Lazy receptionist doesn't make boss's travel arrangements, boss denies her a job years later: 'I am constantly baffled by people who don't do their jobs'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 31, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

There is a downside to not fulfilling your basic duties and responsibilities at work. 

This receptionist repeatedly made making travel arrangements difficult for their boss, often leaving things to the last minute when flights were either entirely booked or incredibly expensive. Despite multiple polite conversations about her needing to improve her efficiency regarding booking travel, the pattern did not improve. What's remarkably amusing about this is that when the Redditor went off to start their own business, the receptionist had absolutely no idea how bad she was at her own job that she assumed she would be hired to continue working for the Redditor. You have to hand it to her for having that level of confidence, at the very least.

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    Receptionist doesn't make my flight reservations. Sorry, we're not hiring.
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    This happened several years ago but still makes me smile. I (36f at the time) was hired by a large company to supervise one of their departments. There was travel involved. Travel arrangements were made by the receptionist. I needed to travel across the country for a
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    conference and I gave the receptionist all the information she needed to make the travel arrangements.
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    Now I knew that if you make flight arrangements ahead of time the flights are cheaper than if you make them last minute. There was plenty of
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    time to make the flight arrangements and get the lower fare. After a few days when I hadn't received any confirmations from the receptionist, I would ask her about them. Nothing. Kept asking. Nothing. I was becomming concerned as I
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    didn't want to cause the company to pay extra because she didn't do her job. I became very frustrated as it was now past the time to get the lower airfare. I expressed my frustration to my assistant who immediately asked me for
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    the conference information. She went ahead and made all my travel arrangements, but the airfare was very high.
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    Petty Revenge. The company I worked for closed a few years later. My assistant and I had worked so well together that we
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    opened our own business. My partner was sitting at the front desk that faced the parking lot. I came in from the back and see the former receptionist walking away. I asked my partner what she wanted. She was looking for a job. Sorry "Not Hiring".
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    shineevee . 9 hr. ago I am constantly baffled by people who don't do their jobs. Like...I'm a legal secretary. The woman who worked under my attorney before me "wouldn't do" transcriptions. How do you
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    go "There's this thing that is a part of my job description that I will just ignore?" Though that is part of why I have her job now, though.
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    retired_fromlife . 12 hr. ago D In my job I had to make conference reservations for my boss and four others. (Even though each of the other four had their own assistants.) Since hotel rooms were limited, on
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    the day the room block opened, I would call from my home before work to make sure to get rooms before they were gone. That receptionist didn't do her job.
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    O Comfortable_Bear_643 OP +1 12 hr. ago • She absolutely did not do her job! I was lucky that I got a flight and hotel room.
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    ScrollButtons . 9 hr. ago I like to think that somewhere out there is a petty revenge story from a receptionist who bent over backwards for a company who s her over by not approving a reimbursement
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    for the $10 replacement keyboard she had to buy for work because the boss forgot the company card and it was only $10 right?. So now, whenever she books travel, she waits until the week before to book
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    because she knows the prices double but she can always find something even if that little something is first class or executive suite upgrade wink. "Want to save $10? It'll cost you thousands."
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    Writes itself. Someone tag me when the bots repost this or get me in the screenshot.
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    LokiKamiSama +3.9 hr. ago I think what OP is conveying is that they asked receptionist to do their job, they didn't, and when OP asked they received no answer. It literally takes like 30 seconds to email back
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    "hey I'm really busy, that is the next thing on my plate/I'm trying to find a good fare and hotel room but everything is pretty booked” etc etc. I've emailed a person multiple times for information over several
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    weeks. I give them more than enough time. One person just did not update me at all. Nothing. And I had asked politely 3-4 times. I finally looked up all the board directors and anyone abover her and Cc'ed them in on the Daisy chain of me
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    just forwarding the email over and over. They got me the information within a day.
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