I work at a warehouse, swing shift hours: 1PM-9:30PM. Today, out of nowhere, the warehouse manager announced that staring at the end of this month, swing shift will be from 2PM-10:30PM. Cocksucker. The reason for the change is because day shift is butthurt and envious of swing shift over part of our process we call rotations. Because of our current schedules, swing shift gets more of these than day does. Changing the schedules just means that day will now do the rotations that swing used to do, we won’t do more overall, which is what I assume management wants. It’s a change for no fucking reason.
Our manager acknowledged that he knew some of us take the bus(including me), but he reassured us that he checked the schedules before he made this decision by fiat, and everything was A-OK. I don’t think the cocksucker has ever rode the bus. When a bus-riding coworker mentioned he wouldn’t be able to make his transfer with the new hours, our manager looked dumbfounded.
Now he has a mutiny on his hands. Half the crew is threatening to quit. It’s not like we don’t all have lives or anything that this will affect. One hour can make a big difference. I won’t quit, I don’t have that luxury anymore, but if half the crew does quit, this will fuck me over big time. I’ll miss some of those motherfuckers too.
The other thing that bothers me most about this is how nobody saw this coming. We weren’t consulted about this big change at all. The warehouse manager has always struck me as aloof. I’ve only been here three months. If this is how he does business, working here is gonna suck more than I knew.
When my boss moved me from 9-5 to 10-6 he made it impossible for me to go grocery shopping during the week. I feel your pain
I’m supposed to be on vacation, but my birthday and Easter combine to make sure that I can’t tell my family to do without me unless I want to put up with some serious moaning for years. I’ve got a workday on Friday: it’s part of selling a project, and the agent is so nervous he’s called me telling me to think about what questions I’ll need to ask. Same ones I always ask, dude, seriously, I’ve only been doing this for ten years. And since that project isn’t in the bag yet, I’m still interviewing; everything has a start date of “after Easter”, which in Spain may actually mean two different dates (Tuesday after Easter Sunday, or the following Monday).
It would be nice to know what is it I’m going to be doing, just so I can get into “engaged, sorry, bye” mode and not have to carry the cellphone everywhere
I work as a temp; I’m always pleasantly surprised when I show up for an assignment and they have a desk, chair, AND computer for me!
I forgot my rant from yesterday - I went out to my car to go home, and some dinkwad had parked me in so tightly that I had to go in through the passenger side. Jerk.
During my job hunting yesterday I came across a position on a website that looked interesting. I click the link to apply, and it re-directs me to the temp agency I signed up with in January who has done exactly squat for me. I submit the application anyways, and I get an email from the agency.
“Oh sorry, didn’t know you would be interested in this job, it’s in X City.” X City is basically a suburb of the city I live in, about 10 minutes away from here. X City is well within the distance I said I was willing to travel. Thanks for your help, guys. :smack:
Yes, I signed up with a different agency today. Here’s hoping…
Good luck, Cheez_Whia! I was just popping in to bitch about slow-ass HR, coincidentaly.
I applied for a job with the state that I was very interested in (and qualified for) two freaking months ago…haven’t heard a thing. I guess I should have expected this, because I remember a couple years ago I didn’t hear anything back for another job until it had been so long that I didn’t remember applying :-/
I applied to a job with a county government not too long ago and got a rejection the next day! Now, that’s what I call customer service.
I’ve applied to two other jobs with them since then that have closed, and haven’t had any communication from them. I assume, due to the quick rejection on the first, that I’m in the running for an interview…but I have no idea! Arrgh.
I’m not incredibly picky at this point and I was hoping to have something else by now. I’m thankful I’m employed, but geeesh I can’t wait to get out.
And use the exact wording that is in the posting. I’ve had people rejected for using “Structured Query Language”, because the computer was looking for “SQL”
I’m being yelped at at HQ about a project on one of the companies I work for. I do three or four ongoing yearly projects for them. The projects vary by pay but are paid per hour. The work is done in daily shifts with hours that are doled out on on a monthly basis. So you literally never know how many hours you’re working or when from month to month.
This particular project has sucky pay (a lousy fifteen bucks an hour), a rotating list of very nasty, smug and arrogant supervisors and consists of a series of tedious yet difficult tasks. I swear I’m five seconds away from telling them to just go fuck it. They keep cancelling shifts on me and asking me to work last minute. I was asked to work a few days ago on less than half an hour’s notice.
Company X is just a very rotten company. They overpay the CEO, promote assholes and act as if working for them were some sort of immense honor. I’ve worked for these shitheads for over ten years. In all that time I’ve gotten one lousy three percent raise on one project while they’ve let wages fall on four others. Their latest project demands all sorts of requirements and then offers workers a lousy fucking eleven bucks an hour pay.
If they wouldn’t let me work at home I swear I’d tell them off in the nastiest possible manner just because they deserve it for being such assholes.
I’d be willing to be that was one of those deals where they already had someone in mind for the job but there was a rule/law that they had to advertise it.
I’m currently learning SQL for my job and in the two books I’ve read, one says it stands for Structured Query Language and the other says it doesn’t stand for anything.
Well spank my ass and call me Charlie. I guess you mean people like me who have been talking about sequel and reading abot SQL like they had nothing in common. :o
I have a friend who used to just copy the whole job add and paste it into his resume in white before he emailed it. If they’re scanning for key words you’ll have them all without having to figure out how to wrench them into the actual resume. Might at least get an interview.
You wouldn’t be the first person I meet who was confused by that; it’s why I explain it, actually. A few needed to get it explained several times and eventually asked the sequeler himself because they weren’t sure whether the rest of the team had been pulling their legs - you only needed to have it explained once!
I don’t want to become the annoying guy who distributes round the office a “Funny meme of the day”,
buuuuuuuut I have just found a Workplace griping, anyone? thread for cats:
