The cola was 2 weeks and this is supposed to be a extra on the side in addition to the paycheck. I am still not trying to believe the rumor and plan to prepare myself for a regular payday.
The boss confirmed it today that it’s a incentive check based on your performance review and will be included in tomorrow’s check
Well, cool! Congratulations!
That said, the anti-rants thread is down the hall…
Dear co-workers:
Enough with the Pokemon Go at work.
Dear Customer:
Talking politics with retail clerks is almost as bad as hitting on them. Also, I’m a highly educated (white) woman-- why exactly do you assume I’ll be as anti-“the rascal in the White House” as you are? ( I started backing away slowly, even before he started with the “can’t believe Americans are stupid enough to vote for Hillary”. Quite frankly, both candidates this fall are polarizing (and unpopular) enough that I think anything beyond “I can’t wait until November when the Election will be OVER” is asking for trouble.
I was looking for the anti-rant thread but couldn’t find it
Ah yes, you want room 12A… Just along the corridor.
Stop pulling his leg…
Anti-rants can go here or in MPSIMS. The ultimate “tiny weeny things I have to tell someone” thread is the one labeled MMP, which changes every week.
The Youngsters are being moved. As my team is tiny (“team”… three of us, same client, but we don’t actually work together), we’re set in the “incoming” room, aka the quarantine room, where newer teams stay while they finish hiring them and their permanent domain gets set up. The current batch of Youngsters is already wrapped up, and their place is set up, so they’ll move there this afternoon and a new team will start dripping in. I was used to these guys, they’re nice! 
Somewhere earlier in the thread I complained about the woman with the lingering patchouli scent who walks past my desk on her way in and out of the office. She’s wearing something new now, and it smells even worse, like patchouli mixed with floral mixed with… I don’t know. The other day when I was walking into work she was about fifty feet ahead of me and I was still getting a full blast of her funk even at that distance. Take it down a notch, lady!
Sometimes you just have to bite your tongue and not remind them that it’s perfume, not marinade.
Ugh. People playing pokemon at work. How do you not get fired for that?
Director announces that all staff were getting two checks on Friday and it turns out that was not the case because some people were not at the job long enough or had a bad performance review. So you had people walking around sad on Friday because they were expecting a double check only to find out that it was one check.:smack:
If you come to a room with nothing in it except for a dictionary that doesn’t have the word “gullible,” go back. That’s 12B.
(Sorry, Nava, I couldn’t resist.)
I work retail. We’re chronically short-handed, and this is the season of the year when our temporary college kids go back to school and either quit entirely or cut back significantly on their availability.
So we don’t want to lose long timer because they sometimes get chatty or play games on their phones, especially if they do so where the customers don’t see it. And I’m not management, just a peon who gets annoyed when I’m working hard, and I see several people discussing Pokemon while standing in the hallway I’m walking through.
(Also, it’s really tough to fire someone in my workplace. If they’ve failed to keep up their temperature log, that’ll do it, but otherwise, it seems to take about six months of write-ups to escalate to a suspension, and they can get multiple suspensions before they get fired. One can also be fired for stealing. )
Tuesday: “Widgets need to ship this month, so you need to stop what you’re doing and finish that test procedure ASAP!!”
Wednesday: “The customers are absolutely screaming for these parts, so we need to stop what you’re doing and review the packages for shipment.”
Thursday: “Hey, we need you to stop working on everything else and work on this drawing. Also, we know how much extra work you’ve had to do with both the department’s manager and supervisor being out, and we appreciate that.”
Friday: “Oh, you finished the drawing. Yeah. Hey, you have some really old sales orders on your desk, right? They need some attention too.”
:smack:
ETA:
Years ago, a long-term employee was caught “taking home” large quantities of rather pricey scrap metals…if I remember correctly, when caught he told management that he was taking these materials for his boat. He was basically given a slap on the wrist, and remained employed.
For the past year I have been working with medical offices to be paid via direct deposit by some of their insurance payers. This involves walking them through the process from my initial cold call, through setting up a password (“I already know your login ID. Please don’t say your password out loud.” I have a trustworthy voice, I guess.), all the way through them keying in their banking info (“Your routing number just says what bank you use, and you already said you’re with Wells Fargo, but PLEASE! I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER!”).
That program is on hiatus for a couple months because we had scraped straight through the bottom of the barrel, so I got shifted to another program for the same client. With this I call businesses that sell stuff to my client’s client, ask the A/R person if they accept invoice payments by credit card, and if they do I send them an email. No need for anything like security; prison inmates could do it safely. But I can’t do it until I’m sent a widget that gives me a code number whenever I log in. Why?
Until it arrives I’m back on selling robot insurance. Encountered a real, live illiterate (schools used to write off dyslexic kids) and a guy whose speech center was wrecked by a stroke. I felt terrible making those sales and can only hope they have people to help them with the terms and conditions so they can make proper decisions during the trial period.
The upside to coming in early for OT instead of staying late is that I can get a really good parking space close to entrance; the downside is lapsing into auto-pilot on the way out of the building & mindlessly walking to farthest lot. :smack:
Let me guess, it’s considered unprofessional to either gag one’s coworkers or straight-up tase them to get the noise level down to somewhere near sane. (sigh)
I work in a call center, with a bunch of early-20s types with no awareness of the concept of “indoor voice”, let alone any ability to use same. They also seem to think that BDSM and their drinking exploits are appropriate workplace conversational topics.
I’m really tired of having to crank my phone’s volume to maximum (or near it) to be able to HEAR callers over the kiddies who think they’re being paid to socialize at the tops of their ample lungs.
Trying to pull a Johnny Cash, maybe?
It’s amazing what knowing that you don’t really need your current job can do (I’m not rich, but I have very good employability - which is a word even if the spellchecker doesn’t like it). One of the Upper Bosses asked us to update tickets every other day at least (my guess: someone was taking stats of “last updated” without actually reading the notes) and I asked “what about tickets that we expect to last several months?” He asked for an example and mentioned that situations like those should be escalated to Idiot Boss. I sent two examples, both involving Idiot Boss already, one of them delayed three months in part because he was involved… hell, since I can’t find my Give A Shit anyway, I may as well either get some stuff fixed, go out in a blaze of glory or… just make fireworks with no further consequences.
Me: “Ah, if you have a problem with X, you’ll need to speak to (person). But he went home an hour ago.”
Person: “Ok, I’ll hold for him”
Me: :dubious: “You can’t, he went home an hour ago. You’ll need to contact him tomorrow”
Person: “I’m holding for him?”
Me: :smack: “No, he went home. Call back tomorrow.”
A guy was shouting several cubicles over about some sports event. I told him that I couldn’t make calls with him so loud.
“You work in a call center. Get used to it.”
“Yes, but I don’t work in a sports bar. Keep it down while others work.”
He quit a month later when they didn’t make him a supervisor.