I almost lost my hearing at our office holiday party when my Annoying Coworker shrieked in my ear. :rolleyes: I should have told her to use her indoor voice. I wouldn’t have sat next to her, but I was there first and I didn’t want to move. I heard that she applied for another job but didn’t get it. Bummer. 
Reminds me of my ex who thought he could go to work right after having a vasectomy.
He didn’t leave the couch for three days.
'Tis the season for messy work schedules because of the Holidays.
I work retail, and am confused by the travel plans of certain nearest and dearest, and so have not requested any specific days off for the next couple of weeks.
I have agreed to work Sunday, which will suck, because I’m due to play handbells in church.
But mostly I’m irked because my original work schedule for this week had me getting Saturday off. Awesome! A day to clean house and wrap presents!
Except that Boss switched my schedule without telling me. I found out because I was being nosy about other people’s schedule. I haven’t whined to Boss about this-- I think it was an oversight, caused by me leaving “early” the day of the schedule tweaks. (“early”-- when I was scheduled to leave, which was earlier than most people. It’s cause I came in as scheduled, which meant early.)
So my house cleaning day turned into today-- got Bathroom entirely clean (although I’ll have to touch up problem spots like the mirror the day guests arrive), and Bedroom mostly clean.
Presents aren’t all wrapped-- I may use Tuesday for that (assuming that that stays one of my days off next week).
I just went through two days of training on a system that is not going to work.
The instructions are weak, the decision criteria are poorly defined, and the authorities are poorly assigned.
We really need this system because the current one does not work, but this one will work no better, and no one will ever admit the reason is that authority was given to the group that is mucking up the current one, by refusing to be held to clearly defined criteria for decisions.
So I’ve unleashed my trainee and she’s doing a great job on her own. For somebody with no previous experience in this particular business she’s gone gangbusters.
The schedule for next week comes out and I’ve got the earliest shift as usual because I always do the earliest shifts on holiday weeks. Trainee is scheduled to come in 2 hours after I’m already there.
Trainee complains to Manager LOUDLY “Why is [Kiz] working that schedule? THAT’S MY SCHEDULE.” Manager explained to Trainee that no, on holidays THAT’S Kiz’s schedule, has always been, will always be, forever and ever, amen. I just happened to be in earshot during this conversation (heheh) so when Trainee walked away from Manager Trainee ran right into me and didn’t say a word.
I just gave her the dirtiest look I could muster: FUCK YOU YOU ARE NOT TAKING OVER MY ENTIRE SCHEDULE BITCH. YOU WERE HIRED TO HELP ME.
I later found out that Trainee has two other jobs besides this one and one of them starts within a half hour after this one ends, so being scheduled two hours later than usual screws up everything. Manager isn’t changing anything because KIZ ALWAYS HAS THIS SCHEDULE ON THE HOLIDAYS. TOO BAD, TRAINEE.
LOL.
Just did this myself. I worked the day before. I didn’t have to do the nasty “prep work” part at work - only in the evening and then the next morning. I did have to keep a liquid diet though.
Also unlike your boss, I didn’t actually tell anyone at work what I was doing.
I have an update to this rant. We had a meeting with knowledgable folks and this idiot to clear things up once and for all so we could move forward with the project. It became obvious to me in that meeting, based on the interactions and the sullen attitude of jerkweed, that his playing dumb was just obstinance because he didn’t want to do the project the way we were suggesting. He wanted to do it his own way, so he was pretending to be unable to understand the other point of view.
I find that interesting in a psychological/social way. In order to get your own way, you pretend to not understand the other way, despite the fact that the other way is dead simple and obvious? I’m wondering if he really understands how stupid he looked. I doubt it.
By the way, I have a VERY low tolerance for stupidity, especially if it’s feigned for manipulative reasons. Most people are kind and would say “well, he’s just obstinate”. I don’t feel compelled to be kind.
I’m still not convinced that he’s faking it. I’m not sure how you could tell that. Someone who legitimately has a problem understanding things may still appear to be faking. He may “want to do it his own way” for the same reason.
(I speak from personal knowledge.)
Okay, I’m making a big assumption. But it’s based on his tenure at this company, and his mid-level title. I don’t see how he could have been promoted to the level he is if he really was this bag of rocks stupid.
I understand you may have trouble understanding some things (don’t we all?). But do you get all sullen about it? You should have seen him slouching sideways in his chair during this meeting and drawling/whining his questions. Like a scolded 10-year old. Just thinking of myself, when I am ignorant, I am interested in being educated. Therefore my posture is upright and attentive, and my tone of voice is inquiring.
Yes, I get all sullen about it sometimes. When you spend your whole life feeling really stupid because your coworkers call you things like “bag of rocks stupid” you start to feel actually stupid, even if you aren’t and you’ve spent plenty of time trying to “be educated” and it still doesn’t work.
Having a cognitive disability can have an enormous effect on your social and emotional life too, due to the frustration, feeling like a failure, inability to connect with other people and keep up with conversations, etc.
I’m not saying that’s the issue here. I certainly can’t go diagnosing him. But I am saying you probably can’t rule it out either.
As for being promoted, he might be really really good at certain things but not others that require a certain kind of cognitive ability. He may have suddenly hit a wall because of a new challenge in his job that he hadn’t confronted before. It happens to the best of us.
So now my trainee is upset because she isn’t being scheduled for the early shift next week. I always get those shifts at holiday time. She’s coming in two hours after I’m there and helping me.
Overheard in the back room:
Trainee: So why is she [meaning me] scheduled for X time?
Boss: Because Kiz always works that schedule. You’ll be helping her then probably doing something else.
Trainee: Why should I be helping her when I should be doing what she’s doing? That’s what she trained me for.
Boss: Because Kiz always works that schedule.
(Trainee storms out and doesn’t look at me as she passes me)
You do know you were hired for my days off, don’t you? And you do know that you’re not guaranteed the hours you want, don’t you? Especially since you’re the new person?
I am convinced that I work the King of Cluelessness. I’m not sure what’s worse: the liberally-applied cheap dollar-store cologne (which I mentioned to his supervisor twice), his calling me “honey” and “sweetie” because it’s a joke between me and my female temp, but he decided to join in the fun (and which I asked him to stop, repeatedly); and today’s gem, which was his advice to avoid Lululemon yoga pants because they cause “butt zits”. (Some of my female co-workers and I were talking about clothes in my temp’s cubicle and he joined in the conversation.) The guy is seriously creepy and I am making a point of trying to be where he’s not. I have to go into his workroom to drop files off, and I just go in, drop the files off, and walk out. And, yes, I am keeping track.
The building I work in is undergoing significant exterior repairs. For several weeks now, at 4:15 p.m every afternoon, the jackhammering starts, punctuated by thumps of a sledge hammer and accented with shouts of the workmen. Sadly, I cannot leave early, even though this week they have been working directly outside my office. Earplugs help, except when the phone rings or someone comes into my office to talk to me. It’s driving me mad!!
The folder I use on our server, that’s got data for the year in it along with an Excel chart that gets printed and published for our Year in Review, seems to be missing. I hope there’s a backup somewhere we can pull, that’s maybe only a few weeks off. Probably won’t find out until Monday.
He sounds like SheBoss…
Team lead in a SAP implementation, she was the most change-resistant person in the team. After any of a number of meetings where we were informed of the client’s procedures that we’d have to follow, or of programs we’d have to use (they even provided a week of training and a diploma), and she’d whined and whined and whined like an overtired three-year-old, we’d ask “how can we convince these people that the change we bring will be good for them, if our manager’s reaction to anything new is ‘no! don’t wanaaaaaaaaaa!’” “But I don’t like it!” “Why?” “Because!”
I don’t like it because I don’t understand it because I haven’t used it before because someone else prepared it because this is difficult because I don’t like it… but in that week of training, when the rest of the class was busy doing exercises and comparing our results with those obtained by our classmates, she was pouting and whining.
I understand she’s gotten promoted again after that, at least twice. Thing is, as bad a fit as she was for our team of go-getters and for an implementation, I can picture her being a good boss for one of those teams whose job is to Freeze And Preserve existing processes and systems. Her coat of arms should be an ice-breating dragon, staring suspiciously at the world, as the world may be trying to change something!
@teela brown: Well?? How did your boss’s on-the-job colonoscopy prep go?
Of course Teela would be the one lucky enough to have to deal with this…
Massive power outage has hit my workplace. Everything except email, phones, and tech support, is down and will continue to be down until at least Saturday. Merry Christmas to us!
He left abruptly at about 3:00 that day. From what I remember from my procedure, I had to start drinking the icky stuff starting about late morning the previous day, and I had to keep it cold in order to not yack it back up. I don’t know how he managed to keep and drink a half gallon of it here in the office without detection.
Took 'em long enough but everyone who needs those systems to do their job, as I do, has been given a five-day weekend.