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Submitted by Shaman29 on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 3:41pm

Our company allows us to decorate our cubes. We have a temp working for us that for some reason is decorating the cube she is in, but is leaving next Friday. She is being replaced by someone who's been out on medical leave.

As annoying as that is, while she's painting I just heard her remark "Huh.....I guess yellow and green don't make blue. You only get light green."

Which started a debate, where everyone was stumped by the fact she could not make blue from yellow and green paint. I finally piped up "BLUE is a primary color. As are yellow and red. Green is a secondary color. You have to buy blue paint."

Which started a whole other debate, disagreeing with what I just said.

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Submitted by BSgoinon on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 3:50pm

Hasn't she ever seen the Ziplock commercial? Yellow and Blue make GREEN... AND... that is freaking common sense isn't it? Where would you get BLUE out of YELLOW and GREEN??? What an idiot.

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Submitted by Shaman29 on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 3:57pm

I was just thinking didn't she learn anything in kindergarten?? That's when we all learned our colors, right?

I cannot wait until next Friday when her contract expires. She has been a trial here and hasn't been a good fit.

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Submitted by Shaman29 on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:11pm

We have a policy where that position can do write offs to a certain dollar amount, but require authorization for anything over.

I audit their accounts to make sure they're following policy. I found one yesterday where she applied a credit to an invoice, and wrote off the difference. Which was outside of her authority level. Her response when I questioned it? Well I just figured it'd be okay.

OMG, just 6 more working days with her.

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Submitted by StarStuff on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 3:59pm

Idiot. I guess it's a good thing she was just a temp, huh? Mean me whishes you would have told her that, lol.

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Submitted by Shaman29 on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:08pm

I'm still trying to figure out how she rationalized it being okay to decorate a cube that is assigned to a permanent employee.

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Submitted by Hanny on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:21pm

Really, she is painting her cube...is this on company time? AND when she's on her way out and it is actually someone else's cube.?? Wow. And that is why the temp to term business does well, they figure before the 3 months is up you can actually tell whether your dealing with a nut or not! Wink Anyway, that's why my company does it. We've had our share of the nuts! One refused to dress appropriately, but reallllyyy needed the job...one wanted to restructure the dept and only wanted to work for the SR VP, ...and another one asked if she could change her working hours after a week in.

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Submitted by Shaman29 on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:31pm

I can't even wrap my head around the fact she's not actually working (says the chick on ST bitching about someone not working :P). I supervise their work, but not the people. Otherwise I would have told her two hours ago she can write out the manuals for our ERP system or she can go home if she has finished her work today.

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Submitted by imjustthemaid on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 5:16pm

My BD4 knows that yellow and blue make green!! She is an idiot!! Lucky for you she is leaving.

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Submitted by bi on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 8:39pm

it is so frustrating when people who are so obviously wrong want to defend their stupidity. and if you somehow prove to them that they are wrong, they still defend it. that's a true moron right there.