We’ll await news of your “unjust firing” with baited breath.
Well, that’s a foolish approach.
Given the person, this surprises you… how? 
Just seemed worth saying aloud.
Yeah you maybe right I better ask if it’s something major. Don’t need to be fired
I don’t suppose asking for a meeting with her to clear the air and get everything out in the open has occurred to you?
Nah, I guess not. Passive-aggressiveness always makes for the most functional working relationships.
I would need A LOT more information (as several people including myself have suggested) before I could answer this question.
Oh, you meant HER attitude?
Yes.
How long do I have to keep getting emails from random “quotes” guy before I start doing it “back” at him or just straight up tell him to stop?
Today:
I look “forward” to working with you on this. As an “update” I can “assure you” we will have the item “ready” to ship tomorrow.
Not the worst thing in the world, but annoying as “hell.”
Also, marketing lady should stop pretending to wash her hands in the ladies room but really just turning the water on. What’s up with that?
The men’s bathroom at my job looks like it belongs at a gas station. The inside of the toilet is no longer white:eek:
They spend money on everything but can’t upgrade the fucking bathroom?
Forced into sensitive training today, not because I committed a crime, but the state of New Jersey (Chicago is not a state, iPhone!) is using my class for a trial test.
At least I have my Security+ test tomorrow and 15 minutes (Eastern Time), so I might only take one more class (that I can’t opt out) before (once I pass) I start finding a job and have workplace rants at the real workplace.
“Upgrade”? Sounds like they might want to begin by “clean”, but I’m not sure I trust your descriptions.
The inside of the toilet is no longer white which is gross and I am not ever using that bathroom again. The better bathrooms are on the 1st floor
I AM NOT A MIND READER.
I just installed the newest Windows upgrade, and the software I use the most does not work. I’m not sure if our IT people will help.
Got a shiny new laptop. Has a nice top with the company name and logo on it.
It has none of the software I need, and there’s no local IT. They have to send someone down from corporate, which MIGHT be next week. Until then, I have a pretty paperweight taking up way too much desk space.
We had this big meeting this week at work with all the vice presidents in my division… and there are a lot of vice presidents. Why this company has so many vice presidents is beyond me but only a tangent to my rant.
Everyone on my team got this personalized, hand-delivered invitation to sit in on the meeting. It sounded dreadfully dull to me and two hours lost out of my day but we all pretty much felt like we had to attend, like it or not.
The invitation mentioned that there would be a dinner afterwards catered by one of the fancier places in town. OK, I guess I can sit through all the big shots talking for a couple hours if I get fed afterwards. My work partner has a serious food allergy so she emailed the meeting organizer and asked what would be served at the dinner. The response she got back was “Sorry, the dinner is just for the vice presidents and up.”
After that I really tried to skip the meeting but my boss said I had to go. So we all sat through the meeting, which was as dull as expected… and then my team and one other team all got kicked out before they served the food. Thanks a lot, I’d like those two hours of my life back please.
Dear Management,
I, your loyal employee, have a few things to say.
*****While I enjoy sitting outside getting eaten by bugs and sometimes sweating uncomfortably in front of strangers, I want say that your new system of taking drive through orders suck.
I won’t say because of the customers, even though they will stay in line for 20 to 30 minutes for food even when the line is already huge, but I can’t tell them on what to do with their time. It sucks because the drive through cashier either doesn’t want to take the order or takes their time doing whatever the hell they want.
*****Again I can’t try to blame the customers, some are disabled, to old, have pets or kids in the car, or many other reasons even though most seem to look like that they should be able to walk inside, but they have their reasons. Sure I’m annoyed to having to take orders from 10 more cars in a row, even after the last 10 cars, I can’t tell them on what to do with their time. Which is why I would not like to subject them or me to such ridiculous wait times. But because the customers seem to not complain to the company enough to change it, I’m guessing this will stay even when your comfortably not trying to fix the machine.
Maybe their complaining to you guys, since they’ve been complaining to me, but if I had to guess you’ll pretend to nicely listen to their complaints then talk shit about them once they leave. I’m guessing customer complaints won’t change things so I’ll have to try: Why hasn’t the pad, our portable register, been fixed yet?
*****While I’m not expert on installing a software on the new pad you got weeks ago than connecting it to our computer system via wireless, hell I might be saying that wrong, it has been months since the old one broke and it still should have been fixed a long time ago. The store’s bigger problems get fixed in less than a day. I will understand if there’s a high cost or the company doesn’t want to try to fix it but if it’s down to just management than you guys better get your things in order.
I should have not been this patient, that’s my fault of which I’ll correct it if their isn’t a reason on why you’re not using the damn pad.
Signed,
the guy who should develop a backbone, EPoch.
If you are reading this rant, I should probably describe the system of how we now do things. Due to a timer that activates when a car is next to the speaker, if we take more than 3 minutes to take an order, even though that happens very often, my store will get a talking from the company. That is why one person has to go outside, generally with a machine but that’s broken down, and take orders before the car stops at the speaker, not activating the timer and keeping the company off the store’s back.
I usually will be on the schedule to work as cashier but when it gets busy in the drive through, or the current person outside is horrible at it, the managers will tell me to go outside. I will scramble to get ready, hopefully getting a cup of water so I’m not super thirsty when I get back inside if management doesn’t forget that I’m outside.
After getting what I need, I will then see the usual 5 cars currently in line, this is usually followed by a prayer to not have more cars come when I get there, but that’s always been ignored. After getting my chair and thinking why is my life so crappy, I try the take the order of a car that’s currently not at the speaker. I say, “Hi, Welcome to Chicken Place. What would you like today?” Which is code for: “Alright let’s make this quick, what do you want?”
Some customers are quick while others seem to only exist with perpetual strained face that only says uuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm…
I will take the order, memorize it to the best of my ability even when some people order 5 different customized bowls because management still hasn’t fixed the goddamn machine. Tell the drive through cashier, who can be either fast, slow, and more stagnant than a tortoise trying to have sex. Some cashiers I like to work with, and there are others who I want to throw in a ditch. This is how I order them from best to worst:
[spoiler] First there’s Harold, which is the whitest name I could come up with right now in order to describe him. I like to work with Harold. Why? Because he can take multiple orders in a reasonable amount of time and get other things done quickly.
Second, there’s Gil, a name which starts with G so it’s close enough, who even though isn’t fast as Harold, he at least doesn’t have me stand out there looking like an idiot in front of the customers while the cashier does god knows what.
Third, there’s Nazghoul. Why Nazghoul? Well it somewhat sounds like her real name, (well not really.) She also has a habit from acting ghetto to Spanish to being the whitest person in the room, as if there are three beings struggling for control of her body. While she is slow, I understand that she generally isn’t drive through most of the time so I won’t be as hard on her.
Fourth there’s Katchy, which is the blackest name I could come up with. While she is quite nice, she is slower than snail trying to dry hump another snail. She can be quite fast, but there are moments where it will take 5 minutes, between each car, before she can take the order, where my only amusement will be making funny sane in order to stay sane from boredom. She has gotten better though.
And lastly Pedra, which is just a made up Hispanic pseudonym, whose antics include yelling at me to tell her the order even when I ask her if she’s ready to take it. Having me send the cars one at a time, slowing the line down to a halt, that even Florida traffic would be a blessing.
I will try to calm myself down and hope a customer won’t try to accost me on why it’s taking so long, even though I have to wait for her to confirm that she can the order because she’ll get pissy at me if I try to tell her it, or the honking battle which will take place if someone can’t get out of parking lot.
There are moments where I’ll ask her if she’s ready, only to be answered by silence, which Katchy is also guilty of, instead of an, “Not ready yet.”
I will mention that there are two others who I would love to work with because they’re good at their job but usually don’t work the same shift as me.
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So today was like a Monday coming after a 6 day weekend. I was going to rant about it, but the Merlot I had with dinner really took the edge off. Any it only took one glass, which was a drinking glass, that I kept topping off until the bottle was empty. Peace y’all; Alphaboi out.
Dear SysAdmin,
When you ask me to set up an application performance monitor to notify you based on a set of response time parameters that *you *specified, the correct response to a flurry of said notifications is *not *to tell me to “make the system send less email.” The performance monitor is trying to tell you something: Either your system has slowed down, or your thresholds were unrealistic to begin with. Turning off notifications will neither improve performance nor provide more meaningful performance metrics.
Bite me,
cwthree