Margie (a coworker) gives me really terrible advice. Marjorie lives and works about an hour from me (we work for the same company but different locations). We mostly talk on the phone but got together three times. Any way I was telling Marjorie that in the department I work in the manager frowns if one goes next door to get something to eat or drink when it isnt your lunch hour and the coworkers in my department decided we may chip in & buy a coffee maker. Marjorie said Oh I think you should just buy one for yourself and if the people you work with start in with you that they want to make coffee from your coffee maker you should tell them well I have to check with the big boss. (Why would I do that. That is a good way to alienate all of my coworkers who I like). Marjorie has given me bad advice in the past. For example: when my former boss from the same company wanted me to quit because he wanted his old secretary to come back tried to make my life a living hell, and in addition to making my life a living hell the exboss told me that either my job would go part-time or downsized. I told Marjorie and she said to me oh you should ask him when your last day is. (Could you imagine if I asked him that is like saying ok i am ready to be fired). My question: What do you think of Marjorie and her advice?
Additional info, added Sunday April 1 2007, 10:14 pm: AS OF 10PM I AM ADDING THE FOLLOWING: Marjorie does not like the idea of bosses (or exbosses) asking about her private life so when her boss and my ex boss asked what we did one of the times she and I got together she told them we went to a bar and I danced with a lampshade on my head (even though this was not true). I laughed it off but my mom was furious. I really dont care if my coworkers know what I did on my own time. For some reason she hates it.
karenR answered Saturday March 31 2007, 6:39 pm: I think Marjorie give lousy advice!
It would be much better for all coffee drinkers to pitch in a buy a coffee pot. Then take turns buying coffee as it runs out. Her advice doesn't even make sense.
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