How much time do you waste fixing errors made by other people?

[WoundedWallet]

I'm at a breaking point(thanks god my vacation started today).

I'm either having the worst luck ever or nobody cares anymore on performing their job right. Right now I have a list of fixings that takes most of my free time and extra brain cycles.

From the bank to the phone company, from the mechanic to the landlady... it's such a waste of time trying to get things to be the way the were supposed to be the first time around.

Is it just me or is the trend towards "screw it" picking up steam? Can I sue people for wasting my precious time in this beautiful Earth? I want my free time to myself!!! Bastards.

 

[amnesiac]

WHere I work, the morning shift usually has nothing to do except get stuff ready for the evening crew. Duties involve pulling cakes from the freezer, cleaning, stocking dishes, etc.

Every time I get to work, NOTHING is done. I know exactly who the guilty party is, too. If I have to do any extra work tomorrow, her head will be mounted on a stick.

 

[WoundedWallet]

Amnesiac, do you work at USC's cafeteria?

 

[nullshark]

amnesiac 2.0, after you mount her head on the stick, put it in the freezer. Then you can lick it like a lolipop all day (serving as a warning to others)

 

[Missus]

That's my job...

 

[TwoFace]

<rant> Too damn much :| At work, friends that ask for advice with their computers and then don't follow the advice I give then they want ME to fix it, all kinds of stuff at work and nevermind I won't bother ya'll with anymore of that </rant>

All in all maybe like an hour/day on average? I don't know, must be something like that...

Two-Face
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[(M)]

My Job: SAP business analyst.

I have 3000 users who do nothing but screw things up all day...Job security forever

 

[iamwiz82]

I'm a network tech at a company which is in the process of implementing SAP. I have pretty good job security too.

This is my highlight from yesterday. A girl had an extremely important log file which she has been filling since 1/1/01 and yesterday, i get a call from her saying that the file was missing. It was called incoming2001.xls. I go searching through her personal files on the the network, no luck. I searched her workstation, no luck. I gave up and told her she might have ot remake it. She whined and whined, and finally it dawned on her. It was named metal22001.xls, no incoming2001.xls.


YOU WOULD THINK AFTER A MONTH AND A HALF OF USE, SHE WOULD KNOW THE DAMNED FILES NAME!!!

::gets gun::

 

[SpongeBob]

I work in an engineering department with a lot of older people and the thing that bothers me is that instead of trying to figure out how to do something on their computer first, they come to me and ask me to show them how. I mean seriously, it makes me feel good to figure something out instead of having someone show me how to do it, plus noone else's time is wasted. Plus these people are engineer's, granted they're old but they are supposed to be problem solvers. Sheesh!

 

[Missus]

Isn't it great to be a fix-it-upper???

I know.... I know...
Not all the time...

 

[Modeps]

quite a lot. Ive been working on a flash help file for a product we are making for the past week (~7 hours a day, every day). Just yesterday, a co-worker just decided to chage one part of the product (which we agreed beforehand that was set the way it was)... now this part is in every single helpfile that i've made. so i had to update them all yesterday, taking away 2 precious hours that i could have been doing other things... grr...

now this isnt necesarrily a real mistake, but its a mistake for him to have changed it without telling anyone.