Congrats. I hope this works out for you.
Thank you.
Two part minor rant:
The soap dispenser in the men’s room needed refilling all week, and was completely empty by Thursday.
Friday afternoon I happened to be in there at the same time as our new administrative director, and I commented the soap hadn’t been filled all week. He said he hadn’t noticed.
Oh I like this: I work in a gas station convenience store. We make pizza on site. Or, we used to. So a little back ground. We used to make all sorts of wraps, sandwiches, take and bake pizzas, along with a lot of other in store stuff. The powers that be decides that everything in all of our stores had to be identical so we no longer make the sandwiches on site. They are made at a corporate location and trucked in over night along with our donuts. Recently the powers that be decided that the locations without pizza making equipment just had to have pizza. So the so called take and bakes they’ve been sending us: frozen, different brands of toppings, different sauce, 13.00 price. Need to be the pizzas that go in our case, instead of the fresh baked pizzas we’ve been making. In other words if you buy all meat, pepperoni, or (corporate name) style pizza. You get a frozen pizza either ordered or about 3.00 a piece 21.00 for a whole pizza order. So they are charging you over 6.00 or more to run a frozen pizza through the oven.
They also have put in one self check out in place of one of our registers. We are not allowed to open it as a associate run register anymore. It can only use cards, and cannot be used for age restricted items. So yesterday my coworker and I had lines 6 people or more long. No one wanted to use the self check out.
Corporate wonders why we can’t get shift duties done. And we’ve always had the rep of being slow. Boy that self check out is really speeding things up. 
Hope he doesn’t volunteer to bring a prepared dish to the company potluck.
Meanwhile, to a certain person at my office…I recognize that there are some mighty desirable vehicles in our parking lot, but this is a diesel engine service company, not the headquarters of Bring A Trailer. So why do you keep bringing yours to work? It’s a small lot, and displacing two or more parking spaces as you’ve done for over a week is very disruptive, especially when all the company service vehicles are currently parked in this lot too due to construction. Leave your fucking trailer at home and learn how to park your obnoxious pickup truck. >:(
Also, other coworker – you’re awesome and everything, but is it really that hard to put a compact SUV between two painted lines? It’s a tiny Hyundai; it can’t be that hard to steer, or to see where the front end is going. You’re taking up two spaces with your craptastic parking habits.
We had a manager like that. When he retired I wrote in his card “I like to think that we are not so much losing a valued employee, but rather we are gaining two parking spots.”
Employee who is leaving us in a few days pulls a no-call/no-show today (not unusual for her, she’s been notoriously unreliable). For months, she’s been telling us something was taken care of (travel arrangements for a faculty member who leaves Friday). Surprisingly , it hasn’t been done and now I have to do it. I mean NOW!
My throat is so tight I literally feel I am choking.
You know about the bottled foamy soap, right? If you worked as a member of the janitorial staff at a school, what would you do when the bottle runs low on foamy soap? I’d fill the thing up with the correct product is what I’d do. At my school, though, that’s not the thing. They’re apparently going with the homeopathic choice: adding water to bring it back up to the line indicating it’s full. Yeah, that’s going to increase the level of sanitation.
$DEITY alone knows what’s going on in the heads of managers where I work. We’re going through a round of musical staff (move employee A to office Z, which requires employee B to move to office Y, which pushes employee C to office Epsilon, lather, rinse, repeat ad nauseam). Management almost seems to be TRYING to make commutes as much of a PITA as possible, and my (now former) boss is now training her THIRD newbie in about four or five months. Why manager J was moved from the office ten minutes from her home (which she chose specifically FOR a convenient location) to someplace halfway across an urban area that “boasts” horrendous traffic, I have no clue. I have no clue about any of this, except that I need to go where I’m sent to keep the paycheck coming in…
Still hasn’t been filled. Somebody put a sticky note on it Monday morning that said “Please fill me.” Leaving work, the note was gone and the trash was changed, so I though the soap would be filled, but it wasn’t. Not sure what the problem is.
I’ve been washing my hands in the kitchen that is nearby.
One of the other bathrooms is down to 1.5 rolls of toilet paper. Normally it is a 4 roll contraption, where when a lower roll finishes, then the top roll becomes available. It’s down to just 1.5 of the top rolls.
Many years ago the university switched to “self service trash removal,” where we had to empty our own office trash cans. Not that big of a deal. I do have to draw the line a self service bathroom cleaning, though. I mean, I can work from home and clean the toilet.
On the positive side, about 3 weeks ago we got new paper towel dispensers in all of the bathrooms. The old ones worked fine, and the towels seem the same, but these are new.
They installed new soap dispensers in our bathrooms. They haven’t worked from day one. They at least do refill the pump bottles that are on the counter.
At least I can refill soap dispensers, paper towels, and, toilet paper etc. Hell, it’s part of my job.
Time for my annual rant about annual training… 90% of which doesn’t even remotely apply to me.
Bonus rant! They’ve revamped the training to be more interactive. IMO to prevent assholes (me) from muting it and parking it in the background while they accomplish actual work.
I hate training videos. We have them every 3 months; one of the things is an hour long and most of it does not apply to anyone in the company. The AI? Generated narrators are uncanny valley creepy. The acting by the real people is dreadful. I have to go in and watch the hour long one and probably two others this week. 
Let’s hope they’re not going the homeopathic route I mentioned above.
I haven’t been allowed inside a postal processing facility since August 23. This has to do with the fact that my Deep Brain Stimulation pulse generators required adjustments to their pulse frequency/intensity and were unable to provide even a modicum of control of my essential tremors (the one in my left breast had actually developed an open current path, so I might as well have had it turned off and saved myself the trouble of keeping the battery charged). My union steward has been working on trying to get my suspension converted to administrative leave, and has filed a grievance and an EEO complaint.
Two weeks ago, I got my PCP to sign documentation supporting my request for Reasonable Accommodation, and I’ve been invited to participate in a phone meeting in two more weeks to discuss what that would look like (what it would look like is that if I need to work in any energized equipment above 50V, someone else would cover that task for me. Narrator: This happens maybe twice a year, if that). Now the twist is that last Monday, I got to go in and be seen by a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders (I had originally been told to expect to wait until next July for an appointment), and she reassigned an unused wire to fill in for the open one. She also tweaked the settings on both pulse generators, and I was immediately able to go out and eat a bowl of soup (seriously, I haven’t been able to eat soup or cold cereal with a spoon since May, at least). I wasn’t able to get in to my PCP again until yesterday, but he did sign me off as fit to perform all my duties. I got that form to my union steward immediately, and I’m waiting to hear back from him as to how long I should expect to wait until I’m back on the job.
Even if I return to work tomorrow, though, I’m keeping the grievance and the EEO open until I get made whole for the time I’ve spent in an unpaid status, and (knock wood) the funds I had to take out of my TSP account to get me through September (I also had to ask my sister and BiL to loan me $2K to make sure I could get through October. It would be nice, if unlikely, to get the USPS to pay them back). [continuing the thought that opened this paragraph] TPTB really screwed the pooch by deciding to treat this as they would a disciplinary matter, rather than a medical/administrative one; and I feel they should see some consequences, so maybe they’ll think twice before pulling this crap on the next guy.
This is what happens when you go with the lowest bidder for custodial services. 
We’ve gone through multiple cleaning services, and apparently their contract doesn’t include filling the hand soap in our kitchenettes. I’ve had to bring in bottles of soap so we can wash our hands. They’ve also replaced the soap dispensers in the bathrooms with new soap dispensers, and had some trouble getting one of them to stay attached to the wall, so we’d come in to find the soap dispenser on the floor. They are also allergic to refilling the toilet paper, which I think is a very basic part of their job. I complained, and they eventually did put a holder for spare toilet paper in one bathroom, but now they rarely refill that. It was better when we hired custodial staff. We didn’t have to scrounge for partially used rolls of toilet paper then.
I don’t mind that toilet paper at work is supplied by the low bidder. However, I don’t like that the specification is for wax paper.
I wonder about that “add soap to the old bottle.” One of the bottles looks separated and gross. (I’m glad it’s not opaque!)
As far as toilet paper - they do refill our toilet paper. It’s cheap stuff, but what the hell. I only wish that they would START THE ROLL before putting it on the roller. It’s difficult to find the glue line, and it’s almost impossible to get it started without shredding it to bits. How do you say, “Please start the roll” in Spanish?
Our soap dispensers beep when they are empty. It is deeply annoying. That incessant chirp. At least you don’t have to put a sticky note on them.
I took today to work from home because I’m on my 10 day straight working and I need some time to work on other things than the equipment I’ve been commissioning for the past 10 days. And I feel incredibly guilty about it. Maybe this isn’t a mark against my workplace and more a mark against me but still, anyway. The equipment still needs a lot of support but I need a bit of rest and I also have other work that is hot. Like my monthly reporting due tomorrow.