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19 January 2009

10 Things = Frustration

  1. When one team member doesn’t want to play.
  2. Managing your workload from home when you don’t have everything you need.
  3. When e-mail gets complicated and you lose a critical e-mail in a subfolder.
  4. Checking your e-mail account after coming back from vacation.
  5. When the Receptionist, or a co-worker, transfers a call without letting you know they are sending it. You usually answer according to what you see on the display and say “Hi”, thinking it is an internal call, but they are transferring an outside call so you end up sounding unprofessional.
  6. Meeting documents: some people have it printed single sided and others double sided. It is very hard to follow along when not all members have the document printed the same way. It is comical watching everyone trying to sort out which way to hold the paper.
  7. E-mail address memory: when it's not who you want to send it to, but you press send anyway.
  8. Imposing recognition of birthdays on everyone in the office whether you want to or not.
  9. My default is black and white, but my printer's default is colour.
  10. A boss who procrastinates (I hope my boss is reading this)...