Bonus notes
What annoys you at work? Feel free to add your resolution to the list.
2. I will not monopolize meetings or conference calls - My day always started with two conference calls. By the time the calls were done, a big chunk of my work day was gone. I led one of the conference calls. Had I to do it all over again I would keep the conference call short and sweet. More than half of the time we spent on the phone was wasted with trivialities.
3. I promise not to grumble about the paperwork - If ever there was a legitimate reason to grumble about paperwork it was the daily status updates that we had to provide. Maybe I could have used the time preparing the updates to reflect on my work-day. It provided nothing helpful to my job at hand.
5. I will not push other people's buttons. You know the buttons I am talking about, politics, religion or who is going to win American Idol - whatever issue raises the blood pressure of the intended victim.
6. I will not refuse to help others this year - How is helping others annoying? It isn't. What is annoying is the person you ask to help you and puts you off. There is always urinal-time, but please don't talk to me there. I can only do one thing at a time. And that is definitely out if Junior is of the alternate sex. (I'm really sinking low here - bathroom humor!)
7. I promise not to badmouth Microsoft - Just for the record, I like Vista. It's really annoying though to hear the same person vent the same broken-record complaints while at work.
9. I will not bring the cheap stuff - I admit to eating the sugary donuts and paying the price with a lousy sugar high and sugar crash.
10. I will put off that project again this year - Who knows? Maybe a little reverse psychology will work.
As always, I will be popping in occasionally to answer any questions and add to the discussion when I have something intelligent to say.
