Dammit. I get a lead on an interesting sounding job, and now I’m pretty sure it’s a scam. They’re not asking me to cash checks and wire the money to another country or anything, but it just doesn’t sound right. I have no address or phone number for the company, and a Google search on the one name I do have comes up with bupkis. Big time alarm bells going off in my head.
I’ve only been unemployed for a week now and I’m already going stir crazy. Good thing I start school next month.
I might be getting screwed over with my vacation time. We’re not allowed to carry over any balances, so I made sure to plan my time off so that my balances would be zero today. That’s not what I found when I logged into one of the two sites for viewing balances, though. No, it shows me as having -4 hours of vacation time. The other site where we check balances correctly has everything at zero. If this isn’t fixed, then my vacation time for next year is reduced by 4 hours. I called my manager and showed him what I believe the mistake is, but he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong. He’s supposed to be checking something with another manager. If he comes back and tells me that it’s right, I’m going to be livid. I’m also pretty sure that I entered my time correctly for the day that’s the problem and that he changed it when he approved my time sheet, but I don’t have a way to prove it.
I got the following email from my boss today:
I didn’t thank you for the Christmas card you sent me, because I did not receive one.
Wow. Just… wow.
You know all those things you want to say to your crazy f*cked up boss that you keep to yourself? Well, I said them today, out loud. Luckily her boss backed me up and I’m not fired, but I don’t know what came over me. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
So, what did you say? We’re on your side, and we want details!
That must’ve been incredibly cathartic moejoe!
And Sigmagirl, I’m speechless. Did you reply?
Suggested response:I’m very relieved to know that, because I do not send Christmas cards.
I never thought I would have to apologize for having wished someone a Merry Christmas in person, but that’s what I had to do. I said that we hadn’t sent cards this year, and that I’d called my relatives and emailed people I hadn’t seen in person. She answered that she was “confused” when she hadn’t received a card from me. It remains to be seen what my punishment will be.
Please admit that the job description was a lie, and that none of the (awesome) things listed on the job I applied for and accepted are a part of this position. My experience is in management but I’ve been here three months and all I’ve been assigned to do is answer the phones and they never ring. At my recent review you agreed to give me a real job description and some actual work, but you still haven’t done it. Also please stop answering emails that you found in my inbox without copying me, it’s weird and unprofessional, especially when you later “can’t find” it in your sent folder when I ask you for a copy. And another thing, please stop crying in meetings. It happens every time I try to talk to you about these issues and it’s inappropriate and makes me feel uncomfortable. Stop acting like my bringing these issues up means I don’t like you, we are not friends and this is not a party, this is work and you are my boss.
You know, stuff like that.
Make her give you your punishment (and the “infraction”) in writing.
I’d be biting my tongue so that the response out of my mouth wouldn’t be, “Are you fucking kidding me?”
She was “confused?” If you don’t get a Christmas card from someone, it’s because they didn’t give you one. How confusing is that?
moejoe, your job is messed up, but it sounds like you know that already.
Well, I’m off to a new temp agency to jump through hoops tomorrow. Here’s hoping they’ll come up with a good assignment for me!
She’ll never acknowledge that there’s a correlation. Weeks from now I’ll need a half-day off for something and somehow that date just won’t be available. Or maybe it will come out in my annual evaluation, in some unspecified deficiency.
Ah, the stealth punishment - very passive aggressive.
If you need the half day off, ask for a wrong day first. If that day isn’t approved, offer the right day as an alternative. If the wrong day gets approved, you can always say you were mistaken about the date.
Yes, I HAVE worked for passive-aggressive assholes. How ever did you guess? 
I once did that to the Phys Ed teacher, after she’d flunked me on what turned out to be my last exam with her after all. As I was leaving I ran into her sister, who’d replaced her at the start of the year - turns out the teacher hadn’t just cheated when she flunked me, but broken a dozen rules in order to do so (I shouldn’t even have taken that exam, which was extra, as I already had a mathematical pass and not a close one).
Telling her what I thought about her felt good. Watching Little Sister The Good Teacher roll up her sleeves as she headed to do the same to Big Sister The Bitch felt great 
How does your boss even have access to your email inbox? Unless she’s an IT admin of some sort that’s just all kinds of wrong. Even if she is she should get fired if she’s pretending to be you when she answers. If she’s not I don’t understand what you mean.
Well, I’m finished another round of hoop-jumping. This one was worse than most - instead of doing the usual Word/Excel/Typing/Data entry testing and then going to interview with the temp agent, today’s version was sitting and staring off into space for 35 minutes, then doing the interview, then doing the testing, then back to talk to the agent agent. Sheesh. Good to know they’re willing to make it very clear that MY time is not important. :rolleyes:
This reminds me of the old sign: Answers: $1.00
Answers Which Require Thought: $2.00
Correct Answers: $4.00
DUMB LOOKS ARE STILL FREE.
I saw it in the 1970’s. Feel free to multiply by whatever integer you think is right. 
I work at a large veterinary hospital (up to 6 DVMs and ~10 techs on a daily basis, plus 3 CSRs and management), and we sometimes get “thank you” gifts from clients. They always go upstairs in the kitchen for everyone to share. Of course, the three people who sit up there (management) can run and grab a bite to eat any time they want to (no food allowed down stairs), as they are salaried and nobody watches what they do. We, on the other hand, are the ones downstairs EARNING the thank yous by doing all the dirty work. We get our lunch break and hope there’s something left. I feel really bad for the ER crew. Unless there’s more than 20 of something, they get shafted damned near every time.