# 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:** 191
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3802 "2012-06-21T20:24:39Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I totally win the thread after today. Sorry, but I do. > > I’m going to spoiler this one. It’s gross. Please, before you click, remember that this is _me,_ Queen of Doper TMI saying it’s too gross to leave unspoilered. And remember, I’m a home health nurse. > > Wound care. Been seeing this patient for about three weeks. His legs are gross - multiple infected ulcers, nice and green and yellow and oozing foul smelly oozy stuff. Today, as I’m on the phone with the woman from the wound care clinic where I’m sending him for a consultation, and she’s telling me the transportation she promised isn’t panning out and she may have to reschedule him yet again, I’m unwrapping the wound dressing with my other hand and… > > [spoiler] > Maggots start dropping to the floor. About a dozen of them. And I realize that I have to keep unwrapping, and there are going to be more maggots. Sure enough, one of his ulcers has been infested with maggots. Not nice clean surgical maggots. Fresh from the field volunteer maggots. And there are dozens. Maybe more than 100, all wriggling and dropping off and crawling around and climbing the walls of the basin I have his foot in and dropping off the other side and I don’t even have any tweezers with me, so I grab a couple of cotton tipped swabs and I’m using them like chopsticks to pick maggots up off the carpet and toss them back into the basin and it’s like Whack-a-Mole only with maggots. Whack-A-Maggot. And they’re crawling toward me and I’m picking them up and flinging them back and he says, “It’s really itchy today. Why is it itchy?” :smack: > > You know what they don’t teach in nursing school? They don’t teach you how to clean a wound and re-wrap it while chasing maggots around the floor with chopsticks. > > Silver lining: the wound bed, once I got most of the maggots off, has never looked better. Nice beefy red granulation tissue; all the dead eschar and infected slough is gone. [/spoiler] > > _shudder_ My mom, a nurse of 30+ years, said to me, “I’ll pay for your schooling but if you want to be a nurse you’re on your own.” I’m sure this is one of the reasons why. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3803 "2012-06-21T20:29:39Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Now now, they thought ahead far enough to consider the extra effort stuff on the desk would cause them, lets not raise our expectations too high. > > Okay fine, when it happened at our company the rule was the drawers must be locked if you were not sitting at your desk. In the beginning they went so far as to check if you got up to pick up your job from the printer. That did not last long. I should learn to not be surprised by the stupidity of the corporate mindset… ---
**Author:** ![Shoujin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoujin/32/3884_2.png) [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3804 "2012-06-21T20:45:08Z")
I just survived delivering mail door to door in 95 F heat for the last three days, averaging 11 hours a day, 3 in office doing prep, and 8 on the pavement hoofing the mail. Yes, the paychecks will be nice, but if one more person asks “Is it hot enough for ya?” I’m gonna jam their mail down their throat. The fact that it looks like I’ve been swimming in my uniform should answer the question! ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3805 "2012-06-21T20:50:13Z")
So, hot enough for ya? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3806 "2012-06-21T21:15:25Z")
> [@Shoujin](#): > > I just survived delivering mail door to door in 95 F heat for the last three days, averaging 11 hours a day, 3 in office doing prep, and 8 on the pavement hoofing the mail. Yes, the paychecks will be nice, but if one more person asks “Is it hot enough for ya?” I’m gonna jam their mail down their throat. The fact that it looks like I’ve been swimming in my uniform should answer the question! I probably shouldn’t complain that maintenance keeps ignoring my calls that the AC in my office suite is out of control and we’re freezing, then? ( **Shoujin** is my husband. 😃 And yes, he does have that many customers who are that dumb.) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3807 "2012-06-21T21:18:34Z")
Gee. Sorry I ordered the free bucket of pretzels. I was just thinking of the employees. It ain’t my fault you hired a bunch of idiotic jealous feudal lords. Throw the fucking thing in the trash for all I care. And the free CD I also just scored. Really, just throw them out and I promise not to be nice anymore and get the free stuff anymore, since it is such a monumental issue. Fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3808 "2012-06-22T02:19:23Z")
Okay. That one needs some filling in. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3809 "2012-06-22T04:54:11Z")
> [@Shoujin](#): > > I just survived delivering mail door to door in 95 F heat for the last three days, averaging 11 hours a day, 3 in office doing prep, and 8 on the pavement hoofing the mail. Yes, the paychecks will be nice, but if one more person asks “Is it hot enough for ya?” I’m gonna jam their mail down their throat. The fact that it looks like I’ve been swimming in my uniform should answer the question! Today, I spent 4 hours in a U-Store place with no power, in triple digit heat. I was wearing coveralls over my clothes, gloves and a dust mask while flinching while I touched every box because I was expecting the ratking to leap out and eat my face. When I was telling Bill about my day, he said that at least it was a dry heat. The only reason Bill is still alive is because he’s in Nebraska and I didn’t have the energy to google hired killers. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3810 "2012-06-22T04:59:55Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > I’ve been through this so I can tell you the process they probably went through to arrive at this rule…Let your boss fight the battle and wait 3 months until the regulations fade in peoples memory. Things will be back to normal by then if history is any measure. Sort of. The company wants to be able to assure our clients (both the consumers and the smaller bank’s who’s cards we manage) that associates aren’t able to write down any financial info and remove it from the office. So paper (unless it’s laminated or in a plastic sleeve) and writing untensils (except for our dry erase boards) are verboten. Coffee cups, framed photos, & assorted nick-nacks are fine. “At the desk” includes in the drawers. Every so often why have independent auditors conduct an audit. Which happened this week. As far as everyone knew (including our site VP) knew tissues didn’t count (though napkins & takeout menus) did. As it turns out the auditors were talking out of their asses, but for one day it was policy that if you needed a tissue while you were on the phone with a client you had to message a manager for one. In other news I spend 5 minutes talking to a very nice, but senile old woman who kept wanting to speak to another representative because I didn’t show up at her party and wouldn’t tell her why. I don’t even know if it was her account I was looking at since she wouldn’t tell be her name (the ph# matched though). Oddly she still seemed to understand she was talking to her bank. I’ve no idea what she was calling in about either. ---
**Author:** ![Shoujin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoujin/32/3884_2.png) [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3811 "2012-06-22T11:25:54Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Today, I spent 4 hours in a U-Store place with no power, in triple digit heat. I was wearing coveralls over my clothes, gloves and a dust mask while flinching while I touched every box because I was expecting the ratking to leap out and eat my face. When I was telling Bill about my day, he said that at least it was a dry heat. > > The only reason Bill is still alive is because he’s in Nebraska and I didn’t have the energy to google hired killers. I sympathize. At least I’m outside. The only RatKings I have to deal with is Mrs Smith’s lil yappy dog, which I can punt. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3812 "2012-06-22T16:01:43Z")
> [@Shoujin](#): > > I just survived delivering mail door to door in 95 F heat for the last three days, averaging 11 hours a day, 3 in office doing prep, and 8 on the pavement hoofing the mail. Question: would if be okay for you to accept cold drinks from homeowners? Okay, I can guess beer would be problematic, but a coke? Or a glass of ice tea or something? Or is that against the rules or would screw up your timing or something? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3813 "2012-06-22T16:36:26Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Today, I spent 4 hours in a U-Store place with no power, in triple digit heat. I was wearing coveralls over my clothes, gloves and a dust mask while flinching while I touched every box because I was expecting the ratking to leap out and eat my face. Y’know, I was listening to Roger Corman on the radio the other day; he was plugging his new film on Syfy, _Piranhaconda_. He said the name of the movie came first, while they were deciding how to follow up on the success of _Sharktopus_, and with that kind of a name, he just _HAD_ to make it. The point is, he’s looking for a new project now, and you should _totally_ contact him, point him at this thread, and sell him the rights to _ **RATKING!** _ ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3814 "2012-06-22T17:26:44Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Gee. Sorry I ordered the free bucket of pretzels. I was just thinking of the employees. It ain’t my fault you hired a bunch of idiotic jealous feudal lords. > > Throw the fucking thing in the trash for all I care. And the free CD I also just scored. Really, just throw them out and I promise not to be nice anymore and get the free stuff anymore, since it is such a monumental issue. > > Fuckers. > [@Projammer](#): > > Okay. That one needs some filling in. Actually, while reading it I was mentally picturing how my grandboss would have handled it and totally followed right along. In fact, we’ve had eerily similar situations here. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3815 "2012-06-22T17:29:53Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Question: would if be okay for you to accept cold drinks from homeowners? Okay, I can guess beer would be problematic, but a coke? Or a glass of ice tea or something? Or is that against the rules or would screw up your timing or something? He’s gratefully accepted bottles of water or Gatorade before. A glass of something would probably have to be consumed on the spot, as he has his left arm full of mail and his right hand needs to be free to pick through that mail and put it in the mailbox. But I expect quite a few letter carriers would gladly chug a glass of something cold if that’s what you had! Their trucks don’t have AC and have to have the windows closed when not attended (not even a crack is allowed), so even if he brings a small cooler with ice and drinks, that tends to warm up quickly, or he finishes off his supply. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3816 "2012-06-22T17:45:38Z")
> [@Shoujin](#): > > I just survived delivering mail door to door in 95 F heat for the last three days, averaging 11 hours a day, 3 in office doing prep, and 8 on the pavement hoofing the mail. Yes, the paychecks will be nice, but if one more person asks “Is it hot enough for ya?” I’m gonna jam their mail down their throat. The fact that it looks like I’ve been swimming in my uniform should answer the question! Speaking of questions, I’ve been looking for a chance to get a little feedback: What’s your reaction to the street trays with the flats in delivery point sequence? Do they make your job easier, harder, or no change? ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3817 "2012-06-22T17:49:47Z")
Oh. My. God. Warning: possibly gross. So, I have IBS. That means I poop a lot. It used to drive me crazy that every time I needed to go (and it is stinky and noisy and unpleasant) that there seemed to ALWAYS be someone else in the bathroom. There are 6 women who use this bathroom. I figured it just felt like there was always someone in there since I was in there so much. I have gotten treatment (yeah!) and now only go once a day at around 11:00 am. Goddamn it if there still isn’t someone in there when I need to go. Half the time there are two of them just standing there talking. BWAH! ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3818 "2012-06-22T17:58:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Y’know, I was listening to Roger Corman on the radio the other day; he was plugging his new film on Syfy, _Piranhaconda_. He said the name of the movie came first, while they were deciding how to follow up on the success of _Sharktopus_, and with that kind of a name, he just _HAD_ to make it. > > The point is, he’s looking for a new project now, and you should _totally_ contact him, point him at this thread, and sell him the rights to _ **RATKING!** _ Actually, now that you mention it, _ **SHREDDER GUY!** _ also sounds like it has possibilities. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3819 "2012-06-22T18:12:33Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Y’know, I was listening to Roger Corman on the radio the other day; he was plugging his new film on Syfy, _Piranhaconda_. He said the name of the movie came first, while they were deciding how to follow up on the success of _Sharktopus_, and with that kind of a name, he just _HAD_ to make it. > > The point is, he’s looking for a new project now, and you should _totally_ contact him, point him at this thread, and sell him the rights to _ **RATKING!** _ > [@Yllaria](#): > > Actually, now that you mention it, > > _ **SHREDDER GUY!** _ > > also sounds like it has possibilities. Or, knowing of Corman’s penchant for making movies about oh-so-wrong hybrid monsters: _ **KING-SHRED-RAT-GUY!** _ ---
**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:** [June 22, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3820 "2012-06-22T18:35:39Z")
I was thinking more of a “buddy” movie - SHREDDER GUY AND THE RAT KING! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3821 "2012-06-22T19:18:47Z")
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