Festival supervisor, I know you’re wiped out tired but you brought this on yourself. You ignored the suggestions to train someone else to also be a supervisor, claiming that you and your buddy could handle all of the supervising. Well guess what, your buddy did something stupid and got his sorry ass canned. So now you’re the only supervisor, and you have to work seven days a week. The guy we wanted you to train is more than willing to take on extra hours, but he’s on vacation this week. And there’s no one else that knows how to do the job. Your fault, dude. You didn’t want to share the hours, so now it’s all on you. Don’t snap at me.
I think my agency has been working with their main client (one of the big consulting companies whose names everybody knows; their Spanish branch has a well-earned reputation for Paperwork Stupidity) for waaaay too long. They want me to send them some documents:
for one of them, they don’t accept the bank receipt which everybody considers valid. The one that laws say is valid. The one that, when you go to an SS Treasury office to ask for the printout saying you’ve paid their last bill, they tell you “oh, just give them the bank receipt”.
for the other one, they give me a link to an obscure branch of the national government. I do NOT deal with the national government. They, being in The Other Foral Region, should bloody well know this, because THEY, also, do NOT deal with national organizations. Them being surprised that I do not deal with national organizations is akin to a Frenchman claiming to being surprised that there’s people in Belgium who speak French. Anyway, they asked for the same shit last year, I got it from my local organization, sent it to them. I’ve pointed this out and that they’d just get the exact same document, as the local organization does not date them on the day they’re issuing a printout, they just print out the original record with the original date and these morons already have that.
Their response has been “give your name and ID to the national organization” (the one which does not even have access to my data!) “and they’ll send the records” (which ones? The Guinness Book?) “to your address of record” (the one I won’t be setting foot in again until August? Okie dokie!)
I guess I’ll just dig last year’s email and resend the attachment, but bloody Hell, I’m feeling sorely tempted to take a morning off work to go to the local offices of both SS Treasury and that other organization, get the bloody docs, send them by CoD certified snailmail - and of course bill for the morning, since the waste of time is their own bloody fault.
Have I mentioned go-live for the project is July 1st, we’re in June and I still don’t have all the data I’m supposed to load? Can I kill them now?
This is makin’ me crazy: people send me updates with this phrasing:
“Please replace this notice with the notice posted yesterday. Thanks.”
Aaaaaaaaaah!
I do some hospital volunteering and it’s still work, so I’m posting.
I work at the front desk, where we’re handed a bunch of papers with patients’ names and procedures on them. They are supposed to be put in a certain order, not that it matters that much, and then we’re told to fold over the lower right corner of each page and write an abbreviation there so as to find ultrasound, radiology, and so on. I find this cumbersome and rather sloppy, since every time you go digging for a page, those folded corners tend to loosen. I have taken to putting neon post-its on each page so I can find them and flip through them more easily.
Ah, but the senior volunteer doesn’t like it. She wants it done her way: fold, abbreviate, flip; and use a pen to make a diagonal mark through a patient’s name–which is not nearly as readable as using a yellow highlighter and marking through the name horizontally, as many of us do already.
Also, I prefer now just to look up the patient’s name on the computer so I can be sure of the date and the procedures. This makes the S.V. freak out as well. It’s a computer! It’s scary! :rolleyes:
Since the only papers collected at the end of the day are separate sheets where you log the name, procedure and time, and they dump those folded-over abbreviated papers anyway, WHAT FREAKING DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE IF I USE THE COMPUTER?
And we don’t dare tell the coordinator anything because the S.V. has thousands of hours and some of us are newbies, so I doubt that it would do any good to let it be known that we are being berated, insulted, and constantly micromanaged and nitpicked to death. No wonder nobody wants to work with the beeyatch.
Yep, I am looking for another hospital. I wanted the experience but I do not need this.
Insulting a … volunteer?!??!!! That’s eighteen thousands kinds of wrong.
Heh, I was just told that postits are not Good Documentation Practice as they can loosen and fall off when filed with papers. My response was, great, when we file them, I’ll think of something else.
(What I should have done is without breaking eye contact, reached over and grabbed the stapler and then stapled the postit to the paper. Damn, I’ll have to remember that if the situation arises again.)
Since they’re throwing these papers away at the end of the day, the presence or absence of post-its makes no difference. If they fall off, you can just use SortKwik if you need to get to a page quickly.
I still say the computer is faster, but my partner and I are two tiny voices crying in the wilderness.
Monday, there was a flood in a building that wasn’t mine. It was a broken pipe in the basement. A basement that only had a narrow 17-step stairway for access. And boxes of paper on the flipping floor!!!
I had to carry 20 boxes of wet paper up the stairs one at a time. I can’t believe how badly that wiped me out. I’m good with carrying boxes around on flat ground, but those stairs really did me in. God, I’m such a weenie 
Part of my rant is about me being so out of shape…the rest of the rant is about idiots who put boxes of paper on the floor. I keep telling people to put them on pallets or to get 2x4’s from facilities, but boxes of paper should always be at least 2 inches off the floor.
I’ll send a county wide email to remind everyone about this, but they will probably delete it without reading.
Now the wet boxes are in freezers all over the place, which makes me twitchy because I don’t have control over them. OCD much? Me?
We’re supposed to use these formats which have the titles misspelled (documents in Spanish and not a tilde in sight; caps where no cap should be). I change them. Someone pointed out “oh, you don’t need to do that!”
… “Excuse me, who is it I work for?”
“Uh? Quality, why?”
…
“OH!”
Yeah, I fucking bloody well need to change the titles. We’re Quality, we get PAID to nitpick and having every title in the document with misspellings is enough to send several of my direct customers into frothing fits.
I just used “to interface” in a sentence with my supervisor. Unironically. Somebody, please, smack me.
**purplehorseshoe **:whack::whack::whack::whack::whack::whack:
Hey, that was kinda fun. Anybody else need a good whupin’?
If only I could give my coworkers the whacks they need. I’d have to wander the halls with a riding crop.
Dammit!! We’ve spent damn near all day trying to get a new dual monitor card to install on my work PC and it still doesn’t work. Windows won’t even recognize it.
God. Dammit. Housekeeping. Department. Supervisors.
If you do not proceed to get your shit together pronto, I will be dragging your asses down to work the desk so you get to tell the 50,000 families who show up at 2:30 why we can’t check them into their rooms. You’ve been up there since 8:30. Get some goddamn rooms clean.
And you, Assistant General Manager: quit holding the executive’s hand and make her get her shit together. I don’t care if you are best work buds, she’s making your life harder as well. Don’t complain about how you keep getting interrupted during time-consuming tasks when I keep having to have you inspect the rooms the housekeeping supervisors are too flibbertigibbet to get done in a timely manner!
I think we’re up to the fifth official IMPORTANT CRITICAL CHANGE email that very specifically states that if you got the email, your ID is affected, lists the databases that will be affected and tells you what you need to do to retain your access to certain critical information on those databases. All to the same group of people, about twice a week.
People who respond asking if they’re affected and if we can tell them exactly what information is affected should be fired. Nothing less. Obviously if they’re too fucking stupid to glean that information from the email, they’re too stupid to work with sensitive information.
The people who fail to do what is needed (fill out a form) and then scream when their access is cut off should simply be killed outright. The Human race will be the better for it.
Oh, I don’t know.
I’m a volunteer in a charity shop. So are a lot of retired little old ladies. I just heard today that one of them was having a go at our (paid, lovely) manageress.
I want to go insult her now :mad:
Change the title to “workplace groping” and you’ve got yourself a thread.
I’m happy I wasn’t drinking anything just then.
The RatKing has won. I have a new off site storage place, and now have to move his 1200 boxes there. That’s not a problem, moving boxes is what I do. The problem is that all of the files have to be reboxed before moving them. While wearing gloves and dust masks and protective clothing. In July. In the middle of the flipping desert.
I’ll remember you in my prayers.
Oh dear. Be sure to update often so we know you are still alive!
I really disagree here.
This is the kind of thing that really made me upset with fellow tech workers, and their mistreatment of our internal customers.
If you know who the people are (because you sent them the email),
you know which databases will be affected (because you listed them in the email),
and you know what these people need (retain their access to critical info)
– why don’t you just do it?
Instead of nagging them to fill out your silly forms just to keep the access that they already have.
Because your department decided to change things around with these databases, your customers are supposed to take time to fill out forms for you. I always believed such changes were supposed to be ‘transparent’ to the customer – they shouldn’t even notice the change. You’re supposed to be a service department – providing services to others within the company.
I used to refer to things like this as non-productive overhead staff hassling the workers who bring in the income for the company!