Just… Wow.
Isn’t it policy that you open anything that could reasonably have something else stuffed inside it anyways?
I would guess not - there is a balance to made between basically accusing all of your customers of being thieves (when most are not) vs. the cost of things stolen.
Yes, that is the policy. But I know what things weigh, and I can tell when they are not empty.
Who expects to walk out with a bunch of plastic plates weight down a carry on bag?
I’ve seen a lot of “Leave large bags at register, please” signs.
Seems to me that every single time I’ve bought a purse/tote/carryon bag my entire life, the cashier has opened it and taken out all the wadded up paper/other stuffing.
For my ‘convenience’ they no doubt will say, but I’m sure it’s an antitheft procedure.
Good move if you really care. Happened to me all the time - someone would show up before the email. But often I was doing something useful which is hard to do if you check your email every 30 seconds. So, if someone wanted something right now, I didn’t mind them stopping by.
However I did mind when I dropped everything, knocked it out in a half hour, and then found they never tried it until two days later.
The rule is do not update programs on the primary workstations. Some of the programs we work with require the legacy version of Javascript and will not work with the most recent version. Sucks, but that is the rule. Period. Not hard.
But for some reason I cannot fathom our IT folks have permissions set so anyone can update programs. But it takes administrative access to roll back to the old version.
Trainer: Do not update Javascript or other programs.
New employee: OK
…
<day later>
New employee: Why doesn’t that program work?
Trainer: Did you update Javascript
New employee: Yes. The computer said it needed to update.
sigh…
A note to managers: if you delegate work to your subordinates and leave them alone to work on it until the day before the deadline, whereupon you “review” it only to completely change how they did it (so they have to do it over), you still SUCK at delegation.
Actually, they’re good at delegation - they suck at follow up. The corporate mantra from my first management position (really) “Delegation without follow up is counter productive!” It was printed on every management training book we got.
ETA - it must have been an effective way to communicate, because I still remember it verbatim some 35 years later.
I had a manager who would ‘delegate’ and then follow up. If you weren’t doing it how she wanted it done, she would just tell you ‘wrong answer’. Then you could try plan B, C, D, etc. until you finally stumbled on the ‘right answer’. It would have been much better if she had just said how she wanted it done in the first place.
Yes, it’s not follow-up if instead of following the path, you head off in a different direction.
And it isn’t good Delegation if you just say to March! – you need to give a direction: Forward, march!
Or, as one of my favorite managers put it before marching into my direct manager’s office and closing the door “when I delegate, I DELEGATE!”
Translates to “now listen, you imbecile: if you don’t want to do something and give it to a subordinate, and then you refuse to provide any directions, you don’t have the right to complain about anything she does as long as it isn’t set your lazy ass on fire. You definitely do not threaten her with firing her for doing more work in one week than you’ve done in the five years I’ve known you!”
In another order of things, one problem when the urgent always takes precedence over the important
and the calendars are foreshortened (we’re doing in 5 months what should be done in 9)
is that people never quite get the training they bloody well should have gotten. Because it’s never as urgent as putting out fires.
Oh: and if you’ve implemented the system in factory A. And then factory B chooses some products already present in factory A for their own testing (which will be done using factory A’s production information). And they choose products that ring a bell.
Don’t be surprised when 5 out of the 5 products selected are not made in factory A and therefore do not have any production information. You see: they ring bells in factory B because factory B is the one that makes them. Factory A only distributes :smack:
Not really a rant, more a WTF and a “can I get free lunch at the restaurant of my choice when End of Year arrives and they bloody well want to see this?”
There is some Stuff where we’re slamming Plan with the Actuals. I pointed out that this is Not Good, people generally want to be able to see both. In fact the people who like being able to see that tend to be pretty high level; the higher up, the more they like those reports. Was told “well, they haven’t asked for it so we’re not doing it!” It’s just one additional column, Kemo Sabe Misko Jones…
It must be Monday…I found out this morning that my new coworker screwed something up. I don’t know if we can fix it, and I just hope it’s not quite as bad as it looks. So now I have to figure out how to fix it, on top of everything else I already have to do. I am not pleased.
So, I have 11 days of vacation I have to use before the end of the year. I took off all this week for Thanksgiving… during which I’ve been answering work emails regularly, of course.
But, damnit, who thought they had to schedule a conference call with Singapore tomorrow at 7 am?!? I’ve flipped to my proper, Night Owl, schedule; that’s just about when I want to be going to sleep. sigh
Coworker decides on Friday afternoon, before a week’s vacation, that my department will be her backup while she’s on vacation. Brings a pile of work down and plops it on one of my direct report’s desk with a “haha, this sucks for you!” attitude.
I ask, in our open concept office, why weren’t we notified beforehand that this was coming?
Coworker gets defensive and freaks out publicly, telling me that she’s going to her boss about this and how dare you, etc. In front of my department. Literally does the Disney Princess nose in the air “harrumph” at one point. Brain damage, I suspect.
Water under the bridge, I figure, I don’t pursue the matter beyond my comment. Also my direct reports were very understanding about the additional workload.
Coworker loves drama more than air to breathe, so goes to her boss as promised. Tells her side of the story. Boss also has a penchant for drama, takes the matter to the company president. Just got out of that meeting with el presidente. I am told I’m unappreciative and disrespectful.
Today I learned: The first person to complain to Mom about an interaction is in the right.
You can copy & paste this email to your office: “Oh, sorry, you may not have noticed that I’m on vacation. Sad to say, I’m out of cell phone range. In fact, I rappelled down to the nearest Trading Post just to send this. Here are three points to mention to Singapore … thanks! Take notes for me!”
My state has a 3 hour minimum shift. Per occurrence.
I’m guessing **Lightray **is exempt management, since those are the type of people who get pulled into meetings at odd hours.
But not when they’re on vacation.
Which might just be The Definition of “Vacation”!