Your Friday laugh... courtsey of my Director

[http://users.livejournal.com/shiara_/]

Background: My department is 'the caboose' in the life of an insurance policy and its transactions -- we pay the agent his/her commission. As such, we're involved in all of the help desk tickets and projects, ensuring that the commission calculations are correct (or as correct as they can be), etc.

So, for a new product launch that will be happening shortly, one of the Project Managers asked for time and resource estimates. I spoke with S.P., my ex-director, and she instructed me to provide the time allocation, but instructed me to go to the new director, T.R., for the resource allocation (I'm too lowly of a peon to actually suggest that it will be me as the resource).

After a 'reminder' email to T.R., I received the email below from her about the resource allocation:


-----Original Message-----
From: T.R.
Sent: March 4, 2005 3:29 PM
To: Shiara; J.U.
Cc: S.P., W.D.
Subject: RE: Estimates & Resources for Product

J.U., estimated time requirement is below. Shiara will be the resource for PAS however, we need a schedule and timeline for you as we have many other projects and daily living issues that Shiara is also involved in before we can commit to hitting any dates. Thanks, T.R.


So my question is this: what are daily living issues???? Would that be a polite way of saying that I need a life? Or is that a polite way of saying that I have a life outside of my company, and so she won't commit me to any tight deadlines because I have a life? Or is she commenting on the fact that, as a university student, I'm in class three nights of the week and it's a 'daily living issue'?

Needless to say, I started to giggle and downright chortle when I read that one.

Comments

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

"Daily living issue" sounds a PC term for "mildly retarded."

[http://users.livejournal.com/shiara_/]

I doubt that she's actually saying that I'm mildly retarded, but you never know.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to bet that it's the last one, you have other commitments that restrict you from being available 24/7. specially if they're paying for your classes.

[http://users.livejournal.com/shiara_/]

Considering that the company prides itself in having a 'life outside of work', I have to wonder about the 'daily living issues'. And yes, uni would restrict me from being here 24/7, although I do put in more time than I should already.

No, they're not paying for my uni classes. Some days I wish they would.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

I'd say go all PC ranty and ask them to elaborate on daily living issues

But then again, I'm a shit :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/shiara_/]

I did mention it casually to a few folk in management, so they got the idea that I noticed that little line. I was told that because of my director's heritage, it's just the way she speaks.

The trouble with this thought is that I could be seen as a 'problem employee with issues' by 'just the way she speaks'.

::chanting:: only a year and a half until I'm done my degree and I can get out of here::

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

Might be bastardisasion of "Live issues" that you work on daily.

[http://users.livejournal.com/shiara_/]

That's what it is... it's my director's way of saying "she has a life outside of work".... but I found it funny nonetheless.