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Tggrsluv2bnce · #31 03-21-2004, 02:27 PM

Y'all are so awesome! Thank you everyone for the advice on how to deal with my secretary. I'm definitely going to have a closed door meeting with her tomorrow. I think she was trying to push my buttons to see if I would fire her for that remark so she could tell everyone that was why she was fired. She's really weird ...

honeychile · #32 03-21-2004, 07:25 PM

In response to the Sweet Sixteen, and the fact that a former client of mine wrote this:

Hail to Pitt
Hail to Pitt, hail to Pitt every loyal son
Hail to Pitt, hail to Pitt 'til the victory is won
The gold and blue shall wave forever
On high through fair and stormy weather
We'll sing her praises far and wide
Until the end of time

Hooperay, hooperay for dear old U-N-I
We'll give a grand old alleghenee, genac, genac, genac
We'll wave and cheer for many a year
And sing our songs out loud and clear
For our university.

Let's go Pitt, we're set for victory
So lend a hand, strike up the band!
Let's go Pitt, we're making history
We'll never yield out on the field.
The whistle blows, we're on our toes
The ball is IN the air.
It may be rough the going tough
But always fighting fair so...

texas*princess · #33 03-21-2004, 11:49 PM

bah!

I hate it when people at work give me that "well you're a sorority girl, aren't you supposed to (insert greek sterotype here)"

It just made me so angry when this one guy I work with did it to me and I just said "don't even play that card!"

and then he started going into how being greek was dumb.. blah blah blah... and he hates "fraternity boys".. blah blah.. going on about greek sterotypes and that just really irritated me to no end. I got really defensive and upset and ended up just dropping the subject and walked away... and he said "i just hate greeks because.. I don't know".. and I just said "yea, you don't know" and ended it at that.

AGH

I seriously want a new job.. like now

adpiucf · #34 03-22-2004, 12:01 AM

Texas*Princess, what do you do for work right now?

Here's a suggestion: Go back up to the person and say, "I know kinda got into it back there on Greek Life. Neither of us is going to agree with the other's viewpoint, and that's fine. But can we please leave our opinions about Greek Life at the door when we come into work? I don't want to fight with you, and it makes me really uncomfortable when these debates begin. It gets to a point where it feels like harrassment. I don't want to come to work and feel like I'm being harrassed or forced to defend myself. I'm sure you can appreciate this standpoint, so can we please avoid talking about Greek Life, or our personal opinions of it?"

If it persists, you go to your manager, and tell her that Jimbo is harrassing you in the workplace and making you very uncomfortable. Don't feel like you're being a tattletale-- after all, you'd already established via that prior conversation to him that you felt harrassed.

That should nip it. Harrassment is a hot word.

texas*princess · #35 03-22-2004, 01:19 AM

adpiucf - thanks for the advice

I'm working retail right now and have had several problems with the job recently... one of them being that I'm not making enough to cover rent, dues, bills in general, and a bunch of other stuff. That is really my main reason for wanting to find something else. When the certain co-worker starts talking about me being a "sorority girl" and him hating greeks comes up, it just really wants me to leave sooner... esp. since he will be moving up to a lower-management position soon.

I'm looking for a co-op in my field for summer and/or fall, so hopefully something like that will come through.

Tggrsluv2bnce · #36 03-22-2004, 11:55 AM

adpiucf - you give the best advice!

adpiucf · #37 03-22-2004, 01:24 PM

LOL-- Thanks! People tell me that all the time, but I never seem to be able to look objectively at my own challenges! Go figure

I had a phone interview this morning with a firm in Orlando. Nothing will really be available until later this year, but he said he wanted to keep in touch. Also, we both had the same undergrad adviser (the man is a god in the world of PR!) and so my interviewer asked me to put together some samples of my work, what I'm looking for, and he'll shop around Orlando for me. He says he's happy to do this, because bringing strong people into the Orlando economy eventually comes back to help us all. What a nice guy!

Texas*Princess, what kind of internship are you looking for? I have been in your shoes before! Also, just an idea-- working as a server for a local restaurant is quick cash and helps pay the bills. I did it in undergrad, and who would have thought that future employers would be impressed by that? Serving forces you to think on your feet, stay 2 steps ahead of your customer, multi-task, and work with a team in a highly stressful environment. If you haven't served before, you can find a hostessing position and some often have tip-out where you get a cut of the server's tips for busting your butt!

Back to work... Have a great day

honeychile · #38 03-22-2004, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by adpiucf
LOL-- Thanks! People tell me that all the time, but I never seem to be able to look objectively at my own challenges! Go figure

I had a phone interview this morning with a firm in Orlando. Nothing will really be available until later this year, but he said he wanted to keep in touch. Also, we both had the same undergrad adviser (the man is a god in the world of PR!) and so my interviewer asked me to put together some samples of my work, what I'm looking for, and he'll shop around Orlando for me. He says he's happy to do this, because bringing strong people into the Orlando economy eventually comes back to help us all. What a nice guy!

Texas*Princess, what kind of internship are you looking for? I have been in your shoes before! Also, just an idea-- working as a server for a local restaurant is quick cash and helps pay the bills. I did it in undergrad, and who would have thought that future employers would be impressed by that? Serving forces you to think on your feet, stay 2 steps ahead of your customer, multi-task, and work with a team in a highly stressful environment. If you haven't served before, you can find a hostessing position and some often have tip-out where you get a cut of the server's tips for busting your butt!

Back to work... Have a great day

Good luck on heading back to Florida!

As for serving - I honestly feel that everyone should be one for at least a week! It's one of life's greatest learning experiences - and you'll become a much better client, too! I have the utmost respect for servers, having done it all through school (along with being a tour guide and a valet!).

adpiucf · #39 03-22-2004, 01:31 PM

Tigger,

Just another suggestion about the sitch with your sec'y--

You can tell her that you feel it is inappropriate when one employee calls into question another employee's personal beliefs, and that this has no place in the workplace, whether it is one's extracurricular involvment in the community, political affiliation, religion, personal relationships, etc.

Tell her she crossed a line in questioning your "After hours" work activities, and now that she has been informed this is inappropriate, to please refrain from antagonizing fellow employees about their personal choices, as it is unprofessional.

Also, to question an employer's after hours work activities is insubordinate. The next time she makes an inappropriate remark intended to slur another co-worker's lifestyle choices, she will be written up. Recommend a book on office decorum and etiquette that she must have read by her next review.

Take that!

texas*princess · #40 03-22-2004, 01:50 PM

well I'm really glad I just ruined a perfectly good pair of jeans... for some reason I wanted to fiddle around with my acrylic paints and I got a pretty good sized glob of green on my right leg

skerbow · #41 03-22-2004, 05:56 PM

Sweet heart, some minor paint thinner should take that right now. Don't wash it first.

gently rub it in and then use water to rub it out.

OH!! And if you want a new job that pays incredibly, my POE is hiring.

texas*princess · #42 03-23-2004, 01:08 AM

thanks for the heads up sherra!!! I will be pm'ing you tomorrow morning (really tired right now!)

We just had the MOST fun at the ADPi house this evening!! A bunch of the girls got together to Tae Bo downstairs (since formal *is* this saturday after all! hehehe) We also did a bunch of cardio and other fun exercise stuff. It was just so much FUN!!! I LOVE MY SISTERS!!!

adpiucf · #43 03-23-2004, 02:52 AM

That sounds like fun! Tae-Bo became really big when I was in college. In the weeks before Spring Break, we'd have girls working out in the TV room nonstop to the Tae-Bo tapes!

Chi Omega also had a great Panhellenic Social back then -- they each invited a sorority friend to "Tae-Bo with Chi-O" and had an actual Tae-Bo instructor come to the school gym!

texas*princess · #44 03-23-2004, 05:33 PM

I am pretty sure I just did really bad on my project mgmt exam

adpiucf · #45 03-24-2004, 02:51 AM

your PM box is full!!!!