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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    I have been moving for the past 4 days.

    I can't wait to go back to work tomorrow.

    Moving sucks. I am in the process of looking for somewhere new and not looking forward to packing all my shit up.

  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Leadership that decides to make sweeping policy changes with no input from the people who are impacted by said changes is just so goddamn stupid.

    I feel like this isn't limited to hospital staff, but goddamn haven't any of these people read a single book on management? Or hell, a blog post?

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    I've been learning construction for the last year or so

    and while some of our crew were getting mud off everything so the city wouldn't gripe

    I had to listen to a head supervisor gripe for the entire 9 hour shift at a supervisor over ordering and using the wrong 2x10s

  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    I'm beginning to think indeed doesn't work. I've been applying to all kinds of jobs and I haven't had a single call or email yet.

    This is really frustrating.

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  • thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Janitor of Technical Debt .Registered User regular
    Xehalus wrote: »
    I've been learning construction for the last year or so

    and while some of our crew were getting mud off everything so the city wouldn't gripe

    I had to listen to a head supervisor gripe for the entire 9 hour shift at a supervisor over ordering and using the wrong 2x10s

    I told them they were supposed to order the 10x2s!! How are we supposed to fit 2x10s into this frame?! HOW!?

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Ok I had a horrible day yesterday as I only had 11 people and was asked to cut people's OT so it screwed me over so I did both the juice isle and my supervisor job but at the end I had to finish chips, the condiment/boxed dinner isle and paper and a few boxes of chemicals all in the span of 90 minutes
    I hate being the army of one
    So I took it out on them at the start of the shift but what ruined it was they called everyone to the lunch room for a meeting basically talking about the remodel we are getting many of the changes coming to the hell known to men {They are turning it into fulfilment centers and pushing online as their formats} how we are getting various drones {to the murmurs of the job apocalypse} and the changes to the attendance policy and other things


    But they had the gall to tell me because of the meeting I had to basically double time it to make up for the 45 minutes they used then sent me home for 4 hours because of OT
    I just came home screamed into a pillow and talked with my brother about dinner

    Even more
    I really have no idea what my job is anymore because I was under the impression of I had to do the consumables areas {grocery -pharmacy/otc-various Health and beauty items-cosmetics and pets but work with what I have as no matter what the acceptable minimum was just Grocery [My manager is really messing up the staffing schedule there are days I have 18 people others I am lucky to have 10} Just what is going on with the new anti overtime litany being there is NONE under any case I had to finish 3 isles pull what was left of the backroom and put away the rolling belt by myself it took me 2? hours I just gave up and went home at 2am

    When I go back I really am going to find out what it is as I know we cannot have OT and they stress a sales ideal {if we don't have it we cannot sell it if it's not stocked we cannot sell it} So what do we do?

  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    New person starting today! Yay!

    I assume they're being brought on to help me with my incoming increase in workload.

    I ask my manager what I'm teaching. They surprise me by saying that the 2IC will actually be doing training.

    Huh. I forgot we finally got a capable one of those.

    Get myself ready for another day in tedium...

    Actually, Sarah, we need toy to do training today....

    Figured!

  • MuzzmuzzMuzzmuzz Registered User regular
    Had a guy point a banana at us while ordering a coffee, saying “stick ‘em up!” during the midnight shift. He seemed surprised that neither of us found it hilarious.

    Then he wanted to use our phone, but demanded that we could not dial for him (we do that to ensure no long distance calls)

    Then he proceeded to sit and stare at us for an hour.

    What’s worse, is now I have Raffi’s ‘Banana phone’ stuck in my head.

    https://youtu.be/dIiZ3vvZ78s

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Heh. We had a lot of snow yesterday. A good 50% of the tech side of the company went "I don't trust SL + snow, I'm remote today".

    SL = Stockholm metro. They go into a panic mode if there's a couple of leaves on the track.

  • FlarneFlarne Registered User regular
    The metro's running along nicely at least. Everything else is chaos though. Walked past three buses that just gave up on a hill.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Heh. We had a lot of snow yesterday. A good 50% of the tech side of the company went "I don't trust SL + snow, I'm remote today".

    SL = Stockholm metro. They go into a panic mode if there's a couple of leaves on the track.
    Would you call it... some kind of syndrome?

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Sorce wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Heh. We had a lot of snow yesterday. A good 50% of the tech side of the company went "I don't trust SL + snow, I'm remote today".

    SL = Stockholm metro. They go into a panic mode if there's a couple of leaves on the track.
    Would you call it... some kind of syndrome?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_Ot0k4XJc

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Since Saturday is the 2nd this year, today I am doing my yearly tradition of showing the movie Groundhog's Day once and only once in the library.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I am literally playing the movie again this morning. I look forward to the students' reactions.

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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Is that the next level of purgatory? Having a groundhog's day of groundhog's days?

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Next thing I’m going to do is repeat it on some random day later this semester.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    May I recommend March 15th, lest they forget?

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    It snowed last night, so I got myself all ready this morning. Got my snow boots on, double-zipped the jacket, scraped all the snow on my car. And then halfway through my drive to the train station I get a call that the office is closed.

    Also I really need some winter tires and soon.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I dive into the white for distant industrial lands

    7 inches......

    Im bigger

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Today is the first snow day for likely every major school district in western Washington.

    So I am at home playing Kirby Superstar & watching kung-fu movies on Twitch.

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    May I recommend March 15th, lest they forget?

    et tu, Pinfeldorf?

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    my friend ended up reporting the racist incident to the head of HR at the company
    (the racist was the CEO)

    apparently "They set a meeting with me the whole senior staff and ceo"

    jeezums
    good thing she's been looking for other jobs

    poo
  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    last week on Wednesday it was around -30 before windchill, Thursday it was -23. Saturday it was 39, yesterday 47. Today 50. And I hear my friends out west are snowed in

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Hey, can i leave early after starting late? Because overtime was supposed to be cut down

    i worked 12.5 hours due to snow last night if i make it in, it will be less than 8 hours turnaround
    And i covered dude at the start of the week so thats a +6 right there

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Today is the first snow day for likely every major school district in western Washington.

    So I am at home playing Kirby Superstar & watching kung-fu movies on Twitch.

    Anya's school is on a 2-hour bus route delay

    but she's not going to school today anyway, so

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Man I’m in my new work area by devops and there’s a loud as hell douchebag bitching about how the whole organization is stupid and nothing the senior folks want is ever doable or possible

    It’s been a while since I’ve been around people who make themselves feel better about their fear of failure by loudly douchesplaining that nothing new should ever be attempted anyway

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited February 2019
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    May I recommend March 15th, lest they forget?

    Holy fuck, this is an amazing idea.

    Edit:

    I feel like November 5th might be good too, if our theme is “remember”.

    sarukun on
  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    oh no

    we moved desks

    i shoulda asked to stay sitting next to person i was sitting with before

    new person next to me has um hm
    some BO issues hm

    and there is no polite way to handle this tbh
    i'm not gonna say anything i'm too scared

    oh no

    poo
  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    Absolutely, nothing like networking. Also, people speak up for other good people, as it's better than working with bad people.
    Moriveth wrote: »
    It snowed last night, so I got myself all ready this morning. Got my snow boots on, double-zipped the jacket, scraped all the snow on my car. And then halfway through my drive to the train station I get a call that the office is closed.

    Also I really need some winter tires and soon.

    There are some great extreme duty all seasons made now that mean you don't necessarily need separate snows. Look for the mountain/snowflake symbol

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    oh no

    we moved desks

    i shoulda asked to stay sitting next to person i was sitting with before

    new person next to me has um hm
    some BO issues hm

    and there is no polite way to handle this tbh
    i'm not gonna say anything i'm too scared

    oh no

    When I worked at the movie theater one of our employees had BO issues. Sweetheart of a guy, but he smelled so bad. When I got promoted the first thing the other managers made me do was talk to him about it because none of them wanted to. One of the other managers was his best friend but no, make the new guy do it.

    Sadly it only got better in fits, we'd talk to him, he'd get better for a month or two.

    Now he is a manager there and some friends that still work there tell me that he tends to leave a...residue on things he touches.

  • BobbleBobble Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    May I recommend March 15th, lest they forget?

    Alright I'll ask in case I'm not the only one who isn't sure. Is it something about the Ides of March?

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    You mean the Ikes of march?

  • Moridin889Moridin889 Registered User regular
    It snowed in Seattle land and I'm the only one who made it into work. My lifetime of training in the harsh midwestern winters continues to pay off.

  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    Thus begins what will be one meeting that spans two full days. Remember me fondly, friends.

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    oh no

    we moved desks

    i shoulda asked to stay sitting next to person i was sitting with before

    new person next to me has um hm
    some BO issues hm

    and there is no polite way to handle this tbh
    i'm not gonna say anything i'm too scared

    oh no

    When I worked at the movie theater one of our employees had BO issues. Sweetheart of a guy, but he smelled so bad. When I got promoted the first thing the other managers made me do was talk to him about it because none of them wanted to. One of the other managers was his best friend but no, make the new guy do it.

    Sadly it only got better in fits, we'd talk to him, he'd get better for a month or two.

    Now he is a manager there and some friends that still work there tell me that he tends to leave a...residue on things he touches.

    i asked a coworker if there was a polite way to deal with someone who has bad BO, and he apparently immediately knew who i was talking about, which is a bad sign

    can i just uh tell HR and make them deal with it
    or my boss

    agh there are no good solutions are there

    poo
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I'm curious as to everyone's opinions on direct employer contact by jobseekers. I get these a ton, emails saying "Hi I'm Barry Pibblesworth and I'm a Voggo Specialist and I'd like to come and work at Penny Arcade even though you have no open positions for Voggo Specialists."

    I've actually seen this as a recommended practise for jobseekers, which honestly kind of befuddles me, because I will, 100% of the time, assume this person is a schmuck who doesn't know how things happen. Could it be that I am the schmuck who doesn't know how things happen? Perhaps it's an American thing?

  • RadiationRadiation Registered User regular
    Yes! Your boss or HR should be addressing it.

    PSN: jfrofl
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Bucketman wrote: »
    oh no

    we moved desks

    i shoulda asked to stay sitting next to person i was sitting with before

    new person next to me has um hm
    some BO issues hm

    and there is no polite way to handle this tbh
    i'm not gonna say anything i'm too scared

    oh no

    When I worked at the movie theater one of our employees had BO issues. Sweetheart of a guy, but he smelled so bad. When I got promoted the first thing the other managers made me do was talk to him about it because none of them wanted to. One of the other managers was his best friend but no, make the new guy do it.

    Sadly it only got better in fits, we'd talk to him, he'd get better for a month or two.

    Now he is a manager there and some friends that still work there tell me that he tends to leave a...residue on things he touches.

    i asked a coworker if there was a polite way to deal with someone who has bad BO, and he apparently immediately knew who i was talking about, which is a bad sign

    can i just uh tell HR and make them deal with it
    or my boss

    agh there are no good solutions are there

    At an old job someone had a very bad odour and his boss ended up talking to him about it and the guy started crying and I basically swore from then on that I would rather put up with the odour than make someone cry by telling them they smell.

  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    oh no

    we moved desks

    i shoulda asked to stay sitting next to person i was sitting with before

    new person next to me has um hm
    some BO issues hm

    and there is no polite way to handle this tbh
    i'm not gonna say anything i'm too scared

    oh no

    When I worked at the movie theater one of our employees had BO issues. Sweetheart of a guy, but he smelled so bad. When I got promoted the first thing the other managers made me do was talk to him about it because none of them wanted to. One of the other managers was his best friend but no, make the new guy do it.

    Sadly it only got better in fits, we'd talk to him, he'd get better for a month or two.

    Now he is a manager there and some friends that still work there tell me that he tends to leave a...residue on things he touches.

    i asked a coworker if there was a polite way to deal with someone who has bad BO, and he apparently immediately knew who i was talking about, which is a bad sign

    can i just uh tell HR and make them deal with it
    or my boss

    agh there are no good solutions are there

    Talking with co-workers or subordinates about BO or just odors is one of the hardest things to do because it is such a personal issue that the other person may or may not be aware of and if they are aware of it, then it could be some embarrassing physical or medical condition.

    One of my former bosses went to a HR type course once where the topic came up and the example the instructor used was a fellow with extremely bad BO who had gone nose blind to it, so wasn't aware of how bad it was. Long story short, the manager sat down with him and somehow found out that it was due to the guy's clothes which he left sitting in the washer for days at a time where they would develop mold. That is one of the easy ones as it is a lot harder to talk to someone if they have bad gas or sweat a lot or use "essential oils" that just plain stink since some of those don't have easy solutions, or the solutions are attacks on one of their beliefs.

    I believe the takeaway from that section of the course was to have a superior approach the issue with empathy and understanding, but to bring it up so that you don't have some passive aggressive jerk leaving deodorant on their desk or stuff like that. Make sure the other person is aware of the issue and find some kind of way to address it if at all possible.

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    We have a guy that we'd called Old Spice Guy for years. If you rode an elevator after him you could get a contact cologning that would attract senior citizens for at least 2 hours. Fortunately they put him in the middle of our open office and I think that was the final straw and they spoke to him about it.

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