Dear test technician:
This is what the numeral for “one” looks like: 1
This is what the numeral for “zero” looks like: 0
Now, would you care to explain why all the photos for the test specimen have xx-123 instead of xx-023 on the identification placard? For fuck’s sake, we haven’t even hit 100 specimens for the year.
Do you know why they were fired? Because if it was something like pilfering or they were notorious for goofing off or something, it might have been done to make a point to the rest of the employees.
They told everyone who was walking out of the job they were fired
If I ask you to work something up for me, and you have a legitimate reason why you can’t do it the way I asked, and I suggest an alternative solution, please don’t look at me all wide-eyed and say “oh! You don’t mind if I do it that way?”
I just suggested it. Yes. I do not mind if you do the suggestion that fixes the problem.
Bangs head on desk.
Yep. I’ve witnessed this quite a few times. It’s par for the course unless the employee in question has done something nefarious like stealing – in that case, they’re immediately fired and escorted from the building.
So this means they called them in at 4:55 and told them they were out? Man, that’s cold.
That’s usually “boss wants to hem and haw and do it last before they go home” bullshit.
I don’t think so. It’s a pretty well known HR tactic to fire at the end of the day, preferably on a Friday. It minimizes the disruption.
Picture a coworker getting fired at the start of a day. You have people milling around saying “did you hear that Chimera got fired?? I wonder what he did!” Fast forward 5 straight hours of rumour-milling and you have people in various states of distress, and the boss has to stand on a desk in the middle of the cube farm and shout “STFU and GBTW. None of your business!”
Do it at 4PM on a Friday instead, and the disruption is limited to an hour, with people returning on Monday more mentally adjusted to the situation.
Firing on a Friday is also supposed to be better for the firee. If you’re fired in the middle of the week, it’s more stressful as you know that you should be going to work the next day and you’re not.
An entire motherfucking HOUR of being on an IM conversation with a TIER 2 tech from another part of my company, ostensibly about software my team supports.
Asked every 10 minutes like clockwork (timing it) and during the actual conversation. Over and Over.
What is the actual error message.
Never got it. Finally said we were done, can’t do anything without the error message and it is too late on Friday, we aren’t helping this person any more today.
FUCK.
I fucking hate that noise. Stresses me out spending long periods of time asking some stupid fuck to give the damned error message and all the rest of the time explaining that we can’t actually FIX their issue until they stop fucking around and answer the damned question.
:mad:
To whom it may concern:
Why does the back hallway REEK of Beef Jerky?
It doesn’t actually seem to be the whole hallway, just a chunk of it-- and the hallway in question has thirty foot ceilings (or more) and is at least twelve feet wide with pallets of stuff on either side. Some of that stuff may be Beef Jerky-- I don’t know. What I know is that while I wouldn’t say that Beef Jerky smells bad, exactly, it’s kind of odd to be smelling it so intensely while walking along minding one’s own business.
I will admit that I have smelled worse smells at work-- and know people who have smelled still worse ones. But there’s still something wrong with smelling Beef Jerky so strongly in one spot in the hallway.
Happy Monday!
Did the girl with the email sig in comic sans with alternating color text just ask why nobody takes her seriously?
Seriously? I’m not telling her. You tell her.
“Is this you? Your signature makes people think it is.”
my stupid supervisor always talks about what I am not doing right bit never mentions what I’m doing right. Let me know what the hell I’m doing right once in a while.
i thought the purpose of a supervisor was more than just telling you what you are not doing right. I have to be doing something right if I been here for almost 3 years:smack:
Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t need to be congratulated every time that you farted and didn’t mess your pants?
A manager who only gives negative feedback is a jackass and a bad manager.
Co-worker has a habit of pawning his work off on other people. This is widely-known, and for some reason, accepted.
The first few times, I offered to help him out as I try to be a team player, and I didn’t have much else at the moment on my plate.
Then, came two instances where he tried to dump one of his major projects on me, when I was in the middle of CEO / Owner-level projects of my own. Telling him that a) I didn’t have time to do his job for him, b) he’s not my boss and that my earlier assistance was a favor, not a requirement, and c) even if I had the time, the fact that he’s giving me such little / incomplete information would make it nigh-impossible for me to do his job, resulted in some tension for a while. (The same co-workers who would bitch and vent about it told me that perhaps I went too far in asserting myself)
Anyway, time passed, things healed, etc.
Today, he sends me a request to try to find the proverbial needle in a haystack. “Can I find ‘x’ lien on a property, but he doesn’t know the property address, owner’s name, county, or filing?” He just has an instrument number and knows that it was filed in a particular state.
I tell him that, without the other information, it’s next to impossible to even know where to begin, and he says he’ll try to get the details for me. Well, my workload lightens up briefly, so I decide to poke around to see what I can do.
Of course, I end up finding the damn document. Knowing that this is needed for an important project, I give it to him ASAP, stressing how good / lucky I was to be able to do it with such limited information, and that this should not be the norm.
I just know this is going to start a trend where he’s going to expect me to perform miracles on a regular basis.
“Miracles cost money, friend” 
It reminds me of that Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where they find Scotty, and he tells Geordi that he often doubled his estimates of when projects / repairs would be completed, and that’s how he got the reputation as a miracle worker.
May need to look into that premise…
Yep. This happens to me too. Sometimes I make little miracles happen, but then people take it for granted and think that miracles will happen all the time. Doing miracles takes a lot out of you–you can’t do miracles every day, unless you’re Miracle Max, which I’m not. It’s better not to do miracles at all, and not to help other people out too much, but I still do it anyway.
I work as an engineer, in a chemical plant. When something needs to be fixed, we normally double what we estimate to be a reasonable time for it to get repaired. Because Maintenance is that incompetent.
Typically, it takes double that estimate to get done. And they’ll forget something that later causes problems.* If it actually gets done in only the original, doubled-reasonable estimate, we do consider it a miracle.
(it turned out okay; it’s a BIG pump.)
