You know what would be really funny?
Right in front of you, Big Boss tells McBitchyPants that he has no openings, but one might come open depending on circumstances. He won’t know for a month or two.
“Oh, and it would be reporting to her…” (indicating you)
Just for fun. 
Just to watch his reaction.
He wouldn’t do that to me. I’m his officially declared Work Wife.
You mean the job that doesn’t exist? Whattamaroon.
I’ll be coordinating a gardening project where volunteers do yardwork for elderly people who can’t do it themselves anymore. It’s very similar in a lot of respects to a community greening coordinator position I had back in Canada, which is good. In both cases, I’m the first person in the role, so I have to create the project from the ground up, but at least this time I’ve got some experience to fall back on. 
I sincerely hope that the only stories I’ll have will be mildly entertaining or amusing.
Thanks! The happy dance is always more fun with two! How’s your own better job search going, I forget what the last update was?
No, it actually does exist now. They fired someone yesterday morning–someone who has been consistently rude to me and her supervisors (see previous statement about how people who are not nice to me end up out of work). However, we had three decent people who knew how to act come in to fill out applications yesterday. None of them brought a pen, but two of them asked politely for it and acted embarrassed about the lack on their part.
No, this would be a present for you. You’d get to tell McBitchyPants what to do and how to do it. Use your imagination!
Problem is she already told McBitchyPants what to do* and how to do it,** and he turned out to be spectacularly inept at it.
*“Go away.”
**“With all possible speed.”
Why, yes, I am flicking a knife open and closed under my desk. I oughta learn how to use the thing one-handed, and, yes, it does seem like a good use of company time.
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I’m working on something, I hope to hear back next week. Send employed thoughts, please! 
Your new job sounds awesome, BTW.
If I get beaned in the back of the head by the dev team (throwing balls and shit around) one more time I WILL SHIT AND PUKE ALL OVER MYSELF AT MY DESK just to make the worker comp claim that much more funzies.
Seriously, people - I always have hot tea on my desk. Other folks have hot coffee. How is this possibly safe, let alone professional?
You betcha!
Congratulations, Dunkelheit. Come back and visit, won’t you?
Goddamn it, I hate those “never say these things to your boss” articles. There’s one up on the Xfinity site right now.
“Never tell your new boss “we’ve always done things this way””
FUCK YOU.
I work in the tech field. For my entire career through multiple companies, I’ve dealt with new managers (mostly not mine) who come in the door and without bothering to fucking learn the company procedures, policies and standards, start ordering their people to do things contrary to those procedures. Often I have been the one in the line of fire who is called upon to bitch slap them in to compliance. Most of the time if you explain that Company Policy/Security Policy/Division Policy is X and therefore what they want to do won’t fly, they wake up and comply. Every now and then their ego gets the best of them and they decide to go over my head. Doesn’t work out for them. Sometimes it’s a “how dare you tell me what to do, you lower ranking peasant” sort of thing, sometimes it’s an “I don’t care what we used to do, now were doing X” sort of thing. Still doesn’t fly. Mid-level managers don’t get to change company policy because they’re too arrogant, egotistical or stupid to learn and adapt to established procedures.
Hell, even outside the IT field, like when I did Security, new supervisors or managers would come in and start directly ordering me or other people to violate company policy. Nope. Insubordination? Sure, you explain that to your superiors - why you were ordering me to violate policy and then threatening to discipline me when I refused to do it.
Ok, I recognize that there ARE times when saying “but we’ve always done things this way” is a bad idea. But the way these articles read, you should always hop-to and do whatever your new boss says, because they’re the boss!
(who will immediately disavow any knowledge or involvement when YOU get busted for violating company policy)
I don’t understand why on the 50th user account creation, I get a huffy email why they weren’t set up with X. No one has been set up with X. No one has been set up with Y, Z, A, B, C or anything else. That’s your responsibility to determine and your responsibility to do. You did it ably for 49 users, what happened? Was a magical elf sneaking in at night and doing it while you were asleep but they got caught in a mousetrap and died?
Damn you. I almost spit soup all over my monitor at that.
So throw something back.
Seems like you already have something suitable to throw.
You want to explain why you’re doing this? That would creep me out if I were a co-worker, and motivate me to have a serious talk with you if I were your supervisor.
I caused a kerfuffle when I asked to go to the bathroom Friday night. I don’t know what I did wrong. I have the company-issued head cold that’s making the rounds and asked to go and got a lame-ass lecture.
Must have upset a bean counter, I suppose. I am sick and HANDLING your food. Fuuuuuunnn.
I know I am to clean, but how much time are you going to save, if I can’t make it through if I should barf? I’m a deli clerk, and I have human needs, hello!!
Tried cough drops and they upset my tummy. No more cough drops for me.
Yeah, and of course he wouldn’t actually GET the job, he’d just be told this to see the look on his face.
fingers on temples, scrunching face Oomph. There you go, hope it helps. Good luck, and thanks, I think it will be.
Well, I’ll have to do SOMETHING on my days off. 
The ENTIRE FLOOR I work on - ***except for my team ***- gets to take an afternoon off this week for a fun little field trip.
Think maybe we feel a touch unappreciated?
:mad:
Offers hugs and chocolate. That’s just not right.
Here is my sad rant.
Now that my new minion understands that I don’t care about his sexual orientation he’s showing that he’s a really sweet person when he mentions such things as buying a new shirt for his partner at lunch because he saw it and thought it would look so good on him.
We did have a bit of a talk about why he was worried about his job. From what he told me, HorseShoe was right on. There a lot of people in Texas who live in the dark ages, and oil workers are the worse. Not management/support people so much, but the linemen are pretty bad. He was worried because Bill loves to work the crews…hence, to his mind, Bill is a Texan lineman who would fire someone because of who he loved.
This is just all kind of wrong.
I guess this goes here since I’ve griped about it in the past and there’s no thread for -let me share my awesome day at work-
My hideous horrible crazy ass boss is going out on medical leave. This is a good thing, because it means that where I work, if you act like a crazy loon they treat you like one. “we’re all very concerned, and think you should take some time off to get the help you need.” Which means I don’t have to deal with it anymore.
Woo!