I have never hated a meeting as much as this one. I'm literally on the verge of a freakout. You can't read out a long winded powerpoint in the meeting, we all have access to the powerpoint, my brain can't take this kind of torture, PLEASE STOP.
Jesus.
Like, my company has a rule - if your presentation is literally reading out your slides, email it to everyone and don't waste our time.
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
So... I'm not saying our sister company have issues with diversity, but the last slide in their diversity survey had about eight bullet points summing up the answers they got.
The first three were all about how they still had issues with diversity, had issues specifically in leadership and wasn't physically located in a very diverse area.
The last three were:
We actually have it pretty good.
Stop talking about diversity.
Abolish Pride Day
And that was just allowed to stand unchallenged.
Now, you might say, was this lack of diversity more directly challenged in the survey? Almost certainly. Because as the head of HR said (you may remember him), "we've removed some answers because we don't want to stand up here pointing fingers. We haven't censored your answers, we've just removed some of them". Golf clap.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
it was admin day last week and i received a grand total of nothing
i usually get at least one gift certificate to amazon but this year zilch.
then today a guy i scheduled a meeting for once, last year, sent me a 10$ gift card to Caribou, the coffee franchise that last month shut 90% of it's stores and completely abandoned most of Minneapolis.
there's a pretty funny joke in there somewhere
I had no idea Caribou closed that many stores. Whenever I went to corporate in Minnesota they were all obsessed with the place.
So... I'm not saying our sister company have issues with diversity, but the last slide in their diversity survey had about eight bullet points summing up the answers they got.
The first three were all about how they still had issues with diversity, had issues specifically in leadership and wasn't physically located in a very diverse area.
The last three were:
We actually have it pretty good.
Stop talking about diversity.
Abolish Pride Day
And that was just allowed to stand unchallenged.
Now, you might say, was this lack of diversity more directly challenged in the survey? Almost certainly. Because as the head of HR said (you may remember him), "we've removed some answers because we don't want to stand up here pointing fingers. We haven't censored your answers, we've just removed some of them". Golf clap.
it was admin day last week and i received a grand total of nothing
i usually get at least one gift certificate to amazon but this year zilch.
then today a guy i scheduled a meeting for once, last year, sent me a 10$ gift card to Caribou, the coffee franchise that last month shut 90% of it's stores and completely abandoned most of Minneapolis.
there's a pretty funny joke in there somewhere
I had no idea Caribou closed that many stores. Whenever I went to corporate in Minnesota they were all obsessed with the place.
yeah it was REALLY weird. they just up and announced they were closing all downtown locations and a week later they were gone
My motherfucking alderman/city council member just blamed his civil servants for a fuck-up. Mother fucker, you're politically responsible for this mess. Even if my colleagues made a mistake, you're not supposed to point fingers. We aren't even able to publicly defend ourselves against your shit-talking or we're out of a job.
Top 10 anime betrayals moment, right there.
*E: and I just remembered that I was excited that he took over from the previous guy. This moved into the top 5 now. :x
My motherfucking alderman/city council member just blamed his civil servants for a fuck-up. Mother fucker, you're politically responsible for this mess. Even if my colleagues made a mistake, you're not supposed to point fingers. We aren't even able to publicly defend ourselves against your shit-talking or we're out of a job.
Top 10 anime betrayals moment, right there.
*E: and I just remembered that I was excited that he took over from the previous guy. This moved into the top 5 now. :x
it's a shame how someone just went into his office and shit on his desk like that next week
Right now his big obsession is power-sanding and repainting our generators, because they're a little rusty, because they're outside and uncovered so of course they are. No one else has commented on this being an issue, another, higher manager even keeps teasing him for caring about it so much, but he is ADAMANT that we get the rust off of them and repaint them.
And like, I don't mean to say that I'm too good for that kind of work
But I don't remember "painter" being anywhere in my job description!
I am like 99% sure that your boss is ex military and is living out his dream of being a senior NCO
circling back to this becasue i just spent 2 hours on a roof in 80 degree weather painting so i'm pissy and need to vent
he is not former military. he is a mixture of two extremely shitty kinds of asshole
firstly, he's a rancid little nerd. he's an awful nitpicker; he was whining the other day about how he knew The Force Awakens was gonna be an awful movie from the very first scene because "it makes no sense at all that Kylo Ren would be powerful enough to stop a blaster shot in mid-air like that." he was proudly spouting off about how he was going to play Hogwarts Legacy and eat Chik-fil-A and nobody could make him feel bad about it. he constantly makes Office Space references and gets pissy when he realizes that that's now an old enough movie that people don't remember it or never saw it. I think if he had his druthers this place would have the culture of like, something awful circa 2005. He wants this place to feel like his personal WoW guild.
secondly, he's got like a fuckin', tim the toolman taylor streak. He thinks he's WAY more handy than he actually is. I'm not handy at *all*, so he's better with power tools and what have you than i am, but he still ends up breaking shit just as often as he fixes things. I don't know if it's just how he grew up or what, but without ever actually saying it he clearly looks down on me for being less proficient at that kinda thing than he is, like it's basic life-skill shit and it speaks poorly of me that I don't meet his standards. And maybe it is basic life-skill shit, I don't know, but there's a reason I work for an IT company instead of a contractor! he was shittin' on my paint job an hour ago and i straight up told him, i'm not a professional painter so he can't expect a proffesional paint job out of me. but he also does this delightful little thing where anytime he says anything a little nasty or rude he instantly backpedals into it being a "joke," so if you get upset at him being a prick then actually it's your fault for being thin-skinned and having no sense of humor
Right now his big obsession is power-sanding and repainting our generators, because they're a little rusty, because they're outside and uncovered so of course they are. No one else has commented on this being an issue, another, higher manager even keeps teasing him for caring about it so much, but he is ADAMANT that we get the rust off of them and repaint them.
And like, I don't mean to say that I'm too good for that kind of work
But I don't remember "painter" being anywhere in my job description!
I am like 99% sure that your boss is ex military and is living out his dream of being a senior NCO
circling back to this becasue i just spent 2 hours on a roof in 80 degree weather painting so i'm pissy and need to vent
he is not former military. he is a mixture of two extremely shitty kinds of asshole
firstly, he's a rancid little nerd. he's an awful nitpicker; he was whining the other day about how he knew The Force Awakens was gonna be an awful movie from the very first scene because "it makes no sense at all that Kylo Ren would be powerful enough to stop a blaster shot in mid-air like that." he was proudly spouting off about how he was going to play Hogwarts Legacy and eat Chik-fil-A and nobody could make him feel bad about it. he constantly makes Office Space references and gets pissy when he realizes that that's now an old enough movie that people don't remember it or never saw it. I think if he had his druthers this place would have the culture of like, something awful circa 2005. He wants this place to feel like his personal WoW guild.
secondly, he's got like a fuckin', tim the toolman taylor streak. He thinks he's WAY more handy than he actually is. I'm not handy at *all*, so he's better with power tools and what have you than i am, but he still ends up breaking shit just as often as he fixes things. I don't know if it's just how he grew up or what, but without ever actually saying it he clearly looks down on me for being less proficient at that kinda thing than he is, like it's basic life-skill shit and it speaks poorly of me that I don't meet his standards. And maybe it is basic life-skill shit, I don't know, but there's a reason I work for an IT company instead of a contractor! he was shittin' on my paint job an hour ago and i straight up told him, i'm not a professional painter so he can't expect a proffesional paint job out of me. but he also does this delightful little thing where anytime he says anything a little nasty or rude he instantly backpedals into it being a "joke," so if you get upset at him being a prick then actually it's your fault for being thin-skinned and having no sense of humor
god a real home run on all counts what an absolute win for some lucky lady who hopefully is a serial cannibal
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Right now his big obsession is power-sanding and repainting our generators, because they're a little rusty, because they're outside and uncovered so of course they are. No one else has commented on this being an issue, another, higher manager even keeps teasing him for caring about it so much, but he is ADAMANT that we get the rust off of them and repaint them.
And like, I don't mean to say that I'm too good for that kind of work
But I don't remember "painter" being anywhere in my job description!
I am like 99% sure that your boss is ex military and is living out his dream of being a senior NCO
circling back to this becasue i just spent 2 hours on a roof in 80 degree weather painting so i'm pissy and need to vent
he is not former military. he is a mixture of two extremely shitty kinds of asshole
firstly, he's a rancid little nerd. he's an awful nitpicker; he was whining the other day about how he knew The Force Awakens was gonna be an awful movie from the very first scene because "it makes no sense at all that Kylo Ren would be powerful enough to stop a blaster shot in mid-air like that." he was proudly spouting off about how he was going to play Hogwarts Legacy and eat Chik-fil-A and nobody could make him feel bad about it. he constantly makes Office Space references and gets pissy when he realizes that that's now an old enough movie that people don't remember it or never saw it. I think if he had his druthers this place would have the culture of like, something awful circa 2005. He wants this place to feel like his personal WoW guild.
secondly, he's got like a fuckin', tim the toolman taylor streak. He thinks he's WAY more handy than he actually is. I'm not handy at *all*, so he's better with power tools and what have you than i am, but he still ends up breaking shit just as often as he fixes things. I don't know if it's just how he grew up or what, but without ever actually saying it he clearly looks down on me for being less proficient at that kinda thing than he is, like it's basic life-skill shit and it speaks poorly of me that I don't meet his standards. And maybe it is basic life-skill shit, I don't know, but there's a reason I work for an IT company instead of a contractor! he was shittin' on my paint job an hour ago and i straight up told him, i'm not a professional painter so he can't expect a proffesional paint job out of me. but he also does this delightful little thing where anytime he says anything a little nasty or rude he instantly backpedals into it being a "joke," so if you get upset at him being a prick then actually it's your fault for being thin-skinned and having no sense of humor
god a real home run on all counts what an absolute win for some lucky lady who hopefully is a serial cannibal
Wonder if there's a Tinder type app/site for former members of Zambian Meat one could steer this person to?
BlackDragon480 on
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
Do I tell this LinkedIn recruiter that their quoted compensation for a position is so low and outdated considering the market of the last several years that I think it's actually insulting?
I never responded to them, and they just followed up to say they're now "doing market research to reevaluate the pay range"
So maybe somebody else told them to get bent for me
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
God, it is helpful to have a friend who is a certified expert in containers to reel ya in and go "what you are trying to do is stupid and unsafe. Look into doing it this way."
Remember how a few weeks ago I noted that there were a couple of VP of Sales that "left to pursue other opportunities" and were replaced with interim managers? Well, the CEO just sent out an announcement today about how import compliance is. Not integrity, or ethics, but compliance. Which means that someone done fucked up in a big ole legal way, and it was likely identified that their leaders were putting excessive pressure to deliver (...continue to face both internal and external pressure to deliver...) that lead to the behaviour. Thus, the two sudden interim C-level leaders.
Well actually I'm a librarian so I'm never done moving books.
Also why is it almost 80 degrees in here?
Get out of there, the manga you boxed up is forming a critical mass of sweaty teenage crushes
At this point I’d be fine with the manga killing me.
99% sure this would get you isekai'd
When I was still living with the folks just outta high school, there was a non-zero chance I could've bit the dust in a tidal wave of yuri pouring out of my closet.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
Well actually I'm a librarian so I'm never done moving books.
Also why is it almost 80 degrees in here?
Get out of there, the manga you boxed up is forming a critical mass of sweaty teenage crushes
At this point I’d be fine with the manga killing me.
99% sure this would get you isekai'd
My Awesome Librarian Skills Destroyed the Great Evil and Now it's Time for Lunch with my Godlike Familiar.
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Just_Bri_ThanksSeething with ragefrom a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPAregular
I am working 60 hour weeks, so I have long since given up on trying to keep up with the thread. A progress report is in order. I had an emotional kick in the teeth today, and I will start feeling a way about it once my emotions recalibrate.
Today at work my boss (the area manager) asked me at the end of the day if everyone was gone, and if we were alone in the building.
With a sinking feeling, I answered that we were.
He tells me that in the next pay period, my pay is going up 30 percent.
But the way he phrased it, I at first thought I was being moved to a different location. "Next pay period, you are going to (number)."
He said that my efforts have not gone un-noticed. I go in every day and give it everything I've got and people see that.
He told corporate that the company cannot lose me.
He asked me how I feel, and I told him I would be happy once I could feel again.
Now excuse me, I need to go get food and decompress.
...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Right now his big obsession is power-sanding and repainting our generators, because they're a little rusty, because they're outside and uncovered so of course they are. No one else has commented on this being an issue, another, higher manager even keeps teasing him for caring about it so much, but he is ADAMANT that we get the rust off of them and repaint them.
And like, I don't mean to say that I'm too good for that kind of work
But I don't remember "painter" being anywhere in my job description!
I am like 99% sure that your boss is ex military and is living out his dream of being a senior NCO
circling back to this becasue i just spent 2 hours on a roof in 80 degree weather painting so i'm pissy and need to vent
he is not former military. he is a mixture of two extremely shitty kinds of asshole
firstly, he's a rancid little nerd. he's an awful nitpicker; he was whining the other day about how he knew The Force Awakens was gonna be an awful movie from the very first scene because "it makes no sense at all that Kylo Ren would be powerful enough to stop a blaster shot in mid-air like that."
OK to Star Wars nitpick, it makes perfect sense. It's a thing in the extended universe. Witches just slapping blaster bolts out of the air. Why wouldn't one of the major sith powers be able to? Lightsabers normally get used because it's easier. /star wars rant
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
I am working 60 hour weeks, so I have long since given up on trying to keep up with the thread. A progress report is in order. I had an emotional kick in the teeth today, and I will start feeling a way about it once my emotions recalibrate.
Today at work my boss (the area manager) asked me at the end of the day if everyone was gone, and if we were alone in the building.
With a sinking feeling, I answered that we were.
He tells me that in the next pay period, my pay is going up 30 percent.
But the way he phrased it, I at first thought I was being moved to a different location. "Next pay period, you are going to (number)."
He said that my efforts have not gone un-noticed. I go in every day and give it everything I've got and people see that.
He told corporate that the company cannot lose me.
He asked me how I feel, and I told him I would be happy once I could feel again.
Now excuse me, I need to go get food and decompress.
I am:
A - really happy that your hard work was noticed and your employers know that hard work needs to be acknowledged and compensated.
B - really sorry that simply being asked to speak privately to a superior, especially when you know you're performing well, triggered a panic response.
Being a worker in 2023 is fucking fraught with trauma.
I swear to God, if I walk in and see another 9.5, I'm gonna lose it
Can you explain this a bit? Does it mean you show up at work and they're saying "psych, today is a 9.5hr day not a 10hr day"?
They have our target number up each day. So an 8 is 393 cars. 9.5 is 467. So we can see what to expect when we come in.
It has been 467 every day so far.
Today is an 8 just because they're low on some vital
Is this a "if we raise the number they'll have to hit it and we can punish them if they don't to keep them in line" sort of thing?
So now that I'm not on one of my criminally short breaks, I cam expand, which sort of goes in to your question.
Mostly it is a "we still make enough money paying OT so make cars, peons" thing. Also an "execs want their bonus" thing
The target number is a good indicator of what to expect, but we can work longer if shit goes sideways. I've worked 10 on an 8 hour number before.
Line call happens about 30-10 minutes before last break. They technically have until we come back from break to make the call, but they do it before. Mainly because if you can successfully argue you werent told the call, you get to leave at 8. Once that line call is made, it is the upper limit for the day. They can lower the call, like a 9 to an 8, but not the other way. If they call an 8 and we go down for an hour after returning from break? Too bad, they can't change it to 9 to make up the difference.
I mean they could, this is all company policy stuff and not a law, so they could decide to change it. But so far they've been smart enough to know that's really only a card you can play once before you're suddenly out a work force, and have not pulled the trigger on it.
They can raise the number prior to line call, though. They did that in my wife's area today, went from an 8.3 to an 8.5
God, it is helpful to have a friend who is a certified expert in containers to reel ya in and go "what you are trying to do is stupid and unsafe. Look into doing it this way."
I'm assuming your friend is an expert in Tupperware, and no one can tell me otherwise.
Right now his big obsession is power-sanding and repainting our generators, because they're a little rusty, because they're outside and uncovered so of course they are. No one else has commented on this being an issue, another, higher manager even keeps teasing him for caring about it so much, but he is ADAMANT that we get the rust off of them and repaint them.
And like, I don't mean to say that I'm too good for that kind of work
But I don't remember "painter" being anywhere in my job description!
I am like 99% sure that your boss is ex military and is living out his dream of being a senior NCO
circling back to this becasue i just spent 2 hours on a roof in 80 degree weather painting so i'm pissy and need to vent
he is not former military. he is a mixture of two extremely shitty kinds of asshole
firstly, he's a rancid little nerd. he's an awful nitpicker; he was whining the other day about how he knew The Force Awakens was gonna be an awful movie from the very first scene because "it makes no sense at all that Kylo Ren would be powerful enough to stop a blaster shot in mid-air like that." he was proudly spouting off about how he was going to play Hogwarts Legacy and eat Chik-fil-A and nobody could make him feel bad about it. he constantly makes Office Space references and gets pissy when he realizes that that's now an old enough movie that people don't remember it or never saw it. I think if he had his druthers this place would have the culture of like, something awful circa 2005. He wants this place to feel like his personal WoW guild.
secondly, he's got like a fuckin', tim the toolman taylor streak. He thinks he's WAY more handy than he actually is. I'm not handy at *all*, so he's better with power tools and what have you than i am, but he still ends up breaking shit just as often as he fixes things. I don't know if it's just how he grew up or what, but without ever actually saying it he clearly looks down on me for being less proficient at that kinda thing than he is, like it's basic life-skill shit and it speaks poorly of me that I don't meet his standards. And maybe it is basic life-skill shit, I don't know, but there's a reason I work for an IT company instead of a contractor! he was shittin' on my paint job an hour ago and i straight up told him, i'm not a professional painter so he can't expect a proffesional paint job out of me. but he also does this delightful little thing where anytime he says anything a little nasty or rude he instantly backpedals into it being a "joke," so if you get upset at him being a prick then actually it's your fault for being thin-skinned and having no sense of humor
Buddy, we've hung out here on the forums for a hot minute, and I've had the privilege of spending time with you IRL ... so I'm going to say something that I don't say lightly or without careful thought:
If life had ever steered you that way, you would have been an excellent marine, one that I would have been proud to have served with, one that I would follow.
You are a good person, patient, thoughtful, considerate. You care. Things matter to you.
These are not character flaws; they are virtues.
You are a good person and I am blessed in this life to know you.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
God, it is helpful to have a friend who is a certified expert in containers to reel ya in and go "what you are trying to do is stupid and unsafe. Look into doing it this way."
I'm assuming your friend is an expert in Tupperware, and no one can tell me otherwise.
Tupperware and storage is my area of expertise, thanks to my various collections.
I forgot to mention in the middle of our incident 2 nights ago, one dude took the time out to mansplain that the police were busy and not going to come quickly for a stolen phone. It took me and subordinate several tries to explain that we are talking about a stolen car and that he needed to drink a hearty mug of 140°F shut the fuck up
Right now his big obsession is power-sanding and repainting our generators, because they're a little rusty, because they're outside and uncovered so of course they are. No one else has commented on this being an issue, another, higher manager even keeps teasing him for caring about it so much, but he is ADAMANT that we get the rust off of them and repaint them.
And like, I don't mean to say that I'm too good for that kind of work
But I don't remember "painter" being anywhere in my job description!
I am like 99% sure that your boss is ex military and is living out his dream of being a senior NCO
circling back to this becasue i just spent 2 hours on a roof in 80 degree weather painting so i'm pissy and need to vent
he is not former military. he is a mixture of two extremely shitty kinds of asshole
firstly, he's a rancid little nerd. he's an awful nitpicker; he was whining the other day about how he knew The Force Awakens was gonna be an awful movie from the very first scene because "it makes no sense at all that Kylo Ren would be powerful enough to stop a blaster shot in mid-air like that." he was proudly spouting off about how he was going to play Hogwarts Legacy and eat Chik-fil-A and nobody could make him feel bad about it. he constantly makes Office Space references and gets pissy when he realizes that that's now an old enough movie that people don't remember it or never saw it. I think if he had his druthers this place would have the culture of like, something awful circa 2005. He wants this place to feel like his personal WoW guild.
secondly, he's got like a fuckin', tim the toolman taylor streak. He thinks he's WAY more handy than he actually is. I'm not handy at *all*, so he's better with power tools and what have you than i am, but he still ends up breaking shit just as often as he fixes things. I don't know if it's just how he grew up or what, but without ever actually saying it he clearly looks down on me for being less proficient at that kinda thing than he is, like it's basic life-skill shit and it speaks poorly of me that I don't meet his standards. And maybe it is basic life-skill shit, I don't know, but there's a reason I work for an IT company instead of a contractor! he was shittin' on my paint job an hour ago and i straight up told him, i'm not a professional painter so he can't expect a proffesional paint job out of me. but he also does this delightful little thing where anytime he says anything a little nasty or rude he instantly backpedals into it being a "joke," so if you get upset at him being a prick then actually it's your fault for being thin-skinned and having no sense of humor
Buddy, we've hung out here on the forums for a hot minute, and I've had the privilege of spending time with you IRL ... so I'm going to say something that I don't say lightly or without careful thought:
If life had ever steered you that way, you would have been an excellent marine, one that I would have been proud to have served with, one that I would follow.
You are a good person, patient, thoughtful, considerate. You care. Things matter to you.
These are not character flaws; they are virtues.
You are a good person and I am blessed in this life to know you.
and also, again not that you need us to tell you but goddamn is your boss a giant piece of shit. very much hoping something better comes along for you soon my man
I was perusing the SE++ for new threads to follow and came across this one. Now, I've been doing gig economy/freelance work for the last 4 years now, so I'm not in the "working world" anymore. I get to live out a childhood dream of being a voice actor and have had success. Of course, the only real reason I can do this is because my wife makes enough money at her job to support the household.
BUT! Before I got married and became an at-home parent and work merc, I worked a lot of retail and restaurant, along with some time as a PM for a home theater installation company. I've got plenty of experience with shitty clients and coworkers to share.
So yeah, I'm not in the 9-5 working world anymore, but I have spent a lot of time there in the past. Hope it's cool with everyone if I hang out and chime in on a topic or two. Or maybe even vent some work frustrations.
Need a voice actor? Hire me at bengrayVO.com
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Jesus.
Like, my company has a rule - if your presentation is literally reading out your slides, email it to everyone and don't waste our time.
The first three were all about how they still had issues with diversity, had issues specifically in leadership and wasn't physically located in a very diverse area.
The last three were:
And that was just allowed to stand unchallenged.
Now, you might say, was this lack of diversity more directly challenged in the survey? Almost certainly. Because as the head of HR said (you may remember him), "we've removed some answers because we don't want to stand up here pointing fingers. We haven't censored your answers, we've just removed some of them". Golf clap.
I had no idea Caribou closed that many stores. Whenever I went to corporate in Minnesota they were all obsessed with the place.
holy hannah
yeah it was REALLY weird. they just up and announced they were closing all downtown locations and a week later they were gone
Top 10 anime betrayals moment, right there.
*E: and I just remembered that I was excited that he took over from the previous guy. This moved into the top 5 now. :x
it's a shame how someone just went into his office and shit on his desk like that next week
circling back to this becasue i just spent 2 hours on a roof in 80 degree weather painting so i'm pissy and need to vent
he is not former military. he is a mixture of two extremely shitty kinds of asshole
firstly, he's a rancid little nerd. he's an awful nitpicker; he was whining the other day about how he knew The Force Awakens was gonna be an awful movie from the very first scene because "it makes no sense at all that Kylo Ren would be powerful enough to stop a blaster shot in mid-air like that." he was proudly spouting off about how he was going to play Hogwarts Legacy and eat Chik-fil-A and nobody could make him feel bad about it. he constantly makes Office Space references and gets pissy when he realizes that that's now an old enough movie that people don't remember it or never saw it. I think if he had his druthers this place would have the culture of like, something awful circa 2005. He wants this place to feel like his personal WoW guild.
secondly, he's got like a fuckin', tim the toolman taylor streak. He thinks he's WAY more handy than he actually is. I'm not handy at *all*, so he's better with power tools and what have you than i am, but he still ends up breaking shit just as often as he fixes things. I don't know if it's just how he grew up or what, but without ever actually saying it he clearly looks down on me for being less proficient at that kinda thing than he is, like it's basic life-skill shit and it speaks poorly of me that I don't meet his standards. And maybe it is basic life-skill shit, I don't know, but there's a reason I work for an IT company instead of a contractor! he was shittin' on my paint job an hour ago and i straight up told him, i'm not a professional painter so he can't expect a proffesional paint job out of me. but he also does this delightful little thing where anytime he says anything a little nasty or rude he instantly backpedals into it being a "joke," so if you get upset at him being a prick then actually it's your fault for being thin-skinned and having no sense of humor
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god a real home run on all counts what an absolute win for some lucky lady who hopefully is a serial cannibal
Wonder if there's a Tinder type app/site for former members of Zambian Meat one could steer this person to?
~ Buckaroo Banzai
obvious euphemism
I never responded to them, and they just followed up to say they're now "doing market research to reevaluate the pay range"
So maybe somebody else told them to get bent for me
Well actually I'm a librarian so I'm never done moving books.
Also why is it almost 80 degrees in here?
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~ Buckaroo Banzai
Get out of there, the manga you boxed up is forming a critical mass of sweaty teenage crushes
At this point I’d be fine with the manga killing me.
99% sure this would get you isekai'd
*It was roughly half of One Piece.
When I was still living with the folks just outta high school, there was a non-zero chance I could've bit the dust in a tidal wave of yuri pouring out of my closet.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Can you explain this a bit? Does it mean you show up at work and they're saying "psych, today is a 9.5hr day not a 10hr day"?
My Awesome Librarian Skills Destroyed the Great Evil and Now it's Time for Lunch with my Godlike Familiar.
Today at work my boss (the area manager) asked me at the end of the day if everyone was gone, and if we were alone in the building.
With a sinking feeling, I answered that we were.
He tells me that in the next pay period, my pay is going up 30 percent.
But the way he phrased it, I at first thought I was being moved to a different location. "Next pay period, you are going to (number)."
He said that my efforts have not gone un-noticed. I go in every day and give it everything I've got and people see that.
He told corporate that the company cannot lose me.
He asked me how I feel, and I told him I would be happy once I could feel again.
Now excuse me, I need to go get food and decompress.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
They have our target number up each day. So an 8 is 393 cars. 9.5 is 467. So we can see what to expect when we come in.
It has been 467 every day so far.
Today is an 8 just because they're low on some vital
So happy for you, bri!
OK to Star Wars nitpick, it makes perfect sense. It's a thing in the extended universe. Witches just slapping blaster bolts out of the air. Why wouldn't one of the major sith powers be able to? Lightsabers normally get used because it's easier. /star wars rant
Is this a "if we raise the number they'll have to hit it and we can punish them if they don't to keep them in line" sort of thing?
I am:
A - really happy that your hard work was noticed and your employers know that hard work needs to be acknowledged and compensated.
B - really sorry that simply being asked to speak privately to a superior, especially when you know you're performing well, triggered a panic response.
Being a worker in 2023 is fucking fraught with trauma.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
A full shelf of One Piece would be 1/4 to 1/3 of One Piece.
So now that I'm not on one of my criminally short breaks, I cam expand, which sort of goes in to your question.
Mostly it is a "we still make enough money paying OT so make cars, peons" thing. Also an "execs want their bonus" thing
The target number is a good indicator of what to expect, but we can work longer if shit goes sideways. I've worked 10 on an 8 hour number before.
Line call happens about 30-10 minutes before last break. They technically have until we come back from break to make the call, but they do it before. Mainly because if you can successfully argue you werent told the call, you get to leave at 8. Once that line call is made, it is the upper limit for the day. They can lower the call, like a 9 to an 8, but not the other way. If they call an 8 and we go down for an hour after returning from break? Too bad, they can't change it to 9 to make up the difference.
I mean they could, this is all company policy stuff and not a law, so they could decide to change it. But so far they've been smart enough to know that's really only a card you can play once before you're suddenly out a work force, and have not pulled the trigger on it.
They can raise the number prior to line call, though. They did that in my wife's area today, went from an 8.3 to an 8.5
I'm assuming your friend is an expert in Tupperware, and no one can tell me otherwise.
Buddy, we've hung out here on the forums for a hot minute, and I've had the privilege of spending time with you IRL ... so I'm going to say something that I don't say lightly or without careful thought:
If life had ever steered you that way, you would have been an excellent marine, one that I would have been proud to have served with, one that I would follow.
You are a good person, patient, thoughtful, considerate. You care. Things matter to you.
These are not character flaws; they are virtues.
You are a good person and I am blessed in this life to know you.
Tupperware and storage is my area of expertise, thanks to my various collections.
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and also, again not that you need us to tell you but goddamn is your boss a giant piece of shit. very much hoping something better comes along for you soon my man
BUT! Before I got married and became an at-home parent and work merc, I worked a lot of retail and restaurant, along with some time as a PM for a home theater installation company. I've got plenty of experience with shitty clients and coworkers to share.
So yeah, I'm not in the 9-5 working world anymore, but I have spent a lot of time there in the past. Hope it's cool with everyone if I hang out and chime in on a topic or two. Or maybe even vent some work frustrations.
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