I also found out that they don’t cane you if you’re older than 50. I’m a few years short, but I guess some of my coworkers could chew gum like mofos if they want.
Co-worker, I have no sympathy for you right now. You got that promotion a month ago. You knew that you had to do the online training for it. Rather than get started on it, do a little each day until it was done, you decided to put it off until the last minute. So please, stop bitching about how much training you have to do all at once before I poleax you.
Another day, another co-worker rant. Different co-worker this time, but I’ve probably kvetched about her here before. This is the one who works second shift on Wednesday and first shift on Thursday so she can’t come in until an hour after she shift starts in the morning. Well, she can, but right now her family is down to one car so she has to take her husband to work thirty minutes away before she can come in. This has been going on for months and frankly I’m getting sick of it.
Today she’s two hours late (and counting) because her dog had to go to the vet. She sounded upset on the phone, so I’m sure it was bad news, but I’m completely out of sympathy for her lateness. Tomorrow I’m going to say something to the AGM when I can get him alone about how ill I’m getting about this chronic not being able to come in on time. Either stop scheduling her for turnarounds or start getting on her case for not coming in on time.
I am also heartily sick of being the only person in my department who can come in and start working at 7. The second part is important because the other person who works with me spends more time wandering over to get coffee and bitch about her on-again-off-again loser girlfriend than logging on to her (notoriously slow) computer so she can get something done. But she’s going to another property next week so she won’t be my problem anymore.
Long time Lurker, first time Ranter…
Co worker- in the beginning I used to do your exclusionary searches because I had less than 5 people to process. That was 8 months ago. I now have more new hires then you and another department combined. Stop asking me to help you if you aren’t going to help me with my I9 eVerify paperwork. And you coming over during my lunch break- where my Skype CLEARLY says I’m at lunch to ask when I can finish it for you doesn’t not make me want to move any faster!
Last- I don’t know if it was because she was feeling she was in the company of peers, but our manager decided to not sugar coat that our new CEO (brought on to take us public in the next year or whatever) speaking in general to EVERYONE that if we cant do our jobs, he’ll find someone that will. I haven’t been that vaguely threatened in my job since I worked in collections as a team manager back in 2004. WTF??!??!?!? :(:(
Wouldn’t it be great if the manager made sure to quote the boss because everyone knows the aforementioned co-worker isn’t doing their job?
I had a boss who, when a client said they’d give us their business if I’d be working on their account, said “Oh, he’ll be here forever, won’t you, digs?” “Uh, sure!” “…unless he says something to piss me off. Then he’s out of here in a heartbeat!” Client and I just stared at Clueless Boss (who looked so proud of herself for showing what a badass she was).
And you didn’t reply “Are you fucking stupid?” 
The account number is 500017100923. That is pronounced "five zero zero zero one seven one zero zero nine two three. It is not pronounced "fifty oh zero seven…teen a hundredninetytwo three.
Most people are stupid. Along with, “Consider the source,” this has become my mantra.
I have been at my company for several years, I wrote the procedures for my department, trained multiple people on how to do the different steps involved and along with a coworker and 1 part time person did everything needed out of that office for several years. Co-worker got promoted to supervisor and later that department was put under her umbrella. meanwhile I got promoted to an office position (more big picture stuff). It used to be the policy that at month end it was “all hands on deck”, no one was allowed to take off during that week , period. That later changed to “I” was not allowed to take off the last week and could make no plans for that Saturday in case we had to work. I got promoted and haven’t had to worry with that for several months. They put 3 full time people in the office to take our places and I have trained and continue to train all of them.
Now one of the people put in the office, didn’t work out so she was moved to another position. Another one, just doesn’t want to do the work and apparently she always takes off the week after Memorial day (which is our month end) and has announced she is taking off that week. So that leaves 1 person in the office to do the work of 3. So guess who is going back to that office to help out and work all sorts of crazy hours… I have plans already for that Saturday so I don’t know what they are going to do about that.
I don’t mind helping out but I think this is very poor planning and I am disappointed in the supervisor for allowing people to take off when it is know we will be extra busy. She thinks that that the company shouldn’t limit when an employee can take off.
Note to writers of memos – if you need ssomething signed a second time, use a goddamned hypen. Stop sending e-mails with the subject “PLEASE RESIGN.”
snerk
Damn. I can’t think of anything I need signed so I can “accidentally” do this…
Why is it when people move out of an office, they leave behind a bunch of random crap for the next person to deal with? I think the person that had it before me was a hoarder of sorts. I’m going to have nightmares of binder clips and paper clips tonight.
Because no one wants to move it or clean it.
This month I got screenshots which included:
“Price missing” (these were very happy when I explained where to write the price; they had understood the price was missing but had no idea where)
“Date missing” (twice, in different languages)
“No specifications available” (three different instances)
And someone who was looking for a lab analysis in the wrong place (stuff is analyzed in the factory that makes it, not in every place where it’s ever gone). This one took a bit longer to find out.
I suspect our users have received about as much training as my poodle, and I don’t have a poodle.
The only people worse than users are programmers. Kids, I’m a mere user. However, I started with BASIC before you were born, and have a much better idea of how to code and manage a database THAN IT LOOKS LIKE YOU EVER COULD. This is as basic as hitting the Tab key takes you to the next field, and as complex as, when calling back someone in specific, the contact name is the person we said was the contact, NOT the person who said we should talk to her.
You are fuckheads and an embarrassment to what used to be a trade.
We have a vendor for a vendor (for a vendor?) who has a Y2K issue in their software that they refuse to fix. This will cause a usability issue in the new version of our ERP.
Our team manager is one of those people who manage to slow anything down the minute he sticks his hand into it.
A couple of weeks ago, our technical lead was trying to figure out why we had so many overdue tickets, or tickets that had moved back from “ready to close” status to an earlier one. The most common answers turned out to be “Bossman moved it back without any further explanation” and “Bossman assigned it to the person to whom it was already assigned and who had already answered it”.
I’ve been off sick all of last week. He assigned me three tickets, overstepping the roster-based assignments (I’d been taken off the week’s roster when I wrote in sick). Once I’ve been back it’s taken me a matter of minutes to answer all three, but thing is, any of my coworkers could have done that last week!
It’s bad when there are so many times when the response to “why is this overdue?” turns out to be “bossman.” Worse when you’re not legally allowed to find a nice, ice-cold river where you can give him a dunk or three.
Dear new Data Security middle manager…
I know you worked for a bank previously. Everybody, by now, knows you worked for a bank previously. Because you open every third sentence with “The way we did it at the bank…” Guess not, you’re not at the bank any more.
And while we’d actually be happy to listen to what the bank taught you about data security, we’re not interested in the bank’s way of handling project management, or budget management, or documentation standards, or production hand-off methodology, or any other of the myriad of admin tasks surrounding the actual data security work your team is supposed to be doing. (A team, I might add, that I’m not on, I do networks, and that means that while you’re a manager, you’re not my manager.)
You have left the bank. We are not a bank. And if you say bank one more time, I will not be held responsible.
We used to occasionally hire managers who had worked at a competitor (because we were doing better than they were, so we were paying more), and we’d still hear about “how we did it” at the competitor. I used to give them three of those before I told them, politely, that if all they knew was what they used to do at the failing competitor, then I wasn’t sure what they actually brought to the table for our company.
I completely understand that it’s a mere drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things, but when I think of a way to save you $3,000+ (despite everyone saying that it won’t work), is it that unreasonable to expect some sort of thanks, or even a mere acknowledgement?