!! Where the fuck is the justice in this world???
I will say on a positive side he lived in Shannon in the Horowhenua, and the memebers of the rugby club (where he coached a kid's team), school and community were and are incredibly supportive!!
I am putting out a message to anyone I care about etc who are crook and dying--just f***en don't!!!
George Bridge.
