I laughed 
I was trying to resist this until I read your post. Runs screaming out of the thread. I do think that if we bring a herd of mooses in, the mountain lion might be in relocate.
Thanks! I needed a new desktop picture at work!
Hey, I SAID to smear him with peanut butter first!
I’m gonna use this as my wallpaper as well. TPTB keep promising me a new computer, even went so far as to tell me it was ordered two weeks ago. Haven’t seen it yet. I probably lose a good hour or so of time every day restarting my 2005 model POS whenever something crashes.
I really need to get this job I’m interviewing for on Wednesday. The stress levels are turning me into someone I don’t recognize. Today I had to stay for almost an hour after closing to try to help the teller balance her drawer. All the management types had left already, and the teller never bothered to balance until five minutes before closing. (They’re supposed to balance more than once during the day.) I won’t get any kind of thank you for finding the multiple errors, just a bitching-out because I was over time for the day.
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Nuke it from orbit–it’s the only way to be sure. http://nukeitfromorbit.com/
I’m totally up for that! (that was a awe inspiring pic, btw. horrible and fascinating at the same time)
Just here to help.
“We’re your friends. We’re not like the others, man, really.”
When the world is getting on my nerves I like to surf all the Wiki articles on nuclear weapons, bombs, history, etc… Helps me realize it’s good we’re all still here.
Work bitch of the day: broke my heel bone last May, still hurts pretty bad but it’s only pain, doesn’t actually stop me from doing anything. Therefore I got a note from the doctor two months ago saying I was cleared to full duty, with the understanding I am going to be in pain and plan for it.
That said this fall I ended up on the “Shoot High School Football Every Friday Night” shift, much to my surprise. HS Football video requires you to run the sidelines, shoot every play, and get no rest for about 2 to 2.5 hrs. I have pretty much toughed it out but by this week I finally grumped to my assignment manager ‘Hey, why not share the love?’ because I am tired of spending every weekend in bed or on the couch recouperating.
So of course now it’s an HR issue, gotta go see the doctor and get a note, etc… If I had kept my damn mouth shut I only had 2 more weeks to go.
Fuck.
Why do we always have to wait for late arrivers on phone calls? Fuck 'em. It only trains them to be late all the time. Those of us who arrive early/on time get penalized because we have to wait for the sorry assholes who can’t be arsed to respect other people.
That continues because you let it happen.
[ul][li]Complain privately to the person running the meeting about this.[/li][li]Complain to your boss about how your time is being wasted by this.[/li][li]Speak up in the meeting, saying “It’s time, let’s get started.” and if someone objects that others aren’t phoned in yet, say “they can catch up later, if they show up. They knew the start time.” (And don’t allow meeting time to be wasted repeating things for latecomers – if it starts, say “we already covered that before you showed up – someone can catch you up after this meeting. Let’s go on.”)[/li][li]If someone says we need to wait for someone before starting, say “OK, but I’ve got too much work to be hanging around waiting for them. Call me back when they decide to show up.” Then hang up.[/li][/ul]
Which of these you use may depend on your rank among the meeting attendees (and maybe how badly you want to keep working there). But often other people in the meeting will chime in agreeing with you.
Dear Hens,
I don’t care who your talking about, I don’t care what you’re talking about. But the whispering for the past two weeks has been amped up x10. Every morning for a couple of hours all I hear is psvss , psvss, psvss, psssv…
I’m about to fucking lose it.
The sound is grating to the ears and could be considered borderline torture. Take it outside or better yet, do some fucking work, there’s tons of it.
Maybe - you can’t prove anything.
Ibanez, are some headphones and a white noise track a possibility at your job?
I’ve got a couple …
Dear Client,
Why in the name of all that is good and holy did you adopt a dog at ALL?? The local shelter only requires that you show proof of pre-payment for vaccines and spay/neuter surgery before they’ll adopt out to you. We agree to charge a reduced fee, so he had to fork over less than $100. There’s no way in HELL the dog you adopted is only 6 months old - more like a year and six months old. The other tech tells you that he should really be heartworm tested, so we do that at $27. We reserve the right to treat any surgery patient for fleas, so that’s an additional $17. Since he’s not a young pup, we prescribe a week’s worth of post-op pain meds at $16, and after he started licking the incision, we put an E-collar on him (the plastic cone thing), and those are about $12. When the owner called to ask what the total out the door would be he FLIPPED! Seems that he had to borrow the $27 for the heartworm test and can’t afford the rest of the stuff. Seriously dude??? WTF are you going to do when he gets an ear infection or eats something and has bloody diarrhea or gets hit by a car? If you’re that broke, don’t get a fuckin’ dog!
Dear high-schooler who’s job it is to CLEAN the clinic,
Yes I realize that the kittens are adorable and cute and fuzzy and loveable. However, you are NOT being paid to pet the kitties! When you were just “volunteering” it was fine if all you did was snuggle babies and clean a cage or two and maybe sweep. But you wanted to get paid, so now you have job duties and responsibilities, just like the rest of us. There’s even a convenient list on the wall with a breakdown of approximately how long each task should take and in what order they need to be completed. (No use mopping before the day’s business is done!) As I was leaving, I heard the other tech say, “I’ve got TONS of stuff for you to do today!” I’ll be curious to see how much of it actually got done.
Oh good, someone else who hates whispering. Every time I hear it, I wish massive and irreparable harm on the whisperers. Nails on a chalkboard have nothing on it.
Nope. Not allowed where I work. Them driving me batshit crazy apparently is though. I’m pretty sure I’m going to lose it if this keeps up. I’d go to my direct supervisor about it but she’s part of the brood that’s taking part in this infernal racket.
What ever happened to normal hobbies.
Cracks up. Bets you are from the government
Lots of agreement with you here…along with the snipping. I know that people will yell at me because I think that adopting a pet means financial responsibility should be required. I don’t think that people who can’t feed their kids should adopt a puppy or kitten. Yes, the children will enjoy having a pet, and they will have lots of good experiences with them, but feeding a kid is much more important than feeding a pet. In my opinion.
High school kids don’t usually understand that they are being paid to actually work. They think that jobs are supposed to be fun. I have a lot of interns going through my warehouse and most of them seem shocked that I won’t sign off on their time cards because they were having a life problem that involved them not working for hours or days.
Good luck with both of this issues. I run through interns really quickly and I’m not allowed to interact with people with my rescue group.
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Just here to help.
“We’re your friends. We’re not like the others, man, really.”
Cracks up. Bets you are from the government
I can’t tell you that.
-Well, I could, but…I think you know the rest.
Co-workers (yes, that’s plural),
Sweet, merciful crap, where do I start?
The government will not legalize marijuana just so they can start providing poisonous joints. Your children are not being microchipped when they get immunized. You can not tell if a person is evil/demonic based on the shape of their face.
That map you showed me clearly states we’re in an area that would experience changes if a massive earthquake were to strike, it does not say we will be under water in the next year.
Thanking a female co-worker for fixing your phone at your request by commenting to her that she’s probably used your phone to “charge all kinds of stuff” to your phone account (wtf?) and all women are whores is not recommended. It is really not necessary that your five-year-old know how to kill someone, “just in case.”
Does it still count as a rant if I’m cradling my head and whimpering by the end?
- Can’t, he works 1000 miles away and is way higher than me on the food chain.
Complain to your boss about how your time is being wasted by this.
- Have done this often. Our office is always on time.
Speak up in the meeting, saying “It’s time, let’s get started.” and if someone objects that others aren’t phoned in yet, say “they can catch up later, if they show up. They knew the start time.” (And don’t allow meeting time to be wasted repeating things for latecomers – if it starts, say “we already covered that before you showed up – someone can catch you up after this meeting. Let’s go on.”)
- I have asked people to start, but I really wouldn’t say the latter. I just grit my teeth and bear it.
If someone says we need to wait for someone before starting, say “OK, but I’ve got too much work to be hanging around waiting for them. Call me back when they decide to show up.” Then hang up.
- Hell on the no!
Yeah it’s all about company culture and unless you’re driving that you just do your best with what’s available. I always bring my laptop to meetings so even if I’m waiting around for 20 mins I’m working. Now that I’m WFH it’s even easier.
I do have some sympathy with our people though, we have two buildings side by side and since meeting rooms are always difficult to book it’s not unusual to have people finishing a meeting on the 5th floor of one building, waiting for that elevator (there is no exit on the stairs to the connecting floor) and then walking down the hall and up the elevator in the next building to the 18th floor. There’s no way you can stay to the end of one meeting and be on time for the next.