hermette, flatlined story addict since 2011 
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That wasn’t GC. It was another IT guy. The IT people are above all of us lowly users and they show it every day. Currently, they get their shipments in my loading dock. Of course, they aren’t in any hurry to get their stuff out of my way, so I’ll be dodging their pallets for days or even weeks.
They will unpack the pallet, take their stuff away and leave the shrinkwrap and pallets for me to clean up. I complain to my boss, she complains to their boss and they will make a big fuss about borrowing a hand truck to move the empty pallets out where they belong.
I tossed a fit the day that they left shrink wrap on the floor less than 3 feet from the garbage can. They don’t like me much because I think that they should clean up their mess.
Now that the move is happening, they are scheduled to be out of the warehouse in December. They are moving into a new building with such luxeries as non-leaking roofs, new wireing and toilet paper holders in the restrooms. They won’t have a loading dock, so will have to unpack the pallet as soon as its unloaded from the truck and then clean up.
Currently, they are trying to migrate the TRIM data base to OnBase. I don’t know why, TRIM works and does what is needed. One of the IT folks asked me for a record number that was checked out so she could look at the audit trail. I gave her DO1230.
A month later, she emailed me with a screen shot while saying that I hadn’t given her proper permissions to do the search. The screenshot showed that she was searching on D01230. When I mentioned that to her, she got snarky because the file had been checked back in.
Latest from the world of the city census - I’m starting to get the snarky calls from people where I’ve left three notes - “Hi, I’m calling about all these notes you keep leaving at my house…” You know what would make me stop leaving notes at your house? Answer the door or call me back. You think I want to go to everbody’s house three or four times?
Oh, and the people who answer the door and tell me to come back another time - I’ve been to your house three times now - how about we just take the 30 seconds it takes to do the census and get it the fuck over with?
::Caveat about how it’s their house, their decision whether to participate or not, blah blah blah.::
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You know, instead of leaving notes over and over again, couldn’t you just leave a postcard with the 4 questions on it, so they could complete that and drop it in the mail?
In fact, that would seem like a much more efficient way to conduct this census – mail the 4 questions on reply-paid postcards to each house, and then send you out only to follow up with the ones who don’t respond. Seems like a much cheaper way to do it.
I don’t care if you snack at your desk, just tell me something. How in the hell do you keep finding foods that are liquid enough for you to slurp and still solid enough for you to chomp on?
Also, if you have to scrape a metal spoon against a styrofoam cup over and over to get the last bit of whatever the hell you’re eating, clearly you haven’t had enough to eat. Just get a second helping.
I thought that *was *what she was doing. That these were people who hadn’t responded to the mailed forms and she was following up. Or trying to, anyway.
That would be a great idea - I don’t know why we don’t do that. After visiting the house four times and leaving four notes, it’s pretty obvious that some people are opting out of participating. We’re also not allowed to use email addresses for people to respond to - I don’t know why they don’t allow that, either. There must be some kind of rules about the data collection that don’t allow for response cards or email responses.
I think they might have to change the data collection methods in the future - people are so sick of having people knocking on their doors all the time that we’re getting terrible response to the census, and the City requiring no more than a 1% No Response rate is simply unrealistic - I have 60 houses out of 445 that haven’t responded yet, and I really don’t think they are going to. I’m only allowed 4 or 5.
We have the same office partner!!! Does yours suck his teeth after eating?
I suspect it may simply be a case of “nobody has thought to update that reg and get on with current technology”. Same as it takes 9 months (nine. months.) for someone who’s moving from abroad back to Spain to have his registration back in place: that part of the current law copies a previous law which copies a previous law which… which eventually copies our first constitution, “la Pepa”, whose 200th aniversary was this past March 19th. Mail doesn’t travel by donkey and wind-powered ship any more, but try explaining that to the lawyers who write the law.
Oy… my boss uses parentheses that way. “Which (cashiers) are on the schedule for (Friday’s) game?”
Oh, I have both of you beat. At one of my jobs, we used to make hand-made signs. My boss was PARTICULARLY fond of using “LOOK” with pupils in the Os and a smile under the double Os, so it made a smiley face.
You know, I think you’re probably right. This is how they’ve always done it, so this is how we continue to do it. I think the vast amount of people canvassers are not able to contact will force them to change their methods some day (assuming everyone else in the city is having as abysmal a rate as I am).
I believe you mean ‘assuming everyone else in the city is **reporting **the abysmal response rate’. After the second or third no-response from the same address – and with a mandated percentage of responses required – it is possible some of your co-workers are considering ‘assisting’ the residents to provide a response.
Okay, it’s almost Monday morning… let’s up the ante here with some really prime Workplace Gripes this week. C’mon, you quiet types, you “Oh, what if someone found out who I was complaining about?” nellies, you “Eh, nobody cares” downers … and you LongTimeLurkers! Up to the plate!
Jeeze, that would sure speed this process up.
I’ll bite. Last Thursday, I emailed the manager in charge of scheduling. I wanted to know when time off for a certain date would be approved or denied and said that if I’m approved to take the day off, my coworker agreed to work my late shift that day, and I would work Sunday (this past weekend) for my coworker. The manager sent a reply that said, “Over the weekend. Approved.” Okay, great, so I sent a reply and cc’ed my coworker stating again that I would work on Sunday for coworker and coworker would work my late shift the day I wanted off. On Friday, the schedule for Sunday still hadn’t been updated. Coworker goes to talk to the manager and then tells me that the manager said that if an email is more than one sentence, he won’t read it. So what’s his excuse for not reading my reply, which was only one sentence?
And while we’re at it, I’m way too nice when they ask if anyone will skip their breaks to keep working or stay late. We’re paid for the overtime, but I’m exhausted and haven’t had a day off since April 1st. At least the tax deadline is almost over.
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Stop doing this to yourself. You work better with proper rest. You NEED your breaks.
My rant: The darkroom was moved into the warehouse last week. The facilities guys left the carpet on the floor. I had suggested that it be pulled out due to the spilled water and chemicals, but I was ignored. (everyone tries to be careful, but somethings spills happen.) I also pointed out the dust problems caused by carpets, but who am I?
TMAPitW freaked out about it today. Screeching and repeating herself all morning about the problem. Everytime she demanded my attention I told her that she was right, there shouldn’t be carpet in the darkroom and that I thought she should contact Facilities. Of course, that meant she complained that Facilities wouldn’t answer her calls. Loudly and over and over and over.
I understand that this is a problem. I’ve also heard her calls to Facilities. If I got those messages from someone, I’d step away and breath before returning her calls as well.
Its not my problem, so I have started doing the annual hands on inventory. It lets me hide in the stacks while designing my point and laugh tshirt.
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What the hell? Nice managerial style, there.
So if someone wanted to send him a multi-sentence email, they’d have to send it one sentence at a time? I sense opportunities to annoy here.