Office partner: STAY THE FUCK HOME IF YOU’RE SICK. I’ve got too much shit going on right now to catch what you have. And stop crunching the cough drops already! It sounds like you’re chewing on gravel.
Customer that I wish I could name: exactly how stupid can you get? That email I got today was the worst I’ve seen…seriously, why in the hell were you drilling there??? And I’m getting a little tired of having to write an official company statement every time someone gets their panties in a bunch.
One refrigerator for one hundred people?
Ooh, back when I was vegetarian I acquired a nasty dose of campylobacter, after I researched it I strongly suspected the supermarket and you’ve just made my suspicion even stronger. Now I’m not veggie I’m very very careful about raw chicken.
I can sympathize. Our daughter has type 1 diabetes. My office mate came in with the flu. I got it and gave it to her. She was out of school for a week. Thankfully I was in an office by myself when my husband was going through chemo. I kept to myself a hell of a lot.
We caught a thief today. Various people in the call center had some stuff come up missing - change, ear buds (EW!), an iPod cable, and other things. So we set up a camera at my desk. It was a kid - about 14 or 15, who had no business being there in the first place. The camera caught him hanging around my desk, leaning over, standing up, leaning over, etc. Then he walked down the aisle, vacuuming: he stopped, opened up a drawer, and put something red in it. He opened up a drawer on down the aisle and did the same thing.
I opened my drawer and noticed I had three fruit bars missing. I had just opened up a box the day before, so I knew how many I had in there. They were strawberry, and had red wrappers. We looked in the drawers, and they each had a red fruit bar wrapper inside.
That cleaning crew will not be back in our office.
Close, anyway. I’m in accounting, and I counted 47 people in the department, possibly a few more if I forgot some people. Marketing and IT are also housed on the floor, and I’d bet it’s at least 20 each (probably more in IT) for those, plus some random people (office services). The days where a department has a potluck are really, really annoying. Casserole dishes galore…
At least when I went to grab my lunch today, I saw the milk and pie were gone. /let’s out deep breath
My company hired a guy about a year ago, I’ll call him Rusty because that’s become his new moniker. It’s short for “Rusty Trombone” because he not only kisses the boss’s ass, he… well, if you don’t know what it means, you don’t want to. Let’s just say he’s a total asskisser.
This guy was fired from his last job of selling nuts and bolts and hired to do something completely new and fairly menial at our company. I’ve worked there 9 years and glimpsed his paycheck one day and saw that he gets paid more than me. I don’t mind because what he does could bring a profit, except his job only requires about 5-6 hours of work a week. The rest of the time he stands around flirting with the secretary or talking to a tech who can’t really stand the guy. After all this time, he still doesn’t really understand what we do, but how much can you learn by standing around doing absolutely nothing 85% of the week? But for all that, he talks a lot of crap. He’s the only one who knows what they’re doing and can do better than anyone there. Yet any time he’s tried to help out, he’s failed miserably.
Where I work there are three departments. The first has 12 employees, the second 10, and mine has four. There are huge problems with quality from the first two departments, and by the time things get to my department, I find myself running around sorting out problems that should have never gotten this far. And it’s not even my job. I’m crazily busy at my job but have to spend time fixing other people’s work because there is zero quality control in place.
Before I worked here, I ran an entire company of 40 employees doing the same job these 26 do here, and I did all the quality control myself on top of running the company top to bottom (the owner was there 1-2 hours per week). I could obviously do it for the 26 here, although the 4 in my department don’t need it and are already acting as frustrated QC. I’ve volunteered several times to be QC. My department is insanely busy so they could hire someone to take my place, I’d be QC, and when I’m needed I could step in and help with my department. It would be win-win for everyone involved.
All this pleading has finally paid off and our company now has a QC guy.
Rusty. Fucking. Trombone.
But not for the entire company, he’s QC for my department only, the one department that has an impeccable record and frustratingly has to be the last line of QC defense for the other two departments. The other departments still have no QC and no plans for it.
And, oh, he doesn’t like me one bit because I know what I’m doing and I know that he doesn’t.
Number of Post-it notes I received today telling me what was wrong with my work: 6
Number that were accurate: 0
At one point he told me I needed to do something, which I replied that I had just done 5 minutes ago. He said he looked and it wasn’t done so he did it for me. WTF? This particular thing was like amputating a leg, either it’s done or not, there is no in between and there can be no mistake.
My boss is the problem, but I’m sympathetic towards him. He wants to retire but there is no one to take over. Certainly not his son. He spent 7 years in college… on a communications degree. He’s been with us 6-7 years and is still lost. My boss doesn’t like when I do impromptu QC and go to him 8 times a day with problems. I’m saving his ass from pissed off customers, losing huge clients, lawsuits etc, but he just wants people to leave him alone and since it’s me with the problems, I guess he thinks the problems are in my department.
#@$% I hate feeling like I work with 12 year olds. I want to work with smart people who don’t put up with drama. I’m a single dad with a house payment, but I don’t know if I can go to work tomorrow.
#@$%
Amazon, are you fucking kidding me? You finally figure out a way to let your Marketplace sellers collect sales taxes from the customers who are the ones legally on the hook to pay them, then you tell us you’re going to take 2.9% of the tax funds collected as a fee? That is just un-fucking-believeable! :mad:
My present job has plenty of gripes, too: just had a student lie repeatedly to me, other teachers, the dean, the poor innocent clerical staff… and then yell at me when we --surprise!-- talked to each other, and called her on it.
All because she wants me to bend the rules and get her into my class.
Sure, lie and yell. THAT’S going to make me want to spend a semester in a small classroom with you…
What the fuck is a kid with tonsillitis doing wandering around his mother’s workplace? Why is he not at home? When I had tonsillitis I was wretched and I would not have wanted to leave my bed or home; but tonsillitis put me in the hospital AND I can’t speak for anyone else here…
But seriously, what the fuck?!
I certainly hope they’re turning that 2.9% over to the people the money belongs to (the state tax boards who are mandating the collection of taxes)…
Dear coworker,
GET A GAWDDAMED HEARING AID! Why must you YELL when on the phone? I can’t return calls to my clients because I can’t hear them over your YELLING to your client. I know someone has asked you if you’ve had your hearing checked, because we all laughed when we heard you respond with “WHAT? MY HEARING IS FINE!”
I’m falling further behind in returning calls because of this.
I can link you to a site that will show you how to make and use a blowgun if you like…
Maybe that needs to be in the official company statement: “Somebody got their panties in a bunch.” 
They are not collecting the taxes. They have just made it possible for us to do so. They are taking 2.9% of the tax funds we collect through our Amazon store. Fuckers. I guess we are a little better off than when we would have to eat the whole amount of the sales taxes for the states we have to collect for, but geez louise, it pisses me (and my boss) off.
Why the hell did they change the piped-in radio station in the can from the local classical station to NPR? It used to be some nice background music - now I get the middle two minutes of an eight minute long story. What’s the point?
Worse: it’s Beg-a-Thon week. Now instead of nice background music OR the middle two minutes of an eight minute long story I get that crap instead.
ETA: HA! I see what I did there. Unintentionally.
A quick scan of my cubicle hive shows 130 people for our one refrigerator (and worse, our one coffee pot).
Exactly. YOU are collecting TAXES, and THEY are STEALING those taxes from your custody before you are able to deliver them to their rightful recipients.
If the county tax collector gets mugged on his way to the bank, and 2.9% of the receipts are removed from the bag, I doubt the county is going to consider the missing funds to be part of the cost of doing business, and let it slide.
kaylasdad99, you may be missing the point—they collect x, then have tp pass along x+2.9%.
I so wish I had a recording of the call today. I had to put it on mute several times because I was laughing so hard.
Basically, the OSHA guy says that nobody can be forced to go into the RatKing’s lair. Me, as caretaker of the boxes had to complain that we have to do good Records Management and try to protect the documents. The guy who was worried about the protected snakes was asked if he would be willing to get my boxes out and he said that it was our problem. Federal protection trumps State rules.
Nobody was talking about practicable solutions until the Facilities head muttered something about nuking it from orbit.
I couldn’t help it, I cracked up and said something about lead pipes.
The legal eagles are doing their thing, and we will meet again in a month.
Eggzactly! For example, if we collect $10.00 in taxes, they will deduct 29 cents from our payout as a fee.