I love Fridays... Today, I was supposed to take part in a 4-hour "team building exercise" here at work that was supposed to go all morning, and which was supposed to address the rampant issues going on. This was pretty much forced on us by the very supervisor who is one of the problems in this department by virtue of his being aloof and all but blind to what's going on, as well as catering to and enabling the very troublemakers causing the problems. So as fate would have it, I was specifically requested by a remote user bringing her system in to have it updated this morning, the same morning the "team building exercise" was taking place. Not only is this user one of the higher-up's who our CIO sucks up and caters to hand and foot, she's actually one of the legitimately nicest users we have, and is the rare breed of user that not only listens to and follows what the IT techs have to say, but we've got her to the point she knows exactly what to write down, what info we need, etc., when she calls in, which isn't often nowadays. So essentially, I got out of a 4-hour massive waste of my time I'd never get back to do something that took me all of 20 minutes this morning. And best of all, the entire morning, I have carte blanche to tell users to come back in the afternoon per my boss. Oh yeah, it's payday and the Heat won the championship... [By: skippytpodar / 2012-06-22 ] Comment on Story Comments GOOD for you ! A fine day SIR A fine day! -beatmewithstick

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