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the lady in my next cubicle has been on the phone since 10:30 this morning...
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Anonymous
| amazing ability some people possesses. still going. i'm not sure if she ever put down the phone the whole time. so props to the person on the other end as well. |
Anonymous
| Is it a work related? |
Anonymous
| wow! Government job? |
Anonymous
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don't think it's work related - overheard topics include 'self-improvement', 'church', 'kids', 'phone/cable services' etc.
yes it's a Fed job... |
Anonymous
| Sounds like my boss. Spemds hours on the phone every workday "managing her life". On the taxpayers' teat. |
Anonymous
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She is on the phone and you are on here, I guess no one works at your place! I hardly ever surf on this site during work and felt guilty on checking personal email a few times a day. I get really worried every time I see the banner eye sign that reads "Internet use is being monitored" and I heard click click when I talk on the phone so I think that is also being monitored. Call me crazy but I think that will keep me out of trouble!
I am home right now. |
Anonymous
have you talked to someone about the paranoia? |
Anonymous
Nice!!! |
Anonymous
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hooray she just hung up! heading out for a late lunch?
back to work now, 13:16 ... |
Anonymous
| If any of you have nannies who are posting now when you are on the clock and should be working then you have no right to complain that nannies should have no down time. I'm a taxpayer and I think all govt. employees should be working and not posting on DCUM or making or taking personal phone calls at work. Use your cell phone during lunch for business. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like someone I know. Basically gets paid for spending most of the day on personal phone calls, texting, emailing, surfing the web, talking to everyone, eating lunch, coming in late, going home early and creative, if not fraudulent, time keeping. Yep, another government worker. Wish they'd fire her lazy ass. |
Anonymous
| And have another one who is paid waaaaaaaaayyyy too much for watching tv (brought in his own tv) and talking on the phone on personal calls all day. He likes to come in late too. |
Anonymous
| I want a job like that. How do I apply? |
Anonymous
You need to be "special" to get one of those keeper "jobs". |
Anonymous
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I have a job like that. I'm an assistant to a person who doesn't need a lot of assistance. So I knock out the little work I have early, and I am available for anything else that comes up during the day, but I have a lot of downtime. I try to get other tasks from people in the office, but that's hit or miss. And I don't come in late or leave early or take long lunches. I'm always paranoid that something urgent would come up in THAT moment.
Basically, it's not as great as you'd think, to be stuck at a desk for 8 hours a day, with only two hours of work to keep you busy. I much preferred my last job, which was a nice solid amount of (usually) interesting work to do. Seems like everyone I know in DC is in one boat or the other-- either like me, or crazy-stressed-borderline-psychotic busy. There's too little sane middle ground in our current professional world. |