Is there a name for those people....

[cornflakegirl]

I tend to do that with non-urgent stuff that I'm not sure how to tackle. I put it on my to do list, and if they haven't asked me about it a couple of months later, I take it off again. If I like the person, I ask them if it's still relevant before deleting it. I'd never thought of writing it up as a positive character attribute before, though!

 

[RoryA]

Ah well, I don't have character 'flaws', just 'features'.
It was a small-ish startup company so I was doing 3 jobs including being the entire IT department; in the interests of my sanity and everyone else's safety, I was allowed to work however I liked as long as what needed to be done got done. (we occasionally had different ideas as to what really needed doing, but mostly it worked fine.)

 

[cornflakegirl]

I was doing 3 jobs including being the entire IT department

Are you trying to make me feel pitifully inadequate?!

 

[arkusM]

Oh yeah gotta love the "I need this right away" request that then sits on their desk for two weeks+.
Rory that happened to me too many times...

 

[RoryA]

Are you trying to make me feel pitifully inadequate?!

No - just owning up to my own stupidity for being in that position!

Now I just get people forwarding me urgent emails to deal with that they received several weeks earlier...
(edit: apart from one of my colleagues, who is currently snoring at his desk!)

 

[cornflakegirl]

arkusM - you're very articulate for one so young... (cute piccie )

 

[arkusM]

arkusM - you're very articulate for one so young... (cute piccie )

That is a reasonable facsimile of me!! It is my two and half month old son. (he is a big boy, 17 lbs!! )<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>

 

[DonkeyOte]

Hee hee... all you poor folk out there worrying about how to make your jobs more interesting...

I must confess that like the guy in your earlier post Emma I always aimed to put the stupid hours in with the aim of getting out on time thereafter. The reality however is that there is never a shortage of people willing to take up any of the spare time/capacity you have created for yourself with their latest and greatest ideas which they themselves have no idea how to approach... go figure... blind leading the blind etc...
(for great ideas read: CFO thought of whilst sitting on the cr*pper)

I'm a big believer in realising the potential of taking a day out early on in the process to save 10 days in the long run... too often people fail to think along those lines either for themselves or for their team. And Emma even if what you did the other day does not save time on that particular task until the London Olympics I have no doubt that what you learnt in implementing it will save you lots of time approaching other similar tasks in the not too distant future. Learning can never be a waste of time in my book.

I guess that's why we all come here... to learn as much as we can and I'm sure none of us consider this place a waste of our time ?
(Lounge excepted!)

EDIT: P.S.: Rory, the fact you have "colleagues" as opposed to staff is quite scary... I dread to think where you work.

 

[arkusM]

I learn things in the lounge. Never know where the crazy talk goes!! LOL

 

[RoryA]

If I said "staff", that would imply I have people working for me! As always seems to be the way for me, I am a department of one...