This morning I thought that I was one of 2 remaining candidates for a job. By day’s end I found out that there were 4 of us still in the running, and I’m pissed and depressed.
I got cussed at by another asshole customer at work. I can bend some rules and I can take a few dollars off of things, but some shit I just CANNOT FUCKING DO.
If you pay with a card, I can’t give you cash for the return. I don’t fucking care how many other places do this. I’M NOT ALLOWED and I wouldn’t give you a reason other than that if I even knew one. I sincerely hope you make good on your horrific threat to never shop with us again. Terrorize someone else.
A few minor things, really petty in comparison to some of the things I’ve read on this thread:
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Thought I’d try the vegetarian lunch at the cafeteria where I like to eat. It was scalloped potatoes with no cheese, grilled tofu, bland couscous, and a stuffed cabbage (not grape) leaf. Everything was pretty much devoid of flavor, even after I doctored the stuff with salt and pepper and a little butter. I hope most vegetarians usually eat better than this.[/ul]
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I asked my supervisor for advice on how to do some customer-service-related process on the computer, and he didn’t know. I ran into my former supervisor, asked her the same thing, and she pointed me toward a document she made us last year on how to do this procedure. I wish I still worked for her. :([/ul]
[ul]On the bus, two men got into an argument over one’s very large duffel bag partially blocking the aisle. The bus driver made a point of ignoring this altercation. Thanfully, I got off the bus before they came to blows.[/ul]
We have a record keeping system at work that is essentially impossible. There simply are not enough man-hours in the day to do all the work and maintain all the records that we are supposed to be doing.
A couple of months ago we had an audit coming up. Our new boss decided I was the perfect person to get us ready for the audit. By putting together an extraordinary amount of effort, assisted by about a dozen other people, I was able to get our records caught up in the area of the audit. Not a word of thanks or anything like it resulted from this but I hadn’t really expected any.
But my boss now has the delusion that this record keeping can be maintained on an ongoing basis. I’ve explained to him that it cannot. I’ve explained to him that this isn’t going to happen. I was only able to pull it together that week because we did nothing else, including all of our regular work. My boss nods his head likes he understands what the words I’m saying mean but then he’ll say something that indicates he wasn’t really able to process the concept.
So today when I went in to work, the first thing I was told was that the boss wanted to see me. And he was pissed off because some inspection forms weren’t up-to-date. He keeps saying “It seems to me that it would be simpler to just keep them up-to-date all the time rather than try to catch up with them all for the audit.” And I explain “No, because they’re constantly changing so any effort we put into this is just going to be wasted. It’s less work to just wait until right before an audit and do it all then so they’ll be right for the audit.”
But he still doesn’t get it and he wants me to catch them all up again. So I’ll be spending the next few days catching up for no purpose. Because a week from now they’ll all be outdated again. And my boss will be asking why I’m behind on all of my normal work.
Why? Because I’ve been doing this job for seventeen years and you started here three months ago. Which of us is more likely to know what he’s doing?
Thankfully, even. :o
Now that it’s past midnight, I guess it was actually yesterday, but early on Wednesday morning, I was practically hit by a car. It was on campus, where people tend to jaywalk, but I was being good and walking in the crosswalk and everything. A car came up to the intersection, paused at the blinking red light, and then the driver made a left turn - and missed hitting me by just a few inches.
What the fuck, stupid sorority girl? Learn to fucking drive.
That was annoying.