I am bored.
I have to stay up until 8am. I start 3rd shift at midnight Thursday. 12-8. I have only two nights to switch over, which really sucks. I have to stay up.
I am bored.
I can’t read, because reading this time of morning is a cue to get ready for sleep.
Grrrrr.
So there’s a door you’re supposed to use a badge on, it didn’t work so you broke the security procedures, and you’re mad at someone else for correctly following them?
Somewhere in the tubes there’s a security message board and someone is pitting the jerk who propped open the door and had the gall to get mad about it when…
Scene: 4:30 pm, my office. A lot of our staff comes in early and leaves early, so there’s not a lot of us around.
An e-mail comes through: Another company has tendered an interest an acquiring our company; our company has indicated that it’s open to the idea by accepting a non-binding letter of intent. We’re going into a Due Diligence period which should be wrapped up by mid-September. Terms of the proposed takeover: all outstanding shares will be purchased at more then twice their current market value. That is all.
Second e-mail comes through, hot on the heels of the first: all employees are reminded to observe our insider trading policy. That is all.
:eek:
No managers around. Me being a Team Lead/Supervisor, suddenly everyone wants the real story from me. I got nuthin’. The next day, the vice-president of our division calls us together: he’s got nuthin’, either. Business as usual, that’s about it. Only problem is, the local large paper has a headline in its business section: LOS VEGAS FIRM BUYS (my city) COMPANY!
Thanks so fucking much, Sun-Sentinel. Thanks for panicking everyone with a wrong headline. None of the story supports what you just claimed; no-one is buying anyone right now. You basically printed my company’s press release verbatim, but stuck your own wrong headline at the top of it. Well done.
And a hearty “Up Yours!” to our upper management. I understand that, as a publicly-traded company, you couldn’t release any information to us until it had been released to the media, but did you have to wait over a week to have a meeting in which all you could tell us is that we probably wouldn’t be out of a job come September? On our employee surveys we keep telling you that communication is VERY important to us, and this is one of the reasons why.
Jet Lag :mad:
You’re lucky the little fucker didn’t know it was you that had propped open the door; that would have gotten me fired, no questions asked.
ETA: If he had the ability to walk in the door without badging in, you were too far away. If you didn’t see his face, you don’t even know if he had a badge on or not, much less if it was valid.
You miss the part where I said I was 10 feet away? Literally 10 feet.
If someone want’s to be that anal about security procedures they deserve to be pitted.
If you were that close to the door you should have/would have seen the person’s face. You let an unidentified person into a secured building. If anybody should be pitted, it should be you. We have security protocols for a reason. The weakest link is almost always the human element. You’ve proven the reason why.
Dude. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Who said we have security protocols? Just because we have doors that lock doesn’t mean they need to be secured and manned at all times. In fact there are some on the other end of the facility that are proped open as we speak so contractors working there can come and go as needed. If someone wants a door proped open it’s allowed, just make sure it’s secured before you go home for the night.
We’re not running Ft. Knox here.
Fair enough. I guess that’s what I get for working for the government; even if there are two of us walking into a building, if the building has a badge reader, both of us need to swipe. No piggybacking, no vouching. When I hear “badge reader”, I think, “secured building”. My apologizes.
No problem. I guess I’ve been in places too that are pretty tight about who comes and goes (my son’s daycare) for a good reason. But when it is left up to the employees to determine what stays open/closed and another employee blatantly shuts something that was purposely left open by another employee I get bent.
Just FYI, where I work, the office building is secured – badges needed to go in any exterior door (and even out of a few) with a security guard in the public lobby; all guests must sign in and out an be accompanied by a badge-wearer at all times. Not because anything we’re *doing *needs to be secure, but because of many previous incidents of theft (office equipment and people’s wallets and purses) and a few bad guests (abusive spouse violating a restraining order, etc.) The seven-story building is in a newish, well-kept up edge of the city, surrounded by other office buildings, upscale malls, big box stores, executive-type extended stay hotels, and other unblighted shiny places. Corporate policy is you’re not supposed to prop open the doors and everyone knows that. It happens sometimes anyway, but usually the propper keeps a close eye on the door – more like three feet than ten.
Dear friend.
I know you like doing XYZ activity. I used to as well.
When I spend part of the afternoon, however, telling you that I’m really burnt out on XYZ activity, and then in the evening you rather insist we do XYZ activity -anyway-… Please, PLEASE do not be surprised when I get grumpy about it, okay?
For once this isn’t about the printers. Really.
We’ve got a new product. My boss decided to design the flyer* for it. My boss is not a graphic artist. At all. Everytime he makes a flyer he sticks way too much stuff on it, doesn’t worry about flow, uses at least five fonts (the guideline is three - one serif, one san-serif, and one decorative), and stretches fonts (BAD because it severely affects readability). And he does it in CorelDraw, which sucks.
And he doesn’t like it when the salesmen ask me to clean them up.
sigh
*somebody want to tell me if it should be flyer or flier? I’m never sure.
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I feel your pain. I’ve solved this in my own case, for more than one job, by volunteering or just plain taking over to be Flyer Go-To person, and of course getting them done very quickly and very well. Doesn’t work if the design-blind boss really *likes *making flyers, though.
Thank you. So either way I’m good. I have a love of 'y’s so I’m sticking with flyer.
ARGH! My boss wants a copy of the mockup sheet. In CorelDraw format (and not even in the current version, not that that makes any sort of difference. I still have to change it to a PDF, open a old label because CorelDraw won’t open on my computer, open the PDF and then save it.)
If he screws with my mockup sheet, I’ll kill him. Why the hell can’t he just tell me what he wants and let me do it?!!!
Twenty-seven years. Married. With not one action, or even any indication of a thought, that would ever give the impression that I ever stepped out on this marriage, or even wanted to. And the man still doesn’t trust me. I’ll admit I should have told him about sending emails to an old friend, but it seems to me that the first reaction should have been, “Hey, what’s up, here? Care to tell me about these?”, rather than anger and accusation and two hours of phone argument and two weeks so far of off-and-on tension and stress, not to mention watching every email.
Oh, and while I’m at it, it’s almost 3:00 and the electrician was supposed to be here at 9:30 this morning. And he hasn’t returned my phone call, either.
Excuse me, but no, you have no obligation to tell your spouse about emailing an old friend. I’m glad that you seem generally OK with your marriage, but please understand that it sounds like your husband is a control freak.
He really isn’t. Part of the problem is that he’s working out of state right now, so this happened as one of several things that he didn’t get told about. He was feeling quite left out, and hurt that people weren’t telling him about family things. Our daughter is changing schools this fall, and I’ve been trying to get her to tell him about that all summer. She finally got around to it two days before this other thing came up. I do hate to make him sound bad, but I’m a bit ticked off about this. Can you tell? 