You have forgotten Clippy. I have not.
It’s possible that Word for Windows 6 did what you told it to, but if it did, it was probably the last one that did. Microsoft has a *very *long history of thinking it knows better than you do what you want to do.
How I hate it.
(The ugly week is more a reference to probably having to juggle the now necessary repairs with the job. Working in Word just adds that little touch of *special *to it all.)
Every time she makes a mistake, send her an email and cc your boss on it. If nothing else, you’ll then have proof that it isn’t YOUR mistake. And who knows, if she notices that the boss is now aware of her errors, she might start paying better attention. Nothing like a little public shaming.
(Yes, I’m feeling grumpy today.)
My boss is aware. He’s even more useless than she is, and I simply don’t have the energy to rant about him.
I just had a call with our helpdesk about an ID they were supposed to create for one of our vendors. At the start of the call I had her look at the request and tell me what the ETA was for completion. Her response - Should be done today.
After a couple of more questions and my offer to assist in getting the first step taken care of I mentioned that we had an install happening tonight and the vendor needs the ID for support. Suddenly the ETA is maybe tomorrow, probably Wednesday. The ONLY thing that changed was me expediting the first step (the team responsible for the first step is the one that wants this install to happen) and telling her it was needed. I have no words.
Wait. Your boss **knows **she’s the one screwing up, but he’s yelling at you?
There are no words. There should be, but I don’t think anyone’s been that inventive yet.
My mother was a big fan of the “Rocky” office assistant character…so much so that I went to the effort of tracking down some developer freeware that would allow her to at least play the little guy’s various animations.
A few months ago, the company had the carpets in the main part of the office cleaned. I’m pretty sure they skipped the expense of a professional crew and rented some steam cleaners for the regular cleaning staff…the end result was actually OK once all of the streaks dried. One day, one of the inspectors went to the break room for a big cup of coffee. By the time he reached the warehouse doors, the little signal that says “gee that’s hot!” had finally managed to reach his brain, resulting in the entire cup being dumped on the floor. This was followed by someone else spilling half a cup of coffee in front of the document room, then trailing the rest over to a cube (which happens to belong to someone who doesn’t drink coffee). Once again, no one thought of calling in professionals…so our valiant cleaning crew and their arsenal of assorted chemicals went to work. Over the past several weeks, they have managed to turn these areas of the carpet from dark brown stains into dark brown stains with bright bleach spots in the middle. Something they put on it last week left a slippery residue that clung to shoes, making for a potentially dangerous situation for people strolling into the warehouse. Whatever they used has also resulted in a lingering smell that has been compared to vinegar, Cerama-Bryte, and pee.
Oh, did I mention that any customer visiting the facility has to walk through this mess? :rolleyes:
We now have to write (cough cough) the manuals to be uploaded so they’re accesible from inside the program to the users from this rollout; the manuals have some sort of fancy coding so you get the ones written for your factory. The cough cough is because what we’ve done is download the latest versions and use Ctrl+H a lot.
Evidently everybody else did the same, because those are my fucking manuals… well, a horrible translation to English performed by someone whose English is on par with my Italian, but bloody hell. :rolleyes: I’m the first person to do anything other than ctrl+H.
This is the third assignment in a row where I have to stand outside in the cold in the mornings waiting for someone to let me in because the office is locked, and they provide no passkeys to temps. I don’t have a lot of complaints about the temp life, but this is pissing me off - have some temporary passkeys on hand, people. Or have my start time shifted to some time when there will be a warm body available to let me in. {Channelling the Elephant Man}I’m a human being! {/EM}
Can you put your foot down? That policy could lead to a very uncomfortable situation and actually dangerous in some cases.
I don’t think so - this is one of those cases where a temp really has no say at all.
I knew I wasn’t Valued Employee #1 or anything but this just seals it. It’s bad enough that I was ordered to fill in for the courier when he’s at school, but now I’ve been ordered to drive the piece of shit company truck.
I was allowed to drive my own car with a fuel allowance, it’s not a far drive. The regular courier usually drives his own car. But now the boss has suddenly decided I need to drive this crappy truck. The truck has serious mechanical issues caused by lack of maintenance. It’s leaking multi-colored fluids all over the garage floor. And the dashboard lights up like a Christmas tree with warning lights. Including this big red one that says “BRAKE”. That seems kind of serious to me. Brakes are spongy, you have to stand on the pedal to get the truck to stop.
I say, “I don’t want to drive the truck until the brakes are fixed!” Boss says, “There’s nothing wrong with the truck. Drive the truck. This is non-negotiable.”
I have my objections in writing along with his response. I printed out the emails and took them home with me. That’s one email I can see vanishing if something were to happen.
This job is so not worth it. I’m gonna be selling pencils on the street corner pretty soon.
Know any friends that might know a cop that can plan on intersecting with you one day to give you a fix-it ticket?
Do you have any policemen friends? Arrange with them to just happen by when you are stopped someplace alongside the road with brake problems. Have them inspect the truck, and issue some 10-day fix-it tickets on the vehicle. Then the boss will have to get it fixed (or let you use your own vehicle). Just make sure you have a good story about why you were stopped alongside the road, or he will blame you for bad driving that attracted the cops.
Yeah, what t-bonham@scc.net said.
Maybe one brake light was out (temporarily) or flashing funny…
Let me make a fake company name for this story. Let’s say the company I work for is named “Straight Dope Message Board” but everyone calls us SDMB. People write checks to SDMB, that’s what we go by.
We updated our software about a year ago. The software vendor operates a website for businesses in our field and basically we do everything through a browser logged into their site now. I know of a billion dollar company that does the same, so I assume this is a standard thing. I’m mobile all day so I don’t have a desk or a computer and I hate using my phone’s browser with their site so I have to rely on printouts, but the vendor just came out with a mobile app and I got it for my phone and tablet so I’m all high tech now.
As my boss explained how to log into the site, something seemed odd. You have to put in a username and password, then once logged in, it asks you to set up a PIN. But you can skip the PIN and just log in and access everything anyway. Hmm… The only reason they’d do that is if…
Me: “So, I guess the company just has one login that everyone uses and the PIN is just there to set up preferences and things for different users?”
Boss: “Exactly, the PIN is for you to set up your favorite views and things, but that user/pass is our only way to access the site.”
Oh, so that’s like a coveted Company Password that holds all the secrets. It protects the lifeblood of our company from the prying eyes of the internet. It’s all that stands between $10 million profit per year and total ruin. That’s gotta be a pretty secure password.
As I watched the boss type the username “SDMB” and password “SDMB123” into the text boxes I couldn’t help but exclaim, “And change the password on my luggage!”
Have you called your state labor relations board? You may be able to quit this job and still collect unemployment. While they won’t do anything about your relationship with your boss, they may be able to tell you if the harassment you are going through is grounds to quit. You might also give a call to an employment attorney. Usually they won’t charge for a consultation.
I would take pictures of the leakage on the floor and the lights on the dashboard, and send them along with the emails to the Better Business Bureau or something. The media, perhaps. Or even better, what Cheez_Whia said.
The Better Business Bureau has absolutely nothing to do with employer-employee disputes. Their stated aim is to try to resolve disputes between consumers and businesses.
OSHA, on the other hand, might be VERY interested in this problem.
