Rantings of Newt

Petty in the work place

So, a co-worker asked me today to help him respond to an email he had received. We have a training room in the new company campus. The campus is freak'n huge. And there is a main parking lot and then a smaller for the back entrance. We have been using the room since the beginning of the year. On average we have out of town guests so at most we have 2-3 people that actually drive to work. The rest are brought to the building via hotel shuttle. Well, my co-worker (K) received a nasty email from a admin. assistant that informed him that due to that side of the building being completely filled up with offices and personnel now that we shouldn't be parking in that lot.

He responded that very rarely does anyone park there besides himself.

She than shot back an email today informing him that a car pulled into the lot and two men went up to the third floor to our class room. So obviously someone else does use the lot and we are to cease and park in the main lot since space is at a premium.

He was pissed. The woman that sent this nasty message works for the guy that fought tooth and nail to not let us put our training room in that location. (he lost of course)

So basically they are being petty and childish. And what gives anyone on that side of the building parking priority over anyone else?

He started to type his response, had me read it,, then debated sending it. It was polite but firm and basically said that he and any other trainers had the right to park there. But he didn't want to be the one that sounded like a jerk if she escalated his response. So I told him to cool down and respond if he wanted to on Monday. I told him the fact that he is worried about how his response will be taken probably means he shouldn't send it at this time.

We know that K' boss will have a few expletives for the person that sent the email and will tell K not to worry about it. The concern K has is that his boss is one of the busiest people at work and doesn't have time for petty crap. And we both know that the only question that K's boss will have is:

"Why the F*%* does she have so much time in her day that she can afford to sit around the parking lot following people around." "Obviously Mr. Such and such doesn't need an admin assistant if she has that much time on her hands."

Anyway, it's just one of those weird work issues that makes you go WTF?

posted by Newt @ 4:31 PM