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There are a number of my co-workers that need to be reminded how to properly take a phone message:

Send an email. 
 Send an email. Don’t get up, scribble an illegible message with no date or time, walk all the way over here and drop it on my desk where I won’t see it and it gets [...]

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I have a message to call my least favorite admin, who waffles indecisively and has one of those “what if?” guys, as in “What if I fly to Nanjing instead of Shanghai? What if I stop in Munich before Milan?” What if you tell me no more changes and I issue the ticket?? Grr.

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I confess that I’m not a nice, forgiving person.
I grumble and swear under my breath at work all the time.
The last hour of my day, I am even less forgiving and more grumbly, because I resent anything that slows me down and prevents me from getting done those things that cannot be left undone.
There are certain [...]

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I don’t pay much attention to what goes on around me at work - I have enough to do trying to maintain focus and stay on task without getting into dishing the dirt much about colleagues. But sometimes, a topic just begs to be explored.
Yesterday, a co-worker who’s now a kind of tech services/general upgrades [...]

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We’ve been home for a week, and our two-week vacation has become a memory. All this week, we’ve been getting up, going to work, coming home, catching up with shows on TiVo, catching up with reading, catching up with Riley.
For me, work wasn’t so much catching up as deleting a bunch of unwanted emails and [...]

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