Workplace griping, anyone?

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by perfectparanoia

Since this is a software company, we have the programmer people who like things very quiet so they can concentrate (to the point that clacky keyboards and slurping soup have been outlawed in their areas).

Oh man, now I have to go ask my boyfriend if they have any crazy rules like that at their work. If I hear anything good, I'll report back. (Personally, I've found that a lot of geeks love clacky keyboards, so I find that one particularly odd. Although maybe it's only that we like hearing our own keyboards rather than other people's...)

Originally Posted by Scuba_Ben

Follow-up to my first gripe: Now they're talking about hall decorations. What hall decorations celebrate Saturnalia?

Maybe a picture of Saturn draped with untied ropes and some dice?

[DrDeth]

Originally Posted by Scuba_Ben

Follow-up to my first gripe: Now they're talking about hall decorations. What hall decorations celebrate Saturnalia? And how do I pull this off without excessively annoying a strongly conservative Christian co-worker?)

Do Yule, lots of evergreens, mistltoe, holly. Drinking, meat. I think the blood can be skipped.

For Saturnalia, you'd have everyone wear colorful casual clothes= NO SUITS, a pileus cap, small gifts (esp to underlings), a banquet, and gambling.

I suggest the theme be "Cool Yule" and he won't figure it out.

[YogSosoth]

Dear idiots:

Please let people OFF the elevator before you try to cram your asses in. Thanks.

Failure to do so will result in me blindly kicking through the gap in the elevator the instant it opens.

[aruvqan]

Originally Posted by Scuba_Ben

Follow-up to my first gripe: Now they're talking about hall decorations. What hall decorations celebrate Saturnalia? And how do I pull this off without excessively annoying a strongly conservative Christian co-worker?

(The co-worker is so strong in eir belief that e had trouble seeing a statue of a Hindu deity at an Indian restaurant.)

Misrule ... so looks like nude dancing about and lots of drinking, and those bouncy fake penises ...

Sucks to be your christian co-worker.

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by Scuba_Ben

Follow-up to my first gripe: Now they're talking about hall decorations. What hall decorations celebrate Saturnalia? And how do I pull this off without excessively annoying a strongly conservative Christian co-worker?

(The co-worker is so strong in eir belief that e had trouble seeing a statue of a Hindu deity at an Indian restaurant.)

That would make me want to decorate my desk and cube in a Religions of the World theme. I think you should go with at least things like pine boughs and mistletoe and shit (nice and pagan, is what I'm getting at).

[Scuba_Ben]

I doubt I can get away with the Roman orgy. So gambling it is.

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by Scuba_Ben

I doubt I can get away with the Roman orgy.

What if it just stays in one place?

[E-Sabbath]

Originally Posted by Scuba_Ben

(The co-worker is so strong in eir belief that e had trouble seeing a statue of a Hindu deity at an Indian restaurant.)

Talk about missing the elephant in the room!

[Kolga]

Originally Posted by E-Sabbath

Talk about missing the elephant in the room!

Go to your room.

[Rachellelogram]

I hate to interrupt your bitchfests because, truly, it is a rare delight when your shrill obscenities grace my ears. But for the love of frog, stop cussing loudly when I'm on the phone. It's fucking unprofessional. Cuss after the phones are off, or outside (like I do!). Go eat a sammich or something. Take your PMS meds and don't call me in the morning.

[TheFaerie]

Dear Co-worker who trained me,
I like you, I think you are a nice person. You have lots of experience in the processes you are teaching me me. I'm all good with that. But for Goddess's sake let me take care of my own responsibilities in my own way! I am perfectly capable of answering an email without cc'ing you on every reply; I can take care of reminding people to turn in their reports without cc'ing you; I have been here long enough that I don't need you to direct how I schedule my day. I am not you and a few things I do are not going to be the way you did them. LEAVE ME ALONE! You are not my boss and I am not answerable to you! If I need help or a task to do I will ask! Don't just randomly say "We need to do XYZ thing soon," and expect me to remember that a week later. You are too hyper and your are driving me to drink. I need another martini.

[Chimera]

Can we stop rigging the "random drawings" for rewards and shit? It's been going on for so long that it is painfully obvious to the intelligent observers that only your little favorites ever win anything.

[Muffin]

The god-damned boss would not let me leave early today (Friday).


Oh, wait a minute . . .

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by TheFaerie

Dear Co-worker who trained me,
I like you, I think you are a nice person. You have lots of experience in the processes you are teaching me me. I'm all good with that. But for Goddess's sake let me take care of my own responsibilities in my own way! I am perfectly capable of answering an email without cc'ing you on every reply; I can take care of reminding people to turn in their reports without cc'ing you; I have been here long enough that I don't need you to direct how I schedule my day. I am not you and a few things I do are not going to be the way you did them. LEAVE ME ALONE! You are not my boss and I am not answerable to you! If I need help or a task to do I will ask! Don't just randomly say "We need to do XYZ thing soon," and expect me to remember that a week later. You are too hyper and your are driving me to drink. I need another martini.

I quit a job with a supervisor like that - she was watching every little thing I did, and questioning everything and not allowing me one millimeter of individuality in the job duties. For instance, part of my duties was taking care of the credit card statement that came in from one of the company owners, and allocating each purchase to the correct account. Since it was the same each month, I made a little spreadsheet so I could just plug the amounts in and have all the work done for me. She was quite irritated when she found out about the spreadsheet - "micro-manager" doesn't even start to describe her. "Nuts" goes a long way, though.

[TheFaerie]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

I quit a job with a supervisor like that - she was watching every little thing I did, and questioning everything and not allowing me one millimeter of individuality in the job duties. For instance, part of my duties was taking care of the credit card statement that came in from one of the company owners, and allocating each purchase to the correct account. Since it was the same each month, I made a little spreadsheet so I could just plug the amounts in and have all the work done for me. She was quite irritated when she found out about the spreadsheet - "micro-manager" doesn't even start to describe her. "Nuts" goes a long way, though.

It's almost that bad, but I'm trying to cut her some slack. This job was hers for 7 years, so she thinks her was was the best way. Not so, sister. I also don't have her hyper energy and take my day at a slower pace, which seems to drive her a little nuts. OMG I didn't answer that email immediately!!! OMG I didn't jump up and grovel when the VP came in! OMG I didn't do whateverthehell ASAP! Chill Chica! The world isn't going to end because I didn't interrupt my learning new process number 92 to make sure that somebody knows that their stupid pens aren't going to be delivered until Monday... GAH!

Oh, and they have the horribly complicated filing system which I am honestly afraid I will never learn and am always putting things in the wrong place. I came from an engineering background and now I'm in Purchasing for a company that has locations all over the world. They are having to change the way they do things just so I can try to catch up, and it's annoying the hell out of her.

She's nice and we get on well, but for gracious sake, Corporate Purchasing and Engineering Aide is now my job. Let me do it!

ETA: I was unemployed since January, I only started this job in October. I'm just glad to have a job that I kinda like for a firm that seems to appreciate it's people.

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by TheFaerie

It's almost that bad, but I'm trying to cut her some slack. This job was hers for 7 years, so she thinks her was was the best way. Not so, sister. I also don't have her hyper energy and take my day at a slower pace, which seems to drive her a little nuts. OMG I didn't answer that email immediately!!! OMG I didn't jump up and grovel when the VP came in! OMG I didn't do whateverthehell ASAP! Chill Chica! The world isn't going to end because I didn't interrupt my learning new process number 92 to make sure that somebody knows that their stupid pens aren't going to be delivered until Monday... GAH!<snip>

That's another thing that drives me a little crazy - co-workers or supervisors who bend over backwards to do everyone else's jobs for them, and expect the same from me. You know, if you made the people you cater to responsible for their own shit, a lot of your busy work would end. An example of this that comes to mind was chasing people down to make sure their hours for the week were correct - you forget to put your hours in or your hours aren't right, you get a wrong paycheque, and I bet you only do that once. No, instead it was part of my duties to make sure that everyone managed to get their hours right, and chase them down to fix anything. I don't care for babysitting adults.

[Nava]

Originally Posted by acsenray

What did they even mean by that?

Based on my experience dealing with the Pedagogy-Infested, what they meant was "that does not match what I was taught in school, and thou art just a peon who doesn't know shit"; what they actually were telling us was "I never learned that pedagogy must serve teaching, and not the other way 'round." It's the bad pedagogue's version of "but we can't change the procedures! They're the procedures!", aka "I'd be a fucking moron if I was getting laid."

[Sattua]

Blech, the people on my team at work are like that... there's this one consultant who basically writes all of their emails for them, fills in their timesheets for them (those who are consultants), negotiated their salaries and perks for them, and finds a way to pick on me for every little thing I do for them. I know. I used to let him control me like that, too. I'm so unpopular now basically because I stopped allowing it.

[overlyverbose]

Dear Co-worker,

I appreciate that our systems team is not moving that quickly. They promised us something and haven't yet delivered it, even though they're technically a month overdue. But... First, even though we're well into our busiest season of the year, you've demanded significant changes to the product, which changed the scope of work, which means that it'll take longer. That's just the way it works. Second, I'm the product manager. You guys are in the call center. Just because I refuse to go over every half hour and demand an update from the new programmer does not mean you should. It also doesn't mean that it's okay for your manager to do it, and no, the researchers shouldn't do it, either. It's confusing when he has someone on the business side and three people on the consumer side popping up at his desk - he doesn't know who to e-mail when he does have an update and he's really flustered because you won't fucking leave him alone. I've already spoken to the programmer and his manager and he has help now and will get us something today or early tomorrow. Leave. Him. Alone. Right now.

And I almost forgot: you are the single most anal person I've ever met, even worse than my boss, which is saying a lot. I wrote you some documentation on the product you're using. You came back with edits. I could understand this if the edits were related to inaccuracies or if the document were confusing or incomplete. But the edits you had were to a portion of the product you don't use. And your primary issue was that I didn't refer to a sort button as the "A/Z down arrow button." Any idiot who has ever used excel or word knows what a sort button is.

Oh, and fixing a button on the product you're using isn't an enhancement. So, when I have a "product enhancement meeting," perhaps you could talk about, oh, maybe product enhancements instead of fixes. You see, a product enhancement significantly improves a product and extends the product's life. A fix is a correction. See? They're different. If the product isn't working, tell me and I'll work with systems to get it working. If you need an enhancement, I'm creating the budget for next year; now is the time to tell me.

I know you think I'm a shitty product manager because I don't turn into a raging bitch when someone doesn't meet a deliverable. And you think I'm lax because I ask systems, "Can you fit this in?" when we decide to completely change the product mid-development. You dislike my working style because I have the gall to ask you, "Does this prevent you from doing your job?" because I'm attempting to help systems manage their workload. If it helps you feel justified in disliking me, I think you're pretty shitty for refusing to back down when I pointed out that the changes you require are going to take longer and then getting mad when they *gasp* take longer. And I think you're a jackass for thinking that systems, who supports this entire company and the many products we're developing, should focus only on ours. Being a bitch tends to backfire when you're trying to get someone to do something for you. And now that you've taken it upon yourself to demand updates from our programmer, he's flustered and confused and things are taking longer than if you would've left him the hell alone. His manager is also now involved, and I have to go through him before I communicate with the programmer. Thanks so much for making my and your life and the life of the six researchers trying to use the product more difficult. Now, why don't you sit down and find something better to do with your time?

[Shot From Guns]

overlyverbose: Truth in advertising since 2003.

I'd give you a TL;DR, but I did actually read the whole thing.

[overlyverbose]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

overlyverbose: Truth in advertising since 2003.

I'd give you a TL;DR, but I did actually read the whole thing.

I figured I had to use that username or something similar (Maybe I can change it to GivesTooMuchDetail) or I'd be sued for boring someone senseless.

[Nava]

overly, if I ever end up on that side of the pond again, can I have you as my manager? I'd like to be allowed the use of the "T for let's take a break now" hand sign, though



This is ridiculously minor, but I'm glad one of my new officemates always comes in late. The reason I'm glad is that I find her voice terribly distracting, specially on the phone Damn! It isn't even that she is actually doing something wrong, there's just some anti-harmonics in there which feel like claws up my spine...

[Shot From Guns]

Hey, you know what's awesome? When you wait 'til this morning to tell me that we're going to be getting edits back for that document I updated for you yesterday. And that it will need to go out with the door with you around noon. Which is, coincidentally, the same time that a massive document for another client, which I'm also doing edits for this morning, because nobody in this fucking company can get shit done anytime other than the last fucking second, has to be out the door, in multiple bound copies.

[overlyverbose]

Originally Posted by Nava

overly, if I ever end up on that side of the pond again, can I have you as my manager? I'd like to be allowed the use of the "T for let's take a break now" hand sign, though

Absolutely. And feel free to make the hand sign - I'd love to see it.

Another workplace gripe (got one almost every day this time of year): Dear researcher, I'm sitting right here. That means that I can hear you when you complain about me to your manager. Oh, did I just hear you say that you're doing systems' job and my job? Well, in that case, how's about you read this 400-page piece of proposed legislation, work with our lobby to formulate a response, put together the budget for next year, develop a product enhancement plan, a marketing plan, do the interview with the NY Times on your day off, do the speaking engagement for the Agencies on Aging while implementing all the product changes, managing systems' workload and managing idiots like you who freak out when they have to work until *gasp* 5:30? No? Okay, go back to your corner and sit the fuck down.

PS - I thought it was hilarious when you complained about me and your manager stated, "I wish I could sympathize. Unfortunately, overly and I are helping manage systems as best we can, and you really have no idea what you're talking about. Why don't you give me that file you're having issues with and go back to work? Thanks."

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by Nava

<snip>
This is ridiculously minor, but I'm glad one of my new officemates always comes in late. The reason I'm glad is that I find her voice terribly distracting, specially on the phone Damn! It isn't even that she is actually doing something wrong, there's just some anti-harmonics in there which feel like claws up my spine...

Some people's sneezes are like that for me - they make me want to growl like a dog and tell them to stop that.

overly, thank God her manager doesn't have her head up HER ass!

[Sattua]

Just got out of a meeting with the CEO.

There will be no Christmas party this year. Because we need to work hard instead.

Then there were 30 minutes of drivel about this "scheme" they have to "compensate" us for the portion of our salaries they couldn't pay in the spring. Are they going to give us the missing portions of our salaries plus interest? No. At some hypothetical point in the future when the company hypothetically sells for more than a hypothetically large amount, non-managerial employees share 1% of that amount. But it will be divvied up according to corporate perception of "commitment" to the company.

Which doesn't piss me off nearly as much as it should, because it won't ever happen. Because we don't have any sales yet this year and the company will almost certainly fold by next summer.

It fucking deserves it.

[Cat Whisperer]

So, do you figure there's anyone at your company who isn't frantically updating their resume, if they haven't already?

[Sattua]

Plenty of people... pretty much everyone who didn't leave this spring. They all like to believe that investor money will keep us afloat forever. I mean, it's worked for six years now.

[Cyren]

I'm new here and this thread caught my eye immediately.

MY BOSS IS A CONTROLLING, NARCISSISTIC, LAZY WHORE!

I feel better now.

[Lynn Bodoni]

Sorry, you're gonna have to give us examples of HOW she's a controlling, narcisstic, lazy whore before you'll have any cred. So make with the examples already.

[Cat Whisperer]

Hi, Cyren - nice to meet you. STORIES! STORIES!

[SparkleLilly]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

Anyone want to bitch? Big, small, in-between irritations?

YES. I might be new here, but I live in a town this big and my employer happens to be the #2 employer for the entire region. So I plan to air my grievances here.

* My boss: STOP calling in "sick" at least once a week. Regular employees get fired for taking too frequent unpaid time off, but you are well over your time off and suffer no consequences at all. And for fuck's sake, MAN UP and call in sick for yourself, rather than leaving ME a voicemail asking that I call YOUR boss for you. It's not my job and it's not cool.

*My grand-boss: STOP FUCKING ALLOWING MY BOSS TO CALL IN SICK BY PROXY. We are GROSSLY understaffed and someone is about to get hurt. Our business has staffing ratios for a reason. We are no longer meeting those ratios. It's only a matter of time.

* Former peer who got promoted: Congrat-u-fuckinglations, you got a promotion. The power-plays you have pulled this week, docking people's pay for reasons we both know aren't policy is not acceptable. Your dick is not magically any bigger than it was. Also, it was FUCKING MEAN to revoke a person's transfer because you didn't like his shirt. WTF?!

* CFO: I found your resume on the Intarwebs. The last three companies you worked for declared bankruptcy and shut down about 1 year after you took over financial control. Since you have come on here, pay has been MASSIVELY fucked, and you are DAMN lucky many "minor" staff are unaware that you are legally obligated to have paid in full all employees by the end of business x number of days post-pay period closing. 'Cause if they did and they called labor board, we'd be screwed. PS- Payroll for the year will be a few hundred dollars off. I know, I found the error. When I found the last major error, you tried to take credit and were profoundly rude. A few hundred dollars isn't much, but just enough to drive you crazy for weeks trying to find the error. Good luck with that.

* CEO: I thought you were just green and overwhelmed, but it turns out, you are evil. The surprise inspection of the few staff you have working on Friday to "bust" them for minor dress code issues? Yeah, turns out that some of us in management kinda clued in the employees in question. We've gotten wise to the plan to fire many staff on bullshit trumped-up charges to avoid calling it a layoff and avoid paying unemployment. It's rude, and it's wrong.

[Chimera]

Dear Customer Who I Gave My Contact Info To;

Stop fucking calling me six times a day and failing to leave a message each time. I'm sorry, but I'M FUCKING BUSY WITH OTHER CALLS. As my email to you said, you're going to get my voicemail every single time and you need to leave a message. No, I don't recognize your number off the top of my head, I give out my contact information a half-dozen times per day, and I take 20-30 calls a day. So I don't fucking know who you are or why you're calling. That's the idea behind voicemail and email. You know, systems which you could be using to let me know who the fuck you are and why the fuck you're calling me over and fucking over again. Which might then result in me calling you back and whateverthefuck you want from me being taken care of. But obviously NO, you're too fucking stupid to do that. So fuck off already and get someone else to take care of your fucking problem, because at this point you're only FUCKING PISSING ME OFF!

[Cat Whisperer]

Wow - there are some seriously crappy people at your job.

ETA: That was aimed at SparkleLilly.

[Cyren]

Originally Posted by Lynn Bodoni

Sorry, you're gonna have to give us examples of HOW she's a controlling, narcisstic, lazy whore before you'll have any cred. So make with the examples already.

Okay, I guess the "controlling" & "narcissistic" are synonymous.

Backstory: when I came to work in this special Hell (SH from this point forward), I was warned. Having been in management myself, I know that if your staff love and adore you, you're a lousy manager. Brushed it off as grudges and garbage and I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED!

Example.

Crazy Boss: "I was going to get my hair cut shorter today but then I realized how round your face is, bless your heart, and I decided to leave it long.

Cow-orker (not a typo): "It looks great! But I don't think Cyren's face is round, I think she looks cute with her hair like that."

CB: "You would." *stomps off*

Crazy Boss does not speak directly to me for a week but we all get to hear about her amazing Brazilian blow outs, conditioning treatments, Master-Stylist, etc. every single freakin' second of every single day and this is the HOT TOPIC - we cannot do our work because if we are not looking directly at her she makes a sarcastic, hurtful remark about us (as an individual) to get our attention and publicly humiliate us. (I need to add here: the woman actually wears a tiara. I swear to the sweet baby Jesus - she has an assortment of tiaras in her office and prances around telling us all that she is the Queen).

If we appear to be working as a "team", she SEPARATES US or takes us each into her office, one at a time to tell us all the smack the others have been talking about us (when in reality, she is the one talking smack and we hear it).

I recently got a new "assignment". She put me in charge of a division (that didn't exist) and said, "make this work". 3 months ago... I am making it work but she has no idea what I'm doing. She's going to come to me any day now and ask for spreadsheets, charts and numbers so she can present them to her boss and I will get NO credit for making the impossible happen. Do you know WHY I got this new assignment? I will tell you - it's because her boss brought me two Jack in the Box tacos and some cold fries and told me how happy is that I'm a part of their "team". She whispers this when she walks by sometimes... "so happy to have you on our team..." but never looks me in the eye.

She's mean, mean, mean and totally self-centered and dehumanizing.

Lazy: When she isn't tooting her own horn or riding on the accolades of OUR hard work, she's on Farmville. I kid you not. If Farmville was real, the woman would be a friggin' BAZILLIONAIRE... she doesn't even know how to use our phone system, so we have to peek into her office (yikes!) and let her know she has a call and are you ready for this?!! She puts on one of her tiaras, picks up the call and says, "thank you, that is all" so the person on the line can hear her and then "shoos" us away with her hands.

I feel like I'm working in a really bad cartoon.

And this is NOTHING.

[Cyren]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

Hi, Cyren - nice to meet you. STORIES! STORIES!

Nice to meet YOU! And this is just the beginning... *sobbing*

[Cat Whisperer]

On the plus side, if you can somehow convince her to have lots of Brazilian Blowouts, your problem might get solved for you.

When she dismisses you from her office, do you back out of the office bowing? I think I might.

[SparkleLilly]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

Wow - there are some seriously crappy people at your job.

ETA: That was aimed at SparkleLilly.

It wasn't like this a year ago. I suspect the company is in very serious financial trouble.

Meanwhile, anyone wanna bet on whether my boss will be there tomorrow?

[Cyren]

When she dismisses you from her office, do you back out of the office bowing? I think I might.[/quote]

OMG... YOU are BRILLIANT!!!!

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by Cyren

OMG... YOU are BRILLIANT!!!!

Someone as over-the-top as she is, I think I'd make it my mission to take it to the extreme and see how far I could go before she caught on. My guess is she never would - she'd take it as her due, and I would get a lot of laughs out of it.

[Chimera]

Originally Posted by Cyren

I recently got a new "assignment". She put me in charge of a division (that didn't exist) and said, "make this work". 3 months ago... I am making it work but she has no idea what I'm doing. She's going to come to me any day now and ask for spreadsheets, charts and numbers so she can present them to her boss and I will get NO credit for making the impossible happen.

If you happen to run into her boss(es), be sure to tell them, just as an aside of course, how happy you are to get a chance to do Project X and how much you think it will help the company. If you forget, and do it once or twice more after that, well, that's just your enthusiasm talking, right?

Seriously, as one who has had his important work stolen by the people who assigned it to me, the lesson I took away was to ENSURE that THEIR bosses knew who was doing the actual work well before it was ever delivered.

[Cyren]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

On the plus side, if you can somehow convince her to have lots of Brazilian Blowouts, your problem might get solved for you.

When she dismisses you from her office, do you back out of the office bowing? I think I might.

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

Someone as over-the-top as she is, I think I'd make it my mission to take it to the extreme and see how far I could go before she caught on. My guess is she never would - she'd take it as her due, and I would get a lot of laughs out of it.

You are absolutely right. See? I'm so worried about being (reciprocally) unkind or mocking and the reality is, she wouldn't even know I was making fun of her. She would probably eat it right up!!!!

Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha *maniacally laughing* In fact... do you think it would be pushing it if brought a length of red carpet to work? Nah... better ease her into that.

[Cyren]

Originally Posted by Chimera

If you happen to run into her boss(es), be sure to tell them, just as an aside of course, how happy you are to get a chance to do Project X and how much you think it will help the company. If you forget, and do it once or twice more after that, well, that's just your enthusiasm talking, right?

Seriously, as one who has had his important work stolen by the people who assigned it to me, the lesson I took away was to ENSURE that THEIR bosses knew who was doing the actual work well before it was ever delivered.

If I can get her out from between his ass cheeks long enough I will! *giggling*

[moejoe]

Boss: Hey MoeJoe, good news! The Holiday party is not a pot luck this year! Can you plan it?

MoeJoe: um...Coworker who planned it last year did such a great job, the party was really nice.

Boss: Yeah, but she's....you know...weird...could you just kind of act like you're helping her and plan it?

MoeJoe: well, I'd be happy to help her of course. When is the party?

Boss: Tuesday!

MoeJoe: I don't work Tuesdays.

Boss: I know, but you could come anyway...right?

[Lynn Bodoni]

I recently got a new "assignment". She put me in charge of a division (that didn't exist) and said, "make this work". 3 months ago... I am making it work but she has no idea what I'm doing. She's going to come to me any day now and ask for spreadsheets, charts and numbers so she can present them to her boss and I will get NO credit for making the impossible happen. Do you know WHY I got this new assignment? I will tell you - it's because her boss brought me two Jack in the Box tacos and some cold fries and told me how happy is that I'm a part of their "team". She whispers this when she walks by sometimes... "so happy to have you on our team..." but never looks me in the eye.

Send her boss weekly updates of your progress. Don't let her know that you're doing this. Just quietly let her boss know who's working on this project. With any luck, your boss's boss won't let your boss know that you're doing this, and when Queen Tiara tries to claim your work as her own, it'll backfire on her.

Of course, we'll need the story for this one, too.

[Cyren]

Originally Posted by Lynn Bodoni

Send her boss weekly updates of your progress. Don't let her know that you're doing this. Just quietly let her boss know who's working on this project. With any luck, your boss's boss won't let your boss know that you're doing this, and when Queen Tiara tries to claim your work as her own, it'll backfire on her.

Of course, we'll need the story for this one, too.

Having come to terms with the (way over the top CYA) tactics I've learned thus far, I have created two extra spreadsheets: one shows financial gain, one is documentation of every conversation I've had with every customer (time and date) and uploaded to a gmail account (in google docs) that I created the day I figured out this was either sabotage (because it couldn't be done, ) or might be "borrowed" hard work. Daily accounts of every action I have taken, every cent I've recovered.

The thing is... I wish it didn't have to be this way. The real "backfire" is going to come when she realizes she created a position for me to keep me isolated and finds it was actually very beneficial for this company. Even if I don't get credit, I'll know the company and I succeeded in spite of her.

Document, document, document. It's a HUGE waste of time... takes me more time to document than it does to do my "job". *le sigh*

Maybe she'll find her magickal kingdom and let us get back to work at growing this company... a girl can dream.

[Hirka T'Bawa]

I will say, after reading this thread, I might have an idea why I went to school for 6 years. You want to know all the gripes I have about retail pharmacy? Watch this Youtube video.

True, this video is exaggerated, but, at least one thing this patient does seems to happen with every single patient!

[Cat Whisperer]

Originally Posted by Cyren

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Maybe she'll find her magickal kingdom and let us get back to work at growing this company... a girl can dream.

She sounds easy to manipulate - it shouldn't be too difficult to sideline her. I mean, theoretically - it probably wouldn't be ethical to distract your boss with shiny objects so you can get your own work done.

[shamblesmaybe]

Originally Posted by DrDeth

Yeah well, I can see their point. I have many, many sign ons, and in the case of even my user name (Oh , just use your name) it's "Dr Deth" (caps and space needed) drdeth, ddeth, ddeth1, ddeth7, doctordeth, etc. As to passowrds, some allow special characters, some require special characters, some can't use special characters- same with numbers. And then, password restes every 2 months, which actually reduce security as they require staff to write passwords down- which all of this does. In fact, I somethimes think that IT dudes dream of stupid-ass passwords rules to 1> Ensure them a job, 2- make fun of users, 3- allow them a sense of superiority. Dude, The guys "wandering the wilderness and climbing power poles " ARE the job, you're just fucking support.

To get my password I had to give my national insurance no... no reason for this other than the I.T. dept say so....My password then changes every 3 months no old passwords are allowed, it's STUPID. If you forget your password you need to call the I.T. they can't do anything without your N.I. number... I've been on hold for 20mins with the same shitbag message about random bollocks that is irrelevant!
After 20 mins they answer the phone and ask for my N.I.no..... which I didn't know I nerded and without which I cannot access my account.
"Do you not think that this information could be put in the looped message that I've been listening to for the last 20 minutes?"
"We can't put all the information in the messsage"
"I'm not asking for all the information, just one CRUCIAL bit, that is ESSENTIAL to ALL the people calling this number!"

[bdgr]

Workplace gripes.

Ok,
Bar owners that complain I don't review bands at the bars...when all they have is cover bands and I write a column on original live music...seem offended when they find out that thier ad rep doesn't assign my story.

College chicks that insist on me taking photos of them making duck faces into the lens when I'm trying to take photos of the band for the paper. That big long white lens isn't going to focus that close, but there's not point in arguing with them. I just have it make clicky noises till they go away, then get on with my life.

the damn sound guys who get pressed into lighting duty. No, lighting the stage up alternatly red, then blue every half a second doesn't make the show more interesting, it gives people headaches and makes it a bitch to photo the band.

The bands that think "we just want to hang out with our friends and have fun" is a good answer to an interveiw question when "we hate our parents" is the real one I get from them after a little effort.