That's it - I quit
Dec. 5th, 2023 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asphaltcowgrrlI know this isn't a healthy attitude to have, but I am so done.
On a daily basis, I'm asked to do things for other people in this office that they could easily do themselves. Things that likely would have taken less time to do than it took to send me that email. However, when I ask one of them for help? Whole other story.
Case in point:
Me: Hey, could you give me an estimated amount for the rental company on this job?
Him: Can't you just run a cost report?
Me: I could, but I thought you might have had a number you used for the original bid.
Him: There's a line item on the proposal for $12,000 but I know that's not right. I don't know how to estimate rentals for a job.
Ooookaaay. So you know that $12k isn't right, but you can't estimate what is? And let's not forget that this is the dude that thinks he knows the price of everything ever used to plumb. He's forever telling me, "I don't know where you got that price, but it's not right." Um, off the supplier invoice? "Oh, they didn't bill us correctly." Nah, dude, you just think you know it all.
Two things I probably ought to note here. First, I couldn't actually run a cost report at that moment because I couldn't get into Quickbooks to do so. Second, the rental company's website is down for maintenance so I can't get in there either. Which is the reason why I had emalied him in the first place. Learned my lesson though. Forget asking him anything ever again. And if I under or over estimate in the future? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And I'm sorry that my first post in two months is... this.
Hoping all y'all are having a better day.
On a daily basis, I'm asked to do things for other people in this office that they could easily do themselves. Things that likely would have taken less time to do than it took to send me that email. However, when I ask one of them for help? Whole other story.
Case in point:
Me: Hey, could you give me an estimated amount for the rental company on this job?
Him: Can't you just run a cost report?
Me: I could, but I thought you might have had a number you used for the original bid.
Him: There's a line item on the proposal for $12,000 but I know that's not right. I don't know how to estimate rentals for a job.
Ooookaaay. So you know that $12k isn't right, but you can't estimate what is? And let's not forget that this is the dude that thinks he knows the price of everything ever used to plumb. He's forever telling me, "I don't know where you got that price, but it's not right." Um, off the supplier invoice? "Oh, they didn't bill us correctly." Nah, dude, you just think you know it all.
Two things I probably ought to note here. First, I couldn't actually run a cost report at that moment because I couldn't get into Quickbooks to do so. Second, the rental company's website is down for maintenance so I can't get in there either. Which is the reason why I had emalied him in the first place. Learned my lesson though. Forget asking him anything ever again. And if I under or over estimate in the future? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And I'm sorry that my first post in two months is... this.
Hoping all y'all are having a better day.
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Date: 2024-03-21 11:39 pm (UTC)I'm sure. My worst annoyance is when the bookkeeper (who is across the hall from me) calls me. Like you couldn't walk across the hall??
Yeees. I even have a "private" entrance. My office unfortunately is a dumping ground so it's difficult to work in there.
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Date: 2024-03-28 09:45 pm (UTC)These guys do that to me and I have a wall and a door between us. And they get mad when I don't hear them? Confession: sometimes I do hear them and ignore them because why should I go to them?