I dunno if posting something “good” about work is threadshitting, but here goes…
After a long drawn-out process, my coworkers and I are going to reap the fruits of a successful wage theft complaint. For 3 1/2 years our previous manager got away with breaking state labor law by making us work 8.5 hours without a mandated meal period. She [del]crawled off[/del] retired last June and the new manager, much to his credit, took ownership of the problem and worked with HR and the Legal department to get us reimbursed. I’m getting 45 hours of pay and my coworkers are looking at over 80 hours. Every once in awhile you win one, and it feels good…especially in the pocketbook.
Your Department Majesty, You know, I honestly don’t give a flying fuck about “leaving you to do everything when you know I can’t handle it” BECAUSE THERE’S A FUCKING NOR’EASTER OUT THERE AND I’M NOT DRIVING IN IT. Yes, you obviously did because you’re the only one there. Remind me to tell you the tale about why I no longer want to be the hero. You probably won’t get it anyway.
Are you sure you want to accept that offer? 45 hours only covers 90 days of missed pay? By my math you are owed at least 420 hours plus penalties and interest.
Re: back pay reimbursement…California Labor Law says we’re entitled 1 hour pay as a “penalty” any time we can’t take our mandated “off the clock” 30-minute lunch. Since there are only two people per shift, any time someone took a vacation or called in sick or went out on disability, the other person had to be “on the clock” for the entire shift. For whatever reason the old manager chose to ignore the law and denied us the payment. In my case there were 45 days during the last 3.5 years when I worked the shift by myself. My coworkers are getting more because they had to cover for more vacation and disability days.
that makes more sense. I thought you were working the extra 30 minutes per day for the past 3.5 years. Glad to hear that you are getting treated well by the new manager.
I was out of the office for a while today for a meeting, and while I was gone, my supervisor left something she wants me to work on (kind of a high-priority thing, too). Did she put it in the plastic bin next to my door? No, of course not. Did she leave it in my chair, so I could find it? Ha ha, no. That would make too much sense. Instead, she put it on top of a random pile of papers on my desk. Should I pretend I didn’t see it?
That’s gotta be tempting…
My work rant is people who call random meetings. I’ve had four of those (after scheduled work hours!) in the past week, and the last one ended with “Looks like this’ll take a while ::giggle:: let’s pick up where we left off next week.” Which is tomorrow… again, after scheduled work hours.
I’m putting in an extra five hours a week just in stupid meetings. If I weren’t getting artwork done (drawing in a sketchbook propped on your lap looks a lot like taking notes), I’d be really pissed.
After work work meetings? Oh hell no. Random unscheduled post work work meetings? Add extra profanity.
Even as a salaried employee I have limits and if I need to be in a meeting after work I will be starting work late. If I need to be in a meeting before work, I’ll be leaving work early. And if I have previous plans, your failure to plan and schedule ahead of time ain’t my problem and I won’t be attending.
Here we go, another day of listening to DJ blather on, and on, and on, about crap he has supposedly done. And not do any actual work. All the while getting paid $70/hour. :rolleyes:
The Project from Hell is back. In a nutshell, I work on this project for another department several times a year, and every time it gets worse. I’m getting some unsettling vibes from the project manager-type-person. He’s very micromanagey and controlling, and I do not like being controlled. He sent me material for this project that he changed from the usual format, which made more work for me, and at the same time he didn’t do other work that he should have done, so I had to fix a bunch of mistakes that shouldn’t have been in there when it got to me. I very much want to tell him that this is not going to happen again, but I’m not sure I will have support from my supervisor.
I hate this project with the fire of a thousand suns, and I hate it more every time I work on it. The project itself isn’t actually that bad, but every time I do it, I know that some fresh hell awaits. It’s something new and different every time. Oh, well, it keeps me from getting bored, I guess. :rolleyes:
Not a rant so much as a management tip on behalf my poor coworkers:
When someone says they wasted a lot of time working on the wrong thing (because you didn’t clearly communicate what they should have been working on), don’t happily chirp “That’s Okay!”
No matter how many times I’ve either applied for management in the past X years, no matter how many conversations I’ve had with HR about moving to a different department, etc., etc., no matter how close I pay attention to inter-company job listings, submit my application, interview, etc., nothing ever changes. I admit that there’s probably some unspoken ageism involved, but I also have a physical issue which resulted in surgery last year where, if I keep doing what I’ve been doing all along, it’ll eventually reverse. HR knows this. Even my doctor said in my back-to-work letter that I would be well served having a less physically demanding position.
Well, of course, that went out the window because SHE’S BACK and WE’RE DESPERATE and OF COURSE SHE’S GOING TO RETURN TO WHAT SHE’S BEEN DOING ALL ALONG. Never mind WHEN DO YOU GO BACK FT, HUH HUH HUH???
Listen my children: There’s a downside to being not only a veteran employee but a very competent one. On the one hand it’s kept me gainfully employed. On the other nobody has ever wanted to know * What else can she do?* because they’ve never been able to find anybody as competent as me. Ergo, I’m going to die there unless I out-and-out quit.
Fuck every single person who doesn’t read the user manual. And double fuck them for implying that they had, thereby making it look like I made a mistake when writing the fucking thing. And a lubeless triple fuck to the developers who suggest the manual is out of date when its clear that they haven’t actually looked at the latest version.
Its annoying enough having to document a product that changes every other day seemingly at random, but having to carefully explain a shitty interface and lunatic work flows makes it extra special. How these people get through the day without choking to death on their mice or strangling themselves with a power cord I have no idea.
It’s actually not, although I appreciate why you say that. I’ve been in both places, most often in the one that Kiz is lamenting but without the physical issues. I’ve always gotten pigeonholed doing what they hired me for, no matter how much extra responsibility I take on, no matter how good my performance evaluations are, or for how many years they’re consistently excellent… they want me exactly. where. they. hired. me. I’ve always had to just find a job with a different company to escape. That really sucks.
My chair kept going down by itself all day. After nearly hurling it through the window in frustration I managed to find a working one at one of the unassigned desks. So far it works fine, but if someone steals it from my desk office etiquette demands a fight to the death in the lobby.
