Ok boss, next time you want me to call around and get quotes for something you might want to tell me who not to call.
I was asked today to get quotes for some repairs, so I google the business type and start checking out websites. There’s only a few companies in town who do this particular kind of work, so I find one that looks promising and I make the call.
Me: “Hi I’m <Doc G> from XYZ company and I wanted to get a quote to get this-n-that done.”
Them: pause “Um, well I’d love to help you but I don’t think that Mr. XYZ wants to work with us…”
Me: another pause “Why not?”
Them: “Well, he sued us over a dispute on a invoice and then threw our company president out of his office when he went to you guys to try to make amends.”
Me: awkward silence “Ok, sorry to bother you, have a nice day!”
Them: “If he changed his mind about us please let us know!”
Oookay, I feel like an idiot. :smack::o I think boss-man forgets I’ve only been there a few months and I have no idea who all in this town he’s pissed at. Next time I will make sure no one is on his shit list before I pick up the phone.
Just found out today that the customer service manager has neglected to send a massive payment to one of our best vendors. :mad: When I got the invoice at the end of February, I forwarded it to him. He informed me that a) he doesn’t always check his emails, and b) he had never opened a job to address payments for this particular project. He apparently forwarded the invoice to purchasing, where it was sitting until today. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care about the problems on that side of the building, but this particular vendor is vital to engineering…we really don’t need to piss them off.
Also, someone burned something in the break room microwave that smelled like a combination of popcorn, marshmallows, and cigarettes. Eww.
How does anyone in this day and age get away with the attitude towards emails that we’ve seen more than once in this thread? They are not friggin’ optional - they are a vital method of communication in damned near every business in the developed world at this point, and I think dropping the ball with them should be a firing offence - maybe the perpetrators will shape up and start to get it at their next job.
Speaking of the attitude towards emails, my manager talked to the scheduling manager today. At first I got the impression that they thought everything was settled because the scheduling manager does it to everyone and not just me. Later, after I replied to my manager and said that it seems like the scheduling manager should read the whole email, I was assured that it wasn’t an excuse and that it shouldn’t happen again.
Minor irritation from tonight. A customer got right through with no wait when she called, asked her question, and then immediately started eating something very crunchy until the call was finished four minutes later. Couldn’t she eat before she called or wait until she was off the phone?
MLS, Please do be sure that we are all waiting for the update. We really want to hear about the phone call from boss when you don’t show up next week because you don’t have a schedule or replacement. I’ll make the popcorn
The intern I mentioned above didn’t want anyone to know that he fainted. He said he had a phobia about snakes and saw one when he opened the door. I don’t think he did, there are no lights in the Lair. There aren’t any health risks from smelling stinky rat pee, decomposing rat bodies, snake pee or rotting paper. I covered my feet with duct tape so I wouldn’t track the stench into the van and back to my warehouse.
I got the boxes back today. I knew I would see them again. I can’t legally give files away. My plan now is to soak the corrupted files in water and then freeze them. I don’t want Don to get away with abusing more children and from what I’ve learned, slime like him continue to abuse until they go away for a long time or die. The files in 2 of the boxes looked intact, so the damage is only to the cardboard.
I don’t have any way to copy the VHS tapes, or those tiny audio tape recordings. There is nothing I can do about that, so I emailed the County Attorney’s office and told them that its THEIR responsibility to be sure that they have a way to read/copy their media.
I’ve been complaining about this for years. I have boxes full of big reels of magnetic tape for murder cases. Murder cases must be kept forever, but nobody can access the data anymore. Nobody has a comp able to read floppy discs anymore, but I have them as well.
Oh well, I’m quitting. I had to laugh at my boss today. She has no situational awareness. She is the sort of person who will park her car during the day and then wonder how her purse got grabbed when she was walking in the dark. (yes, that did happen a couple of years ago…she was also parked in a very bad area.) Today, she noticed my shiny new ring. She wondered who gave it to me (not thinking that it was the man in a different state who sends me treats and who I took a month off to nurse back to health).
At first she was all congrats and such a pretty ring and all, but then it sunk in that I would be moving to live with him. Out of state. So I would be leaving her to deal with all of this stuff. Betrayed outrage happened. It was hard to not laugh in her face.
So I got a first look at possible class schedules for the summer and intersession.
WHAT THE FRACK?
Any classes I might want for my Bachelor program flat out do not exist for intersession. For my last quarter Associates classes, the requireds are there, but half the choices for the optional classes are vaporware.
Alright! I think the boss’s attitude would have me already saying, “Well, fine, you get nothing then. Enjoy!” but I am aware that there are people in the world who are more patient and kind than I am.
This whole thing bothers my office worker/record maker/user soul - records aren’t any good if you can’t access them in the future (which you and I know, but your bosses don’t seem to care about). To be so cavalier about records for criminals - whoo. That’s a special kind of incompetence.
I have a tiny rant - I’ve been reading the emails and reports and such from a woman who was my supervisor’s predecessor, and it sounds like she was a MAJOR piece of work - the problem is, it isn’t my business to ask anyone what the story was with her (she doesn’t work here any longer), so I will probably never know all the juicy details of what kind of raving bitch she was. Sigh.
Stupid people in my town, stop walking up to me every day asking for applications. We don’t have any because we’re not hiring. Don’t then follow up with “can I have one anyway.” We. Are. Not. Hiring. I am allowed to be hateful to you and I will be.
Stupid people who walk in with folders full of resumes, do not ask if you can drop off a resume. No. We’re not accepting applications or resumes. Don’t then give me a look like I’m deliberately stonewalling you. You haven’t seen me stonewall yet. If you’d like, just go ahead and give me your resume so I can stuff it in the shredder in front of you.
In closing, if you’re job hunting, it’s not in your best interests to stomp off in a huff when you run across a place that isn’t hiring. You will be remembered when we are hiring and your application will probably end up in File 13.
Clueless George really doesn’t know how to discuss things or even argue them. He brought up the Trayvon/Zimmerman thing. Now I think the man should be convicted of Manslaughter, for a variety of reasons I won’t argue here, even though I am an ardent supporter of Gun Rights. Clueless George thinks there’s no way he’ll be convicted (and I won’t go into his arguments either).
After we’d already been over this ground several times;
CG: He can’t be convicted because blah blah blah…
Me: I’m not going to argue this with you any more.
CG: (repeat exactly the same thing)
Me: (shrug and smile)
CG: (repeat exactly the same thing)
Me: Whatever, I’m not going to argue this with you any longer. :mad:
CG: (repeat exactly the same thing)
Me: (somewhat harshly) OK, you’ve made your point. (turns away and starts working again)
Honestly, there is a point at which you have to realize that the other person disagrees with you and you can either attempt new avenues of logic and debate, or (as I would prefer on many subjects), you just let it go and realize that they disagree with you and they’re allowed to do so.
Repeating the same fucking thing over and over is not arguing, it is not persuading, it is not debate. Even if you try to reword it slightly. If, for the slightest second, you ever come to believe that it works, you’re a dumbass. It only appears to work because the people are agreeing with you only to shut you the fuck up because you’re obliviously bulldozing all the social clues they’re throwing out.
Even though I am not employed now, this happened very often at the vet clinic I used to work at…
Yes, we have an ad in the newspaper. We are accepting applications. Yes, you may leave your resume - attached to an application. If you do not fill out the application, your resume will never see the office manager, per her instructions. Ability to follow instructions and handwriting are things she looks at in addition to the information you fill in the blanks.
I realize unemployment requires you to submit job applications. If you walk in to our clinic wearing a tube top and daisy dukes, towing your 3 kids, this will be noted on your application. If the unemployment office calls us to see if you submitted an application, we will tell them.
Even if you are not on unemployment, there is proper attire for job hunting. Clean jeans and a decent shirt are ok for applying for a job cleaning kennels. Hooker attire is not.
We are a busy office. If we are taking applications, it means we are short staffed in some part of the clinic. You may have to wait a minute while we wait on the paying customers before we can get to you. If you are rude to us, it will be noted on your application. Our office manager likes nice people.
Didn’t bring a pen? Oh, my, you’re prepared. Yes, you can borrow one of ours. If you walk out with it don’t delude yourself that you have a chance of being hired. Our vet requires us to write on the charts in black ink only. 99.5% of giveaway pens are blue ink. We guard our pens and we will notice.
Exactly what is the age cut-off where you lose the ability to notice the people behind you in the checkout line? And you simply MUST find those six pennies in the bottom of your purse…
I was behind a lady last week who just had to come up with $8.86 exactly. I could see a ten in her wallet, but she was digging and digging (with commentary: “Now, is this… no… I know I have it somewhere…”). I almost pulled out a ten myself and paid for her groceries.
My husband only writes on work documents in colored (usually blue) pen…because about 99.999% might need to be copied, and it’s important to know which is the original and which is the copy.
Further update – Boss Man told me yesterday afternoon that he has a potential candidate for my job who actually has experience in our industry, and thus will not need much, if any, training from me. So now it’s changed from “How long will you stay?” and “We need you to work 6 hours per day 5 days per week,” to “So, what’s the minimum amount of time you will stay?” WTF? I already told you I want to retire at the end of the month (which is this coming Monday if you hadn’t noticed). I don’t know if he’s actutally made the person an offer, or what. Nothing mentioned so far today. I am starting to take home personal items in preparation. If I were the type of person to do that sort of thing I’d start stealing office supplies, too. But I won’t.
Not really - he does that because lab results are written in red. He doesn’t want a lot of different colors on the charts; he wants the lab resuts to be easy to find when he’s looking for them.
He buys the pens. It was a pain in the butt sometimes because all the free pens the drug reps showered on us were blue ink, but he was the boss and as long as he signed my paycheck I did what he asked. One of the best jobs I ever had..profit sharing, lavish Christmas party, paid vacation and holidays - and if your car broke down he’d loan you the money to get it repaired (at no interest) if you needed it.
An update on my retirement – actually turned out good for all concerned, so no rant here.
They did find a replacement with previous experience in the industry, so he’ll need some training in our small-office ways, but not the basics of the process. He’s going to start in 2 weeks, work with me for 3 days, then go on a previously-scheduled trip. I will fill in for those 2 days and then I’m outahere! But have agreed to substitute as needed and appropriate if they provide a suitable daily rate.
