Would it be really unprofessional...

The basic story is that, in short, I really can't tell what exactly this girl does besides occasional HR bullshit. She's also one of the only notaries in the company. I normally don't ask her to notarize anything because she's obnoxious about it--she sends nasty emails bitching about having to, god forbid, spend 4 seconds signing her name and date stamping something. However, the girl I normally use--a very nice and far busier than this other girl person--wasn't around the day I needed something done, so I forwarded the documents to Girl A. Girl A proceeds to lose the documentation and is now bitching me out for even daring to send her the stuff in the first place.

How do you nicely tell someone that A) you are higher than they are in the company B) you don't have time for their bullshit C) you want to stab them in the eye with a tuning fork?

I guess just ignoring the email completely is best.

Tell her straight, although probably keeping the swears to a minimum might be a better way to go. But you are definitely in a position to let her know that you are tired of her crap.

Telling her she's insubordinate is easily the best way to go. You haven't sworn, but you HAVE told her she's not as important as the gum on your shoe and you will do it within earshot of HER boss, who should hear about the silly bitch losing the paperwork too.

Ally's annoying colleague sounds like someone in need of an ego check and, well, insubordination is the official term for what this woman is doing. Swearing at colleagues or offering them out for fights never good, although the fantasy is.

The problem is that, with this company, actually letting someone's supervisor know that their employee is, in a word, shit is about as helpful as stabbing yourself in the ear really hard with a q-tip. Actually, stabbing myself would be more helpful at this point. Her supervisor--the HR manager--mysteriously "never received" a pile of written complaints about another higher up here after an event at a Christmas party in which he went literally slap happy on some employees.

The complaints were signed and filed in her office with her watching.

I'm basically just holding my breath until December 20th, and then I never have to see these people again. I've never, ever in my entire life seen such a crew of completely incompetent, ridiculously overblown creatures in my entire life. No amount of Columbia intelligencia self-importance could even come close to rivaling the amazing amount of fatuous horn-blowing that goes around Millennium. They're too busy screaming about how important and busy they are to notice that the company is going under. Badly and quickly and no one is DOING ANYTHING to stop it cos if they're too busy to sign a notary stamp they're certainly too busy to worry about the fact that every hotel we've built in the past two years has been riddled with mold because we're using an incompetant builder.

They're all so bloody self-impressed but we haven't got one actually solid product to show for it. The hotel sector, which is my division, lost $50 million last year. $50 fucking million! If they'd fire half of these useless gits and either let the competent people work harder or hire even halfway better workers (for example, trained dogs), we'd be in less of a predicament. The problem is that now none of the competent people are willing to do a thing because why bother when you've got other people who haven't worked a full week in two years who get paid three times the salary you do.

This is basically the result of basing an entire hiring practice for a multi-million corporation on the concept of "We only hire very attractive people". Sometimes you need to look at things besides the way a person looks and dresses and they just didn't. At all. And it's very, very obvious with a lot of these people.

Wow that's a long rant. It's only three more months but god does it have to be so unbearable? Would it be more bearable if I didn't realize I was quitting six months ago?

She's not being insubordinate unless she's (a) directly under Ally and (b) employed as a notary public. Since I don't think either of those are true (if I'm wrong, you know, ignore me), she's just being a bitch, because Ally is asking her to do something outside of her work role. It really is more like Ally is saying "Get me a latte!"

I mean, Ally's totally right that the woman is being a bitch, since it's neither demeaning nor time-consuming and she did decide to become a notary pubilc...

The only notary public I ever worked with acted exactly the same way (but then again also worked diligently at one of the hardest, most annoying jobs in the office, so no one was really going to call her on her bitchiness).

i beg to differ suzy - it really worked in my case. never agin was the guy in question insubordinate. i hate sorting thing out in a corporate way as you have to say things like: "i am your line manager and you are being un professional" instead of what you're thinking or what you'd do in the real world: "do that again, you stupid bastard, and i'll batter you..."

My mom is a notary. Maybe Ally should send the documents to her!

I'm just going to take off Wednesday and get a bloody notary myself but if they fucking dock me a day for doing work-related business I'm going to lose my shit completely.

Quiz: Do you (1) "bcc:" higher-ups on the theory they shouldn't appear to be bothered with this but are or (2) "bcc:" lower-downs on the theory that they need to know but shouldn't appear to be doing the work?

It was gratuitiously rude and implied that a couple lower-down people in my department are basically useless and stupid because they are not notaries. It also tells me off for not being a notary (the test is at 11am on Wednesdays only; I've not been allowed to leave to take it once in the four years I've been here). Basically it's just uselessly rude for no apparent reason, especially since the company paid for her notary license and subsequent renewal and she got a salary increase on the basis of being one of only two notaries.

But I'm kind of over it, I'm just ignoring her. She often calls me for help because she's useless but self-important, so I'm just going to ignore everything but what I have to do until she gets the hint. It's childish but like I said, I'm quitting anyway, wtf do I care?

"Where did you get that dress? Its awful . . . and those shoes, and that coat, geeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzz."

...until she cries?

(Oh and before anyone gets annoyed that I'm ragging on a moody pregnant girl A) that's not an excuse B) she was like this three years ago so it's not like it's why she's doing it anyway)

I BCC peers in similar situations as a "heads up" if it's something they may want to be aware of. Sometimes I do it as an "I told you so" along the same lines. Then again, you can always forward from your sent folder but I guess that's not as fun as "BCC".

Most of the times I'm BCC'ed is on huge chain joke emails.