3. Have other staff to hate her also. Then u are not the main suspect.

Aiya this company sucvks,that company sucks, HAVE U GUYS EVER HEARD OF OFFICE POLITICS???!!, even in my bakery oso happen.

Not a surprise, a very typical mentality and work "ethics" of a Malaysian. When she is assigned a task, but she doesn't know how to complete the task, this WILL NOT make her relieved from that responsibility.

She is the one should make the INITIATIVE to learn the software from you, and do the work herself, instead of asking your help to complete her task. Concept of ownership and deliverables seemed too alien in Malaysian work-culture. If you helped her for one time, and she never learn but took your task as her own, does it mean that for the rest of the days she is in the company you will finish her job?

I think she likes you and she's hitting on you. I think the problem is with you. You're not getting it so you're not getting any

I'm with chairmanmeow on this one. That 1st most educated person is probably writing a thread similar to this on you.

Spanker,

I have a favorite saying: "Until you know how to say NO, you are NOT a professional".  You have a choice.  You can choose to let people respect you as a professional or not.  You can let people call you around to do stupid stuff or you can set some rule.

1) If people want you to do something, get them to send you an e-mail or fill out a form.

2) Setup a priority list of what you will do and get your boss to approve it.  And, if someone want to jump the queue, get them to talk to your boss to approve it.  Pass the buck...

3) Learn to say "It is not my job".

What you are facing is normal in almost every single work place.  You will always have too much to do and too little time.  You need to learn how to manage your boss and your work load.

Dreamer

spanker, from the look of it, i'd like to say this, if i may. :' ur company sucks'.

pack ur bags. start looking for job with better working environment. if they can hire a PA with ZERO knowledge in pc, god knows wat kinda ppl they'll hire to be ur assistant.

Ok, I've just about had it with my co-workers.

There's this one girl who is PA to the director, I don't know what kind of qualification she has, but she has got to be the most clueless PA I have ever met. One the second day she started working, I assigned her a computer, which she complained was slow. But actually it's not, it's a Pentium4 2 GHz. The only problem where I can see with the "slowness" was with Win98 because it sucks when it comes to a mixed OS networking environment. Ok fine, replaced a brand spanking new dual core P4 2.8 GHz Dell Dimension with WinXP Pro for her. And to save cost on licensing I installed Open Office for her, then she complains she doesn't know how to use it. WTF? Ok fine, so I put in MS Office 2003. And you know what really set me on an edge? Is that when she was having some problem with Excel that I realized, she has no freaking idea how to utilize MS Office. So I asked her "Do you know how to use this function?" She replied "Yes, but I forgot". Oh come on, don't give me that BS, don't know say don't know lah. The reason why I know she doesn't know is because she is very consistent with that answer, and when the boss wants her to make a slide, she did it in Excel using the stupid default spreadsheet layout instead of a chart or Powerpoint. And I asked her, "Do you now how to use PowerPoint?" yup, you guess it, she said "I know, but I forgot". Shiat, how can you forget how to use PowerPoint????

But wait there's more! She would chuck her work on me and then ask me to help her do some slides and charts because she's "too busy". Fine whatever, I told her "I can't do this for you, but if you need help I can teach you how to do it". She's like begging me to help her, so in the interest of teamwork I did, but I decided to only give it to her on the very last minute. After giving her crap back to her, she said some of the figures required changing, and I drew the line right there, that I ain't changing anything for her, she has to do it herself because I'm just helping her. So she has no choice but to own up that she doesn't really know how to use MS Office.

And if that's not the last straw, here's really what breaks the camel's back. She would claim that she did all the freakin work! OMFG what the hell? Boy am I glad I literally laughed out loud during a meeting when she couldn't access her thumbdrive because she plugged it into the ethernet port instead of the USB port. It was so freaking funny I just had to.

Holy crap, that's a freaking long post on just the PA! I haven't even started on the users and the managers.

Ok it all boils down to... how do you handle people who:
- Doesn't know but justifies it by saying "I forgot", I mean it's obvious they're lying.
- Claims credit for something they did not do.
- Loves to execute tai-chi moves (pushing the blame to others)
- Lies about thier mistakes
- Doesn't want to do it and justifies it by saying "I don't know these kind of technical things, you do for me lah"
- Despite providing utilities for them to help them make their lives easier, they don't want to use it. I.e. Don't want to learn.
- Loves comparing our process and procedures to crappy companies (y'know... like comparing m'sia and indonesia and say be thankful you're in m'sia)

So I'm like thinking, either IT people always gets blamed, or I am doing a REALLY sucky job, or am I just not fitting in? Is it a problem with me or is it a problem with the work culture? How do you deal with people like these?

btw... of all the staffs in the office, I'm like one of the 2nd or 3rd most educated person. (there's more than 40 staffs in the office)

I'm thinking of leaving though, know anyone who's looking for project manager or something similar?

Are you working as IT Executive? I hate that job. Work like a slave. All others department is like your customers. So it makes you hard to against them. Even if your manager tried to back you up, it won't help much because they will complaint to the upper management. Then your manager also cannot do anything.

Those PA and all others department are really noob in computer. Noob until you hardly believe. I advise you to leave as soon as possible, otherwise you will be wasting your time and your skills.