The annoyance I have with women at work is how they absolutely cannot take any critique of their job performance as anything other than a heart rending insult to the very fiber of their being. My receptionist is brutal with phones. So yeah, not great at the core function of her job. She's half deaf, can't understand anyone with the slightest accent, frequently hangs up on people or picks up the wrong line, etc. We've just tolerated it because she's overall a good person, doesn't miss much work, and is fairly decent at most of the other tasks she does. Thankfully she's retiring at the end of the year, as well.
So today, I'm in the supply closet behind her desk, and the phone rings. I hear her calling my name and saying who's calling etc., so as I walk by her desk on the way to my office, I notice she's still got the phone receiver in her hand. She's notorious for not placing the incoming call on hold while calling out to someone in an office adjacent to her desk, and murdering their name, company they work for or whatever. Several times I've picked up the phone and people are either laughing or offended at what they heard her saying with the receiver a foot from her loud mouth. So as I walk by I calmly say "please, remember to put the call on hold before calling out for me." I may as well have called her a fucking cunt. She's going to be a moody bitch for a week now. Probably will cry herself to sleep tonight.
I can't wait until she retires and our purchaser takes over most of her duties. I'm so sick of walking on egg shells around her and not being able to correct anything she does without kicking off a Cold War for a month.
But yeah, for realz.
