Sigh. My company is in the process of selling the better half of itself to a competitor, which has a direct impact on the jobs in my department. We’re losing at least half of our workload. My department head is pretty cool and we’ve already discussed job eliminations and how they will affect us. I’m scared that I’ll get axed because, even though I’m very smart, I’m one of the most recent hire classes due to the 2 year hiring freeze they instituted right after I got hired, and tenure is something taken into account when they decide who gets a pink slip.
Why is it that every time I get an inch ahead in life, some catastrophic event pulls me back into fucking poverty? I don’t want to have to move back in with my mom again ;_;
Unfortunately for you, tenure will amost always win out over competence. Happy holidays?
As to your last question, I can only observe that the common factor is you–perhaps you could get your life declared a disaster area and have the government send you a few million dollars and a shit-ton of bottled water.
I don’t believe in god or fate but if I did I would be paranoid as fuck. I am not kidding, every single time I get a little bit of money saved up something random comes up to take it from me. There was the time my brakes went out right after I got my tax return. And then the time where I saved up enough to go Christmas shopping and my paypal was hacked, taking all of my Christmas money. Then the time I got a superfluous ticket right before I was going to buy an actual bed.
I’m pretty disgusted with life. Though I’m not willing to quit it yet.
Now I feel really guilty, because I’ve been sort of your fate-opposite: every time things in my life have gotten really terrible, some *deus ex machina *sweeps down from the wings to save me.
Dear “team member” in India: don’t request a cabling change unless you’ve updated the documentation first. We here in the States are obligated to refuse any undocumented changes, and it just makes things harder for everyone. Thanks!
Oh. My. Fucking. God. The woman who sits next to me (but part of a different department) has picked up the habit of listening to her voice messages on speakerphone. Holy fuck, that is annoying. We’re in a cube farm here, not in the comfortable privacy of your own corner office, so if you want to listen to the messages hand free, get a god damn fucking headset!!!
Oh yes, I’ve crossed that line from cranky into secret-thoughts-of-hoping-you’ll-choke-on-a-dick-and-die bitchy.
Well, yeah, but with her it’s every day. All the time. She’s always trying to get me to buy into these weird little scams to outfox or take advantage of Mr Boss Man, who is talways very generous with extra time off for us. Again - no sense of responsibility and shameless advantage-taking. Oh and lazy too.
Grapefruit, I think the solution to your problem might be your temp agency - I’ve had some good luck with calling up my contact with my agency and telling them that I’m having some difficulties with management, and letting them work things out. You could phrase it like, “I think I’m doing a really good job here, but I’m getting some mixed messages from my supervisor, that she doesn’t trust what I’m doing. Could you have a talk with her and ask her if there’s some issue I need to be addressing?” Your agency wants you to stay there and make money for them, so it’s in their interest to keep you at least marginally happy.
I’m with you on the micromanaging, too, especially once they know you and know your work and can see that you don’t need a babysitter.
One of the things my current customers are asking for and excited about is having inventories of their stocks, both for materials they need in production and for auxiliary items (machine parts, hardhats, etc.). They really really want it. Yep.
Now, the way the purchasing process works in the new system is:
The requestor opens a purchase request, stating what is needed, how much, etc - a lot of the info is filled in automatically by the system, so long as you’ve given it the info so it can pull it, what we call “master data” (the system may also create a request automatically if it detects you’re going to need the stuff based on your work orders)
Someone from Purchasing reviews the request and, after getting any authorizations involved, it’s turned into a Purchase Order and processed.
The materials or services received are entered into the system when they’re received.
The bill is entered into the system, matched to the received items, and eventually paid.
These people want to receive the stuff in the system right before paying it… which depending on the payment conditions, can be six months after the stuff was received.
It’s a computer, not your mother and not Jean effing Grey! It does not read minds, and if you want it to track your inventory you need to report what you do with it!
Their response to “if you want timely inventories, you need to report reception in a timely fashion, not several months later”? “Well, this is how we do things.”
Logic like this makes me want to ram big, sharp, slightly-rusty and preferably infected machine parts into people in creative ways
I work for a large company. Please, everyone, stop sending company-wide emails announcing that you have lost your pen somewhere on the third floor or you have six hanging file folders available to the first taker or you found a pink mitten in the parking lot.
They…buh? Why would you do that? I’ve worked in a handful of accounts payable jobs, and I can’t imagine why you would want to enter what you’ve received right before paying. I can see why it can take six months to pay, but stuff comes into the building, stuff gets received, stuff gets entered as received - why would you want to delay that? I can also see problems with delaying receiving data entry - prove to the sender that nothing happened to that order between receiving six months ago and entering it now. And good luck with going back to a sender who shipped six months ago and you want them to clear up a problem with the order now - that’s just ridiculous.
My company has actually canceled work tomorrow due to the “inclement weather”. Lovely. I had put in for vacation for the rest of this week; I don’t know if I’ll be able to get that day back or not. :mad: I would also like to know why in the fuck they didn’t cancel work a few weeks ago when the roads were solid ice. Hell, I’m not even sure I was on the road half the time; the lines were completely obscured, and the shoulder felt just as rough as the packed ice on the road itself. No one had any business driving on that.
Don’t look at me, I don’t do Finance. I suspect it’s some moron’s idea of minimizing Passives, by not acknowledging them… sort of like that other place which never acknowledged that they had made bad product, but which listed as “stored in warehouse 13” any product which did not meet specs. Some of the stuff that got dragged out of the corners of that non-existant warehouse 13 (i.e., from the corners of every actual warehouse) had been around longer than the 15 years of the most-veteran warhouse worker in the factory; all of it had to be destroyed as “dangerous”, instead of having had a chance to get reworked, sold as “filler” (to be used for purposes different from those of their in-spec version), or destroyed much more cheaply as “inert”. Thing is, much as that old product eventually rammed its way into the books, those “bills not yet received” (I think the Spanish General Ledger has a group of Accounts by that specific name) will eventually crop up - and meanwhile, your stocks are a bloody mess.
Ah ha! ‘The Carrot Principle’!!! My work had a mandatory two day seminar at a hotel with food and drinks and they gave out stuffed carrot toys.
We were assured that their breakthrough study over ten years of some boatload of people had proven that employees wanted recognition, not cash! I wanted a look at this so called ‘study’…
Like I think someone has already mentioned here, the problem is that “recognition” *doesn’t *mean “some cheap-ass piece of shit getting handed to you and everybody else in the company.” But, as usual, that’s the easiest route, which involves no real effort or engagement, so that’s the one bad management chooses.
So we’re supposed to work three days this week between Christmas and New Year’s… except that everybody except the IT guy is working remotely, the IT guy is migrating some servers and preventing everyone from working for two hours today, the online tools my team uses were rendered useless by a last-minute update right before Christmas and that programmer is on vacation till after New Years…
Hm. No, I think this isn’t actually a gripe. I can just sit here and fiddle around with my computer, at home, all day. For three days if necessary.
