That sucks. If the bosses stop showing up for work, I'd say you have a pretty good indication right there....

Those who are are the fringes of things (just been hired, perpetually have no work not just temporarily, etc.) should probably discreetly start the job search.

My office is the same way, only smaller, and there's major defection going on. The partners are getting visibly pissed at the turnover rate.

haha that sucks DubK.

starla....I hear ya. I've recently shared my chaos (or lack there of) in my workplace; lack thereof meaning there isn't work, and I start to worry like any normal person. When I have wayyyy too much time to be online and my day consists of (internet surfing, playing online card games, reading articles, reading and replying to threads on forums) it starts to mentally get to me. Of course that also doesn't help when you catch the boss watching porn. Not a good sign. It's things like that that that make you wonder and start to think "maybe now is a good time to start to look for work, no matter if everything else 'here' is good". (that last part meaning your commute is good, good hours.....just the larger part missing...that being work).

squirrelly

my boss and I watch porn together

i take it women aren't respected of hired at your place of work?

maybe his boss is a woman

haha, mdler, I knew you'd say something like that.

and Jonas77, actually we've had females on staff (not professionally, at least on the architecture side, mostly administrative). But then again the office is small, so....
(as for respect....for f**cks sake, I've even said something about that, cause it bothers me - not the porn per se - but the idea of him wasting time doing such things), you know?

tumbleweed,

wanna come work for me???

I think I have...maybe we should just go into business together and make our own porn

ok guys I think you already have your own thread....stop hijacking others!
haha, chatsworth.....tumbleweed, do you know/have ever been to chatsworth??

Just curious
(and off topic I know)

tumbleweed + mdler = bonnie + clyde...we are virtual hijackers

"Chatsworth still has a lot of horse zoned properties and it is not unusual to see horses tied to the hitching post out back of the Los Toros Mexican Restaurant or the Cowboy Palace Saloon."

have you calculated your volume yet, tumbles???

I hear you...I have been trying to get window schedules done, but they aint as fun as harassing you and eating burritos

Hmmm. I guess don't have this kind of chaos in my office, but I suppose it would be more entertaining if I did!

Some of my coworkers still don't have their email back up and running....one of them actually lost their whole Inbox.

tell me more about your dongle

sweet...how big?

I give up.

with our new phone system, every time the phone rings ALL 10-12 of our phones RING RING RING, with various ringtones, it sounds worse than the 3rd grade band. Then someone has to answer it and transfer it. And of course this happens every 10 minutes and we argue about who has to answer it.

(what we used to have was an electronic directory and extension numbers, too cheap for a receptionist.)

So this morning, I was already on the phone, when it rang again, right in my ear, nearly fell out of my chair.

Not all of my e-mail is down, but I can't send to certain addresses all of a sudden, and then only sometimes. I have been trying to get files out to a consultant for 2 days now. I guess I should throw the files on a disk and mail them.

if archinect had a human resources department, i would have to issue a complaint regarding this unprofessional behaviour.

i like amateurs

thats because you are an amateur

i'll show you ;)

Strawbeary, at my firm, when the phone rings, the guys all basically ignore it, because they think it is a "woman's job"....which usually results in one of us girls sending out an email about how everyone needs to help with the phones....unless email is down. Then we resort to.....paper airplanes?

oy vey..............

sorry Starla....

and Strawbeary, that sounds kinda like the phones in my office, except the one good thing is that they all have the same sound, yet they all go off at different intervals, so it's kinda crazy.

Starla, do you work in my office? There is one guy that will answer it, the rest are above it.

yeh, ours are all custom ring tones, varying loudness.

(we are getting it changed back to the old way soon)

i'm a guy who's not above answering phones, but nobody ever calls for me. i used to just let the interior designers answer the phone.

no ID's in my current workplace though.

how about this for chaos in the workplace...i just counted our active jobs;

Twenty-Seven

it's starting to get a little chaotic around here. and there's only two of us. i may have to start answering phones again.

and starla - don't let tumbles and mdler get you down. they're too busy getting (going?) down on eachother.

hang in there - schools right around the corner you say?

there's much to be gained by seeing what not to do...so pay attention to their ineptitude as it will serve you later.