Message #4071

[lioness70]

I was the one who vented about people like that.  Don't these people who need their "urgent" copies know you're meeting with the company president?



Well, the president probably made the comment she did because she knew the person was totally out of line-but YOU were the one who handled it professionally.



If it was me, though, I would have said, "Leave them on my desk and I'll make then for you as soon as I'm finished."  I'm one of those who won't let others dictate my priorities.



Last week, my coworker had to leave early, and she supports a very "needy" engineer.  I knew what was going to happen-if I let her, she was going to push her work on me.  I let this needy woman know right off the bat-politely-that I had work that would keep me buy until the end of the day.  She left me alone.  You have to be very assertive with these types, or you'll always be stuck as their babysitter.  Not fun.