I've made someone cry...

[Zippy]

My fav is, if they go for a run at lunch, find their work clothes and sew their trouser legs up.

[RichardCranium]

She's just spent a lot of time researching transportation arrangements around Europe for stuff and I forgot that I'd asked her to do it and got the information from somewhere else.

She's been really busy too and she put in extra work to find out.

When she gets in:

a) Next time when I ask you to do something, don't leave it that long that I have to do it myself.

b) WTF happened to you yesterday when the rest of had work to do?

c) Don't expect to get paid for 'overtime' when you can't even manage to do your normal hours.

d) You are clearly struggling even to do your little admin job, so either pull your socks up or look for something you can do.

e) And you were seen bunking off yesterday. I covered your arse for you so you owe me one. But dont expect me to do it again.

f) Another little demonstration like yesterday and I'll be seeking a team player to do the work instead, OK?


Those are the sort of things that I have seen said to colleagues by heavyweight project managers and go-getting line managers so they must be the right things to say. They are also the sort of things my wife used to be on the receiving end of before she decided to throw away her career and go self-employed because it involved less crying.

A note on her desk saying you need to speak to her at the first opportunity, and then a sincere apology, are in order.


Unless you're a contractor and she's a permie in which case she resents you for doing the job she thinks she should be doing. Just blank her and make sure you are never alone with her otherwise you'll be up on a trumped-up sexual harassment or discrimination accusation. Been there. Not pretty. But I won.

EDIT:

Cojak is a girl

REALLY??? Well, in that case:

g) "Have you considered HRT Or a hysterectomy? They might save everyone laughing at you when you run out of the office crying. It's disruptive, you know?"

[oracleslave]

Cojak is a girl

Liability by name....

[d000hg]

Obviously, she fancies Cojak and tried really hard to impress - now thinks Cojak doesn't remember she exists.

Is Cojak a boy or a girl?

[NotAllThere]

Fair enough, but how does this warrant her crying in a professional office environment?

Some people take work too seriously. I'd have just got you back some how.

But crying like a girl FFS

I'm sort of siding with RC's caring compassionate suggestion (the first bit, I mean, what the project managers do), otoh, she probably gets about twice the salary of what a Java contractor would get gross with, say, 230 days off-bench; so she's not exactly on "behave professionally" pay.

[oracleslave]

Obviously, she fancies Cojak and tried really hard to impress -

The proportion of lesbian fantasies amongst IT geeks must be higher than just about any other profession. The proportion of IT geeks who have ever had a threesome must be lower than just about any other profession.

[cailin maith]

Liability by name....

Obviously, she fancies Cojak and tried really hard to impress - now thinks Cojak doesn't remember she exists.

Is Cojak a boy or a girl?

Girl - with a major shoe fettish!

[Zippy]

The proportion of lesbian fantasies amongst IT geeks must be higher than just about any other profession. The proportion of IT geeks who have ever had a threesome must be lower than just about any other profession.

I wouldn't say that. Geek + Left hand + mouse = 3 Shirley?

[Spacecadet]

I wouldn't say that. Geek + Left hand + mouse = 3 Shirley?

the best thing about a wireless mouse is that you can switch it to the left hand side when the need takes you and there are no cables to get in the way

[DiscoStu]

The proportion of lesbian fantasies amongst IT geeks must be higher than just about any other profession. The proportion of IT geeks who have ever had a threesome must be lower than just about any other profession.

Does a fivesome count?