Hey, asshole, if there’s a message on your account saying we’re not supposed to give you support until you straighten everything out with accounts receivable, that covers all software that we create, not just the one related to the charges in question! No, it doesn’t mean we’re lying about what support is free. It means that we want you to pay your fucking bill, and there’s no incentive for you to do that if we still support you for some things. If you think it’s an erroneous charge, you need to take that up with accounts receivable. Swearing at me really doesn’t make me any more able to help you, I assure you.
And no, I wasn’t laughing at you. I was trying to stay upbeat and professional. You may be unfamiliar with that, based on the reputation you have among my coworkers. It doesn’t say much for you when I tell my coworkers that you have a “do not support” message and they all say that’s awesome. They were disappointed when they found out that it was an accounts receivable message and not that our company just doesn’t want to put up with your shit. We’ve very rarely done it for other customers, and my coworkers sure were hoping we’d finally done it for you, too. Here’s a hint: taking your money elsewhere is not a threat when everyone you talk to hates you.
And I don’t even know where to start with the rep who supported him despite the message earlier in the day. The message was documented in the rep’s notes, so it wasn’t added between that call and mine. If you’re going to support someone with a “do not support” message, could you at least check with a manager first and then put it in your notes? Cause your notes make it look like you saw the message and decided to ignore it. Makes it a lot messier to tell a customer we can’t help them until the message is cleared.
not be able to breathe, or sleep at night, so I make mistakes at work
or
take decongestants, breathe and sleep like a normal human being, and be Rx-based mentally foggy so I make mistakes at work
Thank all the lucky stars available that, while Grandboss is a fountain of teh crazy, my direct manager - the one who, among other things, points out my mistakes - is compassionate … and, occasionally, makes mistakes herself, which I’ve gently pointed out!
My boss recognized the forged “flatlined can come back to work” letter as a fake. Thanks all the gods that she called to yell at me first, I didn’t mean to get the receptionist in trouble.
SG has had to call off for 4 days now. 2 days each pay cycle. He doesn’t have gas money to get to work and nobody cares enough to give him a ride. Bosslady did tell me that if I stay off work (so not giving SG a ride in), SG will get wrote up after he runs out of PTO. 3 write ups and he will get fired.
Scoldings and bribes.
This is good enough that when I go back, I will forget that I’m a tree hugger and let SG put another vehicle on the road. That’s really the only reason I was giving him rides. Sometimes the mememe thing overrides my moral principles.
I like your boss. She’s a smart lady, and it sounds like she cares what happens to good people. This is the same boss who told you you couldn’t quit because you weren’t vested yet, right? (The receptionist isn’t in trouble, is s/he?)
He must be having some high times at the scratch-and-lose lottery card counter to be that broke when he can no longer get to the casinos during the week. I wonder if he’ll run out before the year rolls over and he gets a new bloc to draw on.
In the short term, extra car on the road. In the long term, extra car *off *the road, because he won’t have a job to go to …
It got caught because someone paid the receptionist better…looks around suspiciously…and I didn’t really read past the “flatlined can go back to work with restrictions” part.
One of the restrictions was “no driving”. Boss picked up on that right away, if I can’t drive how can I get to work? My explaination that I could drive my car, but not climb into the delivery van didn’t fly.
I probably made a mistake when talking to her. The boxes stacked around my desk are only 5 high. Boss sent me a pic and said that they were now making them deeper. I told her that it was a myth that OSHA says boxes can’t be stacked higher (this is true), they can be stacked as high as someone wants. The reason to not go 6 high is because the bottom boxes start getting crushed.
I’m guessing I’ll have boxes to the roof when I go back next Monday.
I’m going to a different Doctor here. My Doctor knows him somehow and has sent all the medical records to the new office. This Doctor knows that he won’t be retaining me as a patient, so I’ll bet I can get a work release from him or his unsuspecting staff.
SG has been really gaming the system lately. We have to make reasonable accomodations for health issues. SG’s hip hurts too much to stand in front of the shredder and do his main job, so Boss got him a nice stool. Now he hurts too much to walk to the stack of boxes to get another one to shred. Boss has been stacking boxes right next to the shredder for him. He hurts too much to put the filled bags in their place. OK, he’s old and po, but he has great health insurance so should be able to come up with documentation. He will do that soon, now that he has to pay for gas, he doesn’t have the $10 copay.
Boss has been sending him to HR. HR officially hates SG. The ony thing they have found that he can do is to sit in a chair and feed their mini shredder one sheet at a time. This bores him, so he wants to visit with the HR people who are trying to do their work. SG also likes to talk to the public.
One of the most sympathic HR people gave him $10 to go to the doctor and get his paperwork straightened out. The one who is ready to pull her hair out (who also happens to be the one SG sits next to) told him that if he didn’t have his work release to not come back to work on Monday.
I might miss the office Christmas party, but it looks like I’ve got a very nice present on the way.
Maybe SG needs to go work in a nursing home, in the Alzheimer’s wing. He could sit and talk to the patients all day. The Alzheimer’s patients don’t have money, and don’t even have control over their own finances, so even if he could wheedle a check from one, he couldn’t cash it.
Of course, since he’d have problems gaming things in such a place, he wouldn’t like it.
I do hope you get back in time for the final explosion. I bet it’s gonna be a doozy.
I don’t know if our new employee is having an unfortunate run of bad luck or if we’re being played.
After being at work for two days, she developed pnemonia and was away for a week. Back for one day, then gone the rest of the week. Then, when she comes back, she tells her boss that she’s 13 weeks pregnant. :dubious: Kinda sucks that we now have to train someone for her maternity leave at the same time as we train her, but I guess that can happen sometimes (it almost happened to me). She said she didn’t know she was pregnant, but apparently another girl here (who is also with the fertility clinic - strange I haven’t seen her there) saw her at the IVF clinic a few months ago.
But then all the lies start coming in. She’s telling people different stories.
Suddenly she didn’t have pnemonia, but it was morning sickness that kept her away. And then we find out she was actually moving during the second week she was away. Also, she has an extra valve in her heart, so sometimes she has this issue where her heart races at 200 bpm and has to leave early. And she was apparently Miss New Brunswick (we checked this one - no she wasn’t).
And today she’s limping and walking slowly because she hurt her back over the weekend (probably lifting stuff from her move).
What’s next? Disability? She’s been in the group for a month and has worked for less then half of it. We can only give her the benefit of the doubt for so long. :rolleyes:
Whoa, EmAnJ, maybe you guys should be looking into whether falsely claiming sick leave is a firing offense and get rid of this one before the possible unemployment claim gets any higher. Or maybe she’s still in a probationary period and you can just send her on down the road because my vote is you are being played.
you know I shouldn’t be made to feel bad when I have something come up and I have to take off from work. I worked all last week with a bad cold and on Saturday on the way to work my car started acting up, worked becasue it was end of the month for my company and a crunch time. It took me hours to get home becasue it was overheating and I was told at the oil change place that it had plenty of coolant so it must be the thermostat. The mechanic I took it to today said at first that it was low on coolant but he needed to replace the starter and that should fix the problems. ok fine now he is telling me that there is a problem with the thermostat but he will be able to get it repaired by the end of the day. I had emailed my boss and my coworker yesterday and let them know what work was the most crucial and where to locate the paperwork and that I hoped I could come in at 4pm for the second half of my day. I have the crap schedule that no one else wants because I stay several hours later than everyone else in my department. My coworker has caught my cold now and is cranky because she doesn’t want to stay late. Shae has a husband and multiple vehicles so if they haveone not working they can work it out. She is taking off tomorrow to take care of some personal business and I am doing everything I can to get to work but if I have no transportation there isn’t much I can do.
A couple of months ago I was in the emergency room and she was calling asking if I was planning to come to work the next day. I told I had planned to come to work that day but the clinic I went to for antibiotics sent me to the emggency room instead.
I really like this coworked (she used to be my boss) but it really irks me to have her call me saying she can’t stay late. Believe me I would rather be at work than have my only transportation out for 3 days now or to be in the emergency room. I know she is unhappy with work and our current boss but shit happens to people and it sin’t always convenient.
And seriously you used to run this department and you don’t know how to handle the problems that come up in my job? You don’t know how to research the underlying problems so you can let the people who are taked with fixing the problems know what needs to be fixed and who fixes them?
No probationary period, unfortunately, but someone did mention something about checking in to her education and work history a bit more to see if we can find more lies and fire her for that.
The problem is that now that she’s told us she’s pregnant, it’s very hard to fire her because she’s now protected. We need a really good reason to let her go.
I need to keep telling myself that anything that goes wrong at the credit union is no longer my problem.
If the branch manager asks me one more time if I’m gonna miss dealing with X, Y, or Z issues I’m gonna go upside his head. I’m about five minutes away from saying “and no, I’m not gonna miss you either!” But I’m trying to be civil… and it’s no longer my problem… lather, rinse, repeat.
she drives one and her husband drives one, so if one needs to be repaired she and her husband can give each other rides. they dont live any where near me and so cant give me a ride. I think she should be a little more understanding that "I dont have that option.
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[li]No, why would I? They’re part of the reason I’m leaving![/li][li]I not only won’t miss them, I’m going to celebrate not having to deal with them![/li][li]I’ll miss them terribly, as long as you understand that “terribly” means not very well.[/li][li]I’ll shed a few crocodile tears if it will make you happier.[/li][li]No, the only thing I’m going to miss is your meltdown when you find you have to deal with this yourself.[/li][/ul]
OK, these are probably not the answers you want to be giving …
Oh, I like these! Thanks! Especially the second one, I will keep that in mind. But yeah, probably better not use them. The only reason I haven’t just up and walked out is because they won’t pay me my banked time if I don’t work out my two weeks. And I have a lot of time banked, since taking time off usually meant a disaster to deal with when I came back.
Get a faraway dreamy look in your eyes and smile on your face, and just answer, “Noooo…” every time you’re asked that. Like you’re imagining your next job as a tropical island vacation.
Hey boss, I have to take the mandatory safety training every freaking year. I’ve had to take it for 29 years now. So, when you blatantly violate company safety practices right in front of me, I’m obligated to say something about it. Since you choose to go ahead and ignore me, I have to assume that you don’t really give a shit about safety. By the way, your unsafe actions were captured on our security cameras…who should I send the screenshots to?
