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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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co workers who drive you batty
We all have them, you know what I mean.
I have to vent, I have this one woman same age as me, who has been working where I work for about the same amount of time, well she drives me batty on a daily basis!!!
she SLAMS stuff around, scares the daylights out of me all the time. Now she has moved back to our area and I told her, if you are sitting next to me, THERE IS NO SLAMMING of any kind, well she did watch herself, and just today she has taken on slammer her ruler on the desk ughhhh she makes me
I am giving her till the end of the day to stop!!
thanks for listening! and do tell your crazy co-worker stories!!
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Oh, that's annoying!
Thankfully, I don't have any crazy co-workers! The only thing that drives me crazy is the men seem to always slam the door when they leave - if they would just pull it closed it works just as well!
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Oh, that's annoying!
Thankfully, I don't have any crazy co-workers! The only thing that drives me crazy is the men seem to always slam the door when they leave - if they would just pull it closed it works just as well!
I have one of those co-workers also. Always a smartmouth, always coming in to my office like Kramer from Seinfeld, slurps his soup and chews gum like a cow.
The one who drives me batty is the nurse I work with who is divorced and spends the entire shift LOUDLY bashing her ex-husband who happens to be a physician at the very same hospital! Not only is it annoying, but it is extremely unprofessional.
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I've learned that I have a very low tolerance for those who sit near me. Lately it's been this lady who is a gossip and a martyr and she's always making things out to be like I'm NOT in-the-know, when either a) I don't care, or b) I oftentimes know MORE than she does but I keep my mouth buttoned. But it just sort of ticks me off that she thinks she knows more than I do.
I have a very cozy corner at work, and yesterday she informed me that she's moving into it. ARRRRGGH!
First - sorry about Ms. Slammypants! That would drive me crazy too...
Not really sure where to start with my office - keep in mind I work in a counseling center with a bunch of counselors and psychologists. The main 2 that drive me crazy are Hammy and Clueless.
If you ever saw the movie Over the Hedge then you know the crazy squirrel Hammy. That's this woman. She is constantly coming down to talk to me, constantly. "Are you busy, Can I tell you something? Can I ask you something? What are you doing?". I don't have a door I can close, I'm the front desk person, the person who takes care of 7 others' schedules, and the person who, when she has a free minute, is probably working on our huge waiting list, trying to staff clients, doing some project for my boss, multitasking on 15 things, trying to post on here so...what am I doing? Seriously?
The second one is Clueless - C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S. She's about to get her Ph.D. (not sure how) and she is soooooo spacey! She doesn't do drugs - but imagine if you worked with someone who was always on drugs....
Me: "Hey ___, did you ask the client about ___"
Her: "What?"
Me: "Remember before your session I mentioned ____ and you needed to do ____"
Her: "You did? Huh.....Oops" (keep in mind, it was 50 minutes earlier).
The boss who thought everyone was taking her stuff and talking about her. "Is that a Sharpie in your drawer? I used to have one of those. Did you go into my office and take that?" She would sneak down the halls and lurk outside offices trying to catch people talking about her. The guy down the hall threatened to put up one of those big mirrors so he could see if she was lurking. It was so tempting to quit.
Don't get me started on "speaker phone lady" in the office next to my desk. I started using my speaker phone to check messages and her speaker phone use has gone way down! Guess she she got a taste of her own medicine!
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I am so glad I have a door I can close, for now!
I used to have to sit with a group of people that would just chitty-chat ALL DAY!
I was very hard for me to just sit there and watch them not work all day long!
I grabbed the first opportunity to change job location!
You guys are going to love this. We have 3 nosey office workers here...one is REALLY bad and she is the IT lady. Everytime one of the 3 walk by my desk they look at what I am doing on my computer. So I put a plant in a Strategic place on my desk so you can't see my computer screen when you walk by. Our office manager said I should make a "plant fort".
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I have the three stooges sitting right near me. One guy still calls everyone "dude" and "dog" and refers to everything as being awesome. Another guy at 3:30 sharp every afternoon talks to his wife on his cell phone at least 5 times until he leaves. What a nag (and I don't even know her). The third one constantly giggles like a little girl all day long.
When we move the office I'm hoping not to be anywhere near these people.
Sorry about the slammer. That would be annoying for me as well.
Since I now work from home, I don't have any co-workers that have annoying habits in my face anymore. I only hear from them on weekely conference calls and through email. It's made my life a lot less stressful in that respect. It's just me and my dog during the day....can you count her barking everytime she hears the mailman open our mailbox?
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LOL you guys have me cracking up
Dawn you are very lucky not to have any annoying coworkers. I'd rather be with my pet all day too.
Rachel, so sorry your cozy corner is being invaded nothing worse than that!! ugh
I feel your pain.
Oh and speaking of people calling out on personal business all the time, we have this one girl who calls out every monday!! so I call mondays for her Migrane Mondays, if she calls out tuesdays, its terrible tuesdays, whacky wednesday, cant think of a thrusday one and frightful fridays. she has NO SICK time left , its only april, she is out today too.
She actually got docked in November all her days were gone.
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- keep in mind I work in a counseling center with a bunch of counselors and psychologists. The main 2 that drive me crazy are Hammy and Clueless. 
so...what am I doing? Seriously?
It was so tempting to quit.
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for you!
Everytime one of the 3 walk by my desk they look at what I am doing on my computer. So I put a plant in a Strategic place on my desk so you can't see my computer screen when you walk by. Our office manager said I should make a "plant fort". 
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