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I Feel Like I'm On Office Space

I have eight different bosses right now....So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled...

My life is about like that right now, except I'm actually working, unlike Peter Gibbons. I'm getting pulled in a thousand different directions and the one person who signs my paychecks seems to be (like me) the last person to know about anything as well (so none of this is his fault). Ugh... . More details some other time. Meanwhile, it's time for me to go home... .

Posted by Jake on 05/09/05 @ 05:24 PM
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Patrick said on 05/09/05 @ 10:46 PM:
It's just that we're using a new cover sheet for the TPS reports you did get that memo didn't you?

Oh and I'll make sure you get another copy of the memo. :)

The Dren said on 05/10/05 @ 10:25 AM:
You'll love this then, we use:

Time Processing System (TPS) to track our tickets here.

On purpose, of course.

We start each and every morning by going over our TPS Reports.

No kidding.

-The Dren

Patrick said on 05/10/05 @ 07:04 PM:
Yeah? I got one better. H&R Block has used (since the early 90 possibly early 80s) TPS - Tax Preparation System. It is of course WinTPS these days due to them rolling out Windows based systems in 1999. :)

Patrick's Rants said on 05/11/05 @ 07:59 AM:
If you have seen Office Space you are very familiar with TPS reports. Did you know that TPS has been around for longer than Office Space? TPS has been used by tax preparation company H&R Block since at least the mid to late 90s and possibly even ...
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