If it’s something that is legally required for a job here, then maybe it’s time to have your boss send an email to the HR’s boss, escalating the problem. Saying something like:
Thanks for the support, guys! I’ve already sent out a politely worded “What the fuck, do I really I have to ask for this three times?” email, and I was debating whether to include my counselor (who is more senior than my boss, and also deals more with this side of things) on it, but in the end decided not to. It’s not that close to the mission-critical deadline yet, because I planned things in advance, but it’s still incredibly annoying. I also don’t want to get their backs up by escalating too far too soon. If I don’t get a response to this email *today *with a promise to sort it out post-haste, then yes, it gets escalated immediately.
Minor, minor, minor rant…but OCD girl and I went to the RatKing’s lair again this morning. OCD girl had to wipe down the steering wheel before we left the warehouse and then again after we left the lair. She has been the only one driving, its only her germs she is touching. My cell is charging as I type. I cannot watch her check the locks 3 times without wanting to say something snarky, so I use cell phone therapy (mostly lurking on the Dope)
She’s a nice person and a good worker. She gets embarrassed about her OCD when she realizes that she is acting out again.
I used to wish there was power in the Lair, just so I could plug a fan or 2 in. Now I need it to charge my cell.
Cheap ass county vehicle doesn’t have any power ports.
While we are reboxing files (and spraying the heck out of them with lysol), we entertain ourselves by taking pics of the rat chewed files and the boxes that have stored up seeds and/or poop. We used to take pics of one single poop, but we’ve gotten jaded. Now it takes something like the box we opened today. There was a dried rat pup and about a quart of gathered seeds and poop.
OCD girl needs a NASA suit, my veskimo is good for me, she is dealing with her phobias as well.
Post it! Post it!
C’mon, you know your want to.
Today I found out that the boss had the air conditioning turned off for the whole admin area because she thinks it’s too cold in her office. Way to keep the troops happy!
So you got the Veskimo. How’s it working out for you?
I have the opposite issue. Boss’s office is always the warmest place in the building, so he cranks down the air until he’s comfortable. Meanwhile, the rest of us can see our breath and I find icebergs in my coffee.
When he leaves for lunch the office manager sneaks in and turns the air back up to a more tolerable level. He usually doesn’t notice until the next day.
If she does, I am so NOT clicking that link!
So far, I haven’t haven’t bothered to find a free place for pic sharing for cats. I haven’t done it to share pics of my bike. Oddly enough, the idea of sharing pics of rat poop and chewed files is motivating me.
GREAT!!! Thank you so much for the link. I love that thing. It gets a little too cold when I’m just wearing it over a shirt, so I cut the arms off an old sweatshirt and wear that over my shirt and the Veskimo goes over that and under XXL paper coveralls.
I will NOT be posting pics of me garbed to deal with the RatKing! With the hump on my back, and my sparkly hat over the gas mask, I’m so hawt that I’d probably start a new fashion craze if I posted those on the internet.
I have to confess that they aren’t as dramatic as I’ve made them sound. We thought the dried up rat pup was a piece of wood and wondered why any self respecting rat would want it. We had to take it out into the sun to see what really was.
What? Of course we had to figure out what it was! This is the most unpleasant job I’ve ever had to do, we will take any opportunity for distraction and use it to the fullest.
Sorry for the double post…but this really is a worthy work place rant.
One of the people who lives across the alley from the warehouse saw me this morning and started complaining about the weeds. Her complaint was mostly about a plant that looked like grapes and climbed up the fences and pulled them down.
OK, I can see why she would be worried, and she is a nice little old lady, so I put in a work order for facilities to come and clean up.
She is a nice lady, and I knew that facilities wouldn’t pull the vines off the fence, so I did it.
The emails are flying. I’m a Records Management person, not a Facilities person, I shouldn’t be pulling weeds. I’m a good County Employee who knows that its important to make the taxpayer happy, so it was very appropriate that I pulled the weeds. HR wants to know if I had done the weed pulling while on County time or personal time. I did it on my 15 minute morning break…so is that personal time or County time.
I’m pretty used to the bullshit that happens here…but this is over the top.
I love my job. I have a great boss and I get to work on projects that interest me.
They’re reorganizing our division.
Things are going to change.
It’s scary.
Bass Chick, you’ll have plenty of company and sympathy here when it hits the fan. Rant away!
The boss has been out of the office most of this week. Everyone is so relaxed and the office is kept at a reasonable temperature. It’s been great! He’ll be back tomorrow. I’m not supposed to know, he wants to sneak in and see if he can bust anyone for goofing off on a Friday. But the office manager let it slip to me today that he’ll be in sometime around 4 tomorrow. Jesus boss, it won’t kill you to be out of the office for the whole day on a Friday, I promise we won’t burn the place down.
Email to our team: “You will help so-and-so with (thing we don’t support) ASAP”
Now granted, we get something similar on a daily basis and our response is just to CC the people who do support X and ask them if they can help. But today it was just an order from someone who has no authority to order us to do jack shit.
Yeah, about that. You’ll need to contact the people responsible for doing what your person is trying to do and shouldn’t be. Good Luck With That.
On the other hand, I never cease to be entertained by DBAs and developers who decide that they’re going to make all sorts of changes to the database and people’s permissions, then finally get around to copying us on the changes. So then we copy the DATA OWNER on the changes. You know, the people who are personally responsible for the data, the corporate risks, and all that stuff? The people you never bothered to consult before “deciding” on what changes you were going to make?
I love it when they get involved. The emails are a thing of beauty.
And really, you’d think after the cosmic level beatdown one developer manager got last month for making an end run around the data owners and instituting changes without their permission, these folks would understand that the first people they should be involving in any discussion of changes are the data owners.
And yet, today we get another “here’s a summary of the changes we are making” email followed by an epic level “Excuse me, but we do not approve this” beatdown from the people who really matter here.
Chimera, I love those emails too - I get them cc’d to me from my boss to the other people I support when they try these end runs around OUR processes. I actually giggled today at the latest one! Kinda made for a nice day.
How much will it cost to get my address added to the distribution lists for these exchanges?
I’m serious here. Talking top shelf private reserve scotch.
ETA:
That offer is good for you too.
Once again, you prove you’re one of us.
Hmmm… Tempting. As me again in a year when I’m toward the end of my contract. 
Ditto except instead of reorganizing our division, they have sold the company.
I am so comfy here…
Hmmm - if it involved Patron and/or Jaegermeister I might be tempted to do some editing out of identifying information!
Ah yes, another “I don’t have access to this sensitive data. Can you just run a report for me and put it into a workspace where I (and pretty much anyone else) can get at it? It would take too long for me to request access to it and get cleared.” request.
That would be a NO.