Okay, two problems solved: Co-worker number one put in her notice, based on the fact that CW #2 had not yet been fired… On the same day that CW #2 got fired.
New rant: Crap, now we are understaffed! (1/3 of our front desk staff now gone.) Gotta find at least one person who sincerely wants the job, and get that person trained ASAP. Until that person is in place, the current 4-person staff will be working full-time-plus. Hope no one gets sick anytime soon!
Be careful what you ask for?
Dear Boss,
I’ve been an employee for this company ffor a number of years now and I think I know how to do my job fairly well. In fact, Many of our customer’s employees are now coming to me instead of you to get things done.
Why is that, you ask? becaus you refuse to respond to their phone calls and emails concerning whatever needs to be done. I, on the other hand, have responded immediately and took care of the situations as they arose, thus cutting you out of the loop.
I do have a few gripes I would like to air if you don’t mind:
I do not appreciate the gossip you like to repeat concerning me and my co-workers. I have proven that they are false, yet you continue with them.
I do not appreciate when you falsely accuse me and my co-workers on my shift of vandalism of company property. Especially now that I have obtained copies of the security camera videos showing that you are,in fact, causing the vandalism. Please refrain from airing the accusations during meetings in which I and my co-workers are not present to dispute your accusations.
Please stop trying to cause disharmony amongst the workers on my shift. We work together as a team and have proven results which outweigh all the results of the workers on your shift. Your “stirring of the sh-t” is only causing more harm than good for the company.
Please be advised that I now have in my possession a copy of court documents showing where YOU started the whole situation that led me to being assaulted while at work one night. My assailant has proven to the court that YOU called him for a meeting and that YOU were the main reason as to why I was assaulted.
I now have all the documents, including notarized statements, from current and past employees of your constant harrassment sitting in files in many different locations waiting for the day when I sign the papers to file my lawsuit against you and the company.
Also, I have copies of the false documents that you have sent to the corporate office concerning many different matters. It will only be a matter of time before I send them copies of those documents with the proof that they are false.
I take it back. My job is a dream. Holy Christ, that is one fucked up situation.
Almost a year is “new”?
What is that I don’t even
** pokes SFG’s silent body with a stick **
Guns? You okay?
Dear Management Who Are Two-Three Levels Above Me:
We’re already short-staffed. Adding another 300 calls a day in order to relieve stress on one of your other centers isn’t going to help things. You have a very talented department here, all of whom have multiple years of service in a line of work that typically has a very high turnover rate. If you keep on pressing and pressing them, however, you are going to lose them. And then you’re going to be back to the way things were five-plus years ago–crappy service by people who are only here for six months. This is not going to help cement long-term relationships with important business partners.
No Love,
Gabe
:drool leaks out:
Note to self: Among Shot From Guns’s favorite flavors is getting her body poked with a stick.
:dubious:
I’ll leave it as an excercise for the reader to determine if that’s a “skeptical” face or an “I’m having a stroke” face.
I don’t know how many times I’ve experienced or heard about this type of situation - it blows my mind how often management is willing to lose good staff instead of doing what they obviously need to do. My favourite ones, though, are the ones who try to pretend that it is a good situation, by saying they “work lean” or some other bullshit.
Dear Corporate Corporatives:
If anyway I have to give your fabulous little twits at the Travel Office the times and dates of flights, and tell them which hotel I want to use, would it be possible to, dunnow, have a sort of opt-out option where I can just do it myself and bill you later? This is supposed to be for my convenience, but when it takes twice as long to get the twats to do it than to do it myself, plus it means I can’t choose a hotel I like much better (and it’s cheaper too!)… I’d really rather do it myself. Oh, and of course the hotel the boss has chosen has carpet (aaaaargh! I’m thinking of making him pay for the antihistamines 
or waking him up in the middle of the night to go buy them, when I wake up because I can’t breathe…)
On a related note: hotel chains. If you tout yourself as “business hotels”, kindly provide:
tables which are large enough for both my laptop and my arms,
chairs which are actually glued together,
internet service which isn’t restricted to webpages,
and which goes faster than a doped snail (note I’m not saying a Doper snail, those are fast),
and which you don’t charge for outside the general bill, and for a nightly cost higher than a month of normal service,
and breakfast with choices that go beyond “rubbery croissants and watered-down cold coffee”.
Kthxbye.
The Pit might not be the right place for this, but things are turning out well. We replaced the relief auditor with a guy who formerly worked for the company - love, love, love him! He’s professional and reliable and friendly and personable and all those good things we need. And the position that was lost through firing will allow the other staffers to pick up some extra hours - handy in the short term (holidays,) and in the long term, since one co-worker has extra school expenses this semester and another was recently widowed and needs a little more to make ends meet.
Yay!
Dear self-entitled college kid,
Yes, I’m sure you want to sing next. You and everybody else. Except they’ve been here and hour and you’ve been here five minutes. What, you’re “awesome”? You and everybody else. Your drunk ass can’t even hold a note.
I run a successful show because I make a fun environment for people to express themselves. I have a large amount of regulars who appreciate this. You want me to call you up twice before they get up at all? I actually like them. You don’t even tip.
Too bad your parents never taught you that you’re not the center of the universe. Go away.
If you come over and interrupt my lunch to tell me about something you need my help with, don’t start protesting when I get up to do it right away. If it wasn’t that urgent, you could have sent me an email or an instant message or dropped a note on my desk that I’d see when I was done eating. If you felt the need to tell me right away, clearly you think it’s important enough that I should interrupt my lunch; so don’t pretend like you’re shocked when I head back to my desk to do whatever stupid thing it was that you thought was so fucking urgent.
It’s been one hell of a week, y’all.
Small office, 6 people including owner.
Project manager was planning to take most of December off because baby #2 is coming, and this week was supposed to be his wrap up loose ends week. Except that doctors decided on Monday they might have to induce his wife, so he hasn’t been here all week and won’t be back till January. So boss is frantically trying to sort out his stuff.
Then we’ve got the guy who does one specific, important job here. We knew he was moving but didn’t know details. Tuesday morning he texts boss saying he needed Tues and Wed off to move. Boss approved it, although was irked at lack of notice. Thursday he texts and says he needs another day. Disgruntled boss is not happy, as we have a bunch of projects that need his input right now. Now last night after my boss was asleep he texted and said he wouldn’t be coming in today either. Boss has moved from disgruntled to RAEGFACE mode. To add insult to injury, he’s turned his phone off so boss can’t get ahold of him. Also, I’m the only one who bothers to show up on time, so I’ve been the only one here when boss gets in to give him moral support.
This is the best workplace I’ve ever had. My boss is freaking fantastic. I get brownie points for just showing up on time and breathing. But boss deserves better than to be jerked around by moving guy. It sucks we need moving guy so much.
Stop apologizing *every time *you come over to talk to me or call me. Just fucking stop it. You know what “sorry” means? It means, “I shouldn’t have done this.” But you’re *not *sorry, or you’d stop. And I *don’t even mind *you asking me to help you with things when I’m free. But it drives me fucking insane that the first word out of your mouth 99.9% of the fucking time is “sorry.” SO CUT IT THE FUCK OUT. If you *really *don’t want to keep asking me to help you with things, get off your ask and bug your manager again about assigning you *your own *admin.
Ooooookaaayyyyy …
There’s a vivid picture being painted here about this workplace, that’s for sure.
What, mine? Most of it really isn’t that bad. I just get frustrated by people who apologize for things that they have no intention of stopping because they think it makes the request polite, or something.