Between this and extra cash I’d say it’s worth a try!
overlyverbose, I have taken jobs because of the money and it has never worked out. If you like where you are now, please think long and hard before you jump back into the crazy. What does your gut say when you can shut your brain off and listen?
Yes, but a situation different from yours so I’m not too sure how much my story will help. It was a family business which I left because I couldn’t stand working with/for my stepmother anymore. I bought out a competitor who was in bad straits, tried to make that work for about 18 months, then sold it to some investor, taking quite a loss on it.
When that was over, I returned back to the parents company and left again about 2-3 years later after my father passed away. He left everything to my stepmother, so that was pretty much that. The company is seriously struggling now, mostly due to my stepmother, some of it market forces that she couldn’t help… but mostly my stepmother.
The umbrella thing is weirding me out. Is there a hive mentality among people like this?
If I thought it would sink in I’d spend the rest of the week complaining about how my feet and back hurt. In between whine sessions I’d ask if the Great Prespender likes my four-inch stilettos. Yeah, they’re a size and a half too small, but aren’t they cute?
She’d totally miss the point, though.
Oh geeze. Jane must have a Tardis. She wears high heels in the warehouse. Very cute shoes, but not very safe when she’s climbing ladders. Every morning, she complains about how she was using muscles that she didn’t know she had because she moved 7 boxes the day before.
When I notice her shoes, I make her change to the sneakers she keeps under her desk. She changes back into her heels when she goes to lunch and then “forgets” to change back.
I’m sorry if she is mine. If she’s yours, keep her.
Nothing terrible, just something to share.
Yesterday I had a meeting with several people to show them some of the “new” features of the system. The features already exist, thank you much, but hadn’t previously been used. There was one guy, Rock, who didn’t ask “can it do this?”: he kept saying “but it can’t do this!” and I’d show that yes, it can, here, click click click… then “but it can’t do that!” “yes it can, here…” and waving these forms under my nose but without handing them over (his boss finally put a hand on Rock’s shoulder, grabbed the forms and passed them over so I could have a look). There was a particular function he asked for so many times that the last two times it was his coworkers and boss who said “yes it can, she’s showed it! It’s under [button]”
Apparently he does the same everywhere. Coworkers asked me “how did it go?” and as soon as I said “ok 'cept for this guy who kept saying ‘but it can’t do this!’” they’d ask “ah, you had Rock?”
Let’s hope I don’t meet Mr Hardplace any time soon.
Somebody, somebody in my suite was whistling “Jingle Bells” incessantly when I walked in. I now have 1) an earworm that just won’t quit, and 2) murderous rage.
Seriously? “Jingle Bells” in mid-May? WTF?
I hate you, whoever you were.
I’m getting really fucking sick of having my hands slapped for not following procedure.
What’s the fucking procedure? How am I supposed to know? I have nowhere to look it up, I’m doing it by guessing and asking and being asked why the fuck don’t I know the procedure and told it needs to be done this way with the implication that I’m an idiot for not knowing.
I know we are the ass end of nowhere in this company and come last in all things but I’m tired of it. Today I got shit for not doing something yet when I was trying to get all the information so they could do their work because last time I got shit for doing it without having all the info to give them. Make up your fucking mind!
I’m wondering if I should have stayed where I was, or should start looking for something with less going on. Everytime I feel like I’m on the right path I get told I’m in the weeds. sighs
If I hear or see the words “multicultural” or “diversity” around my campus, or anywhere else in academia, or anywhere else at all, I will scream.
That sounds like an excellent plan.
On academic campuses in Freedonia, it is a tradition to yell as loud as possible when frustrated. They call it “summoning one’s banshee ancestors.” It is especially common when the inhabitants find themselves overwhelmed by the seemingly incessant changes imposed from the outside upon their culture. Using this verbal outlet is far preferable to imperial violence. We have much to learn from them.
Well, if I see the font Papyrus used on my campus, I will go into full Freedonia Banshee Mode.
(I’d ask how you did that, but then I’d be tempted to retaliate with a paragraph of Rosewood or Hobo)
Not much of a rant, but:
it amuses me to get an out-of-office response from someone who emailed me that same day. Bitch, you’re lying - I know you’re there!
Two minutes later, I’ll get a “thank you!” to my confirmation that I’ve done X for them.
It could be worse. It could be Blackadder ITC
Comic Sans for teh lulz!!!
And so began the fall of civilization, the font wars, bringing chaos to all!
My web browser is rendering it as Times New Roman, so nyah! 
Blackberry? I’m out of the office right now so people get my auto reply. However, if something comes up that can be easily responded to, or needs to be dealt with, I’ll reply on my BB. Doesn’t mean I’m ‘in the office’.
I do the same thing.
See if you have any exchange employees from Australia where you work. I understand they have Christmas in the summer…