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?
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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....
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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?
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.
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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.
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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Moving sucks. I am in the process of looking for somewhere new and not looking forward to packing all my shit up.
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?
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
This is really frustrating.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
I told them they were supposed to order the 10x2s!! How are we supposed to fit 2x10s into this frame?! HOW!?
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?
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!
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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
WoW
Dear Satan.....
SL = Stockholm metro. They go into a panic mode if there's a couple of leaves on the track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_Ot0k4XJc
Also I really need some winter tires and soon.
7 inches......
Im bigger
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
So I am at home playing Kirby Superstar & watching kung-fu movies on Twitch.
et tu, Pinfeldorf?
(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
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
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Anya's school is on a 2-hour bus route delay
but she's not going to school today anyway, so
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
Holy fuck, this is an amazing idea.
Edit:
I feel like November 5th might be good too, if our theme is “remember”.
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
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
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.
Alright I'll ask in case I'm not the only one who isn't sure. Is it something about the Ides of March?
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
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?
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.
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.