I really want to hear some of the stories from Skippy’s List, not just the notes. I think I knew a Skippy when I was in the AF, so entertaining.
I don’t think I can talk about the fight yet. I’m sorry for dropping that and not talking about it. Suffice it to say that there was a lawyer involved, and the case is ongoing. I can, however, talk about the icy loading ramp. It snows here at times, and nobody shovels the snow except for me. I just shovel it away from my parking spot and the path to the door. The 40 foot long ramp gets covered with a thick layer of ice.
I started sliding down it while wearing my work boots COWABUNGA!!! and then tried it with a box lid. Took a note to self that trying to use a box lid as a snowboard is a bad idea. During my experiments, I managed to make a nice groove in the ice. I was able to slide down the ramp and shoot out into the parking lot. Of course I suggested that other people try it. If they fell off the ramp, they would land in a nice soft layer of slush and if they got enough speed going, they would end up in a pile of snow. What’s not to like about that idea? Team building is important, right?
Well…no. Someone (I know who the someone was, it wasn’t SG) saw us whooping it up and made a complaint. Not only did I get a talking to, now Facilities has to remove the snow and ice from the ramp so we won’t slip and get hurt. Grumbles.
And yes, SG was just being a bitch for complaining about us gambling. I think he’s grasping at straws, but I don’t care. He belongs to HR now and the lady who had to talk to us was very apologic about the whole thing. Rules are rules, but this was silly even to HR.
You should suggest that HR institute a policy against being a whiney assed bitch. SG won’t last til the end of the fiscal year. (Jan 1?) Bonus is that the net will probably catch a few other asses who are [DEL]pissing off[/DEL] degrading productivity in other departments.
I kinda feel like I’m interrupting a private conversation, but this is the workplace gripes thread, so I’m just going to go for it.
I work with some people that have a really shitty work ethic, but I have to keep my mouth shut to keep the peace (even though I was reprimanded for making everyone else look bad by working the day before Xmas shutdown). One of the slackers in another cube came back to work after a weeks vacation in Mexico, and an engineer came to her desk a half hour after her start time and asked about a job that had languished while she was out. My cube mates were outraged that he had the audacity to expect work answers from her - why, she just got back from vacation! How dare he!!! Of course they were sure I shared their outrage, and I had to nod and turn away. What the fuck do they not understand about being paid to be somewhere and work?!?!
I think I figured out part of the weirdness with my new boss. Sorry to disappoint, because it’s pretty benign.
He’s very soft-spoken, and I’m hard of hearing. I’m not deaf, but I do have a lot of trouble hearing if there’s background noise or if I’m not looking at the person who’s talking. I’ve had to ask him to repeat himself a few times and he gets this annoyed look on his face when I do that. I guess I’m gonna have to remind him again about my hearing loss…
Get an old fashioned ear horn and put it on your desk, perhaps even displayed prominently. The first couple of times he comes over and you can’t hear him, put it to your ear. A couple of times after that, ask if you need to use the horn. Sooner or later he’ll get the message. If he doesn’t, the fact that it is sitting there may remind him.
I love the earhorn idea… and there’s no way this could backfire, and you could wind up with every single person saying “Ehhh?” like an old coot to you, and/or cupping their hands behind their ears…
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– who’d LOVE to have two earhorns (work and home versions), but he already has kids and co-workers who make fun of his hearing.
Lol this made me laugh loads.
I’m English and tbh we don’t do this USA work ethic bollocks, and management are just management simple as that. A Northern English girl/guy with a problem would just let rip and screw what everyone else in the office thinks, and if management has a problem they get taken to a tribunal for unfair action, simple as that. Some guy treats me unfair at work, gets told to reverse it or gets to go outside for a good kicking. Francis Drake didn’t get to where he was by bowing to every prat he came across. Maybe the USA is too PC, us barbarians have the answer. Office environment tbh should be same as the military. Middle management fields the bullshit from their bosses so the lower ranks get to just do their job, without having to worry about the view of ex University soft no experience tossers, with no common sense.
I’ve known folks in the Australian armed forces who’ve had similar restrictions placed on them, so even if some are fabrications I’d say there’s a kernel of truth to many of them.
The “no Furbys in classified areas” one is real. The toy is obsolete, but one of the selling points was that they had the ability to expand their vocabulary based on words and phrases that were repeated often in their presence.
Please don’t think this way. We just sometimes get excited about one thing or another. People pay attention to my stories of SG and the RatKing because its like watching a train wreck.
I understand why you are frustrated. You take pride in doing your job well. It sucks that your coworkers don’t understand that if the work gets done, continued employment happens…and that if production goes up, raises could happen.
Companies are folding all over the place, the economy sucks. I don’t blame you for being upset that they could be the ones to cost your job if your company goes belly up.
Oh, no no no - the vacation does not in the slightest make her a slacker. She’s just another of the cube creatures that thinks of work as an interruption to her online shopping and 45 minute coffee breaks.
And I’m not one of those that thinks I’m the only one working. There is just a Gang of Five that cannot be bothered to consider doing what they’re paid to do is more important than chatting, surfing and shopping.
Back in the dark ages, I worked with a gang of women who would do the same thing. They got talked to on a regular basis, but nothing serious was ever done about them. In time it became clear that the boss was NOT going to discipline any woman on his team for any issue, period. But anyway, one day after he talked to them about standing around and then walked away, one of the women snarked “we’d do the work if we had more interesting work to do!”.
My response was “I’ll hold the box for you while you’re cleaning out your desk”
I don’t much care if you work or not - it will catch up with you, or it won’t - not my problem. My problem is when I’m trying to do MY job, and you see me standing here, waiting for you to get off the phone with your personal call and give me the direction I need to carry on, and I’m stuck waiting to get on with MY work because you won’t stop screwing around. That’s when I get annoyed.
