# Workplace griping, anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401 "2010-11-12T06:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 115
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2282 "2011-10-03T23:54:23Z")
As of today, I’m no longer stressed out by my workplace. I gave my two-week notice, citing vague “health issues,” because it wouldn’t be very politic to say “I’m gonna wind up in the mental hospital if I have to deal with that stupid harpy who signs my paycheck much longer.” Feels like a 20 ton weight has been lifted from my shoulders, because I officially don’t care what happens at work. What are they going to do, fire me? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2283 "2011-10-04T02:26:16Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Hey, that’s no problem; you just have to do 3000 adjustment journal entries (with all the attending paperwork) instead of entering the stuff before the date changes with zero extra effort. It’s not like people can anticipate your department needing the stuff before month-end, because that certainly doesn’t happen regularly. {/sarcasm} Oh yeah… and couple that with, “Oops… tee hee… I had this on my desk last week… tee hee… did you need to post this Friday?” ::must control fist of death:: ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2284 "2011-10-04T02:28:48Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Oh yeah… and couple that with, “Oops… tee hee… I had this on my desk last week… tee hee… did you need to post this Friday?” > > ::must control fist of death:: OTOH, if you don’t control fist of death, you won’t have this problem next month. Just sayin’… ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2285 "2011-10-04T03:16:27Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > … Mrs. Boss can kiss my shiny white ass. Huge congratulations on your pending freedom! Any chance of getting out of there before the two weeks are up? Or getting treated more fairly now that you’ve given notice? My boss got so angry that I’d given notice (he saw it as a betrayal of some sort, even though I’d given almost a month’s notice) that he screamed at me to _“get the hell out by the end of the week!”_ His meltdown was on a Wednesday, so I only had to put up with his screaming fits for two and a half more days. And, as I don’t do well with irrational, I was glad to go. So I know how you feel. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2286 "2011-10-04T04:57:15Z")
I’m half hoping that I will be told to clear out sooner rather than later, but there’s no one on staff to take over my hours and (ill-defined) duties. Really, I waited to submit my notice until the front desk manager indicated that she would come back from maternity leave in two weeks. That way, things won’t be FUBAR when she walks back in the door… or at least no more than usual. Of course, it might not help that, when I told our veteran head of housekeeping that I’d put in my resignation, she started talking retirement. (Not saying that I’m so integral to this hotel that she’d leave out of any kind of loyalty to me. After so many years with the company, Ms. G is just tired of the revolving door of crazy/incompetent.) Anyway, the front desk manager is planning to stop in tomorrow to chat. I will feel bad about it on a personal level, but I won’t be persuaded to stay.) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2287 "2011-10-04T09:47:19Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Robert is one of those good Christians who has to tell everyone how good a Christian he is because his actions show otherwise. > … > > Robert doesn’t like happy people. Those traits tend to go together, IME. I almost took out the space between “to” and “go”… that was a lot of ts! > [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Hey co-workers? You all knew Friday was month-end, right? Then why didn’t you give me all this crap Friday when I could’ve fixed it and made the books be right for September? I really don’t like having to explain why stuff is off for month-end to the auditors. Who I just remembered are coming the end of this month. Ack… Having previously encountered “month-end closing” only in an American company (and its subsidiaries), it took me a long time to get used to the way the Spanish version can take as much as 20 days from the next month - and doesn’t take more because the 20th is the last day you can file certain tax docs without getting a fine. When I asked Financebro what would he consider a normal length of time for month-end-closing (1-2 weeks), he asked why and I explained. After the explanation, he said “I know it’s true because it’s you telling me - wow!” Mind you, that American company also didn’t have all those silly processes where you record partial values for something (such as raw material consumption daily), then annul the records (yes, 28-31 of them!) and do one entry for the whole month. Not only do I see Spanish processes and think “there has to be a simpler way” - I’ve actually seen that simpler way and it worked! Maybe your coworkers learned how to do their jobs in Spain, where months don’t end at the end of the month… > [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > As of today, I’m no longer stressed out by my workplace. I gave my two-week notice, citing vague “health issues,” because it wouldn’t be very politic to say “I’m gonna wind up in the mental hospital if I have to deal with that stupid harpy who signs my paycheck much longer.” Feels like a 20 ton weight has been lifted from my shoulders, because I officially don’t care what happens at work. What are they going to do, fire me? Best wishes from someone who’s got that T-shirt too. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2288 "2011-10-04T14:19:20Z")
Got in this morning, and sat down to this: Grandboss’s BOSS - a VP - sent an email to my suitemate - who is supposed to verbally fill me in, per his email - that at such-and-such time, he’s supposed to get here. And this: “When I get there today, I would like all of us that wear glasses to put a big chunk of tape (or maybe band aides) on our glasses (nerd like) and walk into {grandboss’s} office. Can you arrange that (have tape ready), about 11:45am.” Ummm… WHAT? First of all, suitemate is perturbed because 11:45 am is around when she’s habitually already gone for lunch. Me? I’m perturbed because 1) the early 90s called; they want their joke back, and 2) _I_ may need to be gone (I do have a personal life) at that time, and 3) I don’t particularly appreciate being _summoned._ So, what say ye, Dopers? Do I have no sense of humor? Go along with it? Disappear at 11:35? ETA: while typing out that rant, I found out there was a HUGE CODE ROLLOUT LAST NIGHT. Which is fine, but hey - since it affects a ginormous amount of my team’s work tasks, could you, dunno, LET US KNOW YOU WERE PLANNING THIS?!?eleventy?!?! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2289 "2011-10-04T14:26:48Z")
Missed the edit window, but here’s what gets my goat: in our entire suite, you know who wears glasses? Me … and my suitemate. (NiceSweetCoworker.) Nobody else. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2290 "2011-10-04T14:38:18Z")
And what’s supposed to be funny about that? Me no comprende, señor… Most of the glasses I’ve owned were thin metail frames, putting any kind of tape on the bridge if it was broken would be useless, doing it unbroken would mean bad eyesight and a bunch of tape hurting my nose ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2291 "2011-10-04T14:48:24Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Oh yeah… and couple that with, “Oops… tee hee… I had this on my desk last week… tee hee… did you need to post this Friday?” > > ::must control fist of death:: I have a great sense of humour, and joke around at work a lot, and I probably would take their documents with a stony face and go do what I had to do with them. I don’t find incompetence very amusing. Or I might make a “joke” about it - “Yeah, tee hee - it was month end on Friday, and I needed to enter it like I do every month, tee hee. Don’t do it again next month, or I’ll have to kill you. Tee hee.” I don’t get what’s funny about the glasses, either. I wear glasses, and I wouldn’t be fucking around with them just to make a non-funny joke. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2292 "2011-10-04T15:08:42Z")
Had been planning to switch from my black plastic frames to my wire frames, just for shits’n’giggles. Now I really wish I had. I’ll either just not be here, or will work blind and pretend I’m wearing my _brand spankin’ new contacts._ 🙂 I forwarded it to my manager, after sitting and pondering if that was a good idea or not. It might not have been - stirring the pot instead of just letting it go, which is what I try very hard to do. But I am _so_ tired of the juvenile b.s. around here. Fuck it. See where this takes me. If anyone is wondering why grandboss is still employed, it’s because clowns like these are _her_ bosses. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2293 "2011-10-04T18:44:28Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > … I found out there was a HUGE CODE ROLLOUT LAST NIGHT. Which is fine, but hey - since it affects a ginormous amount of my team’s work tasks, could you, dunno, LET US KNOW YOU WERE PLANNING THIS?!?eleventy!!! We’re still discovering the odd changes that came with the rollout. Unplanned changes. Broken functionality. Will probably keep finding them all week, like some shit-ball version of hunting for Easter eggs. Diarrhea-filled Easter eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2294 "2011-10-04T18:49:18Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Diarrhea-filled Easter eggs. So, Cadbury’s? ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2295 "2011-10-04T19:52:17Z")
Eight more days… Part of of me hates leaving, too, because my efforts are starting to pay off. I’ve been working diligently on sales, and our weekday occupancy has risen steadily, week by week and also compared to last year. We’re now averaging about 80% Sunday through Thursday, versus 45-50% in 2010 and 2009. And we’re sold out for the next two weeks solid. (Guess who’s gonna take all of her contact names when she leaves?) Also, guess whose mugshot was on the front page of today’s paper? That’s right! Our former maintenance dude is wanted for his role in an armed robbery! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2296 "2011-10-04T21:23:50Z")
Holy shit, **Lacunae Matata**! :eek: > [@Bosstone](#): > > So, Cadbury’s? Don’t you ruin the only thing this heathen barbarian likes about Easter. _shakes fist_ It’s gotten so bad - IT broke _so much shit_ - that my manager SWORE, y’all. She said “hell!” You don’t understand - this woman does. not. lose. her. cool. (She’s grandboss’s opposite in every conceivable way.) I was so shocked that when I got off the phone, the first thing I did was text Mr. Horseshoe (who knows her well) with “{Manager} SWORE!!” Then I told my suitemate what she’d said and she did exactly this: :eek: She didn’t swear AT me, mind you - it was directed at IT. Oh, and then she said “effing.” Like, literally: “this effing problem…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2297 "2011-10-04T22:15:26Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > . . . Also, guess whose mugshot was on the front page of today’s paper? That’s right! Our former maintenance dude is wanted for his role in an armed robbery! Damn. So how did the repay the loans thing go? ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2298 "2011-10-04T23:30:12Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Damn. > > So how did the repay the loans thing go? Oddly enough, without a hitch. He wound up coming in the evening before payday, so I told him I’d do him a favor: I’d pay cash, and collect his loan repayments to distribute with the regular paychecks. I guessed that he was pretty desperate to buy “milk and diapers for the baby” (AKA crack) that he’d accept immediate cash. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2299 "2011-10-04T23:41:38Z")
Hey assholes who run this company, AM I WORKING TOMORROW OR NOT? It’s nearly 7:30 and you fucking rat bastards have still not sent out a confirmation email. This is ridiculous. I do not know if I am working tomorrow. There’s temp and then there’s just treating people like dirt. Congratulations. You’ve managed the later. Pricks. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2300 "2011-10-05T00:35:51Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > Hey assholes who run this company, > > AM I WORKING TOMORROW OR NOT? > > It’s nearly 7:30 and you fucking rat bastards have still not sent out a confirmation email. This is ridiculous. I do not know if I am working tomorrow. There’s temp and then there’s just treating people like dirt. Congratulations. You’ve managed the later. Pricks. Try working as a hotel housekeeper. I frequently get less than an hour’s notice about whether or not I need to come to work on a given day. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/2301 "2011-10-05T00:44:54Z")
I’m sure I’ve ranted about this here before, but it bears repeating: **SOLD OUT MEANS SOLD OUT. EVEN FOR YOU.** The following things will not make us less sold out: 1. Staring at me. 2. Complete silence on the phone. 3. Asking “Does that mean I can’t get my reservation?” or any variation on that question. 4. Pouty faces. 5. Long-suffering sighs. Life sucks. Accept the fact that everyone was faster than you in reserving for x date and move on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=114) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=116)