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You can not reserve the ping pong table
The site I'm at today has a ping-pong table and a foosball table in the "cafeteria." I put "cafeteria" in quotes because it's actually a multi-purpose room that has one end split off for use as a large lunch room, and the rest is conference rooms. These game tables are for employee use and are first-come, first-serve.
Yet despite this supposedly common-knowledge fact, someone came down to the reception desk and actually started a bit of argument with the regular receptionist over trying to "book" that room.
OK, yes, you can book conference rooms via Outlook. Yes, sometimes they do take down the room dividers in the cafe and expand the room to full size to do big catered lunches/meetings, but these are rare and are company-level functions; you can't just ask for that and get it, which is why that option is NOT in Outlook!
Saying "but so-and-so asked me to book the foosball table and ping-pong table" simply doesnt' cut it. If so-and-so wants to use the tables, they'll have to mosey on down to the cafe during off-peak hours. Stop arging about this.
No, seriously....STOP ARGUING.
Stop it.
STOP!!!
Oh good, your phone rang and you left to take the call.
Jeeze what in idio----hey! You finisht he call and come back to argue some more! For God's sake go and talk to the facilities manager!
GO AWAY!!!!
So how did you think it worked??
One thing that we do very frequently here at this particular site is make custom 2-part and 3-part carbonless forms. Usually at least 2 or 3 orders per day.
They're pretty simple to make. You just print them on the appropriate paper stock, then stack them up on the padding frame and brush on the adhesive. The only catch is it takes a few hours for the glue to set fully, and we only have one padding frame, so unless it's a rush job we'll usually wait to see if more orders come in before tying up the frame for one job.
So anyway, a job popped up in the queue for 200 sets of a 2-part form. No biggie. I had it printed and ready to be glued within 10 minutes of receiving the order. And since it wasn't due until Friday, I let it sit to wait for more orders.
Fast forward a few hours. I'm on my own because the site maanger had to go to a meeting. The receiving doorbell rang, so I got up to open the door (it was just the paper recycling guys; they didn't need any help or signatures from me). When I came back, some guy had walzed into the production area and was about to help himself to the (unfinished) forms!
Guy: Oh, uh....can I take these?
Me: They aren't done yet.
Guy: Huh? They look done.
Me: They haven't been glued yet.
Guy: You have to glue them??
Me: Um....yeah, we do.
Guy: Oh, I thought they came already stuck together....*walks off*
Ok dude, first of all, you don't just waltz into the production area. I know it's technically not off-limits, but it's too close to walking into someone's cubicle for it to not be rude.
Second, you said the job was due Friday, which is 3 days from now. What's the damn rush?
Third.....how do you think these things work? They're CARBONLESS. We can't just print the top page and have the text also appear miraculously on the other pages.
Nor could we run pre-glue forms through the machine without it jamming badly.
Some people.....
The site I'm at today has a ping-pong table and a foosball table in the "cafeteria." I put "cafeteria" in quotes because it's actually a multi-purpose room that has one end split off for use as a large lunch room, and the rest is conference rooms. These game tables are for employee use and are first-come, first-serve.
Yet despite this supposedly common-knowledge fact, someone came down to the reception desk and actually started a bit of argument with the regular receptionist over trying to "book" that room.
OK, yes, you can book conference rooms via Outlook. Yes, sometimes they do take down the room dividers in the cafe and expand the room to full size to do big catered lunches/meetings, but these are rare and are company-level functions; you can't just ask for that and get it, which is why that option is NOT in Outlook!
Saying "but so-and-so asked me to book the foosball table and ping-pong table" simply doesnt' cut it. If so-and-so wants to use the tables, they'll have to mosey on down to the cafe during off-peak hours. Stop arging about this.
No, seriously....STOP ARGUING.
Stop it.
STOP!!!
Oh good, your phone rang and you left to take the call.
Jeeze what in idio----hey! You finisht he call and come back to argue some more! For God's sake go and talk to the facilities manager!
GO AWAY!!!!
So how did you think it worked??
One thing that we do very frequently here at this particular site is make custom 2-part and 3-part carbonless forms. Usually at least 2 or 3 orders per day.
They're pretty simple to make. You just print them on the appropriate paper stock, then stack them up on the padding frame and brush on the adhesive. The only catch is it takes a few hours for the glue to set fully, and we only have one padding frame, so unless it's a rush job we'll usually wait to see if more orders come in before tying up the frame for one job.
So anyway, a job popped up in the queue for 200 sets of a 2-part form. No biggie. I had it printed and ready to be glued within 10 minutes of receiving the order. And since it wasn't due until Friday, I let it sit to wait for more orders.
Fast forward a few hours. I'm on my own because the site maanger had to go to a meeting. The receiving doorbell rang, so I got up to open the door (it was just the paper recycling guys; they didn't need any help or signatures from me). When I came back, some guy had walzed into the production area and was about to help himself to the (unfinished) forms!
Guy: Oh, uh....can I take these?
Me: They aren't done yet.
Guy: Huh? They look done.
Me: They haven't been glued yet.
Guy: You have to glue them??
Me: Um....yeah, we do.
Guy: Oh, I thought they came already stuck together....*walks off*
Ok dude, first of all, you don't just waltz into the production area. I know it's technically not off-limits, but it's too close to walking into someone's cubicle for it to not be rude.
Second, you said the job was due Friday, which is 3 days from now. What's the damn rush?
Third.....how do you think these things work? They're CARBONLESS. We can't just print the top page and have the text also appear miraculously on the other pages.
Nor could we run pre-glue forms through the machine without it jamming badly.
Some people.....
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