Office Talk - Talk About Frustration!
Ok. A little history here. I work for one of the largest distributors for electrical and telecommunications products in the country. We have locations in just about every major city, Mexico, Canada and Europe. I deal with our rebate program with our vendors on customers orders. Basically, it's about recouping $$ to gain profit. Anyway, we have a guy here in my office that is a transaction auditor. He looks for gross margin losses on orders. We kind of have to work hand in hand because he'll find a problem, and I have to figure out a resolution to get our money back. This guy is of Asian decent, and his English is really broken so much that he's difficult to understand. I can deal with that. The problem is.....he comes over to my desk 15 times a day. I'm not kidding. I can't get anything done because he's constantly interrupting me! It would be ok if he just left me the kazillion screen prints he brings with him and left me alone to get back to him, but NOOOOOO....he hovers around me watching everything I'm doing, while I'm trying to finish up what I was working on. And he won't go away! One day he comes over during lunch.As I'm taking a bite of my sandwhich:
Him: You eatten lunch?
Me: (with mouth full) Yeah
Him: Well, that ok.
Then he sits down in the chair beside my desk and continues to tell me his problem! I continue to eat, he continues to talk. Finally he says, "what u tink?" I say, "I think I'm hungry!" He laughs but still waits for a serious answer. I finally tell him I'll get back to him after lunch.
Whoever put that darn chair beside my desk is not at all funny! I tried to get rid of it once, put it in the back and it somehow found its way back two days later. HE thinks it's his chair!
This guy has gone to the extreme to following me to the bathroom, and waited outside till I came back out! He has stopped me as I'm leaving the building for the day. I've gotten to where I duck behind the accounting department, go through the back conferences room, to come around to the breakroom just to go to the bathroom because I can't seem to walk past his desk without him stopping me! I'm pretty sure it's become a running joke here in the office because he stopped me today on my way to the lunchroom and I heard several girls in accounting giggling:
Him: Did Jeannie tell you bout that Steve ting?
Me: No, that's not one of my branches
Him: Well, can u help xplain...yadayadayada
I kept walking....he followed. He has even interrupted me while writing this! Can you all picture this? Because it's frickin driving me nuts!
posted by Wolfie @ 10:42 AM
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