Welcome Kathyl. I mean that with all sincerity. You didn’t break any rules. You just made the equivalent error of walking into the meanest roughest bar in the Old West and then asking for a Sarsaparilla with a glass of milk chaser. You will find that the other forums on this board are quite cordial and even us mean kids act real nice when we’re there.
So pay no mind to the snarling, fighting and biting going on. It’s part of the show.
We’re for the most part, pretty nice people. Except for Inner Stickler who is a well known pick pocket, puppy stabber and cry baby.
KathyL, I pointed out that it was a zombie thread and made a comment about it because lately we HAVE had a lot of really old threads re-opened for pretty much nothing responses. In truth, I would recommend that in the future, you start your own threads on the subject if the one you find is more than a couple of months old. You’d have likely found a lot of support and co-miserating.
The other side of it is that we have had an exceptional number of racists, fundamentalists, trolls and all around morons with join dates of July 2012 and August 2012. They get themselves banned in short order, but for what it’s worth, it causes anyone with those join dates to get looked down upon when they make simple board culture errors.
Then finally, this is The Pit. You’re going to get insulted and bitten here. That is an unapologetic truth of the board. Best limit posting here, especially starting new threads, until you have a solid idea how it works.
Or you, specifically you, could try not being an ass until it’s established that it’s deserved. But no, it’s much better all around to go off on people for imagined errors and then blame it on the forum.
Your right. He should concentrate his wrath on prissy assholes acting like junior moderators who have their panties bunched so far up their ass that you can see “fruit of the loom” when they open their mouth.
I can understand (although I do not agree with) people not confronting the CCJ pigs but I do not understand how you tolerate the thievs in your office. If someone took my Coke or cookie without paying I would go up to them and say, “Did you pay for that Coke? No? Then you stole it from me. Do it again I’m reporting you to HR. Oh and you owe me $2. Pay me by COB.”
As for the CCJ Holders, if you want to be passive-aggressive, take the jar off your desk everytime you see he hog come by.
We had a CCJ pig. We don’t have a community candy jar, but the company supplies free beverages and snacks. During the guy’s first week he’d fill the coffee maker up to the brim with coffee grounds, so that what came out was sludge. Then he’d put 20 creamers in his coffee mug. We ran out of a full box of those little creamer packs in about 3 days.
Then entire bags of snacks began disappearing from the break room. Not personal size - big bags of chips, etc. We figured out the culprit and basically started hiding all the good stuff in one of my empty drawers. So everyone knew where to come get their snack on, except him.
He also cheated on a food drive contest we had - we were supposed to decorate our departments, bring food and distribute it into the department whose decorations we liked best (not your own naturally). He brought in a shit-ton of food and put it all in our department’s stash. So we won, a stuffed animal to display in our department. He took it home to show his kids and never brought it back.
Then he did a lot of other stupid things but that’s another story. He doesn’t work here anymore.
When I worked the truck gate, one of my guys started drinking 6 packets of swiss miss a day plus several cups of coffee* with 3-5 creamers in each one. When we ran out and they said they wouldn’t replace them, he raided the MANAGEMENT conference room and stole more.
Worst part is that he would spill coffee and hot chocolate all over the place and then refuse to clean up after himself because he insisted that was the janitor’s job (despite being told otherwise by every level of management).
So we lost all Swiss Miss and creamer priviledges.
Some people are just selfish fucking pigs.
Seriously, how are you not pissing all day and gaining weight like a motherfucker doing that???
So did you tell him you weren’t expensing it? Perhaps it never occured to him that you were paying out of pocket.
When I first started my current job, I started at the front desk. I put out a jar of candy and told people it was a blatant bribe to get them to talk to me. After a while, one of the managers started contributing funds to buy candy out of company petty cash. I would bring receipts, he would give me $20. I still bought it on my own time, but I got reimbursed for it. Worked out well for everyone, and no egregious candy hogs.
Welcome KathyL, just so you know this is the only forum we are allowed to insult each other in. So please don’t let those assholes drive you away. There are plenty of lively and pleasant conversations going on in other forums.
Bolding mine.
You can go fuck a cactus! The only people who look down upon new posters simply because of their join date are baby-felching assholes like you and BubbaDog. You are pieces of hippo shit.
