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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
bainidhe_dub:
--- Quote from: Redball et al on 07 Mar 2013, 17:43 ---When you come up for air, I hope you talk to him about this. He needs to hear it.
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I did mention it a little later. He apologized, said he'd only gotten home about 15 minutes before me, and had been trying to ask, did I want to do dinner right now or later?, not, go make dinner.
--- Quote from: bainidhe_dub on 07 Mar 2013, 16:15 ---creepy awful guy
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I don't know what's going to happen with this. He doesn't work for us, he's essentially a client, but since I'm in commercial real estate that means he's got a lease with like 5 more years left, he works in the same building as us, and our office exists to assist people like him. My boss is going to call me this morning to ask about what happened yesterday and see what kind of action might be available. Apparently there's some concern about potential vindictive behavior from this guy. Ugh. How do you shut down a smarmy 50-year-old Pakistani who's constantly being either condescending, overly conciliatory, or if you know what I mean whenever he speaks? Who you can't be rude to?
Carl-E:
Some cultural sensitivity training involving handcuffs, a rack and red hot pokers comes to mind.
Papersatan:
arrrgghh. this class project is the worst.
We have a client and we are doing a needs assessment for their users and then a website usability test. We need to send out a survey, but it needs to be approved by the client first, in part because they were going to email it to a list of their past users. I emailed the client a copy of the survey to approve last Friday, she got back to me yesterday morning and wants me to also draft the email she will send. It is spring break so I didn't see the email until today. It is Friday again, so by the time she sees and approves this it will be early next week. The report we are to write with the data from this survey is due next Friday and we were clear in our communication that this had a looming deadline. Also, I assumed they would write a letter introducing us. I am having a hard time drafting this email; do I make it from the organization, from me, from my group? ARRGGHHHH I just want to party.
Carl-E:
From you, as "a consulting group working for X to determine your needs in order to improve customer satisfaction" should work well. If they think it's from the company itself, they may not be comfortable identifying problems, since they don't want to spoil a business relationship. Make sure you say that the results will be anonymous/confidential.
idontunderstand:
Said bye to all the people at the boxing club (going to move to a new city because of the new job) yesterday. It sucked, but it was also nice. There's a special kind of respect between people you've punched in the face while they punched you in the solar plexus. That sounds really stupid but it really isn't. You have to suck it up and realize you've both agreed to getting punched by the other and that, after all the work you've done together, all the jumping ropes and doing thousands and thousands of pushups right next to each other, you're on the same team. It's probably much like being in the army, except you don't spoon each other.
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