While we're on the subject of work.........

My personel pet peeve at the PO is management. Not all of it, but most of it. Here are a couple examples that explain why:

1) While working on a (management induced) computer communications problem on a machine, I first had one manager looking over my shoulder. His boss came over, and after about 1/2 hour they started to ask me when the machine was going to be fixed. Then the plant manager came over and started asking me the same set of questions that my immediate supervisor had asked me. Then they got offended when I said " I don't know when it's going to be back up, but the sooner you leave the more time I'll have to work on it."

2) When 5 people out of a 25 person department ask for the same tool to be purchased for the shop, the proper response should be "I'll see if we have the money in the budget for it" or "Okay, I'll go talk to the plant manager about it." Instead, the postal response is "Have you guys all been talking about this together? I told employee x last week we don't need one, now all of you are trying to get the same thing. Sorry, it ain't working!"