# Interesting Work "Lessons" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 7, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-work-lessons/512995 "2009-10-07T23:52:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-work-lessons/512995/101 "2009-10-21T17:38:46Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > A new low: > > 2 memos today: > > 1. “Due to H1N1, we ask all employees to please avoid taking sick time unless absolutely needed. We only have a limited number of people who can cover and due to higher than normal absences, we really need to staff as fully as possible-so if you can make it in, please do for the remainder of the year.” (paraphrased) > > Memo #2 today > “Remember that our new Sick Time policy says sick time can’t be accrued from year to year–so any sick time not used by Dec 31 will evaporate.” > > I’m getting a mixed message here. Apparently, “they” want you to come in to work, and INFECT EVERYONE you possibly can. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-work-lessons/512995/102 "2009-10-21T17:48:52Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > I feel you, bro, but now coming your way is a letter about your credit rating from TRW, who has no interest in your side of the story. You of course are welcome to take the matter to court. > > You’re screwed. You’re the little guy. As usual. > > I got billed by a library for what must have been double or triple the cost of some books, but what am I going to do about it? Some library commissioner would have to clear a rule change with a board to change the policy, and screaming at the poor woman who just wanted kids to get books won’t change anything. Oh, it’s unfair, and it makes me hope for karma, but I’m not sure you “gottem”. All you can do is quit and make it known why. 7 years yo, and it’ll be a distant memory. They upset me so much that you could post how I’ll live in a gutter licking empty kraft dinner boxes for nourishment for lack of the termination fee and all you’d get back is “it’ll be worth it rather than paying them”. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-work-lessons/512995/103 "2009-10-22T04:54:30Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > And let’s not forget certificates. I mean, who doesn’t want another crappy, meaningless certificate? If you frame them, you spend money. If you frame them and hang them on your wall, you look like you’re a total idiot who’s desperate for validation. Tshirts are NOT one size fits all, and even if the company does have a lot of different sizes and takes the trouble to match the recipient with the proper sized shirt, not everyone likes Tshirts. My husband, my mother, and I all hate to wear Tshirts because we don’t like the crew necks on them. I like vee or scoop necked Tshirts, but almost all of them have the high, close-fitting crew neck. I find these very uncomfortable. > > I had one manager who handed out LPs (long playing vinyl record, this shows my age) as rewards…and who got offended when some of the recipients left those LPs at the workplace. First of all, not everyone is going to love some random LP, there is no one musical genre that everyone loves. Second, the manager had clearly scooped up a bunch of records from the clearance bin, even if they weren’t cut-outs. He would have done better to hand out candy bars. At least most people do like candy. Best of all, he could have given a raise to one or two people, to show that raises WERE possible. That would have affected HIS rating with the company, though. > > I only worked there for a year. And I only worked for that manager for 7 months. He had an incredible turnover rate, and he was always wondering why…he couldn’t seem to get it through his head that his workers wanted to be rewarded, just as he wanted to be rewarded, with money, not with useless items. Clearly, some people just can’t be made happy! I imagine that you would also turn up your nose at one of my prize rewards: a penis-shaped acrylic free standing plaque! And you think it’s \*management \*with the problem!😃 hh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-work-lessons/512995.md?page=5)