How About Letting the Person Who Schedules Your Appointments Know When You’re Going to Be Out of the Office for A Week?

You’d think this one would be pretty obvious, especially for highly educated people, but it’s not.  Nope, not at all.  It’s apparently much more fun to keep your week long seminar a secret from your admin until about three days before you leave.  This way, your admin can have the fun of re-scheduling your entire week.

Just don’t be too surprised when most of these appointments end up re-scheduled for Friday afternoon.  Angry admins will take our revenge how and when we can. 

Speaker Phone

Most days I desperately hope the person who invented speakerphone is leading a miserable, lonely, pain-filled existence.  They deserve it for inflicting the blight of the speaker phone on cubicle dwellers everywhere.

It’s beyond annoying when someone else is trying to listen to their own voicemail messages, but can’t hear them over yours on speakerphone.  Even worse, it’s extremely awkward when someone else is on the phone with a client (you know, actually working) and your extremely personal voicemail messages are blasting into the conversation.

I’m sure someone somewhere thinks that speakerphone is wonderful thing.  It isn’t.  It’s annoying to your fellow cubicle dwellers, especially when you use it every time you check your voicemail.  You really can’t hold the receiver and write down your messages at the same time?  You have serious problems.  And you have no idea how tempting it is to call back and cancel your doctor’s appointments.