Do it now. Update your resume, get a Pro to redo it. Work LinkedIn like mad, get recs fro this job )contact your last boss, etc). Post new resume on Monster, etc.
Wait for offers to come in.
What is the point of a huge budget if it can’t be used for what is actually needed, which in this case includes “more bodies”?
I wish you the best of luck in your search. Quit once you have the new job.
Sorry, she probably won’t. I was really hoping my Annoying Coworker would decide to stay home with her new baby, but she came back. 
My prediction: When you quit, they will need to hire three people to replace you.
My supervisor does the same thing–she wants to do all kinds of new things, but she never thinks about how much time it will take to keep doing them on a regular basis. Then she’s unhappy when I can’t get it all done, but the only way to get it all done would be to work overtime, which I can’t do right now for personal reasons. It’s a no-win situation when you have a boss who is not willing to talk to you about your workload and priorities and how much is really reasonable to do in one day. I get the feeling you’re like me, and you can get a lot done in one day, so that makes it extra-unreasonable for your boss to keep adding more and more to your workload. You can cram a lot in, but there’s a point where you just can’t keep adding more tasks and still get it all done. Good luck with the job hunt. I hope you find something where you’re appreciated more.[URL=“http://boards.straightdope.com//www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/”]
One of the top managers in this project
- does not understand the nature of the project/product at all. In a field that’s very much “who dares wins”, his basic outlook is backwards.
- does not believe people are working unless we are where he can see us, despite evidence to the contrary,
- “corrects” the definitions of people who actually know the subject matter better than he does. You know, the kind of guy that you tell him “+ is the symbol for addition” and he tells you no, it’s actually the symbol for multiplication.
- and does not have an indoors voice. Dude, you’re having a phone conversation in the next room. The two doors are closed. Why can we hear every single word you say?
Well, it could be better or worse.
My jackass boss was forced to retire last month for medical reasons. We got moved over to another manager temporarily. She apparently has decided the best course of action is to completely ignore our existence.
Which is ok, we’re used to it, we were pretty much on our own pre-jackass too. But you know, when I miss a week’s pay because it didn’t get completed and approved in time and I don’t exist, so I didn’t get any kind of warning/reminder that it I needed to go back in and do something, followed by her approving it…
Aw, widdle miss pwincess had her pwecious cheese stick thrown away!
I work at a vet clinic and we have a VERY small fridge. We don’t have a ton of employees, but enough that our little dorm fridge was often full to bursting. A second little dorm fridge was installed in another room. When I started working there, no real rules for keeping stuff in the fridges existed, so I introduced the ones that were in place at my last employer: all items must be labeled with your name or initials and a date. Anything left in the fridge for more than a week is liable to be thrown out. Anything not labeled is fair game to be consumed by anyone.
The main fridge was getting pretty full last week, so I texted everyone who has stuff in there and posted a notice about a pending fridge clean out in the main treatment room on Thursday. Saturday afternoon, after I finished clearing out the main fridge, the DVM (and owner) told me to clear out the second fridge. NOTHING in there was labeled, so anything perishable was tossed. Everything packaged was fair game, so it was divvied up amongst those who wanted it and taken home.
This morning, Pwecious Pwincess tried to get snarky with me because I threw out her cheese stick. “This is fucking bullshit! That’s the dumbest policy I’ve ever heard of. No other place has a rule like that and it’s just not right. blahblahblah yacketyshmakety Don’t ever throw my stuff away again!” I told her that I was just following the boss’s orders and that if she had a problem, she should take it up with him. “You bet I will! This is just bullshit! Maybe I should go work somewhere else that doesn’t have such stupid rules about the fridge.” (The office manager said she was welcome to do so.)
But the doctor shut her down. “There is a policy that has been in place for months. I saw the notice. You had plenty of time to take your stuff out of there.”
HAH! She thinks she’s such hot shit because she’s worked there longer than almost anyone, except the DVM’s right hand gal (she’s worked for him for 10+) years. Soooooooooo nice to see her not get away with throwing a tantrum over a goddamned cheese stick.
PS I had brought a cheese stick of my own from home today and made sure she saw me eat it.
Why are engineers always surprised when I ask simple questions like: “Where are the native files?” “What date/description/initials doe you want in the revision block?” “When is this due?” “Who are you?”
Goddamnitsomuch.
The woman over the cube wall from me has THE MOST OFFENSIVE BREATH and that deathly smell is permeating the entire area.
She’s been here like 2 weeks and we’ve never been introduced, so I don’t want our first encounter to be me telling her to brush her teeth or something.
But DAMN!
Pass along a note to the office manager (or whoever she reports to).
Goddamn I hate this too:
Me: (departmentname) this is Chimera.
Phone: Silence
Me: (pause) Hello?
Phone: Silence
Me: (starting to remove headset to hang up)
Phone: (very very quietly) Hello?
Me: Yes?
Phone: Um, Hello? Hello?
Me: (clear throat) Yes?
Phone: Oh, um, hi. (long pause)
FUCK YOU BITCH. Learn how to use a goddamned phone.
So this is a pretty common work complaint - lack of information being passed on - and how it affected my particular job today.
I was asked to start my shift an hour early to video Virginia’s governor during his monthly Ask the Governor hour long show at a major news radio station in DC (everyone familiar with DC knows which one). I hadn’t done it before, so I was a half hour early to set up and be fully prepared to do my job.
At 10am he rolled in and we began. At 11am, when it wrapped up, suddenly I see a reporter from my station and she’s beckoning me to come with her to do a post interview where a bunch of other crews have gathered to get the governor in the lobby.
Had I been given even 5 minutes warning that a reporter would be there I could have prepped for it and not looked like a bumbling ass in front of competitors and the governor. Instead, caught off guard, I wasn’t in “interview mode” and had to scramble to reset while everyone waited.
The job of keeping me informed falls to the assignment desk. No-one there told me the reporter was coming. I had even checked in at 9:35am and not a word was spoken, even though apparently the decision had been made by then.
I have a caustic email written to all the necessary parties but I’m just sitting on it. I’m pretty sure the primary party involved is actually being let go soon (for a build up of similar and other reasons), so how much good my tantrum will do is unknown. I spoke with some others involved and quietly expressed my dissatisfaction. They listened.
Anyway, thanks for the vent.
Telemarketers.
No, it’s a woman in another department who has apparently never figured out simple telephone etiquette.
I used to work with a person who made a point of continuing a conversation (in person) with someone else after the person he called answered.
Avarie537, you can tell widdle miss pwincess that at least one other workplace has a fridge policy! Sadly, it’s not enforced often enough, and when someone takes it upon themselves to do a clean-up, they’ll rely on the sniff test to determine if an undated item is OK or not. This once resulted in one of the managers pitching a fit via company-wide email because the homemade onion dressing he brought in one morning was thrown in the trash before lunch because someone thought it had spoiled.
My current irkplace cleans out the fridges every week (we have two in the one breakroom, and we do use that space, with over 100 employees).
Make it four. I work for two veterinary facilities and they both have a written policy posted on the fridges, and there’s no mercy on clean out days!
Most places I’ve been in had some sort of fridge policy. The laxer ones tend to be enforced least. Samples:
NO food in the lab fridges.
We mean it damnit.
We find food in the lab fridges, it won’t only be the food that gets tossed out.
Fridge will be emptied at 5pm on the clock. It’s the second thing the cleaning lady does. The first one is remove her coat.
And all sorts of variations on “fridge will be emptied every Friday afternoon”.
In order to avoid my MIL and SILs and BILs and nieces and nephews at a couple of family functions this weekend, including Thanksgiving dinner, and because I need the money, I volunteered to work through half the long weekend. It will be helping good American consumers up their credit limits after they max out their cards. First, I hate consumers. Second, I hate the holiday consumerism they all “need” to be involved in. Third, I would rather not encourage them to dig themselves deeper into debt. On the other hand, my in-laws are all drinkers I used to drink with, and after what passed for training today I really need a drink.
The manager showed screen shots of only half of the screens and is giving the class several days to forget what we learned before we are sat in front of new workstations and the phones are turned on. It seems fairly complex, though I can’t be sure, and I pity the first few people who get me because I have only the vaguest idea of what to do. In fifty years of working I have never felt this unprepared, and I’ve been a hired gun as a temp–taught myself enough AutoCAD to be productive in an unfamiliar industry by reading the manual the night before, FFS.
Well, the pay is so lousy that at least they’ll get their money out of me. May need to do Christmas with the family, though.
That sucks, dropzone. Is there any chance you could persuade the manager to run the training module for you again, a little closer to start date, so you’ve at least got part of a handle on the half he did show you?