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Van B
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Hi all,

I'm getting an assistant for a couple of months, turns out it's a 17-yo ginger girl named Victoria.

Sounds reasonable, I should be glad of the help - except she's the MD's daughter.

No more bitching about workmates.
No more bitching about the MD's.
No more bitching about anything!!! - she'll no doubt have a report for her dad everyday about the unethical behaviour in the IT dept.


Who's the worst person you've ever had to work with?


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The boss - he doesn't listen...


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David T
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 17:39 Edited at: 1st Jun 2004 17:39
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Quote: "I'm getting an assistant for a couple of months, turns out it's a 17-yo ginger girl named Victoria.

Sounds reasonable, I should be glad of the help - except she's the MD's daughter."


This is one of the very few occasions where "laughing out load" really does fit.

LOL!

Good luck

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Van, Make sure you tag that


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Ian T
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 17:57
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It could be worse. Uh...

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Van B
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:17
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It's worse...

She's a veggie, so won't like what I eat for breakfast (I eat at my desk).
She's going to uni to study nuclear physics... I like intelligent women, but only if I'm more intelligent than them. Sexist huh!
I have to rearange my whole office so that she does'nt sit with her back to the door - the MD's idea. WTF!!!
She's most likely gonna be very ugly, I've met the MD's wife...


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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:18 Edited at: 1st Jun 2004 18:19
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still, make sure you tag that (even if you first have to bag that)


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David T
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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:35 Edited at: 1st Jun 2004 18:35
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Quote: "I have to rearange my whole office so that she does'nt sit with her back to the door - the MD's idea. WTF!!!"




Talk about politically correct management organisational speak.

Quote: "She's most likely gonna be very ugly, I've met the MD's wife..."


How quickly "17-yo ginger girl named Victoria" can change from one extreme to another.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:42
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Quote: "She's a veggie, so won't like what I eat for breakfast (I eat at my desk)."


Yikes. Well, it could be worse-- she could be vegan !

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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 18:43
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Heh. Being 17 meself, Ive never actually had to 'work' with anyone, but me and a friend did work experience at school in the IT department of my school (no decent places left) and we ended up doing everyones dirty work. Anyways, me and my friend had to go down to this old underground dingy dark corridor to replace some locks on the stored lockers. And he found a dead mouse and played golf with it

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In school, it's always better to work with someone smarter than you. The teacher tries to balance out the groupings in the class by mixing smart kids with the dumbasses, so some of us usually have to get stuck with the lazy jock-ish a-holes.

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Worst person I had to work with? A boss who revoked my 17" monitor because my work didn't warrant it. I was demoted to a 15" monitor. I left after 6 weeks, this was just the final straw.

I also had a boss that told me a 2 grand rise, a company car, health benefits and pension wasn't "all it's cracked up to be" when I handed my notice in.

Also, try working with someone who you are responsible for, but thinks you've got his job. This guy used to write the programs I had specced, then tell me he wouldn't do it. When I got the manager involved, he claimed I was making it up, and that I was trying to get him sacked. Fortunately, I had copied the project minutes before I got the manager involved, and then asked how he'd written days worth of code in minutes.

Could be worse, I could have had to work with the MD's daughter

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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 20:29
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This is like an episode of The Office...

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Quote: "She's most likely gonna be very ugly, I've met the MD's wife..."


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Quote: " This is like an episode of The Office..."


Come on, it's not that bad

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Van, I worked together with one of my boss's daughters, and she was really sound. She didn't really give a hoot about the whole company, and she was probably one of the nicest people I have ever worked with. I hope you have the same luck.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 23:21
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I remember about 5 years ago during the summer:

I was working in the ol mans factory... and the bosses kid came from New York to Utah to deal with some shipping problems. The sad part.. was everything we did, was reported to the boss. I hated those 2 weeks.

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Remember not to dip your pen in the company ink blotter.

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Posted: 1st Jun 2004 23:51
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Quote: "She's most likely gonna be very ugly, I've met the MD's wife..."


what if she turns out to be really hot? You know how sometimes good genes skip a generation.

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The MD's son. Basically the MD is from a very programming background, so he thought he would see if we could get a bit of the interest raised in him. At this point it was widely rumoured that his son would eventually take over our department when he left Uni (he was 18 at the time), and own the company a couple of years later when the MD retired.

So, as you can imagine, you had to be pretty nice to him just incase he held your career in his hand later on (and it's a tight knit part of the IT industry that I work in, so a black mark can really stick). Luckily he was a pretty good bloke, just with no interest or real talent in programming (I had to train him). He got his dad to get us a snack machine plus a coke machine (we only had a fridge at the time), then his dad made the mistake of saying that if he was slowing us down too much to tell him. We did, and he got took away. Heh.

Interestingly it didn't matter anyhow as the MD sold the company down the river in a moment of panic after 911 to a rival company. Never saw his son again.

Whats worse though is MD's daughters. Friend of mine chatted up both of the MD's daughters plus his wife. Tops. He actually still works with us amazingly.

Cheers

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Like the Office?

Arf. You haven't heard the half of it.

1. We had to move to Slough to join the main part of our company. And there was redundancies... Slough *is* a dive BTW
2. We had the singing fish thingy
3. We modified a picture of a teamleader and photoshopped it so it looked like he was in the middle of a hardcore porno shoot. And from the description on "The Office", it sounds like a very similar scene
4. The team building exercise was spookingly similar to a management thingy a few years ago (Positive negative sandwich anyone?)
5. Our old manager pretty much put laughter and happiness above *anything* else. He was adamant that lower paid newbies would not be happier with a decent payrise. Nope, just to have a decent amount of work and a jokey atmosphere. Yeah, hold onto the thought Chuckles while I get another loan. Tell us another...

Plus a fair few more that were on the nose, but I've forgotten through the Mars factory stench that is the Slough industrial park.

Cheers

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Quote: "She's a veggie"


Quote: "She's most likely gonna be very ugly"

Usually Vegetarians are HOT!!!

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Usually lesbians are hot

I guess its only because you can never have'em

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Quote: "Usually Vegetarians are HOT!!!"

Id have to disagree... tv vegitarians are hot, rl ones arent. I know quiet a few vegetarians (and i must say, the report by the scientists saying meat is vital for the brain where right) and most of them arent that great lookin.


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Posted: 2nd Jun 2004 07:48 Edited at: 2nd Jun 2004 07:49
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I know real ones to. They're hot. Maybe some are hot some arn't.
And lesbians my favorite singer's a lesian, and she's hot.

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Quote: "3. We modified a picture of a teamleader and photoshopped it so it looked like he was in the middle of a hardcore porno shoot. And from the description on "The Office", it sounds like a very similar scene"


Did it have "Who Cares Wins" with Peter Purves?

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You know, she's still 17. So there's a good chance she could be some sort of teenangstrebel type of kid. So she wouldn't really care about the company and much less about his dad in that case...

My worst has to be this:
I had to spend a day with 15 year old kid whose name nobody really knew at the end of the day. (we just knew he was the son of employee in this hospital) man, he was one typical CShackerWannabeType with attention span of a second. or so. And every other word was a curse or something like that... geesh. that was a tough day.


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