How are you feeling? Is it all a big feeling of happiness? The weeks after I left the worse job ever, I felt such a feeling of bliss.
I’m not going to keep that boss if he doesn’t change. Bill was very surprised at his behavior, so maybe I was just so knock down dead beautiful that he lost his mind. Or maybe he was having an allergic reaction to the cat fur that somehow managed to get on the inside of my jacket. Suit jacket that was hanging in a closed closet, over my skirt. How do they do that?
The public library is hiring, and there is an opening for a Tech Services person. That is like the dream job for a bibliophile like me. You get to open the boxes of new books…the scent of new ink fills your nose with promise of unexplored delights…you get to handle the new books, stroke their covers, feel the flex of their spines under your hands…
We’re having a blizzard (such as it is) here in Indianapolis. When I started hearing about such possibilities, I sent an email yesterday to our CEO and my direct manager with a proposal for how to handle support remotely rather than needing to come into the office. (I work on a web-based application, so support really CAN be done remotely.) Nothing, but it was Christmas.
This morning, I sent out another email, including with a suggested alert notice for our customers to the CEO and my manager. I sent this at 6:38 AM. Nothing. Finally, I sent another email (to the whole company) stating that we WERE working from home, and this is how we intend to manage issues. Nothing.
Finally, at 7:23 I get a response from the CEO to my first message this morning, approving my notice text (with a minor modification). I still have not heard a word from my direct manager. No email, no text, no nothing.
I love my company, but unless I can manage to pin down my manager in person, he hardly ever responds to anything, leaving me feeling like I have no management at all. Of course, I’ve been with the company longer than he has, so maybe that makes a difference.
Either way, I don’t do blizzards. Forgiveness rather than permission, and all that.
Indyellen, my husband is a contractor who works downtown. He was at work bright and shiny at 7 AM because he’s hardware support and can’t do his job remotely. We’re hoping he’ll be sent home early. Technically, his “boss” is in Connecticut, so we have no idea how authorization for leaving early will be handled.
Avarie547, I am grateful that I have the capability of working from home (the joy of software support vs. hardware support), but I just wish there was some actual leadership once in a while. I hope your husband gets home ok. It’s getting ugly out there.
Yup. Be an ‘empowered’ employee. In the absence of the manager, make the decisions that need to be made. If it comes down to it, discuss availability and response issues with your manager and state that, in order to keep operations flowing, in the absence of a response you will proceed with your best decision. State this without acrimony, blame or negativity, but as a positive personal leadership position.
Oh yeah. I had the advantage at my last job that I was off the phones for a month before I left. But I tells ya, when I put in my notice and realized that I would never take another call, the bliss filled me up. When I walked out of there for the last time, it was awesome.
Then there’s the “wake up the first time to go back to work and realize that you’re going to a different job this time and not back to that hellhole” feeling.
I’m feeling pretty good right now. Thanks for asking! Going to bed last night knowing I didn’t have to get up and go back to that hellhole was nice.
My family has been supportive too, I was worried I’d get a whole lot of “WHAT? ARE YOU NUTS?” when they found out. But everyone has been great. My aunts were really excited to hear I’m going back to school. My boyfriend’s parents were hilarious. They were happy to hear I won’t have to miss the next family trip because I couldn’t get off of work.
I found a job opening that sounds right up my alley at a place a good friend of boyfriend and mine works for. He said he’d make sure my resume got handed directly to the right person. fingers crossed
OOooooohhhh yeah. This was nearly 30 years ago now, but I had a job that was truly awful, with a manager who’d managed to drive away most of his team already. Tons of unpaid overtime (we were exempt employees, so pay was not expected… but there’s unpaid overtime and then there’s abuse). I started interviewing, and the day I was offered a new job, I went home, sat down, and burst into hysterical sobbing - scaring my poor husband.
I gave 2 weeks notice, and still worked tons of hours trying to get stuff done. One of those two weekends happened to be Labor Day. I worked 10 hours Saturday, and 6-7 on Sunday.
Some kind of production job bombed on Monday - and the on-site staff had the wrong phone number for me (not my fault) so when they couldn’t reach me, they called the boss… who told them entirely the wrong thing to do.
I’d barely sat down at my desk Tuesday when the boss shows up, and starts chewing me out for not being at work the day before without even letting me know what the issue was. I was too dumbfounded to tell him to go fuck himself, and then walk out myself. I still regret that.
Heh. I still tell stories (and proudly told it here on this job only about a month ago!) about my worst manager, about 20 years ago.
3:30pm on my last day. I’ve cleaned off my desk, taken everything home the day before, handed off all projects, my logins have even been disabled. I have nothing to do or that I can do. So I’m sitting at my desk, feet up, reading the paper.
Asshole comes by and starts screaming at me. “WE’RE NOT PAYING YOU TO READ THE NEWSPAPER!”
I’ve been trying to get serious about finding another job for the last couple of months. I’m not unhappy where I am, but things are not looking good for the company. My current boss bought retail websites and computers from the previous owners (my previous bosses), who were divorcing acrimoniously. Sales are not where they need to be to cover expenses, but we have been in a warehouse with office space that is owned by my boss for about the last year, and at this time I am the only employee who is actually receiving a paycheck. Much of the work process has been automated, and Boss has a son who boomeranged back home earlier this year, so he has been working there with his dad in exchange for room and board at home. I’m OK with finances at home; hubby and I can make our bills, but there is no real room left for anything extra. I’ve been trying to work on my resume, but it’s making me crazy. I’m trying to take it a little at a time and I am making progress. I just need to vent a little. Thanks for listening.
I swear to God and Sonny Jesus, I am going to dropkick both Detailed AGM and Night Audit Lady. I thought I was off this past Sunday. I was not. I didn’t find out about this until 9 a.m. this morning when GM said, “What happened to you on Sunday?”
“Um, nothing. I was home cleaning.”
“You were on the schedule.”
“::incoherent squeak:: I was?” checks schedule “Nobody called me!”
“I think they thought you were already in Moravianville.”
“No. I didn’t leave until Monday afternoon!”
So I fume until noon when Squirrel AGM comes in. “Why did no one call me on Sunday?” I asked.
“I don’t know. By the time I got here (at 2 p.m.) it was already too late to call you.”
So I got written up for missing a day. Fortunately it was recorded as an unexcused absence rather than a no-call no-show because it was the only time this year I’ve messed anything up badly enough to be written up for it and, as Squirrel AGM said, “Someone really should have called you.”
YES THEY SHOULD HAVE. Even if they thought I was out of town, no one knew I was not out of town because no one called me. Both Night Audit Lady and Detailed AGM have my number on their cell phones. My phone does receive calls and is rarely more than 15 feet from me. My work ringtone is one of the “Oh god, answer it now” variety. I would have come in had someone called me.
I will be giving demonstrations on how my phone will receive phone calls from the main work phone on Friday and Saturday mornings. Free admission. Possible Language use depending on how many people are within earshot of the desk.
I did misread my schedule. It was up for a week and it never occurred to me that there was something written in the Sunday slot of my part of it. Still, someone should have called yes.
When you fill out your part of the write up, make sure you mention that no one had called, and that you would have shown up if you had been called.
IMO you shouldn’t have a write up anyway, especially if this is an isolated one time thing.
It’s cold here. Freaking cold out, like I’d rather huddle at home cold. I know there are colder places but I’m not a fan of the cold and this is where I am.
Guess what? The furnace at work is broken! I’m so cold, and since I tend to cold anyway when it drops below zero, I don’t even notice until someone else pointed out it was kinda colder than usual in the office. I thought I was just my usual freezing in the morning self, at least until my fingers started to stiffen up.
Joy. I hope they fix it soon.
Also, I have a pile of things to do. Boss is away, so guess what? People come visit me! On lunch, on their coffee break. I am polite but I turn back to my work as soon as possible, I’m an introvert, currently denuded with work and grumpy because I’d rather be at home. Go away, don’t bother me! Especially on my lunch break when I’m trying to enjoy my new book I got for Christmas.
And now that they have gone away, guess what? The program has slowed to a crawl so now it’s painful to even try to work!
