I have just annoyed my colleague

[lamplighter]

but this has been bugging me for a long time. Our colleague has a girlfriend who phones him ALL the time.

She calls when he gets in in the morning and at regular intervals throughout the day. The other morning she called SIX times, I can overhear the conversation he has with her and she obviously has nothing special or important to impart.

Our workload had increased hugely and I am rushed of my feet. Quite frankly she is wasting our time answering her endless calls and is blocking the phone line that other people in that office use.

The other day our director picked up the phone and got him out of a meeting because she said it was "important". It wasn't.

I have asked him to use his mobile or email her but I will no longer pass on messages or go and find him if she rings. He has taken it personally but I am not his bloody personal message taker! And YES she is still bloody calling!

AIBU?

Dh can do this to me and it drives me mad, the constant 'quick chat' calls, i cant get on with stuff

But im a sahm most of the week even he wouldnt dream of doing it when i am at work!

Shiney

[grin}

YANBU. Sounds very odd - especially about work not querying the personal calls.

I speak to DH usually once or twice a day at work and we sometimes email. BUT, I call his mobile and he only answers if he is free, otherwise he calls back hours later

YANBU - what is her deal? Something else going on there definitely.

We don't talk on the phone at all. It's just texts saying things like "Bread, milk, bananas xx"

I think I'm a bit phone phobic though...

LOL Shiney

The sad thing is he is a nice guy - I want to fix him up with a mate of mine and get him away from the weirdo girlfriend

YANBU

We could all deny we know him - really freak her out

"John Smith? Never heard of him are you sure you have the right number?"

Or answer that phone line with a different company name and change that every time that line rings

"MacDonalds of Stevanage - how may I help"

"British Home Stores Lingerie Department"

Gruff voice "'Ello C Wing - Officer Lloyd speaking"

No, he likes being with someone so needy, it makes him feel needed.

YA sooo not being unreasonable!

I have a colleague who has a friend who phones him with all sorts of inane drivel (phoning with messages like 'the price of beef has gone down in ASDA) sort of thing. And the friend is always phoning and asking us to take messages / find this colleague.

Now, whenever he calls, I always just say 'Sorry, he's not here now, you'll have to call back later'. When he asks me to take a message / go get him I always say 'I'm sorry, I'm really busy with my work right now, if its not business related you'll have to call back later'.

Now I've repeated that several hundred times, I think he knows when I answer the phone, he's not getting through and has given up . But I'm too busy to be someone else's PA, and I'm not paid for it either! [bitch emoticon needed!]

Shiney

The girlfriend is a tax inspector - need I say more? He needs to get away from her but Trilli is right methinks he likes to listen to her whining interesting narrative several times a day

Shiney

I wish, I wish, I wish I could say all of those!!

Christ, I work from home and my DH is out of work so we are both at home all day and I don't talk to him that much!!

She has a problem.

He has a problem.

Management need to do something about this. And he needs to get over his annoyance at you.

Our FD's wife calls him quite a few times in the day. Quite often he will drop everything and take the call and it's about bugger all, cat food or bog roll or something.

Sometimes she will get in a real flap (like a tit in a jelly mould) and he has to go home, straight out the door and off! She's had a couple of those this year.

Odd thing is she's at home doing bugger all (could be the problem).

He is dreadful at confrontation though (in and out of work) so he just rolls over and shits mars bars on request.

Today was a record 12 calls and the chairman went up so high he came down with snow on his hat!

He spent 20 minutes trying to get through to his private pilot with the line being blocked by weirdo girlfriend.

All calls stopped forthwith!

Please, please ,please!!!! That is the end of it!!