Workplace griping, anyone?

[kaylasdad99]

Originally Posted by Anaamika

1) Again, my coworkers have literally spent the morning going from office to office in a small clump, chatting. LOUDLY. Sometimes laughing so loud it hurts your ears. It is now 11:12 and I know three of them have done NO work. What gives?

2) My boss got pinkeye. Came in last week even though she wasn't supposed to. We sent her home, but apparently the damage has already been done. Now my coworker has pinkeye. Aargh.

Offer her five bucks for each member of the chattering clump who gets it by the end of the week.

[Anaamika]

Originally Posted by kaylasdad99

Offer her five bucks for each member of the chattering clump who gets it by the end of the week.

That....is fucking brilliant. I won't even offer her the $5. Maybe i'll encourage her to like, hug people.

[Yllaria]

Flatlined, that was the best different drummer metaphor I've ever heard. Glad that your cat is OK and that your vets are on the ball.

[Dr. Girlfriend]

Office manager, will you please STFU about your vacation already? It's bad enough hearing you prattle on and on about how good it will be to get away just at face value, but it really pisses me off knowing that next week was supposed to be my vacation.

I know what you did. I handed my vacation request in to you like a good little front office employee should rather than taking it directly to the boss. You saw that the week I wanted was the week you wanted, and since it's first come first served, you "misplaced" my request until you turned yours in and got it approved. Thus making sure mine was denied.

How do I know this? Because you bragged to the boss's wife, who let it slip to her son, who just so happens to be my cashier supervisor.

I knew you were two-faced, but this is low even for you. Total bitch move.

I wasn't exactly thrilled about spending a week with my boyfriend's estranged sister, but it's causing an issue with his family that I'm not going to this little family reunion. Which is a subject for another rant at another time.

So please, just STFU. There's nothing at my desk heavy enough to throw at you. I hope it rains the whole time you're there and you're stuck inside with your miserable brat of a teenager.

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by Yllaria

Flatlined, that was the best different drummer metaphor I've ever heard. Glad that your cat is OK and that your vets are on the ball.

Thank you When Tony does things that makes me go WTF!!!, I will sometimes imagine a drummer on the ground and Tony doing a shambling run off the field because his foot is stuck in a drum. It helps.

Dr. G, that just bites. And it blows. I was really hoping that your new job would get better, but it seems to keep getting worse. I'm sending good thoughts that you find a different job soon.

My rant will take a little background. Now that Shredder Guy is gone, my minions and I take turns shredding. I like shredding, I put earplugs in (because that thing is LOUD) and hold a book in one hand while feeding it with the other hand. The bags we use are 5 feet long and cost about a dollar each, so we reuse them.

The shred goes to the Lion's Club, and they empty the shred into their semi, stuff the bags into one bag and return them. (I'm big into recycling, before I started, the shred went into a dumpster and then to the landfill.)

So, anyhow...I was reading and shredding and pulled a bag out of the bag and it was covered with dirty oil. Of course, by the time I realized what was happening, I was covered in dirty oil from my boobs to my toes. The next bag was also covered in oil so I started digging around and found an oily can.

My only guess is that someone thought it was a trash bag, not a recycle bag. I will mention it to the Lion's Club guy when he comes to pick the shred up, but they are all volunteers so I can't beat him about the head and shoulders.

When I told my clerk what had happened, he started singing "Cover me with oil" and now I have a mindworm.

[Das Glasperlenspiel]

Dear contractors – a few words in your delicate, shell-like ears, if you will. The requirements of the job state that you shall submit a coherent, fully-formed workplan a minimum of ONE WEEK in advance of the proposed job. Since when, and in what universe, does a workplan submitted 24 (or less) hours in advance of the job meet the requirement of SEVEN DAYS? And is said workplan prepared in a comprehensible, logical way? Of course not. When you are visiting several remote, fly-in communities would it not make sense to research the order in which to visit them so that the plane I have to charter flies a sensible, fuel-efficient route instead of backing and forthing over half the country? Do you realize I have to re-work the whole effing workplan into a comprehensible document, submit it to a government agency for approval and only after said government agency approves the workplan can I actually start making flight arrangements, accommodation arrangements and travel advances – all of which require a signature from a mostly-absentee COO? And in what alternate utopian universe does any government agency actually approve anything in less than one week’s worth of briefing notes, justifications and tweaks to the original document?

I am in the middle of this right now, I have a micro-managing boss 3000 miles away who keeps making me drop everything to do some piddling stuff for her, I still can’t get these workplans straightened out because people keep changing their minds, or their car has broken down somewhere in the bush near East Buffalo Snort or the north end of South Porcupine and they are out of cell range, or they want me to re-jig the trip so they can stop over and spend the weekend with their mother/cousin/ex-boyfriend/cat (and I like cats. I might consider the cat excuse).

I am the only one in this office – I am “in charge” of obtaining approvals, logistical arrangements, expense claims and invoicing for ten people, nine of whom are complete idiots (and I sometimes wonder about the tenth). And then, after busting my ass and actually wringing approvals out of the government agency, pissing off my travel agent and my finance officer, and convincing the hotel to bill our organization directly because you don't carry a credit card, you come and tell me “Never mind, I’ve postponed the trip until later in July.”

I need a drink.

[overlyverbose]

There's a woman I used to work with at my previous company who's, let's say...not very intelligent. Which would explain why she just joined three pole dancing groups on linkedin. What's killing me is that she's in the company's public relations department!!

[Inner Stickler]

Linkedin has poledancing groups?

[overlyverbose]

Originally Posted by Inner Stickler

Linkedin has poledancing groups?

Apparently. She joined the US Poledancing Federation and a couple of other ones. Her company is going to shit their pants. Linkedin is also part of the company's social media marketing campaign.

Also, my ex boss was recently fired for inappropriate behavior. I'm not saying that pole dancing is necessarily inappropriate, but something tells me that the scandal-averse, politically conservative, male-run company she works at will have a problem with her choice of linkedin groups.

[Yllaria]

Das Glasperlenspiel, any chance you can return their workplan stamped "Inadequate, Please Revise and Resubmit?" I know that won't work if the deadline is yours, rather than theirs, or if there's no penalty for them starting late.

My boss is always saying that they're the ones who will get paid, so they ought to do the work. I'm always having to decide if it will take more of my time to instruct and nag them through to a product than to just make the edits myself. So, I feel for you.

[Jeep's Phoenix]

I thought I was doing myself a favor by writing the part modification procedure in a very simple, straightforward manner: "This is the part we ordered: [picture]. This is the part we need to make: [picture with a shit-ton of dimensions]." There are only two steps for modifying this damn thing:

1. Trim existing hooks from wire ends.
2. Bend wires into loops as shown on the drawing.

Oh, did I mention the drawing is 1:1 scale? That's right -- you can compare your modification work to the intended design by simply placing it on top of the drawing.



Needless to say, our testing/production department managed to fuck this up. I spent three and a half hours today sorting through 100 of these damn things. A handful were per the drawing; some still had enough wire left that I could reform the loops. Three are not salvageable. Testing/production and quality are pissed off; fortunately, they aren't aware that I'm the one responsible for all of the paperwork, so their anger has no target at the moment.

If the customer ever orders these things again, I'll just do the modifications myself. This has been absolutely ridiculous.

[alphaboi867]

I know this was been pitted before, but fuck "Reply All"! Every single fucking time any kind of email is sent to a group, several people feel the need to reply to everyone on the fucking list. This was really bad yesterday when an email regarding a change in escrow procedures was sent to the entire contact center instead of just that dept. There were about 3 dozen or so emails in my inbox of people asking they were sent this or saying it wasn't mean for them, plus a 2nd mass email from managment saying something like "This was clearly not meant not meant for the entire site, stop wasting everyone's time reply to all, you don't need to do this".

SPOILER:

Which was then followed by 8 emails from people confirming that they got the email telling them not to respond to the 1st mass email.

One woman is on vacation and someone, I don't know how has managed to set her "Out of Office" message to reply all. How is that even possible, and what possible purpose could a feature like that serve?

[Nava]

Dear customers:

If you claim you need something which is by all appearances impossible. If my bosses tell you that's probably going to be impossible but we'll have Nava give it a try and see if she can come up with something. If I manage to meet all your requirements except for one which your boss claims is not necessary and the people you claim to have it for say they don't use it. If you are so surprised by the results that you actually say, in front of witnesses "oh WOW, that... that WORKS! Yes, like this!"

DO NOT proceed to, one month later, when I'm training your fucking subordinates, spend the whole training period whining about how "it is not like the old system!" No, it is not! When you change things, the new things are, by motherfucking definition, not the old ones! Kiss. My. ASS!

I feel better now. But I'd feel even better if I could afford to tell that to the aforementioned customer

[amarinth]

I truly hate the term "best practices."

I have also noticed that the people who use the term the most, always ask "is this a 'best practice?'", and are the ones who most slavishly adhere to whatever they believe is a "best practice" are the ones who don't understand the problem or reasons behind the process. They also seemingly refuse to think about why something that is a great idea in one situation doesn't really apply to every situation across the board or how the idea might need adjusting for their circumstance.

[Flutterby]

I want to hurt the person who had the bright idea to not allow Adobe to save filled out forms. Is it an option or something? Because I swear I've been able to do it in the past, but damnit why allow a form to be filled out and you can't save it.

This form is 8 pages long with multiple selections and options and information needed but I don't know all the info. I would like to be able to fill out what I know, save it, and pass it on to another person who can fill out the bits I don't know. Or save it until they get back to me, because though I filled it out today they may not tell me the final pieces until tomorrow.

Bah! On top of this I have people breathing down my neck on why this isn't moving and it's because no one will tell me what the fuck I asked about! The initial request took a MONTH to get back to me, even with poking. That's not ASAP! Gah!

[purplehorseshoe]

I came in here with a truly minor little gripe, just as Grandboss walked in and informed us that there is a plumbing leak on the floor below us in the IT service desk. Yes, that kind of plumbing leak. So, today is Count Your Blessings day for me, because at least I don't share a workspace with raw sewage.

I'm sure I'll be back tomorrow with another complaint.

[Canadjun]

Originally Posted by Flutterby

I want to hurt the person who had the bright idea to not allow Adobe to save filled out forms. Is it an option or something? Because I swear I've been able to do it in the past, but damnit why allow a form to be filled out and you can't save it.

This form is 8 pages long with multiple selections and options and information needed but I don't know all the info. I would like to be able to fill out what I know, save it, and pass it on to another person who can fill out the bits I don't know. Or save it until they get back to me, because though I filled it out today they may not tell me the final pieces until tomorrow.

Bah! On top of this I have people breathing down my neck on why this isn't moving and it's because no one will tell me what the fuck I asked about! The initial request took a MONTH to get back to me, even with poking. That's not ASAP! Gah!

You mean Adobe Acrobat? (Adobe makes other stuff). Yes it is, because I've used forms that let me save them in a filled out state. Don't ask me how though.

[Flutterby]

Yeah Acrobat. And I know it's possible to save filled out forms but whomever created this form turned it off, so I'm SOL.

[flatlined]

Copy and save the form to word, then fill it out and send the word document to whoever. Its still a pain, but at least you can save it.

[MissTake]

Stupid management fouling up the division mandated work culture.

The state gave us mucho dinero to not be in office. The idea is come in if you have work that must be accomplished in office (and thanks to the attorneys not being willing to handle simple case queries over the phone or via email, we still come in relatively frequently). We also have mail for our teammates, so for the past two years someone has been scheduled to swing in every other day to handle dead tree stuff. It's worked. I ended up going in office once every three weeks or so.

Oh no, managements doesn't like not seeing bodies in the office. Well, they never really liked this whole culture change anyways. A few supes were requiring a warm body in office everyday. OH NO! Not fair! Instead of those teams not requiring a warm body daily, management decided EVERY team must now have someone in every day.

There is no reason for this. I was in office yesterday. Handled a whole TWO PIECES of mail - one was my own. Every document we send can be done via our file program. Of course, management cloaks the edict in "Customer Service", so we really cannot argue. It's bullshit. There are no emergencies in our area. If there is something that must be done quickly, it's because the worker fucked up (in which case it's the worker's responsibility to fix it, not coverage) or because the client fucked up (lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part).

So now my whole team is in an uproar. We're bringing in people from another team for this coverage, as they would have to be in office every other day with this directive. They're upset as we're not bending over backwards to give them the schedules they want. Guess what? None of us are getting what we want, we had July all mapped out and now have to redo the whole damn thing.

Stupid management.

[LavenderBlue]

Mentor is not a synonym for bastard, you jealous asshole.

[Ferret Herder]

I got a spreadsheet with study recruitment questions on it from a pharmaceutical company today. The font was in Comic Sans, including all column/row headers and the pre-filled examples, so it wasn't some formatting error.

Sick bastards.

[Dr. Girlfriend]

I found out today that not only is my boss an asshole, he's a racist asshole too. My summer help is mostly white teenage guys, not by my design, that's just who came in to work. Today I had a black guy come in for an application, he probably wasn't older than 18, very nice, polite, and clean cut. He didn't have time to fill out the application in the office, so I told him to come back when he had time. That's one of the boss's rules, the applications are never allowed to leave the office. Kid says ok, he'll come back later.

Boss comes charging out of his office before the kid is barely out the door.

Boss: "Who was that? What the hell did he want?"

Me: "An application, but he didn't have time to stay right now."

Boss: "You didn't let him take one did you?!"

Me: "No, I know that's not allowed."

Boss: "You know that's not allowed... and besides, I won't hire a felon!"

Me:

Nice one boss, I thought that attitude went out a long time ago. I really hope the kid comes back. I'll hire him just to spite the boss.

[Chimera]

Quick Parts in Outlook would be a lot more useful if, every fourth time I selected one, it didn't show up in some random font. Or if I could delete one, save a slightly altered version of it under the same or different name, and not have the motherfucking thing revert to the old version every goddamned time.

[LavenderBlue]

Originally Posted by Dr. Girlfriend

I found out today that not only is my boss an asshole, he's a racist asshole too. My summer help is mostly white teenage guys, not by my design, that's just who came in to work. Today I had a black guy come in for an application, he probably wasn't older than 18, very nice, polite, and clean cut. He didn't have time to fill out the application in the office, so I told him to come back when he had time. That's one of the boss's rules, the applications are never allowed to leave the office. Kid says ok, he'll come back later.

Boss comes charging out of his office before the kid is barely out the door.

Boss: "Who was that? What the hell did he want?"

Me: "An application, but he didn't have time to stay right now."

Boss: "You didn't let him take one did you?!"

Me: "No, I know that's not allowed."

Boss: "You know that's not allowed... and besides, I won't hire a felon!"

Me:

Nice one boss, I thought that attitude went out a long time ago. I really hope the kid comes back. I'll hire him just to spite the boss.

Wow. What an asshole. I would seriously think about reporting his racist ass.

[Chimera]

So Clueless George and I had a falling out today and I filed a complaint against him.

He brings up an issue in the news. I disagree with him. His head whips around and his eyes spinning hard in pure contempt of my opinion. I walk away. He IMs me, repeating his disagreement with me and "your leap of logic is DUMB". I immediately disconnect the IM without responding. So he comes over to my desk and hammers on it more. I tell him that I have given him my opinion, it isn't going to change by him harassing me, and he needs to let it drop. He says "that's terrifying" and walks back to his desk, where he immediately IMs me AGAIN and starts telling me I'm wrong.

At that point I replied "DROP IT. NOW" and told him that he has exhausted my patience for repeatedly pushing issues well past me telling him to stop it.

Then I emailed our mutual bosses and filed a complaint, saying that while we get along 99% of the time and work well together, I cannot accept his unprofessional harassment over simple differences in opinion and it needs to stop.

Of course, their first response was to tell me to ignore him and never again share my opinion about anything with him.

I said I cannot ignore someone I have to work with and I've tried both ignoring him and telling him to stop and neither work, so it's time for someone else to tell him that he's acting inappropriately.

He got an email shortly thereafter and left the room to call them, and not a single word passed between us after that.

[flatlined]

There are only 2 floors on this building. So, when you rush into the elevator without letting me drag boxes out, don't be surprised when I push the button to keep the door open and ask you to move out of the way so I can get out. I know that you have to get upstairs fast so you can punch in after lunch, but I'm not willing to ride the elevator back up because you don't know how elevators work.

Let the people who need to get out leave before you get in.

And don't bother to call my boss to complain, she will just tell you the same thing and then call me and laugh.

[Chimera]

Originally Posted by flatlined

Let the people who need to get out leave before you get in.

Honestly, there needs to be a class in Elementary School or something on how to get on and off elevators. I've seen a completely packed full elevator open on the ground floor of my building and some dumbass try to force their way on it rather than stepping out of the way to let everyone off first. More than once.

Item on my "If I ever win the lottery and buy a company" list. Add elevator etiquette to the company handbook. With a special note that says if you ever do this when the owner (me) is on that elevator, it is subject to immediate progressive disciplinary steps.

[kaylasdad99]

Originally Posted by Chimera

Honestly, there needs to be a class in Elementary School or something on how to get on and off elevators. I've seen a completely packed full elevator open on the ground floor of my building and some dumbass try to force their way on it rather than stepping out of the way to let everyone off first. More than once.

Item on my "If I ever win the lottery and buy a company" list. Add elevator etiquette to the company handbook. With a special note that says if you ever do this when the owner (me) is on that elevator, it is subject to immediate progressive disciplinary steps.

Just popping in to say that if I ever win enough money in a lottery to buy a company, I'll just keep the cash and live on that for the rest of my life.

[flatlined]

Chimera I am in full agreement with you and want to sign up for your newsletter.

I will now confess that I take some evil joy when I arrive at the ground floor of a TWO story building and make people get back off the elevator so I can wheel my boxes out. Why the heck would anyone be surprised that if I'm in an elevator that only goes from 1 level to the other that I don't want to ride it again.

[t-bonham@scc.net]

Originally Posted by Chimera

Honestly, there needs to be a class in Elementary School or something on how to get on and off elevators. I've seen a completely packed full elevator open on the ground floor of my building and some dumbass try to force their way on it rather than stepping out of the way to let everyone off first. More than once.

Item on my "If I ever win the lottery and buy a company" list. Add elevator etiquette to the company handbook. With a special note that says if you ever do this when the owner (me) is on that elevator, it is subject to immediate progressive disciplinary steps.

Or spend a little more when constructing the building, and have an elevator that has doors on TWO opposite sides. On most floors it works normally, with only the front set of doors opening. But on the main floor, the back set of doors opens, to let people out the back way. Then a few seconds later, the front ones open and people can get on from that side.

It actually saves quite a bit of time, since it ends up taking less time for an elevator stop on that main, very busy floor.

[Indyellen]

I carry the after-hours/weekend support phone 95% of the time, and usually there's nothing more complicated than someone locking themselves out of the application.

Yesterday morning, though, we had an outage. Something happened with one of the servers (no one has told me what, yet) and login was impossible for any client attached to that server.

It's an electronic medical records system, and there are providers who see patients on Saturday, including our two largest clients.

It took me 45 fucking minutes to reach someone in our Development department, and when I did, I was actually trying to get an additional phone number since I didn't know the person I called had remote access to the servers. Thankfully, he rebooted the server, which resolved the problem.

I know it's early on Saturday, it's not like I fucking chose to be up, either, but when your phone rings every five minutes, wake up and goddamn answer it! Or answer the text I sent. Or the email. Or SOMETHING!!!

If the support team isn't going to have access to the servers (and I don't want it), then by all that's holy a plan better fucking appear to take care of this sort of thing in the future. It was MY ass on the line, getting yelled at and being asked when it's going to be fixed, not yours.

I sent an extensive email after service was restored with my suggestions for an outage plan, but this was totally unacceptable.

And people wonder why I get pissed about not getting a raise in 4.5 years....

[Canadjun]

Originally Posted by Chimera

Honestly, there needs to be a class in Elementary School or something on how to get on and off elevators. I've seen a completely packed full elevator open on the ground floor of my building and some dumbass try to force their way on it rather than stepping out of the way to let everyone off first. More than once.

I never have that problem when I am in my electric scooter. I just start backing out of the elevator. Funny how quickly people get out of the way when the alternative is getting run over.

[Dr. Girlfriend]

A few months ago I brought an issue with one of the cashiers to the boss. Boss rather rudely said this issue wasn't my problem. So I forgot about it. Today boss is pissed at me because I couldn't remember the exact date that this issue came up. Jesus Harold Christ you asshole make up your mind!

I think boss is going to fire this cashier tomorrow. Boss made me call the guy and tell him to come to the office. I just hope I don't have to sit in on this meeting.

I don't know how this company stays in business. You can't treat people the way this asshole does and expect people to want to work with you. I'd quit but I can't be without a paycheck and jobs around here are few and far between.

[a35362]

Well, you may have answered your own question right there.

[Tess]

I swore I'd drop this, but my co-worker insists on loudly sharing and if I keep biting my tongue there's gonna be blood.

A sane co-worker's been on vacation. Got back in the middle of last week and casually asked what everyone did for Father's Day. The Great Prespender happily replies, "I gave my dad a card." 'Cause she's so broke she just can't afford anything else. Ten minutes later she calls her dad to say she's buying an air conditioner on payday, can he help set it up?

Today it gets even better:

She mentions her alumni license plate. "It costs an extra $40, but $15 of it goes to the school, so I'm just being a good alumni!" Uhm, okay.

A little later it somehow comes up that in six months she's bought five pairs of shoes, not counting the four pairs of flip-flops she bought this weekend. She's proud of this.

Five minutes later she declares boyfriend doesn't save enough money. So she's teaching him how to be more frugal. For example, if they didn't eat out so much they could save more. (True, but she's been saying this for months and somehow keeps going to restaurants 3+ nights a week.)

She uses herself as an example of financial discipline. "I went shopping this weekend and only spent $20 at store X. Then I went to store Y and paid $50 towards my credit card. <beat> Then I put another $30 on it, but the pants were so cute!" Oh, and she went out to lunch and spent another $20.

Getting financial counseling from her would be like having Charlie Sheen as your AA sponsor.

[Shoujin]

Lady, don't complain that the parcel you expected tomorrow via Fedex came today via USPS. Ok, you may have made plans to be around all day tomorrow to sign for the package, but take it up with the company you ordered from, not me. Hell, you got it a day early. I hope this doesn't disrupt the time continuum for you.

Oh, and No, you don't have to sign for it.

[Time Stranger]

My boss hasn't been speaking to me for two days because I had the nerve to add a title slide to a powerpoint-based lesson plan project he updated. He is convinced that because I added the slide, even though all the information on the slides is the same, that I used an old/outdated version and that he's going to have to spend SO MUCH TIME to make sure it's right. DAYS. DAYS OF TIME to make sure I did not secretly switch the files. Do I have any idea how much extra work this is going to add for him? Do I?! He is basically going to have to redo the whole thing!!!

It pissed him off even more that I wasn't buying into his panic and worrying. "I'll delete the title slide" is all the response I'm going to give him.

I'm not even going to get into stupidity of using powerpoint as a word processor (he puts the pages of notes for the lessons under the slides).

[Inner Stickler]

This isn't a workplace gripe so much as a workplace mystery. Every time I go to the bathroom, something odd is going on with the TP. Either an empty roll is squished in some crack in the stall or there's a new roll sitting on top of the TP holder or the holder itself is disassembled and spread throughout the stall. Who's doing this and why?!

[Chimera]

An Engineer with bowel problems?

[Jeep's Phoenix]

Ooo, workplace bathroom mysteries:

• A prayer book has appeared. Who reads prayer books on the crapper?
• Why does the floor seem to get dirtier every time it's cleaned?
• Who wrote a partial part number upside down and angled on the back of one of the stall doors?
• Why did someone stuff the old, broken soap dispensers into the new soap dispenser boxes, then leave said boxes on a shelf in the bathroom?
• A massive gray streak (sort of like you see on heavily used white china) has appeared in the toilet bowl in the first stall. Who was cleaning this toilet so aggressively, and why?

[Cat Whisperer]

Well, my temp job is over. This has been true for the 15 plus years I've been a temp - the only companies that want to keep me on permanently are the ones I don't want to work for. I wanted to stay at this company - I liked the duties, I liked the people, I liked the location, but the parent company wouldn't pay the temp agency and didn't see the need to keep me (even though they need to hire an administrative person), so I'm out. Back to looking again. Sigh.

[Lynn Bodoni]

Ooo, workplace bathroom mysteries:

• A prayer book has appeared. Who reads prayer books on the crapper?

Haven't you ever prayed for toilet paper to appear when the stall is out? Your prayers have been answered!

[flatlined]

Dr. G, my only advice is to start looking for a new job now. Your sanity is important.

I can only spend a couple of hours a day at the RatKing's lair. Its just gets too hot when its after 11, so I clock in, jump in the van, stop to fill up the ice chest and drive 45 minutes to get there. Boss's Boss just cannot understand why I haven't moved all those boxes yet because it only took 10 days to fill the Ustore place.

Its not moving them that is taking the time, its reboxing them, you silly bint. Not to mention that I moved them there during the winter and I had a LOT more help back then.

November is sooooo far away

[t-bonham@scc.net]

Originally Posted by Jeep's Phoenix

A prayer book has appeared. Who reads prayer books on the crapper?

Perhaps it's being put to a more appropriate use.
Does it have some pages missing? Are there more pages missing each day?

[rockle]

Originally Posted by Jeep's Phoenix

Ooo, workplace bathroom mysteries:

• A prayer book has appeared. Who reads prayer books on the crapper?
• Why does the floor seem to get dirtier every time it's cleaned?
• Who wrote a partial part number upside down and angled on the back of one of the stall doors?
• Why did someone stuff the old, broken soap dispensers into the new soap dispenser boxes, then leave said boxes on a shelf in the bathroom?
• A massive gray streak (sort of like you see on heavily used white china) has appeared in the toilet bowl in the first stall. Who was cleaning this toilet so aggressively, and why?

This sounds like a treatment for a multi-episode arc of a sitcom that I would probably watch the shit out of. (No pun intended.) I believe this show could be called "Lav Rats" (or "Shit-House Rats" if it's on HBO.)

[Tess]

The floor mystery's probably easy to explain, rockle. The bathroom's the last place cleaned and whoever's stuck doing it doesn't feel like replacing the dirty mop water with clean water.

[rockle]

Originally Posted by Tess

The floor mystery's probably easy to explain, rockle. The bathroom's the last place cleaned and whoever's stuck doing it doesn't feel like replacing the dirty mop water with clean water.

Yes -- but it's like Lost. That's one of the mysteries they'll actually solve over the 5-season run. The rest will just generate more questions.

[purplehorseshoe]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

Well, my temp job is over. This has been true for the 15 plus years I've been a temp - the only companies that want to keep me on permanently are the ones I don't want to work for. I wanted to stay at this company - I liked the duties, I liked the people, I liked the location, but the parent company wouldn't pay the temp agency and didn't see the need to keep me (even though they need to hire an administrative person), so I'm out. Back to looking again. Sigh.

Can you apply for the permanent admin job?

[Nava]

That's generally (and from what CW says it applies in this case) forbidden in the original contract. If she got hired, the company would have to pay the temp company a fee; in many of those contracts, there is a fee CW would have to pay the temp agency if she went behind their back (I've seen cases where the fee was roughly equivalent to three months' salary).

I've been notified my current contract will be over at the end of the month: no surprise (the part I do will not be needed in the next few months), and it's actually pretty nice that they've told me almost 30 days in advance (the standard would have been 15, for this contract length), but now I have to tell Mom... on Saturday, which will already be a day when she'll be feeling lousy due to its not being her wedding anniversary any more. Dad's birthday would have been last Friday, so the combination of the two dates always leads to her being in a horrible mood between mid-June and about the 10th of July. Dang.

Tonight, chocolate shall be had.