Do you keep the supply cabinet full?

[gee4]

Cathy,

The original title of this topic was, do you keep the supply cabinet full.  My answer is yes, but obviously it's not good enough based on what I have posted above. 

It seems the more I do, the less people are satisfied.

If my boss said he was at the wrong restaurant, first and foremost it would likely be after hours and he would not able to contact me.  Secondly that's never happened with anyone I have worked for and if it did, I could only assist during office hours. 

Like I said I'm a PA, I do my job and provide the information that is asked of me.  It's not my job to take anyone by the hand and lead them to where they are supposed to be.

It's not mistakes these individuals make per se, it's lack of common sense.

[officepa]

Gee - this thread veered off course a little from your original posting, I believe, when you posted, I thought, rather mockingly, about the chap who wanted a blue pen and you likenend him to a numpty. You then went on to say he should be grateful he has a job and shouldn't care about what colour his pen was, dole queue etc.

I found this connection of wanting a blue pen and dole queue, well, strange.  It went from one extreme to another and I still don't really understand your train of thought over, what I would deem, a trivial matter.

As I said previously, we all probably come across people in our offices who we class as annoying and who we may think are not up to our ideal office colleague but irritating as they may be, that is how they are. Perhaps we do things that others class as annoying but we wouldn't be aware, would we?

It would be a different matter if someone was not doing their job properly and had a 'couldn't be bothered' attitude (perhaps as in Cathy S posting over travel) then yes, you would definately have something to complain about.

I suppose you could flip it and say that you should be grateful you have a job even if you have to deal with people you feel are simply not up to your standards. If you were on a dole queue (which I have been)you may wish you had your job even if you felt people you worked with annoying.

[gee4]

Susan,

I did explain it.  A pen v having a job...simple really, don't look a gifthorse in the mouth.

Be thankful for what you have and don't be selfish enough to ask for something else when you can do your job very well with the tools you have been given.

I would love a new pc in work, I would love a car-parking space but I don't whinge about it.  I'm grateful to have a job so those things are not a priority.

This individual and others don't realise when they are well off.  Griping about a pen made me think of standing in the dole queue when I didn't a job or a workplace to go to every day.

Some people have never been to the school of hard knocks, once you have, you are thankful for everything you have.

Like I said I could look over it if there were no pens in the cupboard, but that is not the case.

It's true, the more people have, the more they want or think they should have.