Turning a statement into a question by suffixing it with "yeah?"

MajorMaccas

MajorMaccas

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Today, I had to endure a manager reading me a verbal warning for my attendance after contracting the flu. That's an entirely separate rant, this one is about the way he read out a fact and prompted a response from me by adding "yeah?" to the end of the sentence, thus turning it into a question. :mad: Something like "OK, you're average absense for the past 26 weeks is 5%, which is over the 3% review level. yeah?"

After a few of these, I pulled a Jack Bauer in courtroom in s7ep1, and simply replied "I'm sorry, I didn't hear a question." The other manager scribing the conversation smirked :D

Anyone else suffered this? Or do you do it yourself? :mad: :p
 
Hardly bad times, verbal warning is gone after 8 weeks. It's a ridiculous system though: most companies review attendance when there's patterns of absence, or just a lot of it, or when there's suspicion that they weren't really sick. No, here there's 2 measurements, occasions of absence, and the %age. It's based over 26 weeks, I had 2 occasions, one back in august missed 1 shift, and the flu a couple of weeks ago, missing 3 shifts (saturday, monday, tuesday). Because I work very few hours per week, the %age skyrockets easily(%age of the hours you work in the last 26 weeks for which you were absent is 3% threshold).

I've had stretches of a year or 18 months at a time without an absence, but because I missed a shift last august, and then contracted the flu this month, I get a warning. FML :p

Anyway, I could deal with that, it didn't really bother me to much extent, but the constant question-when-there-wasn't-a-question really dug at me :mad:
 
They have to say it for the record and check you don't disagree with why you're getting a bollocking.

Yeah? after the accusations would seem to be your managers way of doing that.
 
Can't say I find it much of an issue, makes it a little less formal than saying 'is that correct' after every statement.
 
Hotwired said:
They have to say it for the record and check you don't disagree with why you're getting a bollocking.

Yeah? after the accusations would seem to be your managers way of doing that.
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No, there's set points for me to speak in the meeting script, this was literally every point.

"You're percentage is 5%, yeah?"
"umhmm"
"That's over the 3% review level, yeah?"
<-- What can I say here? 3 is infact bigger than 5, and thus I'm under the review level? :rolleyes:
 
Welshy said:
Can't say I find it much of an issue, makes it a little less formal than saying 'is that correct' after every statement.
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He didn't need to suffix the sentence with anything, he was telling me information in bullet points. It's just a bad habbit, nothing to do with having to do it to ensure I know why I'm warned etc or anything like that.
 
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