I like my job. If I didn’t I would have quit a long time ago. I don’t mind working late sometimes. I’m a professional and it’s expected. I don’t even mind working through lunch every so often. Sometimes, with our busy schedules, it’s the only time that we can all meet. Sometimes there’s an emergency.
I just have one small thing to ask. Do not, when you call a lunch time meeting at the last fucking minute, insinuate that buying a couple of fucking pizzas and charging it to the company is doing us some kind of fucking favor. My lunch hour is my own fucking time. I can afford my own fucking pizza. Even when I was a starving student I could afford my own fucking pizza. The fact is, though, I don’t even fucking like pizza. If you want to come close to making it up to us you will at least spring for a sushi platter which I can also well afford but at least it begins to make it worth it that I have to work through another fucking lunch because yet another asshole fucked something up that I have to fucking help to fix. Buying a fucking pizza, and shitty pizza from fucking Dominos at that, doesn’t go nearly as far as some occasional fucking recognition for your overworked staff. Got it?
Do you expect a last minute catered affair with beef tenderloin cooked to your specifications, freshly ground pepper on your salad with Baked Alaska?
You like your job, so deal with it. Some people don’t even get that much. Some are treated like shit in their jobs. Some people don’t even have jobs right now – look through the tech news on any web site and you hear of layoffs left and right.
Be glad you get a lousy pizza, for free.
As a self employed person, I rarely eat lunch. I don’t have last minute meetings but I prefer it that way. I am not a corporate drone and for a reason. If for some reason I have to go back to work I will choose a very small company where I’m not plugged into an cubicle, etc…
What I expect is to be shown a little gratitude. I’ll buy my own fucking lunch. All I am trying to say is that three slices of pizza is not equivalent to one hour of my life and it should not be fucking treated as such. That’s all.
I, in fact, do work for a small company. There’s only 24 of us. I don’t work in a cube either.
Yeah, you ungrateful son of a bitch! There are starving people in Ethiopia who would be grateful for that pizza! You have no right to rant about any annoyance, because someone worse off than you might be offended! You must always think about the poor unfortunate people of the world before ranting about anything! :rolleyes:
Then why are you whining about 3 slices of pizza? Your OP was more about the pizza than the gratitude you expect and you did state you want sushi…well not everyone likes sushi nore do they care if you want raw fish.
I am not here to start a fight with you I am now seeing inconsistancies in your whine. Then I think of people like:
Think of the poor guy, who through no fault of his own is laid off from his job. The only way he can make ends meet is to take a factory type job. He’s expected to be there at 7:30 and only gets one half hour for his lunch. During his workday he is submitted to wearing ear plugs because of the machinery and can’t hardly have any human interaction during his normal workday. He is subjected to his thoughts of how shitty life is and this does happen. He can’t readily leave his job for an interview to a job that more suits his needs and abilities because of the schedule.
What I am getting at, be happy your boss springs for a lousy pizza. I find it a weak complaint considering what other people can and are subjected to.
Your next drive past a manufacturing plant, please do yourself a favor and be glad you aren’t the guy who only gets a half hour of lunch and usually it’s a freaking peanut butter and jelly sandwich with off brand potato chips and a generic cookie and generic coke.
You apparently have it better than some of the people I know and have lived. Sheesh, I know some that can’t even leave during their lunch 1/2 hour to get a measily errand done.
And why do I know this? I lived it once. I also am the daughter of the man who owned the manufacturing plant. Call it a method of waking techchick to the real world by her father.
You live such a poor and sad life. I weep for people in cushy offices and office jobs, NOT. I’ve been there and it’s a shitty place to be.
magdalene – I roll my eyes to you too. Whatever. I didn’t state that haj didn’t have the right to rant but that it was a weak rant for my reasons stated…:rolleyes:
Let’s say that Haj makes, I dunno, $20/hour. He officially gets an hour for lunch. Except on the days that the boss makes him work through lunch, where his compensation is a few lousy slices of pizza, and no recognition that by working through lunch he is doing boss & company a favor, on his own time, which is worth $20/hour. How is springing for the pizza an act of generosity on the part of the boss? Sure, the boss could skip the pizza and spring for some vending-machine PB & J like techchick’s dad. Haj’s life, your life, my life, EVERYONE’S life, could be a lot worse.
On the bright side, it’s refreshing to see techchick asking us to pity the poor down-and-out factory workers instead of herself for a change. Could this be progress?
Dear Jesus in Heaven, save us from floods, fire, earthquakes, plagues of frogs, and the horror of generic cookies and off-brand potato chips! We beseech thee! We beseech thee!
Oh magdalene, I glow in your greatness, I bow to you for I can never change my ways. I can’t get past my past like you so obviously can get my past. I wish I had your insight and your prowness.
Every BBQ Pit thread you enter features you pissing all over someone’s feelings about what happened to them and you telling them that you have it so much harder.
It must be difficult to maintain martyrdom on the impressive level you aspire to.
Why don’t you take your negative ass and retreat from the board one more time and keep your promise never to return. You add nothing to debate or discussion other than your bile and anti-social blathering.
I’d be willing to venture that the reason your self-indulgent self works at home is that no one could stand you in a work situation. You have a “personality” so negative and abrasive that I am quite sure that if you worked for a suicide hotline, people would commit suicide as they talked to you because you would talk them back into their self-destruction.
He has every right to be bothered by having his free time taken away. One of my former bosses did that, and all it did was force me to work as I ate for no additional pay.
A couple of slices of pizza do not make up for a needed hour of time away to regroup.
Last week we had in house meetings during lunch and they catered three times! We had chicken and ribs and turkey and baked beans and cole slaw coming out of crevices I didn’t know existed.
This week I’m quitting my job. No more free lunches for me. Those cheap bastards. Won’t pay for a non employee’s lunch!
What does this have to do with anything? Absolutely nothing. I just thought my post would be a nice buffer between the war that seems to be forming around me in this thread.
And hajario, with all that fucking, how could you not like work?
Now that you have made a bunch of incorrect assumptions about my life and my motivations, allow me to inform you. I put myself through school working in restaurants (ironically in a pizza place for a while - maybe that is the root of all of this), installing carpets, moving furniture, doing janitorial work and, yes, working in a factory*. Three years ago I was downsized from a large company. I was out of work for six months. It took me an additional year and a half to finally make as much as I was making at the old job. I am not looking for your sympathy, techchick, I’m clearly not down trodden enough for that. I only say this to show you that I do “know what it’s like.”
So why do I have a “cush job” and others don’t? Because I have worked my fucking ass off, put myself through school, retrained when I had to and made some very good life decisions. Sure, some of those other guys had bad luck and that’s a shame but that’s not the point. The point is pizza lunches and I am sick of them. That’s the point.
Buying me cheap pizza is not a fair quid pro quo for an hour of my time. It was I just want that recognized. That’s all. Well, I was also trying to be funny. Somehow I end up debating Marxist ideology with someone who is still bitter that her father made her work for him. I’m new here and it was my first attempt at starting a Pit thread. I am so very sorry for not meeting your expectations.
Get a grip fer crissake.
Haj
*OK, it really wasn’t a factory, it was a book bindery and it was only for a couple of days but it made the sentence sound better.
Oh Hastur, you really need to refine your reading-minds skills. I think you need to call the “Psychic Network” again to get what I am thinking, for it’s faltering. I think Cleo’s Tarot cards over the phone might work better for you in this situation.
OH MY GOSH, the OP said something in the Pit, OH MY GOSH, GOD forbid anyone said anything to point out something the OP may not have previously considered or goes against it. OH MY GOSH…my past strikes you as something to point out (again and again and again and again…it’s getting tiring.) OH MY GOSH, someone had a difference of opinion in the PIT no doubt, she (me) stated it very non-pit like and expressed it in a way that could be expressed in normal conversation. OH MY GOSH, this is a public message board, I forgot I shouldn’t state my opinions here.
I could go Pit like with you Hastur but I am past that. Your blather makes me laugh. I don’t need to get pissy with you, I just laugh at your response along with magdalene’s because you can’t get the past. Pitbulls I tell you, pitbulls. Hang on to that and I am sure you all will do well with life.
I am not the one with the stick up my butt with techchick’s name on it and can’t get it out. I am beyond my past I am actually happy. I have been back for quite a while now, I have no intention of leaving and if you don’t like that, please come on over to Colorado Springs and kiss my cottage cheese ass. < snort >
Please note Hastur and magdalene, you both confronted me I didn’t confront you. I will not and refuse to start things with either of you first. Unless you provoke me (which wont bother me cause I see your characters) I wont say boo to you unless in a very straight forward way and in a civil manner in other forums and here in the Pit when you go out of your way to chastise me otherwise I will respond in the nicest way I can, not your style.
Please read above, as I stated my opinion, you interjected with very obvious BS like “what the fuck is your damage” “You add nothing to debate or discussion other than your bile and anti-social blathering.” “instead of herself for a change.” If this isn’t directed at me then please tell me who this is directed to? My non-existant twin?
Please note, I am not perfect but I have responded to other people I had problems with both in the Pit and other forums and none have been as lame and childlike with their responses as the two of you have for the exception of one.
So take that as you will. I am not leaving the boards. If you want me too, push it more and it wont help. You’re just pissy because I am back and not attacking people left and right and having a meltdown. I’m not providing you with a drama that you can really attack me with, something I think people like you thrive on. I don’t, I am past that.
And Hastur, I would appreciate it if you never speak to me again. Yes it will be hard to do on a message board but I have seen your own “bile” postings and avoided it rather than begin another path down the “I gotta prove this person wrong because he rubs me the wrong way”. You are wrong if you think that jumping on my ass and bringing up my past is the right thing to do. :rolleyes: and rolling them rightfully. Pitbulls.
Then why didn’t you say that before you harped on the pizza thing?
Every person wants to be recognized in their jobs. Personally, I am the only one that can tell me that I did a good job or say, “Ya know, this was not what I expected of you.”
I guess that since I am a self employed person, I have a father that owned his own company and have a brother that is second in charge in his company, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the average Joe in a work situation. I don’t meant to be harsh but everyone can be replaced.
Your company may be able to appear, on the outside, pay you a little more, bring in better food (but considering it was a last minute deal according to your post, very hard to do) or whatever but that’s not always the case.
If it’s praise you want for a job well done you have two options. Ask your boss how you are doing. The other one is to accept the small things like pizza, even though it’s not a full course meal, and look to you to know that you are doing a good job.
If I remember correctly you state that you work overtime, I don’t recall if you state this is a bad thing. If this is the case, then realize that most employers recognize employees (not all) that deal with the inconveniences and might give you perks for being an employee that is willing to work overtime.
Oh and really, rather than complain about the pizza, why not ask your boss to look for a different thing to order in. Most cities have a lot of choices, this never hurts. You know and I know you don’t want pizza every time there’s a last minute meeting, so ask for it? Is that unreasonable?
“Hey Boss, I realize that some of these meetings are last minute but due to a current dietary intake I am can’t eat pizza. I would go out and get my own but with as short notice I don’t can’t with my current project. If at all possible could you consider allowing us to order in some Chinese food instead?”
Look, like I said I am not here to fight with you but maybe there’s a better way to confront your bosses lack of creativity on the gastro-intestinal area.
You have not changed, and thus you are behaving just as you did before you left. The only thing you haven’t done yet is to start yet another self pitying thread in an attempt to get people to tell you that you are wonderful.
If you don’t want to see me respond, then shut the FUCK UP.
Whenever I see your sad ass attack someone for no reason, I will respond. Deal with it.