My boss is the worst about that. He still hasn't replied to my e-mail requesting contract information that may determine whether or not we will be permitted to keep airing our syndicated frickin' MORNING SHOW that I sent him last friday. The guy, I am convinced, just sits in his office doing drugs. I haven't decided whether that drug is Meth, Adderall, or just regular old Cocaine.
50% of any conversation with him consists of the word "y'know" being used as a placeholder while he gropes for whatever mechanism his brain has misplaced to transcribe his thoughts into speech.
So, y'know, like, y'know, like this? Ugh. Drives me up the wall.
Oh the "y'know" people drive me crazy.
My boss talks over everyone. If you don't
keep talking while he's interrupting you, you'll never get a word in edgewise. There's so much noise, so you have to rely on keywords -often ones that will panic him, like 'behind schedule'- to penetrate to make him stop and take notice that what you're saying might be important. He also works in another city, so it's not like I can just walk to his office and ask him what's up with the email.
Of course, the other thing is, 80% of the time I send him an email where I need information, I get responses like,
"Thanks for this."
Uhm... you're... welcome? What... what is the answer, though? I also can only ask one question per email, because if I get any useful answer, it's only to one of the things I've raised. One time he avoided answering the question about what to set the hourly wage of a new hire at, and it was down to the last two days to get the contract in so the guy would get paid for the first pay period. I was so fed up asking in every email with no answer, I wrote "I'm just going to set it at $60/hr, he seems like a stand-up guy."
THAT made him get me an answer. Maybe I should do that all the time.
