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[quote=Schneed10;801647]Excel is a way of life. If you know how to use it to your advantage it practically does your job for you.[/quote]

Excel is the best invention ever.

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[quote=Schneed10;801646]EQ, congrats man.[/quote]

Thanks man, I appreciate it

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Talking about work I just found out I won a trip to this place on the Chesapeake Bay but I'm not sure if I will go or not.

[URL="http://www.chesapeakebay.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp"]Cambridge Maryland Hotels, Eastern Shore- Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay- Cambridge MD Hotel[/URL]

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Well I had to go in on my day off because one of my employees forgot to ring up a 360. Welcome to Gamestop.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;801699]Well I had to go in on my day off because one of my employees forgot to ring up a 360. Welcome to Gamestop.[/quote]


I am assuming you had to fire him.

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[quote=firstdown;801679]Talking about work I just found out I won a trip to this place on the Chesapeake Bay but I'm not sure if I will go or not.

[url=http://www.chesapeakebay.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp]Cambridge Maryland Hotels, Eastern Shore- Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay- Cambridge MD Hotel[/url][/quote]

If you don't want to go you can donate the trip to me.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;801699]Well I had to go in on my day off because one of my employees forgot to ring up a 360. Welcome to Gamestop.[/quote]

When I bought mine two and a half months ago none of the 5 closest GameStops had ANY of the models.

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[quote=mredskins;801701]I am assuming you had to fire him.[/quote]

No I didn't have to because we called the customer who was nice enogh to come back and pay for it but I did write her up for it. After reviewing the tape its clear she didn't mean to but she should have noticed the total wasnt right.

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[quote=CrazyCanuck;801673]Excel is the best invention ever.[/quote]

Id like to know HTF business worked without Excel. I mean just for reporting purposes its phenonmenal. how many people did it take before Excel came along to do those jobs?

Congrat EQ on the store, nice.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;801699][B]Well I had to go in on my day off[/B] because one of my employees forgot to ring up a 360. Welcome to Gamestop.[/quote]

Welcome to salaried management.

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[quote=GMScud;801787]Welcome to salaried management.[/quote]

Yeah he's lucky to have a "Day Off"

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[quote=skinsfaninok;801801]Yeah he's lucky to have a "Day Off"[/quote]

I get called at least twice on my "day off"

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[quote=Chico23231;801786]Id like to know HTF business worked without Excel. I mean just for reporting purposes its phenonmenal. how many people did it take before Excel came along to do those jobs?

Congrat EQ on the store, nice.[/quote]

Thanks man, I appreciate it, I worked hard for it and its cool to finally get noticed.

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[quote=EARTHQUAKE2689;801748]No I didn't have to because we called the customer who was nice enogh to come back and pay for it but I did write her up for it. After reviewing the tape its clear she didn't mean to but she should have noticed the total wasnt right.[/quote]

Yeah, that would be a huge red flag you'd think.

No wonder why you're not having luck with the female employees lol

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[quote=firstdown;801679]Talking about work I just found out I won a trip to this place on the Chesapeake Bay but I'm not sure if I will go or not.

[url=http://www.chesapeakebay.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp]Cambridge Maryland Hotels, Eastern Shore- Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay- Cambridge MD Hotel[/url][/quote]
Nice place from what I've heard. Great golf course on-site (with more courses within a short drive), good fishing on the Choptank. You're about an hour from MD/DE Beaches, and an hour and a half from DC or Baltimore.

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What's up with leaving your mobile on your desk, then going to lunch for an hour? Alarms and calls going off every 5 f'ing minutes. I'm about to pull the battery on this clown's phone.

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[quote=BleedBurgundy;801961]What's up with leaving your mobile on your desk, then going to lunch for an hour? Alarms and calls going off every 5 f'ing minutes. I'm about to pull the battery on this clown's phone.[/quote]

I turn the ringer volume down on co-workers' phones all the time. I hate that.

Women have the worst ringtones too.

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My employee's are told to cut off their cell phones before they start the day. Its not very professional having a customer sitting in front of you and your cell phone ringing. I have a mgr who came to my office for a quick meeting and got up 4 times to answer his cell and I could tell 2 were personal. The 4th time it went off he walked to the back of the office and I went out the front door leaving for lunch.

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[quote=firstdown;801969]My employee's are told to cut off their cell phones before they start the day. Its not very professional having a customer sitting in front of you and your cell phone ringing. I have a mgr who came to my office for a quick meeting and got up 4 times to answer his cell and I could tell 2 were personal. The 4th time it went off he walked to the back of the office and I went out the front door leaving for lunch.[/quote]


They are not to load up Excel either now that would be extremely unprofessional if they do so!

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Firstdown Insurance, how may I help you?


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[quote=BleedBurgundy;801961]What's up with leaving your mobile on your desk, then going to lunch for an hour? Alarms and calls going off every 5 f'ing minutes. I'm about to pull the battery on this clown's phone.[/quote]

Ugh tell me about it. This woman in the cubicle next to me used to leave her phone on all the time like that, and one of her ringtones was this annoying scream. Real professional when you're on a call and there's a screaming ringtone going off in the background. :doh:

I always keep my ringer off at work. In fact I keep my ringer off 99% of the time unless I'm expecting an important call.

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[quote=tryfuhl;801849]Yeah, that would be a huge red flag you'd think.

No wonder why you're not having luck with the female employees lol[/quote]


I gave her another shot but if anything happens like that again< it is over for her. I am a pretty leanant manager but WTF? That you should pick up on.

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sir your total for those 2 games and xbox 360 is 120

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/c4RWh.jpg[/IMG]

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[quote=tryfuhl;802029]sir your total for those 2 games and xbox 360 is 120

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/c4RWh.jpg[/IMG][/quote]

LOL Now thats funny.

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[quote=skinsfaninok;801801]Yeah he's lucky to have a "Day Off"[/quote]

Yeah, I do something work-related with the business I run 7 days a week. I'm not there everyday, but on my "days off" I have at least 2 phone calls a day with my assistant. It's just how it goes.

However when I go to Florida the first week of June for my 1 year wedding anniversary, I'm telling everyone that unless there's a freaking 4 alarm crisis, leave me the eff alone.

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^ I told them the same thing as far as my wedding is concerned Scud. If I get one unnecessary phone call everyone is getting fired.

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The lady in my office who I mentioned before that doesn't know jack about Excel. She tripped coming out of her cube this morning and when she tired to get up she ripped the loudest fart that I have heard in a long time.

Seriously people where turning blue trying to hold in the laughter.

Made my morning.

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We have a loudspeaker system at work. (I work in a housing products factory) If you dial 77 you can speak directly into the loudspeaker system so you can page people. Often times people will do it accidentally or page someone and not hang up the phone properly, then you get to listen to office conversations and people singing to themselves over the loudspeaker. One day I heard a guy singing nursery rhymes to himself. If you are in the front office you cannot hear the loudspeakers out in the plant so you have no idea you are live.

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[quote=mredskins;802106]The lady in my office who I mentioned before that doesn't know jack about Excel. She tripped coming out of her cube this morning and when she tired to get up she ripped the loudest fart that I have heard in a long time.

Seriously people where turning blue trying to hold in the laughter.

Made my morning.[/quote]

lol that woman might as well go home and go back to bed

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[quote=Mattyk;802128]lol that woman might as well go home and go back to bed[/quote]


I think she did! I have not seen her since her morning fart! LOL!

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[quote=mredskins;802106]The lady in my office who I mentioned before that doesn't know jack about Excel. She tripped coming out of her cube this morning and when she tired to get up she ripped the loudest fart that I have heard in a long time.

Seriously people where turning blue trying to hold in the laughter.

Made my morning.[/quote]

I love this.

There's a guy in our office who must have some sort of GI problem because I hear him audibly fart just about any time I'm around him for more than 30 minutes at a time. It never stinks though.

It's like he's sucking plain air into his ass and blasting it out for kicks.

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I started with my company 3.5 years ago and they've been talking about moving into a new building the entire time and today it's finally happening. Should be pretty interesting.

I went in yesterday for a few hours to set up my desk and catch up on some stuff (we had to be out by noon on Friday for the movers, which made for an epic happy hour). The new place is a lot nicer than where we were IMO, but I guarantee I'm going to have to listen to people bitching for various reasons for the new few months or so since some people really can't handle change.

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I guess people will find out about my workplace when the book comes out tomorrow

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Newt????

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Starting mid June I will temporarily be working from an apartment in Norther Virginia for 3 months and if all goes well I will be working out of an apartment in Doha Qatar for 2 to 3 years. I will finally be free from The Office!

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Wow, that's huge. You might get to see Qatar for a few years as they prepare for the 2022 World Cup.

Is this move tied to your career or that of your fiancee/wife...or both your careers?

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[quote=SmootSmack;804114]Wow, that's huge. You might get to see Qatar for a few years as they prepare for the 2022 World Cup.

Is this move tied to your career or that of your fiancee/wife...or both your careers?[/quote]

It's tied to my wife's. She is in the final stages of landing a job with Al-Jazeera English. I'm excited about working from anywhere in the world and make my own work schedule.

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That's fantastic. Al Jazeera English is very underrated in my opinion. I'd love to spend a few years working abroad

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My new/old workplace pet peeve are the stupid fake emails going around that such and such household product will kill you or that America is now mainly Spanish speaking. Just stupid stuff. I love to reply with a Snopes link that dispels it. I always put the link and a FYI.

Funny thing is they get mad when I do that. OK sorry continue to live in your make beleive world email world.

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[quote=mredskins;806532]My new/old workplace pet peeve are the stupid fake emails going around that such and such household product will kill you or that America is now mainly Spanish speaking. Just stupid stuff. I love to reply with a Snopes link that dispels it. I always put the link and a FYI.

Funny thing is they get mad when I do that. OK sorry continue to live in your make beleive world email world.[/quote]

It's time to fire off a reply that titled "Unsubscribe."