Witty (snarky?) Responses: Always have one prepared

[normzone]

As some of you may have noticed I travel in some dysfunctional territories.

I bring my own baggage, no denying it.

I think a QA professional in such a position should always have a couple of canned responses ready for those moments - you know which moments I mean.

Today's is:

" There is no Santa Claus, I am not the Tooth Fairy, and Bambi's mom DOES die. If the person in the QA Manager role only tells you things you like hearing, they are not doing their job ".

Yup, it's one of those days .... again.

 

[Miner]

Do you keep the large economy size bottle of Tylenol/Advil/Aleve/aspirin in your desk drawer? When I worked in automotive, I popped those daily. Not so much now.

 

[normzone]

You mean you can see it from where you're at? I didn't think it was THAT large ....

Retirement won't happen for me, but my fantasy involves finding a relatively low dysfunction outfit close to home. The closer it is, the smaller the second motorcycle can be

 

[howste]

Retirement won't happen for me, but my fantasy involves finding a relatively low dysfunction outfit close to home. The closer it is, the smaller the second motorcycle can be

If you can get a job working at home, this one should take you from the kitchen to the home office...

 

[Michael_M]

Canned Snark response:

When asked "how are you today" by someone how obviously does not care.

"Better than you" is my response. It takes about 5 seconds (longer if they were not really listening to begin with) for this to process.

 

[normzone]

That would make me smile

 

[Ronen E]

" There is no Santa Claus, I am not the Tooth Fairy, and Bambi's mom DOES die. If the person in the QA Manager role only tells you things you like hearing, they are not doing their job ".

Are you saying that your adversaries actually stand there and listen to the whole thing?... If they do, you can at least be thankful for the patience / courtesy around you...

 

[Ronen E]

Do you keep the large economy size bottle of Tylenol/Advil/Aleve/aspirin in your desk drawer? When I worked in automotive, I popped those daily. Not so much now.

We go to work so that we can pay our health expenses, brought about by our work. Makes sense.

 

[Eredhel]

I once worked with a mill guy that was always on the grumpy side of things. The first time he said "Morning" to me I replied with "Good morning" and his response was, "Well let's not start an argument."

 

[Chennaiite]

My Favorite; But not on many occasion one could use this;
"Bottleneck is always at the Top"