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[tmercenary.livejournal.com]

Company Executive support line rings. This line is for Executives in a large fortune 500 corporation, and their executive assistants to facilitate and expedite issues so that the top brass of the company isn't experiencingdowntime with computer hardware/software. Most tech's/phone monkey's assigned to this queue freak out when the phone rings, not knowing if it is our CEO, A high up Vice president, or a member of the board of directors calling in. Me, guess I'm to jaded to care who anyone thinks they are.
The Call:

User: Someone emailed me a spreadsheet, but it is password protected and I don't know the password.
Me: Email them or call them back and ask for the password.
User: Ok, guess I'll do that.


And this from the supposed best and brightest of corporate Amerika. Seriously, we can hire anyone in the world we want, and we chose YOU. Please act like you deserve the seven figure salary we pay you. (Don't deny it, I have access to the HR databases.)

Comments

[nawlins-penguin.livejournal.com]

Amen to that.

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Then again, as the saying goes, "If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom." Methinks that most people in high places got there by who they know, not what they know.