Comments on: Will You Please Sign Off on This?

By: Bianca Reagan

Bianca Reagan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:58:00 +0000

Samantha, that is so sad. If that man was getting a divorce from his ex-wife, meaning they obviously couldn’t live together anymore, why would he trust her to accurately report the agreed-upon terms on the paperwork? What a maroon.

By: Evil HRISguy

Evil HRISguy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:20:00 +0000

I feel your pain.

Just today.

dept head:HOW COME M.T. SKUL ISNT ON THE LIST OF DIRECTORS???

He's listed as a manager in the system

HE GOT PROMOTED! CHANGE THE SYSTEM

Sure send me an email with the info while my mind reading hat is in the shop.

Heh, CAN YOU ADD HIM TO THIS LIST!!

Sure, hand me that pen.

UMM, NO CHANGE HIM AND RERUN IT?

Sure, after the email, oh, and you might want to include any rate changes in that and follow up with a signed Action Form and your list will follow.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:18:00 +0000

I'm always stunned when people don't read important paperwork. Heck, I even read the rental agreement on a storage unit line by line, and asked questions!

Several years ago, I was dating someone that was in the process of a divorce. One of the things I told him, was that when he got the paperwork, I wanted to see it (so I could make sure that he was telling me the truth). Well, he got the paperwork, and as he was getting ready to sign it (looking for a pen), I asked if I could look at it. He handed it to me, and I started to read.

I then asked questions... Such as "I thought you were giving her $XXX.xx for support and alimony. Did you know that this says you are giving her $YYYY.yy for support and alimony? Or that she is asking for 50% of your military pension, even though you've only been married for 7 years? And that she wants you to take responsibility for ALL debt incurred, even after you separated?" He freaked out, because he hadn't read the paperwork. He had trusted his ex to file with the terms they had agreed to over the phone.

Surprisingly, even after I had done that for him, he got impatient with me about the storage thing, as he went with me that day. I reminded him about his divorce paperwork, and he shut up quick.

He still thanks me for reading the divorce paperwork, and we split up over 5 years ago. :)

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:04:00 +0000

Even worse is when you sit down, have a meeting about a restructure is going to go, and then the supervisor tries to put the paperwork through the original, incorrect way he proposed, even though that’s not the way it was agreed to in the meeting!

(I’m my boss’s lackey, and the one who always reads all the paperwork and then says, “Wait a minute boss, don’t sign that!”)

By: Ask a Manager

Ask a Manager — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:13:00 +0000

Yes! I’m so glad to read this! This is my pet peeve — I see people doing this all the time. By the time things come to me, a couple of other people usually should have signed off on them. But it’s often clear they didn’t process them thoroughly, and I know it’s because they assume someone down the line will catch any problems. It is infuriating…