Nah, yesterday she was doing the same to everybody. She doesn’t seem particularly stupid in other regards, but the “people need exactly what they asked for” part of her brain seems to go offline whenever she spends time with her children, and she’s worked from home the last two weeks, plus she always has trouble understanding exactly which parts of her job link to other people’s (I don’t give a shit about purchase requests, just purchase orders; the finance guy doesn’t give a shit about offers, just contracts and invoices). We’re not 5 and 7 years old, when we ask for a number we need the fucking number, not a promise that there will be candy after dinner 
Why does my company simply assume company employers are pathetic, unemployed losers who would jump at the chance to work on Thanksgiving without holiday pay? Is this what you guys really think of us?
That email was not an offer of extra work. That email was a base insult. Kindly print it out and shred it. Then coat all your orifices with tar, mix up the email with feathers from a rotting chicken and roll around it in.
Grey’s Law is also handy in certain situations.
Awesome, Kolga. Between Grey’s Law and Hanlon’s Razor, I have about 90% of personal interactions explained.
There are still hotels that allow smoking in rooms? Color me surprised, because I haven’t seen a hotel like that in at least four years now. That being said, although I am a smoker, smoking rooms are gross. I smoke outside.
And yes, anyone who is dumb enough to book a smoking room should know it’s going to smell horrible.
Suck it up everyone! I have TWO working days left. My replacement came to work on Tuesday and didn’t show up today. My boss spent the day trying to convice me to work 2 more weeks. Thats so not happening.
I love not giving a shit anymore.
OK, that was rude. I’m sorry. I didn’t know how much I really hated my job until I had another option.
Einstein covered the other 10%.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. "
Quote from someone who I ordered something from for work when I asked how long/when I can expect them.
“We’ll advise you when you can retrieve them.”
Gee thanks! I should hope you will advise me when I can retrieve them, my psychic abilities always seemed to be broken at work to knowing when exactly is the correct time to go pick something up. Now approximately when can I get my GD hard drives you slack-jawed buffoon. Don’t make me call my boss down on you. Please, I actually hate talking to her about this sort of thing really. You won’t like her when she’s angry.
I don’t understand this.
Hey, you gotta leave some room for the Peter Principle, too, especially when talking about workplaces!
I think people should get holiday pay if asked to work on holidays. One of my employers does not. Said organization can go fuck itself. I think it’s evil to ask us to work on a national holiday without extra compensation so I have ignored both their email and my temptation to tell them exactly what I think of their assholishness. Today one of the supervisors at the organization yelped at me because I took a five minute bathroom break. Apparently their ideal employee is a docile preschooler with four years of job experience and a master’s degree.
And a catheter, apparently.
I once had a boss tell me that I peed too much during my 6 month evaluation.
She also had a staff meeting to tell us all that we shouldn’t fill our waterbottles an hour before leaving work because it cost the company so much money to buy water for 12 employees. There was some mention of drinking too much water at work was bad because it cut production. All of the walking to the water cooler and then peeing was bad.
That was one of my 7 month jobs.
Ah, I see. Yeah, working on stat holidays should get you at least double time - if you get paid regular time to stay at home and scratch yourself, I think it should be double time to come in and actually work (in between scratching yourself).
I’ve worked many a temp job, and there were many jobs where the only breaks I got were pee breaks, so I drank A LOT of water on those ones. 
That made me laugh.
I had a boss tell me the same thing once. But she was just mad at hiring someone two months pregnant. I was tempted to tell her that’s what you get when you put up an ad on monster with four pages of qualifications and a 32k salary.
While many of the rotating list of supervisors at this particular employer are quite nice, I apparently ran into the one who thinks I should take the laptop into the bathroom with me. Oh and the phone. She was irked earlier because it took four rings for me to rush out and answer her.
I’m working from home today and Grandboss has been a pain in the ass all week, he’s totally pissy. For example, there is a task I have been trying to do for two months and which isn’t done yet.
Why isn’t it done yet?
Because I lack proper authorization.
Who is supposed to get me proper authorization?
I’ll give you esteemed Dopers a single guess.
He’s been asking “this isn’t done! Why not? JUSTIFY THIS!” all. Week. Dude, you’re too young for Alzheimer’s!
Today, every time someone sends any email, Boss is calling me as soon as he gets it, to verify whether I’ve received it. So far, all the mails from Grandboss fall in the “have you actually looked at the data in that screenshot?” bin - “why is this order not closed?” Uh, because they’re supposed to start work on it next week, d’uuuuhhhh…
We had a potluck yesterday, and I ate something that didn’t agree with me. Somehow it seemed very appropriate to spend my last afternoon on the job in the restroom. Now I’m unemployeed and it feels very strange.
I’ve wrapped things up with my second job as well and that makes me sad.
I have really enjoyed my stay in this thread and will continue to follow it.
Dr G, I’m so sorry that this job has turned out so bad. I remember how happy you were to leave your last one. I hope your next job is better. You are still looking for a new job, right?
Wait, this terrible job is the new one? I thought it was still the old, terrible one! Well, that truly sucks. I hope you can get a new, good job too, Dr. Girlfriend.
Thanks Cat Whisperer and flatlined. This is the new job, I’m coming up on my one-year anniversary. Which apparently is about as long as anyone has ever lasted in my position because of how awful the boss is.
The painting issue I mentioned upthread was still not done as of Friday. I have to drive across town again Monday to see if it’s done. If it’s not I may just keep driving. No way I can face going back to the office and having to tell the boss it’s not done.
I am still looking for something else, but there’s not a lot out there where I’m at. If I was a nurse or a truck driver I’d have it made.
I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep in a couple weeks now because the worry keeps me awake.
I can’t.
I just can’t. Boss tells me I do good work, but I keep mucking up and one of these days it’s going to be something that just can’t be overlooked, even though I learn from my mistakes I always seem to find another way to mess up. I don’t know if it’s my subconscious screwing me over or if I can’t really do this. It adds stress to her and it adds stress to me, and it’s just a fucking ball of stress that I am realizing I just can’t deal with.
After spending the last three days crying and dealing with homework for a course so I can get my degree and do better work (the homework is due Wednesday and still not done FYI) I’ve realized I just can’t.
This isn’t for me. I’ve been trying to get here because I thought yay, steady job, salary, and I’ve realized I’m just stressed, I get headaches more and I should have just stayed in logistics. I enjoyed it, it was stressful in other ways but not like this and I could deal and go home and not think or worry about it.
There’s other stuff too but that’s just the sum of it. I know the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, but I can’t keep crying like this, I can’t keep up with feeling nauseous that I fucked up yet again. I was going to call the help line thing but I just realized I forgot the number at home.
Boss will be in soon, maybe I can talk with her and figure out my next step here.
I once had a sales manager that was a serious micromanager…and I wasn’t even an employee, I was an independent contractor that worked on 100% commission.
So once, in a social situation and in front of a whole bunch of my collegues, she started telling me that I she was getting complaints from customers that had trouble reaching me.
There was just one complaint and I knew about it. One day a customer had called me, got voicemail, left a message and immediately called her. He was actually trying to pull off something sneaky and thought the rush would work in his favor, and he was actually hoping to talk to her instead of me since he knew she was stupid and easily tricked.
So I said
" I know that Paul complained to you that time he HAD to talk to me and he claimed his plane was boarding, have you gotten other complaints?"
“no”
“You do realize that they day Paul called I called him back 10 MINUTES after receiving his voicemail — in fact I believe he was on the line with you when I called him back, right”
“well, yes”
" Well, Cindy, I’m really sorry that I took 10 minutes to call him back that day but I was in the bathroom changing my tampon and my period was really heavy. I got blood on my hands and some of it got on my clothes and I wasn’t really in a position to get up off the toilet and run for the phone, and I had to clean up and change my underwear before I called him back". But since you seem to feel it is you business, you will be happy to know that I am now using a different brand of tampon that is a lot less leaky and I can assure you this won’t happen again".
I must say that shut her up.