Dear Boss: if you don’t want me to enter certain bills, don’t give them to me to input. Kthxbai! 
Our parking garages are the busiest over the weekend, hence that’s when most of the parts for the gates break. So Monday mornings are always busy with frantic calls from people desperately needing service for their gates. When do all of the service techs have their mandatory meeting and are therefore unavailable for calls? Yup… Monday morning.
How are the interviews going Dr G?
I mentioned this upstream, but its going to be a constant source of pointing and laughing for a very long time.
The microfilm department is moving into the warehouse. IMO, the darkroom should be moved first because dust is not a good thing. The old, one of a kind books should be moved next and then they should start ripping the fire proof vault out to move. Of course, I didn’t plan the move, so they are now ripping the vault out.
The warehouse was built in the 1950’s. It was one building and then a second one was built next to it. The roofs are peaked so rain/show will pool up where the roofs join and then leak inside.
Everything was moved out of the area that the vault is supposed to go, and the vault is supposed to be moved in a couple of weeks.
We got a major snowstorm. The roof started leaking where the vault is supposed to go. The vault can’t be moved until the roof is fixed. The very expensive vault movers are charging a rescheduling fee. The dust getting into the chemicals and the filming machines. Its already a cluster…and its just started.
Damn, I wish the candidate we chose for the open position in my office would freaking call back and accept the job. Barring that, call back and reject the job at least! (I think it’s only been a day since the offer/message with offer, but still…)
Yes, yes, I know, she’s probably out or weighing her options or figuring out if she’ll need to move to get closer to the job or how long her commute would be or something. But this process and bureaucracy and everything has left me without a coworker in this position for over 4 months now, and I will go crazy trying to do the work of two for much longer.
Don’t worry about it. From the vast number of losers I’ve seen come and go over the years I’d say many people have the ability to interview well and that’s about it. Once they’re hired they revert back to their lazy, worthless, dirtbag selves. :rolleyes:
The one kid I interviewed the other day turned out to be pretty good, he’s joining our summer baseball/festival staff. Only 16, very first job interview, scared to death. I told him it was my first time on the other side of the desk and we both had a good laugh. Nice kid.
Brief backstory, the company I work for owns and operates parking lots and garages around town, including the parking garage attached to the downtown baseball stadium. So we need lots of people during the summer.
Anyways, we hired one person only to turn around and fire two, possibly three more. Courier got fired because he had another accident with the company truck. Something like the third in three months. He’s too old to be driving. Will be firing a full-time cashier because he’s been a no-show for two days. Might be firing the baseball garage manager because of his profanity-laced tirade towards the owner and office manager in full earshot of hundreds of people in the garage.
I have two good people in mind to interview later on this week. Here’s hoping, and I need a drink.
The best luck I’ve had in hiring is with people recommended by my current (good) employees. So tell this new kid (and other employees) that you have these openings, and ask them for recommendations.* (But also remind them that they will be working with these new hires, and if the new ones goof off, the current employees will still have to get the work done – so don’t recommend anyone unless they can count on them doing their share of the work.)
- I’ve even found it worthwhile to offer a ‘referral bonus’ – like $50 cash or gift certificate to a local restaurant, etc. – paid to the current employee if the new hire is still employed 60 days later. It’s easily worth that much to find a good new hire!
Brilliant! I had to do a bit of hiring “back in the day”… and I never even thought of tactics like those.
I’ve worked at a couple places that used “referral bonuses” to get their current employees to refer their friends. Most recently, I worked at a home health care company as a health care aide. Their policy was that if a current employee referred a friend, who then had an interview and was hired and successfully worked their three-month probationary period, then the employee who referred them would get a $300 bonus.
There’s been a bit of mundane and very pointless drama over us all being able to log in successfully to our corporate online courses. Finally got the proper username and password, logged in, and saw this on the very first page:
“The [proprietary B.S. corporate cutesy-name] approach consists of providing unheralded service to both internal and external customers.”
Hmm. That word. I do not think it means what you seem to think it means. Wonder how awesomecakes the rest of it will be … ?
We do get a few people in here and there from referrals. We tell the employees (at least the ones we like anyways…) to bring their friends/siblings in to apply. I guess it’s worked out well in the past.
One of the really strong applicants I wanted to bring in for an interview bombed out on the background check. Multiple drunk driving arrests. Not good when both the positions we’re looking to fill involve driving either customer cars or company cars. The big boss wouldn’t touch this guy with a ten-foot pole. Dammit…
A 27b stroke six?
The microfilm department is moving to the warehouse. This has been in the works for years. Everything is scheduled and on track (except for the leaking roof). Today, we learned that work hadn’t stopped due to the record snow storm…it stopped because Facilities hasn’t got the proper building permits. From a county office.
Its good that my plan from the start has been to point and laugh.
I hate being forgotten about when it comes to head office.
They are in a different time zone, I have a meeting in about 20 minutes which is before my starting time, but shortly after theirs. Thankfully I can work from home now (not that I often do so, but I have that option) so I need to go downstairs in a minute to log in to my computer and get set up for the webex. Of course I have a massive headache this morning too, I haven’t woken up with one in awhile. I’d rather just call in sick, roll over and go back to sleep. Blah.
A large part of my job consists of retrieving data from our data warehouse and using that data to produce daily reports. For the first few years I worked here, that all worked out pretty well. Then we started getting month-end processing delays that would delay the availability of data by a couple of hours on the first day of a new month. But for the past year, those delays have gotten longer and have now begun to occur throughout the month. Today, for instance, the last data table is more than 3 hours late. So I sit here and surf the net while waiting for my data. This problem has reported all the way to the top of the food chain, but they don’t want to spend what’s necessary to improve the process. ARGH!
Dear teammate, partner’s admin assistant: you are really irking me. I get the vibe that you think I have some kind of privileged position and are annoyed that you don’t. Though it may well be true that you are underpaid (though I don’t actually know what you make) and somewhat underappreciated, we have different jobs because a) you were hired for an admin job and I wasn’t; and b) I have 15 years of experience and 3 foreign languages on you (oh, and a master’s degree). And I have no control over your salary, or whether you are asked to cover reception or type things for other partners, etc. And lord knows I end up doing all kinds of things I have no desire to do – we all do.
So the co-worker in question is currently covering reception, and I happened to pass in front of her desk as she transferred a call for another paralegal. I had just walked by a conference room and seen that paralegal meeting with a client, so I mentioned it. Her response? “That’s not my problem – I’m not responsible for taking messages when I’m up here.” So fine, I said, I won’t bother telling you the next time – I was just trying to be helpful.
I swear, 75% of the time I talk to her, I get the feeling that she either thinks I’m an idiot because, say, I don’t know some obscure Excel function that I’ve never had to use, or she’s pissed off at me.
Tell you what: Link the meeting into this thread, and you go back to bed. We’ll take it from here.
Dear co-worker: PLEASE wear real shoes to work. Flip-flops are inappropriate. I am SO tired of hearing FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP every time you walk past my desk, which seems to be approximately 73 million times an hour.
Also, I know you’re just trying to be pleasant, but it is not necessary to holler “GOD BLESS YOU!” when somebody on the far side of the office sneezes.
That is all. For now.
Ffffffthis.
I have a SG update. This is all hearsay and gossip, I don’t know how much is true.
So, SG got a job in Sedona, on the other side of the county line. SG is old and po, so his new boss took pity on him and let him park his trailor in new boss’s yard. New Boss didn’t have a place for SG to pump out his toilet tank, so SG went to the local truck stop.
This isn’t a free service. People are supposed to pay to dump their tanks, but SG thought that his little tank wouldn’t be noticed. After SG learned that he needed to pay, he just dug a trench next to his trailor and started dumping his tank there.
SG is now living in the woods. He’s old and po and hungry, so the ladies at his delivery stops used to feed him.
For those folks who are now feeling sorry for SG…he has SSI and several retirement accounts working for him. I could live very comfortably on what he’s getting. But, of course, I don’t spend my time at casinos.