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27 October 2004, 12:38 PM
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Ok hands up 
Maybe you know what I voted, which was in fact done just to do the opposite of what you expected but..... http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showpost....60&postcount=7 
Maybe you know what I voted, which was in fact done just to do the opposite of what you expected but..... http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showpost....60&postcount=7
27 October 2004, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Redkop
Ok hands up Maybe you know what I voted, which was in fact done just to do the opposite of what you expected but..... http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showpost....60&postcount=7
Maybe you know what I voted, which was in fact done just to do the opposite of what you expected but..... http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showpost....60&postcount=7
27 October 2004, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ajm
I think Clarebabes and Scoobychick may have something to say about that! Trust a woman to turn an incompetance issue into a gender one! 
I sometimes wonder what they teach kids at school these days, do they not have basic IT lessons?
27 October 2004, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Jye
How do you start a poll anyhow? I've never noticed any way of doing this, not that I've looked that hard mind.
27 October 2004, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Jye
How do you start a poll anyhow? I've never noticed any way of doing this, not that I've looked that hard mind.
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27 October 2004, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by ajm
I think Clarebabes and Scoobychick may have something to say about that! Trust a woman to turn an incompetance issue into a gender one!
27 October 2004, 02:59 PM
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She doesn't sound THAT incompetent. I insisted a secretary type out her mission budget predictions on a spreadsheet, rather than Word, so we could see how/if they change. She typed in:
Plane Ticket 250
Hotel 60
Taxi 25
Total
...then got out her desktop calculator, added it up, and duly typed 335 in the Total cell
Plane Ticket 250
Hotel 60
Taxi 25
Total
...then got out her desktop calculator, added it up, and duly typed 335 in the Total cell
27 October 2004, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Brendan Hughes
She doesn't sound THAT incompetent. I insisted a secretary type out her mission budget predictions on a spreadsheet, rather than Word, so we could see how/if they change. She typed in:
Plane Ticket 250
Hotel 60
Taxi 25
Total
...then got out her desktop calculator, added it up, and duly typed 335 in the Total cell
Plane Ticket 250
Hotel 60
Taxi 25
Total
...then got out her desktop calculator, added it up, and duly typed 335 in the Total cell
27 October 2004, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Nimbus
Can't you just remove / disconnect her printer?
Last edited by ajm; 27 October 2004 at 04:17 PM. Reason: to keep Redkop happy! ;o)
27 October 2004, 04:37 PM
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Of course the real answer here is to avoid the petty point scoring office politics and sort the problem at the core.
You say she does this sort of thing over and over again so why did you let her do this knowing full well something like this was likely to happen?
To me it sounds like you need to get her some proper training and if she doesn't respond to that get rid as she is not helping you or herself to be honest. I know you will say you've had no formal training so why should she, but just maybe (and this is a big leap of faith ) you have more of an aptitude for working with computer applications than she does.
Having said that maybe she knows how to do simple jobs like hang curtains eh?
Regards,
tiggers.
You say she does this sort of thing over and over again so why did you let her do this knowing full well something like this was likely to happen?
To me it sounds like you need to get her some proper training and if she doesn't respond to that get rid as she is not helping you or herself to be honest. I know you will say you've had no formal training so why should she, but just maybe (and this is a big leap of faith
) you have more of an aptitude for working with computer applications than she does. Having said that maybe she knows how to do simple jobs like hang curtains eh?
Regards,
tiggers.
27 October 2004, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by tiggers
Of course the real answer here is to avoid the petty point scoring office politics and sort the problem at the core.
Get Rid of Tony Blair ASAP
27 October 2004, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by tiggers
You say she does this sort of thing over and over again so why did you let her do this knowing full well something like this was likely to happen?
As for her training/employment, that is nothing to do with me. I am not her line manager, I just have access to her as a resource. Personally I don't ever employ anyone for any desk job without either computer skills or the intelligence to aquire computer skills no matter what. Unfortunately the bloke who did hire her is also a luddite and is also on my "hit list" as a consequence.
Having said that maybe she knows how to do simple jobs like hang curtains eh?
27 October 2004, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ajm
I might have known you'd have looked up "diverting blame onto the victim" in your handbook for Devil's Advocates! You then turn up late on your vulgar American mountain standard time or whatever you are on, stirring up trouble, dissent and general unrest!
Originally Posted by ajm
As for her training/employment, that is nothing to do with me. I am not her line manager, I just have access to her as a resource. Personally I don't ever employ anyone for any desk job without either computer skills or the intelligence to aquire computer skills no matter what. Unfortunately the bloke who did hire her is also a luddite and is also on my "hit list" as a consequence.
Originally Posted by ajm
Already been there.... she was one of the coven of witches that was taking delight in feeding me duff curtain information! What goes around.....
Regards,
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27 October 2004, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by tiggers
Please accept my apologies for the misunderstanding. I think it is just that you present yourself as so intellectually superior to everyone else on here that I couldn't possibly imagine you not being the managing director of your own company and hence in charge of everyone you work with
Ever stopped to ask yourself why she may have done that
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